Vikki Stone

 


VIKKI STONE is best known for her original comedy songs, but is also an actress, musician and composer. 


She has appeared on many TV and Radio shows, including: The John Bishop Show, BBC One, The Now Show, BBC Radio 4, This Morning, ITV, That Sunday Night Show, ITV, I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here....Now, ITV 2, and many others.


She is the current presenter of the BBC Proms "Proms Unplucked" podcast. 


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Vikki is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre, and has appeared in many stage plays and musicals including Sweeney ToddBeauty and The BeastThe Firebird and many others, as well as acting for kids TV shows such as Titch and Ted (for which also she also wrote the theme tune and incidental music), Dick and Dom's Hoopla, and CBBC's Comedy Palace.  She also stars in the BBC Music film Ten Pieces II, which was in cinemas, as well as on BBC2 and CBBC


In 2011, Vikki won the Soho Theatre Stand-Up Award and her debut show the same year was nominated for Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival, and her subsequent shows enjoyed sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Soho Theatre as well as on tour.  Vikki has recently been awarded the H100 award for Theatre and Performance and Arts Council England funding and the PRS Bliss Trust new composers bursary for her new orchestral work Concerto For Comedian And Orchestra.


Last year Vikki has filmed a TED talk at CERN, as well as being commissioned to write a comedy choral piece for the National Youth Choir Of Great Britain, which had it's world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall, and is currently working on her debut musical.


Whilst training, Vikki attended prestigious music schools, Wells Cathedral School and The Royal Academy Of Music, and was awarded a Foundation Fellowship by Wells in 2013 and The Royal Academy Of Music have recently presented Vikki with the honour of  Associate of The Royal Academy (ARAM), so she has more letters after her name, than in her name: VIKKI STONE PG DIP RAM LRAM ARAM. 


 
http://www.vikkistone.com
On twitter at @vikkistone