Gay Soper CHANTEUSE Gay Soper

GAY SOPER trained at LAMDA.

Theatre, West End: Sunday In The Park With George (Wyndhams Theatre/ Menier Chocolate Factory) – winner of Five Olivier Awards in 2007; Les Miserables (as Madame Thenardier, '88-91, Palace Theatre); Salad Days (Vaudeville); Which Witch (Piccadilly); The Mitford Girls (Globe); Side By Side By Sondheim, (Wyndhams, Garrick); Billy (Drury Lane); Godspell (Roundhouse and Wyndhams); Canterbury Tales (Phoenix); Jorrocks (Albery)

Royal National Theatre:Mother Courage (Olivier)

RSC: Good (Aldwych)

Off West End/Fringe: The Sister Wendy Musical (Hackney Empire Studio Theatre); The Lady’s Not For Burning (Finborough Theatre); The Rink (Orange Tree Richmond); Killing Rasputin (Bridewell); Office Suite (Attic, Wimbledon);Mrs Steiner and The Byker Boy (Bush); Betjemania ( Orange Tree & Shaw )

Other theatre: Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep), My Fair Lady (Denmark, tour); Nude With Violin (Royal Exchange Manchester), Oliver! (Aberystwyth); Blithe Spirit (Stockholm),Cabaret (Frankfurt); Narnia; Betjemania(New York); Cole (Hong Kong Festival).

Opera/Operetta: Ruddigore, Figaro, Merry Widow, HMS Pinafore (all tours); Pirates of Penzance (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Street Scene (Piccadilly); The Ratepayers' Iolanthe (Festival Hall & Phoenix)

TV includes: Moon and Son; The Bill; Rude Health; Doctors; Barbara; Father Dear Father; Bless This House; Never The Twain; Romany Jones; The Needle Match; History of Mr Polly.

Films: The Ups and Downs of a Handyman (1974); Lace (1998); A Christmas Carol (Hallmark Films, 2005)

Voices: all the voices of The Flumps (BBC TV).

Recordings: many original cast albums, also Les Miserables symphonic recording (as Madame Thenardier), and solo album,Flying Fish and Fallen Angels (www.dresscircle.co.uk)

Solo Cabaret: Pizza on the Park; Jermyn Street Theatre; City of London Festival; Lauderdale House


Performances from 7 May 2008. Theatre Royal Haymarket, London.