Summer’s theatre credits include Havana Girl in Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre) directed by Michael Grandage, Violet in It’s A Wonderful Life (workshop), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in which she understudied and played Truly Scrumptious, Cats (New London Theatre and National Tour), Fosse (European Tour), Anything Goes (Grange Park Opera), Scrooge (Dominion Theatre), The Sound of Music (Sadler’s Wells) and the title role in Cinderella (Hawth Theatre, Crawley).

Other work includes all the recordings of Enid Blyton’s Books on Tape and several Royal Variety Performances. Most recently Summer has played Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Maisie in The Boyfriend at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park.

My First Panto
My first memories of pantomime are quite bizarre. Anxiously standing on the side of the stage at the Wimbledon Theatre, I was waiting for my cue to go on to dance with the Emperor of Peking, in the famous pantomime Aladdin. I was only three years old! I did pantomime every year after that until I was sixteen so you’d think I had never seen one but as a treat when it was our night off we went to see the performance. I remember being even more overwhelmed watching it than I was being in it. The music, the dancers, the booing and hissing at the baddy and of course, the happy ending.