Amanda Holden And Richard Blackwood To Star In West End SHREK

DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions are delighted to announce casting for the roles of Princess Fiona and Donkey in the West End production of SHREK THE MUSICAL^®.

Amanda Holden will play Princess Fiona.

Richard Blackwood will play Donkey.

SHREK THE MUSICAL^® will open at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May 2011.  Tickets will go on sale to the general public on October 1, 2010.  The new stage musical will be booking until February 19, 2012.

Amanda Holden played the title role in the West End production of Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2003, for which she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.  As Princess Fiona in SHREK THE MUSICAL^® she will be reunited with director Rob Ashford and composer Jeanine Tesori. Among her varied television roles are Mel in the BBC’s Kiss Me Kate, Mia Bevan in the BBC’s Cutting It and Sarah Trevanion in ITV1’s Wild at Heart.  Amanda is a judge on ITV1’s Britain's Got Talent, and the UK correspondent for CBS America’s The Early Show.

A regular on the comedy circuit, Richard Blackwood recently performed in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre alongside James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad. In 2007 Richard became the host of ‘RB’s Sunday School’ on Choice FM. He has a range of TV credits including Anton in ITV’s Britannia High, BBC1’s Dani’s House and his own show on Channel 4, The Richard Blackwood Show. Stage credits include national tours of Roy Williams’ Angel House and The Unexpected Guest, and The Brothers at the Hackney Empire.