Cassidy Janson

James Church hosts an evening with Olivier award-winning actress Cassidy Janson.

Cassidy is well known for starring in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, & Juliet and Chess. She shares stories and perform songs from her esteemed career. Cassidy's music career has catapulted over the past few years. She has shared a duet with Carole King in Hyde Park for 65,000 people to opening the West End post lockdown in The Mousetrap.

She has also performed alongside Amber Riley and Beverley Knight. This led to a nomination for a Classical Brit Award. She then signed to BMG records and proceeded to create her debut solo album. Her song When A Woman is also featured in the British movie Fisherman's Friends.

The star's theatre roles include playing Girl in Once at Theatre Orb (Tokyo), Ruth in Dessa Rose, Susan in Tick, Tick... Boom! alongside Neil Patrick Harris and Florence in Chess for English National Opera at the Coliseum with Michael Ball and Alexandra Burke. She was also a member of the original London cast of Wicked where she played standby for Elphaba.

Cassidy has a residency at Ronnie Scott’s with All That Jazz brunch, her four piece band and guest musical star each week.

On film her credits include The Hike, Tail's End, Day Trip to London, Full Circle, Coma and she has appeared in Casualty for the BBC.

'Cassidy Janson literally brought me to tears this evening with her performance of Natural Woman. She was who I was, she felt what I felt. She was me!' Carole King