Cast
Kym Marsh
Hedy
Actor, presenter and singer Kym Marsh arrived on British TV screens back in 2000 appearing in the hit reality TV show, Popstars and winning a place in the subsequent band Hear'say.
The band achieved two UK number one singles and a number one album - and Kym went on to pursue a successful career as a solo artist.
She went on to star in London’s West End, playing the role of Annette in the critically acclaimed musical, Saturday Night Fever.
An accomplished actress, she appeared in BBC One’s Doctors and Channel 4’s Hollyoaks: In The City before joining the cast of ITV’s Coronation Street in the role of Michelle Connor in 2006. During the subsequent 13 years on Britain's famous cobbles, she won a string of prestigious awards for her work.
After leaving Coronation Street in 2019, she appeared in hit BBC One drama The Syndicate and can currently can be seen on BBC One’s continuing drama, Waterloo Road, where plays the role of Nicky Walters. She is also a regular host of BBC One's Morning Live.
Her love of theatre has not waned and in 2022 Kym returned to tread the boards in the role of bunny boiler Alex Forest in a nationwide tour of box office hit Fatal Attraction. In 2023 she joined the cast of Take That musical Greatest Days and last year played the iconic role of Cruella de Vil in a nationwide tour of 101 Dalmatians: The Musical.
Kym is mum to David, Emilie, Polly and Archie. She lives in Cheshire with her family.
Creative Team
Rebecca Reid
Adaptor
Rebecca Reid is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. As a thriller writer her novels include Perfect Liars, Truth Hurts, Two Wrong and The Will. As an award winning journalist she writes a column for the i, and contributes to publications including Stylist, the Times, Glamour, Cosmo and the Telegraph. She is the former digital editor of Grazia and currently adapting her second novel for television.
Gordon Greenberg
Director
Gordon Greenberg has directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London’s West End, written for television and stage, and developed, directed and produced new works for arts institutions across America. Directing work includes the Broadway productions of The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones) and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (also co-writer, Studio 54, Roundabout, Universal, PBS Great Performances), the Chichester & West End production of Guys and Dolls with Rebel Wilson (Savoy & Phoenix Theatres, 6 Olivier Award noms), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Zachary Quinto and Calista Flockhart (Geffen Playhouse, L. A. Drama Critics Award), Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Toronto, Dora Award), Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (also co-writer; Menier, Off-Broadway), The Baker’s Wife (Menier), Crime and Punishment, A Comedy (also co-writer, Old Globe), Jacques Brel… (Zipper Theatre, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms), Barnum(Menier), Working (Drama Desk Award, adapted with Stephen Schwartz and Lin-Manuel Miranda), Tangled (Disney), Secret of My Success (also co-writer, Universal), and regional work at Williamstown, Old Globe, Signature, Paper Mill, Huntington, Chicago Shakespeare, MUNY, Goodspeed. For television, he created the NBC television series “Most Talkative” (Co-Executive Producer/Writer with Blumhouse and Andy Cohen) and original movie musicals for The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Education: Stanford University, NYU Film School. He is also Artistic Director of the Broadway Teachers Workshop.