Linzi Hateley

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Linzi is an Olivier Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner who has starred on Broadway, in the West End, with the RSC, and at the National Theatre. At the age of 17, she was cast in the title role in the RSC’s production of Carrie. After playing in Stratford, the show transferred to Broadway, for which Linzi won the Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer. Linzi starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium) – for which she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She most recently returned, thirty years on and to historic acclaim, to the new London Palladium production and UK tour.

In the UK, Linzi’s other theatre credits include: The Little Big Things (@sohoplace) Blood Brothers (National Tour); MAMMA MIA! (Novello & Prince of Wales Theatres); Barnum (National Tour); London Road (National Theatre); 50^th Anniversary Gala (National Theatre); Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Chicago (Adelphi & Cambridge Theatres); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); On Your Toes; Oliver!; Into The Woods; The Rink (Leicester Haymarket); The Secret Garden (RSC Stratford/Aldwych Theatre); Divorce Me, Darling! (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Basingstoke Haymarket); Romance Romance (Gielgud Theatre); Grease (Dominion Theatre); Just So (Tricycle Theatre) and Les Misérables (Palace Theatre).

Film and television includes: EastEnders; History of a Pleasure Seeker; MAMMA MIA!: Here We Go Again; London Road; Les Misérables; A Christmas Carol and Julie and the Cadillacs.

Linzi made her New York solo cabaret debut with Linzi Hateley: True Colors at 54 Below; has performed her solo show Broadway Baby across the UK; appeared as special guest to Betty Buckley at Carnegie Hall; as special guest to Lorna Luft on the BBC’s Friday Night Is Music Night; closed The Olivier Awards 2018; and has recorded three solo albums.