Nicky Swift

Training: National Youth Music Theatre, Birmingham University and The Royal Academy of Music where she received The Ian Fleming Musical Theatre Award. Nicky was made an Associate of The Royal Academy of Music in 2022.

Theatre includes: Rosie and Alternate Donna in MAMMA MIA! (UK and International Tour 2023); Eileen Stinkleton in Grandma Saves the Day (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Rosie in MAMMA MIA! (previous UK and International Tour); Shirley in Shirley Valentine (30th anniversary UK tour); Ethel / Coach Dunbar / Betty in Footloose (UK tour); Madam and Cover Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre, London); Cynthia / Aunt Mimi in Lennon (Royal Court, Liverpool); Vera Lynn in Songs for Victory (UK tour); One Night in Istanbul (Echo Arena, Dublin Gaiety and Belfast Grand Opera House); Fairy Godmother in Jack and the Beanstalk, Mother Goose, Aladdin, Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood (Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse); Jellylorum in CATS (arena tour); Vi in The Buddy Holly Story (Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London); Alice in The Walled Garden (Brockwell Park, London); Twelfth Night, Plaza Suite, The Odd Couple and A Slice of Saturday Night (QE Theatre Company on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth); Elizabeth in Richard Taylor’s Whistle Down the Wind (Edinburgh Festival, Sadler’s Wells and West Yorkshire Playhouse); Charlie (Buxton Opera House); Creation and Warchild (National Youth Music Theatre); Her Benny (Liverpool Empire); David Copperfield (UK tour); Sixteen Gobs (King’s Head, London); Habeas Corpus and City of Angels (Royal Academy of Music).

Television includes: Hillsborough (ITV); Voices Raised; Blue Peter; Sport Relief and The Olivier Awards (BBC).

Radio includes: Loose Ends and New Musicals with Stephen Sondheim (BBC Radio 2).

Nicky was a backing and session singer, supporting names such as Tom Jones, Lesley Garrett, Elaine Paige and Cynthia Erivo. Nicky made her Off-Broadway debut in A Broadway Diva Christmas (The Julia Miles Theatre, New York).