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Nancye Hayes OAM is one of Australia's favourite theatrical stars. Her career began in the original Australian production of My Fair Lady in 1961 and continues to garner praise and accolades to the present day. She was catapulted to stardom playing the role of Charity Hope Valentine in the 1966 Australian Production of Sweet Charity. Since then highlights of Nancye's achievements have included major roles in Annie, Chicago, Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Nine, 42nd Street and Show Boat.
The cavalcade of Nancye's outstanding work in the musical and non-musical theatre include performances in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hello Dolly, Boys From Syracuse, Promises Promises, Star Spangled Girl, Born Yesterday, The Glass Menagerie, Steel Magnolias, Same Time Next Year and appearances in a range of major television series. An accomplished cabaret artist, Nancye has appeared in concert and cabaret with the West Australian Symphony, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and at the Regent Hotel (Sydney). Her one-woman auto-biographical show Nancye with an E written by Tony Sheldon has been performed across Australia.
Always ready to explore new challenges it was inevitable Nancye would step behind the scenes; She regularly directs or choreographs mainstream theatre productions in all states including Here Comes Showtime! (Marian Street Theatre), My Fair Lady (IMG/VSO) and for Sydney Theatre Company Merrily We Roll Along, Noel & Gertie, The Venetian Twins and Falsetto's. Nancye has also been an Artist-in-Residence or Director for every tertiary performing arts course in the country.
In recent times Nancye has been seen in Eureka, Summer Rain, Metro Street, and toured Australia extensively with Todd McKenney in the CDP/Ensemble Theatre production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. This was followed by engagements with Opera Australia in My Fair Lady and A Little Night Music in both Melbourne and Sydney.
In 2010, Nancye directed Todd McKenney in The Boy from Oz for the Production Company, and will shortly appear in Murderers for the Ensemble.
Amongst her many awards are a Green Room Award, Norman Kessell Memorial Award, three Lifetime Achievement Awards (Sydney Theatre Critics, Variety Club and Green Room), a Critics Circle Award and a MO Award.
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