Zoe Birkett

Zoe Birkett’s credits include Tina in Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, Roald Dahl’s The Witches at the National Theatre after playing the lead role of Rachael Marron in The Bodyguard UK Tour. She was an original member of the West End cast of Moulin Rouge! The Musical playing the role of Arabia, for which she won a BroadwayWorld UK award for ‘Best Supporting Performer in a Musical.’ Zoe’s other West End theatre credits include The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noël Coward Theatre), Priscilla Queen Of The Desert (Palace Theatre), Hair (Munich & Piccadilly Theatre), Tommy (Prince Edward Theatre), Rent (Greenwich Theatre) as well as originating the female lead in Thriller Live (Lyric Theatre and International tour).

Prior to her time in musical theatre, Zoe’s career began at 16 years old, when she captivated the nation on ITV’s talent show Pop Idol. As the highest placing female contestant on the show, she was signed by Simon Fuller’s 19 Management and her solo single Get Happy went straight to number one in the charts. She has presented for the Top of the Pops Awards, CD:UK and ITV’s Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and last year hosted the UK Theatre Awards.

Zoe performed at the Royal Albert Hall singing alongside Annie Lennox and performing live with a twenty-piece orchestra for the BBC’s landmark coverage of the 60th VE Day celebrations in London’s Trafalgar Square, where she entertained crowds of over 25,000 people.