Kim Ismay

Kim Ismay is a British actress and singer and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.[1] She is perhaps best known for playing the role of Tanya in the London production of the stage musical Mamma Mia!,[2] Madame Morrible in the international and UK & Ireland tours of Wicked[3] and as the Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [4].

History

The daughter of Ellen Ismay (1923–2002), Kim Ismay took a Bachelor of Arts degree in Performing Arts at the University of Kent.[5]

Since 1997 Ismay has been a Director and Fellow of the New Era Academy of Drama & Music.[5][6] She is a patron of Momentum, the children's cancer charity,[7] helping them to raise funds by producing and directing galas featuring West End stars. She is also an Ambassador for the Theatre charity Acting for Others, [8] and an active supporter of Madtrust, the theatrical AIDS charity.[9]

Career

Theatre

Ismay's theatre appearances include Cabaret (1986) at the Strand Theatre; Stop the World – I Want to Get Off at the Lyric Theatre (1989); the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Kiss Me, Kate (1986–87), The Wizard of Oz (1988–89) and The Comedy of Errors (1992–93);[1] Joanna in the original London production of Sunset Boulevard (1993); Next Door's Baby (2008); Noises Off (2009); How the Other Half Loves (2009); Baroness Bomburst in the 2008 and 2009–10 UK tours of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Tanya in Mamma Mia! at the Prince Edward Theatre, Prince of Wales Theatre and the Novello Theatre;[10] and Madame Morrible in the national and international tours and West End production of Wicked.[11]

Television

Her television appearances include Never the Twain (1991), London's Burning (1998), Bob Martin (2000), The Bill (1994–2006), was interviewed for the documentary Super Troupers: Thirty Years of ABBA (2004), The Sound of Musicals (2006), EastEnders (2007), and Not Going Out (2012).[12]

Other

A regular and popular radio guest, she also records audiobooks for Calibre [13].

gollark: In any case, I think it's a good *description* of part of human behavior, because people often really like motivated reasoning.
gollark: Well, John Searle's Chinese Room Experiment proved that no computer could understand Chinese, meaning they can't be sentient. Since humans are implemented in physics, like computers, we are also computers, and so not sentient. QED.
gollark: I assume they have a workaround for the finals and you can delegate someone else to get the plotter.
gollark: It's the part of the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics. If you aren't *sure* you're doing a bad thing, you aren't.
gollark: You can get adblocking on your phone, as you should do.

References
  1. Ismay on the Theatricalia website
  2. Ismay on the Mamma Mia! website
  3. http://feastcreative.com, Feast Creative |. "Wicked The Musical". www.wickedthemusical.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  4. "No backfires for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Metro. 2008-07-09. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  5. Ismay on the New Era Academy website
  6. Ismay on duedil.com
  7. Ismay on the Momentum website
  8. acting for others.co.uk
  9. madtrust.org.uk
  10. Ismay's Theatre Credits
  11. wickedthemusical.co.uk
  12. Ismay on the Internet Movie Database
  13. "Calibre Audio Library - audiobooks for people with sight problems, dyslexia or disabilities". www.calibre.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-11.

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