Joanna Riding

Training: Joanna trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre credits include: The Sound of Music (Leicester Curve); Old Friends (Gielgud, London/LA/Broadway); Gypsy (Buxton Opera House); Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare's Globe); Calendar Girls (Phoenix, Olivier Award nominee); Follies, Carousel (Olivier Award winner), Guys and Dolls (Olivier Award nominee), A Little Night Music and Oh, What A Lovely War! (all National Theatre); My Fair Lady (Olivier Award winner) and Witches of Eastwick (Olivier Award nominee) (Drury Lane); The Pajama Game (Chichester/Shaftesbury); Stephen Ward (Aldwych); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Lend Me A Tenor (Gielgud); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace); Blithe Spirit (Bath/Tour/Savoy); Hobson's Choice (Manchester Evening Standard Award nominee), The Happiest Days of Our Lives and An Ideal Husband (Manchester Royal Exchange); Playing For Time (Salisbury Playhouse); Me And My Girl (Adelphi); Martin Guerre (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Tour); Carousel and Lady Be Good (Regent's Park); Flowers for Mrs Harris, The Wizard of Oz, My Mother Said I Never Should and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Chichester); Dick Whittington and Cinderella (Hackney Empire).

TV and film credits include: Into the Woods (Walt Disney); Ridley (ITV); McDonald and Dodds (Mammoth); Stella (Sky); Holby City, Doctors (BBC); Heartbeat (Yorkshire TV); Where the Heart Is (Anglia TV); Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions); Sean's Show (Channel X).