Nick Pedgen

Nick’s performing credits include The Sound Of Music, King’s Theatre Southsea, It Don’t Mean a Thing if it ‘Aint Got That Swing, Minerva Theatre Chichester, Wilde Times, Minerva Theatre, Hope, Cochrane Theatre, Christmas With Charles Miller, The Battersea Barge, and various production shows across the Mediterranean for Openwide International, and cabarets at Lauderdale House and Norden Farm Arts centre.

Whilst still actively performing Nick never lost touch with his musical roots and took on several Musical Directing roles. These include Music 2000 Chichester, Openwide International, Mind the Gap, and Arts Ed. Nick’s the resident MD for The Scenic Route developing new Musical Theatre, and was thrilled to be part of The Big Ending which won Best Direction in the Lost Theatre Festival judged by Stephen Berkoff and Jeremy Kingston.

Nick also composes. His family musical You Beautiful Ewe received great acclaim at The Roundhouse. He has since composed for the London Shakespeare Workout having one of his songs performed at the Cochrane Theatre for the Best Performance category.

Theatre

Character

Wolf
Beef
Tumour
Lead Vocalist
Dick
Lead Vocalist
Various
Beecher
Soloist
Kurt Von Trapp
Parchester
Vocalist

Figaro
Leporello

Production

Teddy Bears Picnic
You Beautiful Ewe
The Big Ending
Openwide
Dick Whittington
Wilde Times
Christmas Crackers
Hope
Now We Are Six
The Sound of Music
Me & My Girl
It Don’t Mean a Thing If it
Ain’t Got That Swing
Le Nozze Di Figaro
Don Giovanni

Venue

Manor Farm, Ruislip
The Roundhouse
Tabard/Tristan Bates Theatre
Tenerife and Corfu Tour
Waltham Forest, London
Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Tour
Cochrane Theatre, London
LSMT Studios
The Kings Theatre, Southsea
Fernham Hall, Fareham
Minerva Theatre, Chichester

The Murray Hall
University Coll, Chichester

Director

Tammy Mendelson
Tammy Mendelson
Tammy Mendelson
Julian Ochyra
Keith Myers
Leighton Evans
Simon Gross
Fenton Gray
Fenton Gray
Wendy Toye
Jackie Ivemy
Alex Chisholm

Michael Waite
Arthur Robson

 

Concerts and Showcases

- Pianist, vocalist, and composer for the Sneak Preview Cabarets at the Edinburgh Cellars.
- Writer, Director, and lead vocalist for cabaret Why Do Fools Fall in Love at Norden Farm Arts Centre Maidenhead produced by James Church.
- Lead vocalist for Christmas With Charles Miller on The Battersea Barge.
- Backing vocalist for Russell Watson with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Chelmsford Spectacular.

 

Musical Directing and Composing

- Musical Director and composer for Teddy Bears Picnic and You Beautiful Ewe produced by The Scenic Route.
- Musical Director for The Big Ending at the Tristan Bates/Tabard Theatre produced by The Scenic Route.
- Composer and winner for best performance for The Tim Williams Awards Scheme at the Cochrane Theatre directed and produced by Bruce Wall.
- Assistant Musical Director and Choral member, Music 2000 in Oaklands Park Chichester