PDP Students Work with West End Professional Tiffany Graves
At BIGLITTLE, we’re passionate about giving our students opportunities to learn from professionals working across the performing arts industry.
This weekend, our Professional Development Programme (PDP) students were lucky to take part in a session with West End professional Tiffany Graves, gaining valuable experience from a performer whose career spans some of musical theatre’s best-known productions.
Tiffany has performed in numerous celebrated shows, including Chicago, Sweet Charity and We Will Rock You, and most recently spent two years playing Mrs Wormwood in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda in London’s West End.
Having the opportunity to work with professionals who bring such a wealth of industry experience is a valuable part of our students’ development. Sessions like these allow our PDP students to learn from experienced performers, broaden their understanding of the profession and continue developing their skills.
A huge thank you to Tiffany for giving up her time to work with our students. We really appreciate you sharing your experience and expertise with the next generation of performers!
About Tiffany Graves
Tiffany recently spent two years playing Mrs Wormwood in the RSC’s Production of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End. Other recent credits include Roald Dahl’s “The Witches” at the National Theatre, and Gertie Gams in the acclaimed world premier of Drew McOnie’s “The Artist”. She has played Lois/Bianca in “Kiss Me Kate” with Opera North, Ulla in “The Producers”, Hortense in The Boy Friend, and Mary Brown in “But, I’m a Cheerleader”.
She is perhaps best known for her many years as Velma in “Chicago” at London’s Adelphi and Cambridge Theatres, and as alternate lead in the acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory production of “Sweet Charity” at Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Other iconic leading roles include Killer Queen in We Will Rock You, Marlene Dietrich in Piaf, and Sukie Rougemont in The Witches of Eastwick, as well as many other renowned shows such as Sunset Boulevard, A Chorus Line, Tonight’s the Night, Godspell, and Cats.
Tiffany has performed in Grange Park Opera productions of La Traviata and Anything Goes, Follies at the Royal Festival Hall, Chess and Night of 1000 Voices concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, West End Heroes with Michael Ball at the Dominion Theatre, the Royal Gala opening of Wales Millennium Centre, the NT: 50 Years on Stage extravaganza at the National Theatre, in Wonderful Town with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder at The Lowry, and in Hey, Old Friends! the Stephen Sondheim 85th Birthday Gala at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Theatre credits include: Helen in Wonderful Town with Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder (Lowry & UK Tour); Gymnasia in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (National Theatre); Sweden in the multi-award-winning Eurobeat (Edinburgh Festival); A Chorus Line (UK Tour with Adam Faith); Godspell (UK Tour); Run For Your Wife (UK Tour); Satan & Baby Jane in Tonight’s The Night (UK Tour); Dolores Reynolds in Babes In Arms (International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff); Marlene Dietrich in Piaf (Leicester Curve, Paul Kerryson); Sukie Rougemont in The Witches Of Eastwick (Watermill, Craig Revel Horwood); Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (UK Tour, Ben Elton); Time’s Up (Yvonne Arnaud, Ray Cooney); The Thing About Men (King’s Head); Shout (Arts Theatre, Bill Deamer); Snow Queen in The Snow Queen (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Queen Rat in Dick Whittington & His Cat (Lyric Hammersmith); Ice Queen in Santa Claus The Musical (Singapore); Sunset Boulevard (Germany, Trevor Nunn).
Gala Concerts & Special Appearances include: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC); West End Heroes with Michael Ball (Dominion Theatre); Chess in Concert with Idina Menzel and Josh Groban (Royal Albert Hall); numerous years of Night of 1000 Voices (Royal Albert Hall); Apollo Victoria 80th Birthday Gala (Apollo); Royal Gala opening of the Wales Millennium Centre; and NT: 50 Years on Stage (National Theatre, BBC).
Other work includes: workshops with Kevin Kline for his Cole Porter film De-Lovely; and with Stephan Daldry for Lilly Allen’s musical of Bridget Jones’s Diary; teaching at the London School of Musical Theatre and the National Youth Music Theatre; and she can frequently be found performing her cabaret show at St James Theatre in Victoria, Bellamy’s in Mayfair, Lauderdale House in Hampstead and the Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly.
Tiffany studied at the Arts Educational School in Tring and made her professional stage debut at 11 in The Nutcracker with the English National Ballet at the Royal Festival Hall.