Be Our Guest with Lizzie Bea & Alfie Parker (Around the World in 80 Plays - podcast)

Musical Theatre Radio presents "Be Our Guest"

Lizzie Bea, living in Brighton and Hove, England, is a professional stage actress. Lizzie trained at the National Youth Theatre And National Youth Music Theatre. She also attended the National Student Drama Festival.

Her extensive work in theatre includes Mrs Wilkinson in Nick Evans’ Billy Elliot at Billy Youth Theatre (2011); Polly Parish in Lotte Wakeham’s The Other School at the National Youth Music Theatre; Mother Pig/Bee in Ewan Jones’ The 3 Little Pigs (Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, 2016); Actress 2 in Malcolm McKee’s The Shakespeare Revue (2016); Ducky Daddles in Samuel Harjanne’s Chicken Little at From Page to Stage (2017); Rose in Samuel Harjanne’s Dino Story at From Page to Stage; onstage swing in Kay Mellor’s Fat Friends The Musical (Rollem Productions, 2018); Abigail Henson in Jerry Mitchell’s Becoming Nancy at the Alliance Theatre (2019); Pat in Jerry Mitchell’s Kinky Boots (Playful Productions, 2019).

Among her workshop credits are Abigail Henson in Jerry Mitchell’s Becoming Nancy (Jammy Productions Inc. 2016); Martha Dunstock in Andy Fickman’s Heathers at The Other Palace (2017); Abigail Henson in the New York cast of Foresight Theatrical, 2017 and 2018; Commentator 2 in Adam Lenson’s The Throwaways (2020).

Lizzie is in the 2015 demo recording of Half A Sixpence (Cameron Mackintosh Ltd). In concert and cabaret, she was an ensemble in Thom Southerland’s State Fair (London Musical Theatre Orchestra, 2016); soloist in Shaun McCourt’s Christmas Goes…Pop! At Giggin4Good (2016); Joanne in Shaun Kerrison’s Honeymoon In Vegas (London Musical Theatre Orchestra, 2017); soloist in The Mousetrap Awards (Mousetrap Theatre Projects, 2017); soloist in Scott Alan’s Scott Alan With Mystery Guests (Live at Zedel, 2018); guest performer in Broadway Star Jessica Vosk In Concert (2019); herself in Leave A Light On at the Lambert Jackson/Theatre Café.

Alfie Parker comes from Worthing, West Sussex and graduated from The Royal Academy of Music in 2015.

Alfie made his West End debut as swing in the original West End production of School of Rock. Other credits include Tackaberry in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (City of London Festival), Nick in Aladdin (Buxton Opera House), Genie in Aladdin (Beck Theatre Hayes), Fat Friends (UK Tour), Samuel Byck in Assassins (Pleasance Theatre), Mutt in Kinky Boots (UK Tour), The Baker in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour) and Eddie in Sister Act (Frankfurt).

Around the World in 80 Plays

Join West End theatre stars Lizzie Bea and Alfie Parker on the road as they tour the country- and the world- performing in shows and exploring the local arts along the way!