An award-winning TV soap star and Strictly Come Dancing contestant is joining the cast of a play that is coming to Shrewsbury, the organisers have announced.
Katie McGlynn is best known for playing Sinead Tinker over seven years in ITV's Coronation Street, for which she won Best Serial Drama Performance at the 2020 National Television Awards.
Katie has also played the regular role as Jodie 'Scout' Allen in Waterloo Road, and, more recently, Becky Quentin in Hollyoaks.In 2021 she competed for the coveted glitterball trophy in series 19 of Strictly Come Dancing with dance partner Gorka Marquez.She will be taking over the role of Cleo Morey from Giovanna Fletcher, who will be performing the role on tour from February 16 through to April 29. She will start off her run at the Leeds: Grand Theatre.
She will be joining other star cast members, George Rainsford as DSI Roy Grace and Clive Mantle as Curtis. Wish You Were Dead follows five successful stage plays and the critically acclaimed smash-hit primetime ITV series 'Grace', which are all based on the best-selling novels by the UK's number one crime author Peter James. This will be the sixth stage adaptation of James’ novels - making it the most successful crime thriller stage franchise since Agatha Christie.
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