Lottie Walker

Lottie was an Artist in Residence at OSO Arts Centre in 2025.

She trained at Sylvia Young Theatre School and took classical singing lessons at Trinity College of Music. 

Her professional career started in Victorian Music Hall in Blackpool for a summer season and continued in variety and panto for some years (not forgetting a stint as a Pontins bluecoat) to include many performances in Music Hall, cabaret and theatre.

UK touring includes Godspell, A Christmas Carol, Any Extras and the title role for 2 years in Snow White (the UK’s longest running touring pantomime). Other selected roles in regional theatre and on the London Fringe include Peggy in A Woman of No Importance (one of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads) Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense, Her Ladyship in The Dresser and Lily Pepper in Noel Coward’s Red Peppers . Her first one woman show, Marie Lloyd Stole My Life, the story of forgotten Victorian Music Hall star Nelly Power, has been touring since 2019 and in 2025 will be at both Brighton and Buxton Fringe Festivals.  Her second one woman show, Chopped Liver & Unions, which is the story of Sir Arnold Wesker’s Aunty Sara who was a trade union leader, leading the “singing strikers” in 1928, has been touring since 2023.  It has sold out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Brighton Fringe and at various regional UK venues. In Spring 2024, the show had a successful 3 week run Off Broadway in New York as part of 59E59 Theater’s prestigious Brits Off Broadway season. It is currently touring the UK.

Lottie is the Artistic Director of Blue Fire Theatre Company. She’s also a tour guide in Clerkenwell and Islington leading walks mainly themed on the history of entertainment in the area, particularly Music Hall and hosts the “Famous People You’ve Never Heard Of” podcast.

She has undertaken several personal appearances at book launches, blue plaque unveilings and other civic ceremonies singing music hall or protest songs, usually as Nelly Power.  She recently appeared in two documentaries - a German documentary for schools about the Matchgirls Strike of 1888  and the upcoming Fierce Boots, which is about Victorian male impersonators.

Lottie is a member of the Grand Order of Lady Ratlings, and a previous Committee member of the British Music Hall Society.