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Nicola Miles-Wildin (born 1978 in Gloucester) is a British disabled theatre and radio director. She has worked as an actor. Nicola has juvenile chronic arthritis and uses a wheelchair. She portrayed Alice in Richard Cameron's play Flower Girls , a play about disabled women. [1] In the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony she portrayed the part of Miranda from Shakespeare's The Tempest .[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Flower Girls". BBC. 9 October 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2012.