Polly Lister

Polly Lister

Michelle/ Mother Superior/ Barbara/ Veronique

For the New Vic: Votes For Women, Playhouse Creatures, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Snow Queen, The Borrowers, As You Like It.

At the New Vic: Di and Viv and Rose (SJT).

Theatre credits include: Abigail’s Party (which won her a UK Theatre Award); Fallen Angels, Dancing at Lughnasa, A Midsummers Night’s Dream, Memory of Water, Private Lives, The Blue Room, Hayfever, Our Country’s Good, Suddenly Last Summer, Chorus of Disapproval, Loot (Theatre By The Lake, Keswick); A Christmas Carol (Hull Truck); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); To Sir With Love (Birmingham Rep); Great Expectations, Solace of The Road, Cooking With Elvis (Derby Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Don’t Dress For Dinner (Devonshire Park, Eastbourne); The Heretic (Manchester Library); Much Ado About Nothing, Dangerous Corner (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds); Saint Joan (Understudy to Joan, National Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster – Outdoor Production ); 1984, Private Lives, The Importance of Being Earnest (Tour De Force/American Drama Group).

Television and film credits include: Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Doctors, Casualty, Back-Up, Martina Cole’s Lady Killers, The Murder of Stephen Lawrence and Feature Films R.T.F.M (Perfectly Polite Pictures); Polterheist (Tadah Media/ India Calling Nominated for Best Feature at BIFF 2018); London Unplugged.

Radio credits include: The Archers, The Ladies’ Delight, Aromatherapy, Tree Splitting, The Distance Between, Lulu, Something Blue (BBC Radio 4).

Polly’s self-penned solo show I Was A Wife premièred at The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster in 2016 and toured nationally in 2017.

She is currently in development with Bakkhik Laik Theatre Company on Trial by Medea a solo version of Euripides’ tragedy.

Polly trained at Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre and with The National Youth Theatre.