
Graham Bickley
Captain Edward Smith
Training: Liverpool Theatre School.
Theatre includes: Jackie The Musical, Sleuth (UK tours); Closer Than Ever (Jermyn St Theatre); Noël & Cole In Love (Merkin Concert Hall, New York); House Of Mirrors And Hearts (Arcola Theatre); Follies (Opera de Toulon); The Secret Garden (Edinburgh & Toronto); Eric’s (Liverpool Everyman); Light In The Piazza (Curve, Leicester); Great Expectations (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); High Society (UK tour & Shaftesbury Theatre); Ragtime, Which Witch, Metropolis (Piccadilly Theatre); Anything Goes, Wonderful Town (Grange Park Opera); I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, Black Goes With Everything (Churchill Theatre); Pajama Game (Birmingham Rep, Toronto, & Victoria Palace Theatre); Maddie (Lyric Theatre); Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi Theatre); Miss Saigon, Pirates Of Penzance (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); No Trams To Lime Street (Liverpool Playhouse); Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); They’re Playing Our Song (Shaftesbury Theatre); Jukebox (Astoria Theatre); Jacques Brel is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (National Theatre); It’s Better With A Band (Donmar Warehouse).
Graham has received four nominations for Best Actor including an Olivier Award Nomination for Ragtime.
Workshops include: Susan Stroman’s Little Dancer (Lincoln Center, New York); Soapdish The Musical; Love Story; The Irrationality (National Theatre); A Terrible Beauty (Old Vic Theatre);
Television and Film includes: Bread (BBC).
Concert Platforms: orchestras throughout the UK, Europe and South America including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the London Concert, the Manchester Concert, the City of London Sinfonia, the National Symphony, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Royal Scottish National, the Hallé, Ulster Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the BBC Concert, the RTE Concert, the Gothenburg Symphony, the Iceland Symphony, the Sao Paulo Symphony and the Bergen Philharmonic.
Concert performances include: Kinky Boots (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Wonderful Town (Rotterdam Philharmonic); Guys & Dolls (Vienna Konzerthaus); Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar (Scandinavia); Peter Pan, On The Town (Royal Festival Hall); the 10th and 25th Concert performances of Les Misérables (Royal Albert Hall & O2 Arena).
Created in 2012 by Richard Balcombe and Graham Bickley, GRB Concerts devise and produce concerts for full orchestra. To date, they have performed over 50 concerts with all the major UK orchestras. Five of their programmes have been transmitted for Friday Night Is Music Night specials on BBC Radio 2. What The World Needs Now – The Music of Burt Bacharach and Songs From The Sixties have been recorded and released by The Royal Philharmonic. Future concerts include symphonic tributes to Elton John, Barbra Streisand, and the Bee Gees.