NICOLA BURGESS
Actor 
Project: 
Office Song 

Founder Member of Theatre Rue, Nicola studied drama at Warwick University, trained at Cygnet Theatre, Exeter and studied clowning with Peta Lily and Spymonkey’s Aitor Basauri and Petra Massey.  She has worked with theatre companies both in the UK and Hong Kong.  Early theatre work includes various devised roles in Shakespeare For Breakfast, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Doto in Christopher Fry’s' A Phoenix too Frequent, and Director and performer in Mark Lewis’s What Wen Wong?  for the Hong Kong Fringe Festival.  All this was before entering a varied career in radio broadcasting, first in Hong Kong voicing and producing promos on the bi-lingual radio station Metro Networks and presenting her own evening show on RTHK, and a Saturday morning breakfast show on BFBS. Back in the UK she was the voice of East Anglian travel news on commercial radio, ending up working as a producer, roving reporter and presenter on various features and programs for BBC Radio, her favourite being the popular Sunday Gardening program on BBC Radio Suffolk.  Since returning to the stage with Theatre Rue, her roles have included Julia in George Orwell’s 1984, Doris in Bernard Slade’s Same Time Next Year, Miss Shepherd in Alan Bennett’s Lady in the Van, Chlamydia in Angus Barr’s Very Hard Times.  Voice work includes: Hong Kong Gold Exchange, Hong Kong Family Planning Association, Car Free London, the voice of Mother Pod in the 1999 video game Machines and more recently various radio ads for Leftfield Productions, and she also likes to sing with Jazz musicians

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