Lottie is the founder and Artistic Director of Blue Fire Theatre Company.  She is a native Eastender who cut her theatrical teeth in the world of Victorian Music Hall, which she seems to never have left!
Her journey to Blue Fire has been long and winding…  After an early career in retail management she traded the changing rooms of a well-known department store for a dressing room in Blackpool where she earned her Equity card as the soprano in a Music Hall summer season.  An interesting few years of Variety Theatre, Cabaret, Panto and the odd straight play followed, interspersed with occasional TV and modelling jobs.  And of course the - obligatory at the time – summer season working at  Pontin’s Holiday Camp as a Blue Coat entertainer.  During this time she appeared in the original cast of a play that nearly got closed down by local censors in Sussex and spent a few years touring across the UK in the world’s longest running panto, playing both Snow White and the Handsome Prince (not at the same time, although it was often a close call!).

And then she got nodules, couldn’t sing for 3 years and went to work in the City of London recruiting staff for investment banks and fund managers. But she missed the theatre and eventually decided to return.  Being a “lady of a certain age”, with over two decades away from the industry she figured she'd need to make her own work as nobody else was likely to employ her.  And so Blue Fire was formed.

Lottie has acquired her old mentor Chris Harris’ plays and is steadily working her way through getting them all back on stage or screen.  She has produced all of Blue Fire’s shows, appears in two of them and manages all the backstage admin for the company.  In Lockdown she set up the company’s podcast, Famous People You’ve Never Heard Of, which she also hosts.  And as if she’s not busy enough with all that she also works as an occasional tour guide and takes on ad hoc speaking and acting engagements.  Phew!!
 

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