Carly Mercedes Dyer in High Society

Carly Mercedes Dyer is an Olivier Award nominated actor who trained at The Arts Educational Schools, London.

Carly Mercedes Dyer’s stage credits

Carly recently starred in High Society at the Barbican Theatre in London. She also appeared in Singin’ in the Rain at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, and in Janie Dee’s acclaimed Beautiful World Cabarets at Charing Cross Theatre.

Her other recent stage credits include A Chorus Line, Faye Treadwell in the UK tour of The Drifters Girl, in Polly Findlay’s Assassins (Chichester Festival Theatre), and Erma in Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre), for which she won The Whatsonstage Award (2022) for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role, and was also nominated for The Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for this same role.

Carly Mercedes Dyer’s other theatre credits include June in Gypsy (Alexandra Palace Theatre); Cassie in A Chorus Line (Curve, Leicester); Shug Avery in The Color Purple (Curve at Home); Anita in West Side Story (Curve, Leicester); Henri in The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Mercury Theatre, Colchester & Southwark Playhouse); Fate in Hadestown (National Theatre); Helene in Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); Original London Cast of Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre); West Side Story (Salzburg Festival); The Lorax (Old Vic Theatre); Original London Cast of Memphis (Shaftesbury Theatre); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Royal Festival Hall 2015); Kiss Me, Kate, BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall); Original Cast of Dance ‘Til Dawn (UK Tour); Original London Cast of Rock of Ages (Shaftesbury Theatre & Garrick Theatre); Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre); Chicago (Cambridge Theatre); Hair (English Theatre, Frankfurt); High School Musical (Hammersmith Apollo).

Carly’s other credits

Carly’s Film and TV credits include Anything Goes – Live from the Barbican (Trafalgar Releasing).

Her concert work includes Reprise: Curve’s Leading Ladies (Curve, Leicester); Live at Lola’s (The Hippodrome); Fangirls Musical (The Southbank Centre: Women of The World Festival) written and directed by Yve Blake; Barbara Cook and Friends (80th Birthday Celebration Concert, London Coliseum).

Carly is also Patron of “West End Arts Academy” who provide monthly musical theatre, intensive training programs to the next generation of theatrical talent.

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