TALKING POINT: KIM CRISWELL in conversation with Edward Seckerson
Saturday 29 March 2025 2.00pm at Crazy Coqs
In collaboration with London’s most prestigious cabaret venue, writer and broadcaster EDWARD SECKERSON is delighted to continue his occasional strand of exclusive conversation events featuring some of the biggest names from the world of music and theatre. His objective, as ever, will be to explore their careers and chat informally about their journey, their process, and their aspirations. It’s the perfect setting for fans to share an intimate audience with their favourite performers and gain insight into their motivations and methods.
KIM CRISWELL
Kim Criswell has been singing and acting professionally for more than forty years. Her career has taken her from Broadway to the West End to the international concert stage, resulting in a most unusual career path unmatched by any other singer, all the while specializing in the classic American theatre songbook. She has appeared at La Scala/Milan, La Fenice/Venice, Teatro di San Carlo/Naples, Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia/Rome, Théâtre du Châtelet and Opéra Comique/Paris, Concertgebouw/Amsterdam, Carnegie Recital Hall/NY, Konzerthaus, Musikverein and Volksoper/Vienna, Philharmonie and Konzerthaus/Berlin, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos/Lisbon, and Mariinsky Theatre/St. Petersburg, not to mention multiple appearances at London’s Wigmore, Royal Albert, Barbican, Royal Festival, Queen Elizabeth, and Cadogan Halls, the Purcell Rooms, Linbury Studio and even Buckingham Palace.
She has sung with many of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras, from the Berlin Philharmonic and BCMG orchestras conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, with whom she has recorded Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town, to the Lepzig Gewandhaus, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Iceland Philharmonic, Winnipeg and Toronto Symphonies, and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras and virtually all of the major UK orchestras; also many of Europe’s radio orchestras. She has appeared in the BBC Proms 4 times.
Critically acclaimed and Olivier-award nominated for “Annie” in Annie Get Your Gun/ London’s Prince of Wales Theatre, she also won Washington DC’s Helen Hayes Award for Side by Side by Sondheim. Most recently in the US she starred in Call Me Madam /Goodspeed Opera House, Candide/Ravinia Festival, and co-starred with Joseph Fiennes and Charles Edwards in Happy Days in the Art World/NYC, while recent UK roles include Big Mama in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof/Royal Exchange and Carrie’s mother in Carrie/Southwark Playhouse.
Kim’s Broadway credits include “Lucy” opposite Sting in 3 Penny Opera, and the original production of Nine. She was “Grizabella” in Cats in the original LA production, and also appeared as “Lalume” in Kismet/Opera Pacific, Michigan Opera, recently reprised for Vienna Volksoper. Other Broadway credits include The First, Baby and Stardust, and West End credits include Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, The Slow Drag, and Dames At Sea. Other productions include The Sound of Music/Theatre du Chatelet (Mother Abbess), Candide/La Scala, Theatre du Chatelet (Old Lady), Anything Goes/Grange Park Opera (Reno Sweeney), Into the Woods/Derby Playhouse (Witch), Of Thee I Sing/Opera North, Atlanta Opera (Diana Devereaux), and Lady Be Good/La Fenice, Lisbon Opera (Susie Trevor).
Film/TV credits include The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Savage Play, and Hysteria (2013), and she has recorded more than forty albums, including four solo albums.
