Beverley Klein

Beverley spent a happy year appearing as Mrs Peachum in the Beggar’s Opera for Les Arts Florissants at the Bouffes du Nord and touring France and Italy. Since then she was lucky enough to play Fraulein Schneider in ‘Cabaret’ for a year at the Kit Kat Club in London. Most recently she was Yente in the hugely successful production of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

For the National Theatre: The Old Woman, Candide; The Nurse, Romeo and Juliet; Ida, Honk; Olga, Summerfolk; Avdotya, Young Chekhov Season.

Also for Chichester Festival Theatre: Grandma Gellman, Caroline or Change; Miss Jones, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (TMA nomination); Gertrude Stein, Six Pictures of Lee Miller.

For Théâtre du Châtelet: The Witch, Into The Woods; Yvonne/Blair, Sunday in the Park With George.

For Opera North: Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd (Manchester Evening News nomination);

For Carl Rosa Opera: Ruth, The Pirates of Penzance; Little Buttercup, HMS Pinafore; Orlovsky, Die Fledermaus.

For Gloria Theatre Co: La Zambinella, Sarrasine; Joan Smith, A Judgment in Stone (Lyric, Hammersmith); Miss Klein, Night After Night (Royal Court Theatre).

Other Theatre includes: Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre); Vera in Indecent (Menier Chocolate Factory); Mrs. Peachum, The Beggar’s Opera (Bouffes du Nord); The Old Lady, Candide (ENO, Coliseum/Japan); Golde, Fiddler on the Roof (Crucible/Savoy Theatre, WOS Nomination); The Witch, Into The Woods (Linbury Studio); Barnarda, Barnarda Alba (The Union Theatre); Shawntel, Jerry Springer, The Opera (Edinburgh Festival); Mrs. Peachum, The Threepenny Opera (Donmar); The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (Snarling Beasties); Piaf in Piaf (York Theatre Royal, and Oldham Coliseum – Manchester Evening News Best Actress Award).

Original cast Les Miserables (RSC, Barbican Theatre & Palace Theatre);

Television credits include: Endeavour; Liar; Mr Selfridge; Doctors; Call the Midwife; Ripper Street; Casualty; Gimme, Gimme, Gimme; Absolutely; Paris; Inspector Morse.

Recordings include: Les Miserables (Original London Company, and 10th Anniversary Concert); Candide (National Theatre), The Threepenny Opera (Donmar production), Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy Theatre production).