Working as a professional actress in London, Rachel Spurrell is experienced on the stage and screen, having showcased her skills in a wide variety of genres in musicals, television and radio.
Theatre:
She is currently playing an ensemble in the 2019 production of Mary Poppins. Among the other musical credits she has to her name, Rachel has appeared as Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at the Civic Theatre, Rotherham/Campus West Theatre, Welwyn Garden City; understudy to TItania in Benjamin Britten’s Opera Of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Tobacco Factory; Madame Montaudoin in 37 Sous of Monsieur Montaudoin; Florence in Odd Couple; Toadflax in Watership Down The Musical at the QEH Theatre; Sally Bowles in Cabaret at Redgrave Theatre; Maria in West Side Story at the Tobacco Factory; Johanna in the tour of Sweeney Todd; Woman 1 in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the King’s Head Theatre; swing in The Phantom Of The Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre; The World Goes Round at the Canal Café; 25th Anniversary concert of The Phantom Of The Opera at The Royal Albert Hall; understudy Wicked Witch, Glinda and Auntie Em in The Wizard Of Oz at The London Palladium; understudy to Margaret Lord in High Society in the UK tour; Mrs Hatch in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever at the Union Theatre; Candide at the Menier Chocolate Factory; understudy to Barbara Castle and Connie Riley in Made In Dagenham at the Adelphi Theatre.
TV and Radio:
Her credits include Maria in West Side Story for BBC Bristol, Soprano soloist in Cabot the Musical for BBC Archive, guest vocalist in an album of the boy band Soul Intentions, principal dancer in a Linx Visual Media commercial, and An Enchanted Evening on the BBC at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.