Lee Mead
Biography
Early 2007 when Lee Mead was performing in The Phantom of the Opera, he decided to audition for the hit BBC series ‘Any Dream Will Do’. Lee was selected as one of the top 20 finalists, and nine weeks later he won the lead role in Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor. The west end show was selling out faster then expected so the producers extended the show’s run and Lee’s contract until 7 June 2008. The BBC’s London regional website Mark Shenton said of Lee “with a resonant voice that’s reminiscent of a young Michael Ball, he’s pitch-perfect, too.” For the BBC Breakfast show’s reviewer Mead was “a star”. “Mead is in excellent form vocally”, wrote The Stage’s Lisa Martland and for the Daily Express’s Paul Callan, Lee’s “voice is clear, firm and convincing…”
On 12 June 2007, Lee released “Any Dream Will Do” and “Close Every Door” by download. Five days later, the songs entered the UK Singles Download Chart at No. 18. Six days after that, the songs peaked at No. 2. The proceeds from the songs went to the BBC’s annual Children in Need charity appeal. In 2009 Lee was again asked to support BBC’s Children In Need and joined a host of established singers at Abbey Road Studios to record “All You Need Is Love” album. In 2008 Mead performed “All I Ask of You” with Hayley Westenra in Hyde Park to celebrate Andrew Lloyd Webbers 60th Birthday celebrations.
Following his successful run as Joseph in the West End, Lee took on a new challenge. From the start of 2010 at the Theatre Royal Windsor he starred in a touring revival of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, adapted by Trevor Baxter as a Victorian comic melodrama, from the short story by Oscar Wilde. Lee led the cast playing the title role.
Lee returned to the West End in 2010 taking on the role of Fiyero in the musical Wicked whilst also pursuing a solo singing career took him to venues around Britain. This culminated in a highly successful 2010 and early 2011 saw Lee back out on the road performing with his band and finishing his role in Wicked.
The summer of 2011 saw Lee make an impressive television debut as a guest star in long-running BBC drama Casualty where he played teaching assistant, Harry.
Alongside Lee’s West End role in Legally Blonde, he has been working hard recording his next album, which is due out early next year. Lee will be touring in the UK in February 2012, but before then, he has his first trip to Japan where he has a 12 date tour, finishing in Tokyo. The end of the year will see Lee host his Christmas show at The Barbican.
Credits
BBC (Any Dream Will Do)
BBC (Casualty)
Management
Represented by Kim Farmer
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