Adèle Anderson
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Adèle Anderson is an Olivier Award-nominated singer and actress, best known as a third of the cabaret group Fascinating Aida
.
television program
Gemma Masters. In addition, sometimes with Dillie Keane
, Anderson writes lyrics to most of Fascinating Aida
's songs and has contributed to the songs of several hit musicals, including The Challenge (Shaw Theatre) and The Ten Commandments (The Place).
, England, and changed her sex after graduating from university. She lived and worked as a woman for some time before speaking publicly about being transsexual.
She is a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters/Adele-Anderson
On 15 September 2010, Anderson, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian
, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI
's state visit to the UK.
Fascinating Aida
Fascinating Aïda is a British comedy singing group and satirical cabaret act, which has retired twice, most recently in 2004. After the death in 2007 of the group's pianist and musical director, Russell Churney, all plans for a new show were shelved. Some of their most famous songs include...
.
Career
Anderson has appeared internationally in concerts, in theatrical plays, on the BBC TelevisionBBC Television
BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...
television program
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
Gemma Masters. In addition, sometimes with Dillie Keane
Dillie Keane
Louise M. "Dillie" Keane is an Olivier Award-nominated actress, singer and comedienne. She is perhaps best known as one third of the comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aida since its 1983 inception, but she has also had a prominent solo career.-Theatre and Fascinating Aida:Keane was nominated for a...
, Anderson writes lyrics to most of Fascinating Aida
Fascinating Aida
Fascinating Aïda is a British comedy singing group and satirical cabaret act, which has retired twice, most recently in 2004. After the death in 2007 of the group's pianist and musical director, Russell Churney, all plans for a new show were shelved. Some of their most famous songs include...
's songs and has contributed to the songs of several hit musicals, including The Challenge (Shaw Theatre) and The Ten Commandments (The Place).
Fascinating Aida
Anderson joined Fascinating Aida in 1984, a year after its inception, and has performed with them ever since. Recently, they toured nationwide. As of 2009 they are touring nationwide, having just completed a new CD.Theatre
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Landor Theatre)
- Follies (Landor Theatre)
- Into the Woods (Derby Playhouse and The Forum, Wythenshawe)
- Achillies in Heels (Landor Theatre)
- When Florence Met Isadora (Rosemary Branch)
- Eminent Victorians and The Art of Love (Battersea Barge)
- Lets's Kick Arts (The Bridewell)
- Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera (National Tour)
- Die Fledermaus (European Chamber Opera Tour)
- Wasp (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Salad Days (National Tour)
- Plan 9 from Outer Space - The Musical (National Tour)
- Sunset Boulevard (Sydmonton FestivalSydmonton FestivalThe Sydmonton Festival is a summer arts festival presented in a deconsecrated 16th century chapel on the grounds of Sydmonton Court, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Hampshire estate...
) - Nine (Royal Festival Hall)
- House of Obsession (Half Moon)
- Girls who wear glasses (National Tour)
- Tales my Lover Told Me (King’s Head).
- Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging QueensElegies for Angels, Punks and Raging QueensElegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text by Bill Russell. The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology...
(Rebel Theatre) - She has appeared in five pantomimes around the country and directed two at The Theatre, Chipping Norton. She also directed Kaye's the Word, Paul Hull’s tribute to Danny KayeDanny KayeDanny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
, which played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the New End TheatreNew End TheatreThe New End Theatre, Hampstead, was a 80-seat fringe theatre venue in London, England, located in the London Borough of Camden which operated from 1974 until 2011. It was listed widely on the internet, including with the New York Times....
. She and Warren Wills have performed jazz/cabaret together at Pizza on the Park and the Langham Hilton and also played the Hong Kong Fringe Festival.
Writing
- Fascinating Aida lyrics
- Co-writer of Dillie Keane’s three solo shows: Single Again, Citizen Keane and Back With You.
- Song The English Lesson (with Dillie KeaneDillie KeaneLouise M. "Dillie" Keane is an Olivier Award-nominated actress, singer and comedienne. She is perhaps best known as one third of the comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aida since its 1983 inception, but she has also had a prominent solo career.-Theatre and Fascinating Aida:Keane was nominated for a...
) for The Shakespeare Reveu (Vaudeville Theatre and World Tour). - As a member of the Mercury Workshop she wrote (with Sarah Travis) a section of the collaborative musical The Challenge (Shaw Theatre).
- Ninth Commandment for the Mercury Workshop’s production of The Ten Commandments (The Place) (with Warren Wills).
- Debut solo album: Why try to change me now?, original songs by herself (with Sarah Travis)
Film, Television & Radio
- Lady JaneLady Jane"Lady Jane" is a Rolling Stones' song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards featured on their 1966 album Aftermath.In America Lady Jane was the B-side to "Mother's Little Helper", but "Lady Jane" reached #24 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart...
(directed by Trevor Nunn) - Company BusinessCompany BusinessCompany Business is a 1991 spy film, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov.-Plot:The film follows the exploits of Sam Boyd , a former operative for the CIA who is reactivated to escort Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko , a captured KGB mole, to a prisoner...
, in which she serenaded Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov. - Dr Tockley in Hotel BabylonHotel BabylonHotel Babylon was a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One...
(BBC1) - Gemma Masters in Fish (BBC1)
- The Whingeing Pom (LWT)
- Plutopia (Radio 4)
- Anderson was also a consultant (and made a cameo appearance) for the film Different For GirlsDifferent for GirlsDifferent for Girls is a 1996 British/French comedy film in which one of the protagonists is a transsexual woman. The film is directed by Richard Spence and written by Tony Marchant, starring Rupert Graves and Steven Mackintosh.-Plot:...
, starring Steven MackintoshSteven Mackintosh-Personal life:Mackintosh was born in Cambridge, the son of Dorothy and Malcolm Mackintosh. He has a sister, Lynda Ellingham .He is married to the actress Lisa Jacobs and the couple have two children, Martha and Blythe.-Film:...
and Miriam MargolyesMiriam MargolyesMiriam Margolyes, OBE is an English actress and voice artist. Her earliest roles were in theatre and after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence .-Early life:...
.
Personal
Anderson is a transsexual woman. She was born as a male in SouthamptonSouthampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
, England, and changed her sex after graduating from university. She lived and worked as a woman for some time before speaking publicly about being transsexual.
She is a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters/Adele-Anderson
On 15 September 2010, Anderson, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...
's state visit to the UK.
External links
- Adele Anderson on IMDb
- Adele & Fascinating Aida at Gavin Barker Associates (agent)
- Adele at Gavin Barker Associates
- Fascinating Aida Official Website
- Video of Adele performing with Fascinating Aida on YouTube
- Video of Adele performing with Little Monsters on YouTube
- Anderson's Official MySpace
- Article with the Los Angeles Times about "Different for Girls"
- British Humanist Association