Training: Heather studied at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Theatre credits include: Nala in The Lion King (original Broadway cast); the title role in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (original Broadway cast, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical).
Recording credits: Heather’s debut album This Is Who I Am was released on RCA Records in 2002. The single “He Is” and the album track “I Wish I Wasn’t”, both emerged as Top 5 R&B and Dance chart hits. Heather earned Grammy Award nominations for Best New Artist and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. At the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards she won dual honors: R&B/Soul Album of the Year and Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist. She also received nominations at the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding New Artist and Outstanding Female Artist, and BET Awards in the “Cool Like That” category. In January 2006, Heather’s long-awaited second solo album In My Mind was released. The title track became Heather’s first number one hit, topping the dance charts. Heather’s third studio album Audience of One, was released in 2009, for which she was awarded the Grammy Award for the Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album. In September 2012, Heather released her latest album, Only One In The World, a compilation of some of her original self-penned songs, as well as a few of her favorite covers.
Other credits: Heather has been a duet partner to Andrea Bocelli and has been featured in many of his American and international tours, including his “Live In Tuscany” PBS special, and his “Under The Desert Sky” live concert DVD. She also made cameo appearances in the movies Breakin’ All The Rules and Dirty Dancing Havana Nights. She was the spokesperson for the March of Dimes and led their “I Want My 9 Months” campaign, and also serves on the board of Directors for the Catalyst Charter Schools in Chicago.
Training: RADA.
Theatre credits include: Loyalty (Hampstead Theatre); Blood And Gifts (National Theatre); Paul (National Theatre); Clouds (Cambridge Arts Theatre and UK tour); Iphigenia (Sheffield Crucible); The York Realist (Royal Court, West End and English Touring Theatre); Edward II (Sheffield Crucible); Julius Caesar (Young Vic); The Way Of The World (Manchester Royal Exchange); Morphic Resonance (Donmar Warehouse); Closer (Lyric Theatre); Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Almeida Theatre and Aldwych); East Lynne (Greenwich Theatre); Grab The Dog (National Theatre Studio); Our Boys (Donmar Warehouse); Henry VI: Part III (RSC); Hamlet (Leicester Haymarket Theatre); Twelfth Night (Cheek by Jowl); Macbeth; The Tempest; Philoctetes; The Parquet Floor (Young Vic); The Passport (Young Vic).
Television credits include: Inside The Box (ABC Pilot); Inseparable (ABC Pilot); Viva Laughlin (BBC for CBS); Calais Rules (BBC Pilot); The Innocence Project (BBC); Ghost Squad (Company Pictures/C4); The Monarch Of The Glen (Ecosse/BBC Scotland); The Vice (Carlton); Coupling (BBC); Dead Gorgeous (Carlton Productions); Wire In The Blood (Coastal Productions); Hearts & Bones (United Broadcasting); Gypsy Girl (Film and General Prods); Get Real (ITV); The Cinder Path (ITV); The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles; The Story Of Frankenstein (YTV); Stay Lucky (YTV); The Chief (Anglia TV); Forever Green (ITV); Boon (Central TV).
Film credits include: Apollo 18 (Dimension Films); Miss Potter (The Weinstein Company); The Republic Of Love (Dan Films); Between Dreams (Irish Film Board/RTE).
Theatre credits include: Velma Kelly in Chicago (Cambridge and Adelphi Theatres); KT and Deloris van Cartier in Sister Act (London Palladium); Nancy in Oliver (Cyprus); Sylv in East (Leicester Haymarket); Anita in West Side Story (Cyrpus); Diana in I Love You Because (Landor Theatre); Dee Dee in Tonight’s the Night (Victoria Palace); Mimi in Rent (Prince of Wales and UK tour); Carmen in Fame (UK tour); Pepper in I Sing! (Union Theatre); Julie in Hot Stuff (Leicester Haymarket); Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible); Rosalyn in Stand By Me (UK tour); Diane in Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre); Poison (Tricycle Theatre); Consuela and Anita in West Side Story (Prince of Wales) and Boogie Nights (Savoy Theatre).
Concerts include: Fantine in Les Misérables(Guernsey); Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar (Guernsey); Chess in Concert (Royal Albert Hall) and The Night of 1000 Voices 2007 and 2010 (Royal Albert Hall).
Recording credits include: Sister Act (Original Cast); Chess in Concert (Live at the Royal Albert Hall); and Tonight’s the Night (Original Cast).
Theatre credits include: Bernie in The Country Girl (Apollo Theatre); Phil in Comedians (Bolton Octagon); Ted in And Did Those Feet (Bolton Octagon); George in All My Sons (Bolton Octagon); Joshua and Jerry in Cloud Nine (Almeida Theatre); Don Manuel in Find The Lady (The Young Vic); Irwin in The Secret Rapture (Chichester Playhouse); Clegg in The Collector (Derby Playhouse and Edinburgh Lyceum); Gill in Been So Long (Royal Court Upstairs); Tony in Not A Game For Boys (Derby Playhouse); The Student in Ghost Sonata (The Gate); Hard Shoulder (Riverside Studios); Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC and US tour); 2nd Boy and 2nd Man in The Park (RSC The Pit); David in Borders of Paradise (Watford Palace Theatre); Paul in Ham (Derby Playhouse); Jamie in Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre, Donmar Warehouse and tour); Eddie in Peggy Buck (Belgrade, Coventry); and Dave in Building Blocks (Nuffield, Southampton).
Television and film credits include: Ben Handing in Casualty (BBC); Kevin Geoffries in Wire in the Blood VI, IV, III, II and I (Coastal/ITV); Rome Interactive (BBC); Fanshawe in A View from a Hill (BBC); Connor in Holby City (BBC); Toby Holmes in Waking The Dead (BBC); Billy Andrews in Heartbeat (Yorkshire); Ben Bradwell in Judge John Deed (BBC); Reece in Francis Tuesday (ITV); Morris Lange in Keen Eddie (Paramount TV); Simon Kitson in The Bill (Pearson); Murder in Mind; Drew in Tales from Pleasure Beach (Blast/BBC); Thorimund in Atilla the Hun (Alliance); Lucien in Urban Gothic (Black Jack); Morgan in McCready & Daughter (Ecosse); Jerry Forbes in Burnside (Pearson); Jack De Souza in The Blind Date (LWT); Jim in Jack of Hearts (BBC Wales); Kenny Howell in Casualty (BBC); Josh in Births, Marriages and Deaths (Tiger Aspect); Detective Sergeant Rob Bradley in Silent Witness (BBC); David Bradley in Noah’s Ark (Carlton); Morrison in A Touch of Frost (YTV); Moving Story (ABTV); Giles Vinter in Wycliffe (HTV); Tomas in The Blood That’s In You (BBC); Reynard in Pie in the Sky (Select TV); Adam in Second Thoughts (LWT); Paul Schiller in Anna Lee (Carnival); Justin Addams in The Bill (Thames); Lee Harris in The Story of Philip Knight (YTV); Villard in Control (Millennium Films); Dickie in Stage Beauty (BBC Films); Mitch in S.W.9. (Fruit Salad); Charles Parker in Wilde (Wilde Productions); Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (EdenWood Productions); and Daniel in Restoration (Restoration Productions).
Theatre credits include: Aint Misbehavin’; Jesus Christ Superstar; The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber; Little Willies; JR’s Resurrection; Miss Saigon; King; Children of Eden; 125th Street; Dancing in the Street; Gone With The Wind; Disney’s The Lion King; The Dirtiest Musical; Tell Me Nobody Knows; Hair; Dementos; Five Guys Named Moe (National Theatre); Mass Carib; Two Trains Running; Radio Golf (Tricycle Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Holland Park); Happy End (Nottingham Playhouse); Blues for Mr Charlie (Sheffield Crucible and Tricycle Theatre, London); Blues in the Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Golden Boy (Greenwich Theatre); Vernon God Little and Been So Long (Young Vic); and Rusty in Starlight Express (Original Cast).
Television and film includes: Isaac Julien’s Young Soul Rebels; Velvet Goldmine; and Monster Trilogy.
As director: White Folks (Crochane Theatre, Pleasance Theatre); Flatshare; Frederick Avery Visits; Street Angels; The Black Fashion Designers Show (The Royal Albert Hall); The Mango Lick Poetry Jam (Royal Festival Hall); A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist The Tulip Wars (Lion and Unicorn Theatre); and Street Dance Musical (Camden Fringe Festival).
His novel ICED has been published and toured internationally. He has also published articles and short stories for the New York Times, The Guardian, Serpents Tail and Penguin publishing houses.
Ray has recorded, sang with, arranged and trained such musical stars as Jay Kay (Jamiroquai); Damage; Grace Jones; Caron Wheeler (Soul 2 Soul); Victoria Wilson James (Shamen; Soul2Soul); Sophie Dahl; Pete Burns; Howard Devoto (Magazine); Alabama 3; The Police (Synchronicity tour); Finlay Quay, Marsha Ambrosius (Floetry), Cleveland Watkiss; and Alitennant.
Theatre credits include: Wonderful Town; Whistle Down the Wind (Aldwych); Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi); Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward); Kiss Me Kate (Victoria Palace); The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Sister Act (London Palladium); Golden Boy (Greenwich Theatre); Frankly Scarlett (King's Head); A Streetcar Named Desire (Bristol Old Vic); Sunday in the Park with George (National Theatre); Born Again (Chichester Festival Theatre); Just So; and Out of this World (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Television and film credits include: Rudeboy; Hot Metal; The New Statesman; The Detectives; Wodehouse On Broadway; Not A Penny More....; Bomb Story; That's Love; Young Indiana Jones; Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; Superman IV; and Iron Eagle.
Mark was born in Pasadena, home of The Big Bang. His many Stage appearances in America include: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Faustus; Rosencrantz & Guildernstern Are Dead; Sherlock Holmes; Streamers; The Lion In Winter; Our Town; The Glass Menagerie; South Pacific; Mikado; Carousel; Evita.
Theatre credits include: Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Broadway and London); Sweeney Todd (Theatre Clywd); Phantom Of The Opera (Edinburgh, Manchester and Her Majesty's Theatre); Old Deuteronomy in Cats (The New London Theatre); Closer Than Ever (Jermyn Street Theatre); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (UK tour); Dick Barton – Special Agent; Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre); One Touch Of Venus (Opera North); Sunday In The Park With George (The Menier Chocolate Factory and Wyndham's Theatre); and The Man In The Iron Mask (The Duchess Theatre).
Television and film Includes: Rockula; Capital; Kavanagh QC; Let's Roll; D day drama; Ny-Lon; Days That Shook The World; The Government Inspector; Ultimate Force; Chucklevision; The Tiger and The Snow.
Recording credits include: South Pacific; 42nd Street; and Sunday in the Park with George.
Theatre credits include: Tony Kushner’s Angels In America (National Theatre); Rutherford And Son (National Theatre); Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Cards (National Theatre); The Prince's Play (National Theatre); and Sleep With Me (National Theatre). Certain Young Men and Enemies (Almeida); A Prayer For My Daughter (Young Vic); Single Spies (Queens Theatre); Me and Mamie O'Rourke (Aldwych); Hamlet (Manchester Royal Exchange); Pride and Prejudice (Leicester Haymarket); The Clandestine Marriage (Bristol Old Vic); Comedy of Errors (York Playhouse); Wolf At The Door; Invisible Friends (Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre); Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal, Bath).
Television and film includes: The Black and Blue Lamp; No Further Cause For Concern; Ellington; Peak Practice; Kavannagh QC; Midsommer Murders; Trial and Retribution V; Murphy's Law; French & Saunders; Absolutely Fabulous; The Case; Made In Britain; Contact; Scum; The Fourth Protocol; For Queen and Country; Hellraiser; Hellbound; Tangier Cop; The Sea Change; Gangster No 1; A Mighty Heart; Joy Division; and Vivid.
Sean is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy and has recently completed his second novel The Blood In The Moon and a short story collection Ms Derby Requires.
Training: Barbara Speake Theatrical School and the Urdang Academy.
Theatre credits include: Lewis in Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory); Fred Casely and understudy Billy Flynn in Chicago (Cambridge Theatre); Bill in Kiss Me Kate (National Tour); Mike in A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible); Ren in Footloose (European tour); Double J in Saturday Night Fever (London Palladium); Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (UK tour); Mowgli in Jubilee (St. David’s Hall, Cardiff); Fame (Spectrum, Oslo); Fifteen Streets (Congress Theatre, Eastbourne); Summer Holiday (UK tour) and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Dominion Theatre).
Television and film credits include: Eddie in Hollyoaks (Mersey Television); Hanger 17 (BBC); Mr Mijaca (ITV); Disney Adventures (ITV); Barbara Streisand’s Yentl; and Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.
Other credits include: MGM Charity Gala (London Palladium); and London 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremonies (The Olympic Stadium).
Theatre credits include: The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne); Hamlet; The Taming of The Shrew; and Much Ado About Nothing (Bristol Tobacco Factory); Henry V (by William Walton for Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra); Peter Pan (Asian tour); Stravinski’s The Soldier’s Tale (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra); Hippolytus (Orange Tree Theatre); Perfect Days (Stoke New Vic); The Tempest (UK tour); and King Lear (Bristol Old Vic).
Television credits include: Law & Order, Doctors; Midsomer Murders; Margaret; He Kills Coppers; Murphy’s Law; Frankenstein; and The Great Escape.
Radio credits include: The Duchess of Malfi; Fuente Ovejuna; The Archers; An Ideal Husband; and Cyrano De Bergerac.
Training: Taylor, at the age of ten, is no stranger to the world of performing as Mum and Dad boast a string of television and West End credits. Taylor trains at the Dance Factory in Berkshire where he studies, dance, drama and singing, along with regular drama workshops run by Buttercup Agency. He has taken part in a Sylvia Young Summer School during the 2012 school holidays.
Theatre includes: The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium, 2011).
Film and television include: commercials for Sainsbury’s and MacDonald’s, and Nickelodeon and Cartoonito children channels’ promotional films.
Other work includes: photographic shoots and fashion shows for Animal and Dinc Wear.
Taylor’s hobbies include athletics (he is member of Reading Athletics club), gymnastics and swimming. He also plays keyboard.
Training: Michael has attended the Carmel Thomas Performing Arts in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, since the age of 7.
Theatre credits: Michael’s west end debut was as a member of the children’s choir in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at the Adelphi. He later went on to also perform in the UK Tour. Michael has also played Young Simba in The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre 2010/2011), and most recently appeared as a member of Fagin’s Gang in Oliver! (UK tour, 2012).
Recording credits: We Will Remember Them (Help The Heroes) 2009 and the calypso solo in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (schools recording).
Michael also played the role of Fletcher during the workshops of The Bodyguard.
Training: Malaki attends the Latymer All Saints Primary school in Edmonton, North London. Malaki’s school holds a competition titled Latymer’s Got Talent in which he gained first place two years in a row and second place in 2012. Malaki’s vocal skills were first noticed when he was around seven whilst rehearsing with his church choir.
Performances include: in December 2011 taking part in a local competition called The X-mas Factor, marking his first big public performance. Malaki also appeared in the television show Britain’s Got Talent in which he advanced to the semi-final Stages. The experience of meeting other acts and working with the production team was exciting and helped to build his confidence in performing in front of a large audience. After the show Malaki was called in to audition for television series Molly Moon.
Training: Joshua-James Thomas previously attended the Barbara Speake Stage School where he achieved the Dance Teachers Association Preliminary; Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern Dance, Juvenile Tap and Musical Theatre Syllabus Award stage 1, 2 and 3. He now attends Hatch End High School which has Performing Arts College status.
Credits include: New Tricks, The Paul O'Grady Show, Tune Attics, The Bill, The Morgana Show, adverts for Premier Inn and BBC I Player, BBC Proms 2012 – Angry Birds and Goody Goody Gordon in Horrid Henry the Movie.
Joshua-James also has a passion for fashion design and art, including portraits and pastels. The Bodyguard will mark his west end debut.
Training: English and Drama at the University of Birmingham.
Theatre credits include: Sheila in Takeaway (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Arion in Cressida Brown’s Amphibians (Bridewell Theatre); Nala in Disney's The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); rehearsed reading of Simone in Been So Long (Young Vic); Aisha, Juliettte and Violca in Hurried Steps (New Shoes Theatre); understudy Mrs Thistletwat, Girl Bear, Kate, Lucy and Gary Coleman in Avenue Q (Noël Coward Theatre); Bachaae in The Bachaae (National Theatre of Scotland); Miss Sherman in Fame (Holland tour); Morgan Le Fay in Pendragon (Northcott Theatre, Minack Theatre, Peacock Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Theatre and Japan) and Sylvia in The Dreaming (Northcott Theatre and Lindbury Studio, Royal Opera House).
Television and Film credits include: Dotun in The Window (IWC Media, C4); Marcia in Bad Girls (Shed Productions); Donna in Grass (BBC Comedy) and Jackie in Resurrecting the Street Walker (Scala Films).
Training: Performers College 2011
Theatre includes: dance captain and understudy title role in Dick Whittington (New Wimbledon Theatre and New Victoria, Working), ensemble in Patience (Union Theatre).
Film and television include: A Little Chaos (Lionsgate 2014), Philip in In The Deep Online Series (Dreamcoat Productions), Sam in September 11th (Neath Films for Film 4), dancer in John Bishop Live: Sunshine Tour (2entertain for BBC).
US Theatre credits include: The Boyfriend; Damn Yankees; The Fantasticks; Once Upon a Mattress; After the Fall; The Boys in the Band; The Gingerbread Lady; and Lenny.
Television and film credits include: The Young & The Restless; and Knight Rider (US); Parents (Sky Comedy); The Castaways (BBC); Air Crash Confidential (Discovery); Jonestown (National Geographic); and cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Training: Cambridge Performing Arts.
Theatre credits include: Thriller Live! (Lyric Theatre and UK and European tours); Daddy Cool (West End and German tour).
Television credits include: The One and Only (BBC); Skate Nation (CBBC); X Factor; GMTV; Royal Variety Performance; The Brit Awards; Saturday Night Diva’s; Dirty Dancing, Time of your Life (Living TV).
Other credits include: Dancer for Take That, Marcus Collins, Little Mix and Sonny Jim; and modelling work for Burton and the Clothes Show Live.
Training: Phil Winston's Theatreworks and the Christine Clarkson School of Dance.
Theatre credits include: Cinderella (QDOS); Aladdin (QDOS); On Show (Royal Albert Hall); Night of Musicals (Royal Opera House).
TV credits include: Resident dancer on The X Factor, The Voice and Let's Dance for Sports Relief.
Other credits include: Music videos for Cheryl Cole, Cee Lo Green and Nicola Roberts; Cheryl Cole; Basshunter; Iyaz; Pixie Lott and DanceNation tour 2010. Yasmin has just finished touring the UK with the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay tour.
Theatre credits include: Thriller Live (International tour and Lyric Theatre); Deena Jones in Dream Girls (Fairfield Halls); Sheila in A Chorus Line (Theatre on the Hill); and Miss Mona in The Best Little Whore House in Texas (Theatre on the Hill).
Shanay is a popular music artist and is currently recording her co-written album.
Training: The Urdang Academy.
Theatre credits include: ensemble and understudy Hattie in Kiss Me Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre); Company in Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory); guest vocalist in Michael Ball’s Heroes Tour (UK tour); Soloist in La Varite (Hackney Empire); featured dancer in Stephen Mear’s Shoes (The Peacock Theatre); Swing and understudy Dionne in Hair (Gielgud Theatre); Tiger Lilly in Peter Pan (Curve, Leicester); Demeter in Cats (Stadium Tour); Carmen Diaz in Fame (UK tour); Peaches, one of the Dynamites in Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Swing and dance captain in Porgy & Bess (Savoy Theatre); Joule in Starlight Express (UK tour); ensemble in The Genius of Ray Charles (Theatre Royal Haymarket).
Other credits include: TYMES 4 (Girl Group2) with two top 20 hits and a UK/European tour; ‘I’m In Heaven’ a number 7 hit with Jason Nevins; ‘Touch It’ a number 3 hit in the US Club Charts; ‘Ayo Technology’ video featured Girl In Car, song by Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent.
Theatre includes: Of Mice and Men (Library Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Theatre Clwyd); All My Sons (Theatre Clwyd); Speed the Plow (Birmingham Stage Company); The Lights (Royal Court);The Prisoner's Dilemma (RSC); Hamlet (RSC); The Front Page (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Postman Always Rings Twice (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Belfast Theatre Festival); People at Sea (Salisbury Playhouse); Hayton on Homicide (ADC Theatre, Cambridge).
Television and film credits include: 51st State; Dark Corners; Land of the Blind; Casino Royale; Last Chance Harvey; Space Race; Rosemary and Thyme; Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand; 9/11: The Twin Towers; Casualty; The Great San Francisco Earthquake; Taggart; The Bill; Doctors; Eastenders; I Shouldn't Be Alive; Shameless; and Holby City.
Radio includes: The Match Fixing Play (BBC); Slaughterhouse 5 (BBC 7); Passing (Radio 4); Pinkerton (Radio 4).
Theatre credits include: Marlena Madison and Shirley in The Buddy Holly Story (UK and Ireland tour); Odette, The Dark Side of Swan Lake (West End); The Bacchae (Broadway); Swing in The Lion King (West End); Aida (International); Fame (West End and National tour); Wrench in Starlight Express (International); Shirley in Saturday Night Fever (International); We Will Rock You (West End); Show Boat (West End); Donna in Oh! What a Night (International); Push (West End).
Theatre credits include: Sherlock Holmes; The Children's Hour; Down The Road; Happy End; Abigail's Party and Bent.
Television and film credits include: Torchwood (BBC); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures); FC Dave (UKTV); Flight 93 (Granada TV); Batman Begins (Warner Brothers); Norris in Return To House On Haunted Hill (Warner Brothers); Vincent in Just For The Record (Regency Films); Nick in Solito (Holymoshen Pictures); Floyd Weathers in Wrong Turn 3 (Twentieth Century Fox); Hard Nut in Gridiron UK (Kitsos Films); Tony in Riot (Press On Features); The Decoy Bride and Social Vigilantes.
Theatre credits include: Tammi Terrell, Gladys Knight in Dancing in the Streets (Cambridge, Aldwych and Playhouse theatres); Miss Sherman in Fame (National tour); Bluette in The Blues Brothers (European tour); Kate in The Wild Party (Union Theatre).
Forging a name for herself in Europe, Janet has headlined festivals and received rave reviews for her concert performances.
Performance credits include: Glastonbury Festival; Latitude Festival; The Secret Garden Party; The Notting Hill Carnival; and BBC Radio 2.
Training: LAMDA.
Theatre credits include: Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (Dubai); Herr Zeller and understudy Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (London Palladium and UK tour); understudy Al Wheeler in The Stripper (UK tour); Captain Albert Lennox in The Secret Garden (Byre Theatre); Tristram in Taking Steps (Eastbourne Theatre); understudy Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's Theatre); and understudy Alec in Tess of the D'Urbervilles (UK tour and Savoy Theatre). Pantomimes include: Captain Hook in Peter Pan (The Castle); Beast in Beauty & The Beast (PHA & Jordan Productions); Prince in Snow White (PHA); and Emperor in Aladdin (QDOS).
Television and film credits include: The Knock (ITV); Spooks (BBC); and The Cut (BBC).
Training: Colaiste Stiofan Naofa in Cork, Ireland and Bird College.
Theatre credits include: Harrison and understudy Amos Hart in Chicago (Garrick Theatre, Cambridge Theatre and UK tour); Le Cabaret (Monte Carlo Casino); understudy Herman in Snow White (Manchester Opera House); Swing in We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Spirit of the Dance and Spirit of Broadway (US tours); Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance (Shaw Theatre); Sheriff Dodd in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Albany Theatre); Sleeping Beauty; Wizard of Oz; Cinderella (Cork Opera House); and Cork City Ballet (Irish tour).
Television and film credits include: Sean in Zanzibar (S4C); Totally Frank (Channel 4); This Morning (ITV); Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Dharma Productions); and Jann-e-Mann.
Training: Bird College and The Grove Dance Centre.
Recent credits include: Duane in Hairspray (Royal Caribbean Cruises); Christmas Day Parade (Harrods); Daytime Trade Show (Toyota); and dancing for American artist Melissa Molinaro's single promotion Dance Floor.
Training: Bird College.
Theatre credits include: Two Boys; and Castor and Pollux (London Coliseum); The Opera Show (Kilworth House); Der Rosenkavelier (London Coliseum); Breaking Convention (Sadler’s Wells); Carmen (Royal Opera House); Aida (London Coliseum); Death in Venice (London Coliseum); Palace Tap with Tap Dogs (Buckingham Palace); Mack the Knife (Orchard Theatre); Afrika Afrika Circus; Dodger in Oliver! (Haymarket Theatre).
Television and film credits include: ‘Plague’ who were runners up in Move Like MJ 2009 (BBC); semi-finalist in Got to Dance (SKY 1); George Sampson’s Singing in the Rain and Heads Up music videos; and Sonny J, Can’t Stop Movin’ video.
Training: Brent Street Studios, Australia.
Theatre credits include: Mazeppa and understudy Mamma Rose in Gypsy (Curve, Leicester); Bohemian Rhapsody (National tour and Monte Carlo); Diva in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Palace Theatre); Violet in It’s A Wonderful Life (New Wolsey Theatre,Ipswich); X (Mercury Musical Developments); The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot (Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne); alternate Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (Hong Kong andThailand tour); Yitzhak in Hedwig and The Angry Inch (Cremorne Theatre,Queensland); Sweet Charity (The State Theatre, Melbourne); Pippin (SydneyTheatre); understudy Scaramouche, Meat and Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (Japan tour) and understudy Dusty in Dusty - The Musical (Australian tour).
Training: The London Studio Centre. Paul was the recipient of the Merryfield Award for Musical Theatre and the Elizabeth West Award for Contemporary Dance.
Theatre credits include: Carousel (Grand Theatre, Leeds and the Barbican); Imagine This (New London Theatre); Swan Lake (UK and International tours); Nutcracker!; Cinderella; Candide; Faust; Marriage of Figaro; Onegin; and The Death of Klinghoffer (London Coliseum).
Television and film credits include: Matthew Bourne's Christmas (Channel 4); and Imagine This at the New London Theatre.
Recording credits include: Imagine This (Original Cast Recording).
Training: Laine Theatre Arts, graduating in 2008 receiving the Dancers Award.
Theatre credits include: Jeanie in Hair (Piccadilly Theatre and Deutsches Theater Munich); Vampirette (Opera House, Manchester); Mrs Potiphar in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (No.1 UK tour); understudy Jeanie in Hair (European tour); Iris Kelly and understudy Ms Bell in Fame (Ireland tour); understudied and played title role and dance captain in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Richmond Theatre); An Evening with Val Doonican (London Palladium); and Carnival Sensation (Carribean cruise).
Television and film credits include: ‘Red or Black’ performance for Il Divo (ITV); and The XX ‘Islands’ music video.
Theatre credits include: The Merchant of Venice (Creation Theatre); Everyman Festival (Liverpool Playhouse); The Snow Queen (The Dukes, Lancaster); Kes (Oldham Coliseum); Arsenic and Old Lace; The Caretaker; The Lonesome West; The Borrowers (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Gormenghast; Lord of the Flies (York Theatre Royal) and Muse.
Television and film credits include: Doctors (BBC); A Touch of Frost (ITV); and Coronation Street (ITV).
Training: Richard graduated with a degree in commercial music.
Theatre includes: musical director of Betty Blue Eyes (Novello); Hair! (Gielgud); Priscilla Queen Of the Desert (Palace); Grease (Piccadilly); Fame (2007 UK tour); Grease (2005-2006 UK tour); Blood Brothers (UK tour); The Rocky Horror Show (UK and European tours). Assistant musical director Jesus Christ Superstar (Slovenia); Cabaret (European tour); Our House (Cambridge Theatre).
Other work includes: Brian McFadden (BMG) and keyboards for Westlife. He produced the debut albums of the singers Shona White (I’ll Bring You A Song) and Chris Thatcher (Jesus Chris Superstar). Richard composed and arranged music for The Lover’s Spiral (commissioned by The Royal Ballet School) and ‘Perfectly Frank’ – Songs from The Rocky Horror Show.
He is musical supervisor for the annual West End Eurovision.
Richard’s first musical, Today Is My Day, premiered in London in 2010 and his album Songs was released this year to critical acclaim.
Training: John studied Jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He then worked extensively as a keyboard player in jazz/funk bands around Australia.
Theatre includes: deputy musical director on The New Rocky Horror Show (Australian tour 1996). Also in Australia: Sweet Charity; Witches of Eastwick; The Lion King; Miss Saigon; Spamalot; Mamma Mia!; Fame; Oh What A Night; We Will Rock You; The New Rocky Horror Show; The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Hair (Green Room Award nomination).
UK: musical director of Priscilla Queen of The Desert (Palace) and Dancing in the Streets (UK tour), deputy MD on Can’t Smile Without You (UK tour) and Thriller Live (Lyric).
Theatre includes: We Will Rock You; Hairspray; Footloose; The Wedding Singer; The Producers; The Full Monty; Jesus Christ Superstar; as well as deputizing on Sunset Boulevard; Miss Saigon; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; The King and I; Cats; Fame; The Sound of Music; Dirty Dancing and Oliver!
Artist credits include: Paolo Nutini, Stiltskin, Fish (Marillion), GUN, Ray Wilson (Genesis) and Louise Rutkowski (This Mortal Coil).
Television includes: Tonight’s the Night (John Barrowman), TFI Friday, River City, Dear Green Place, Children in Need, The Elaine Show (Elaine C Smith).
Composing includes: Theme music for ‘My Life in Books’ (BBC Scotland) starring Anne Robinson.
Irvin has travelled to many parts of the world as a keyboard player and MD, working in different environments such as music theatre, rock festivals, television sitcoms, soaps and entertainment shows, computer games, and even as a Gaelic folk music producer. Irvin has appeared on over a dozen commercially released albums by various different artistes in the rock, pop and folk genres.
Training: James is a graduate of Leeds College of Music, Leeds University and Guildhall (London).
Theatre includes: The Lion King (Lyceum); Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre); Priscilla Queen of The Desert (Palace Theatre); Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray (UK tour); I Dreamed A Dream (UK tour); Fame (Shaftesbury); Rent (Duke of Yorks); Cabaret (Lyric); Whistle Down the Wind (Palace); Never Forget (Savoy); Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales); Hairspray (Shaftesbury); Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury); Dancing In the Streets (Cambridge); Dirty Dancing (Aldwych); Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy); Grease (Piccadilly); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi); Boogie Nights (UK tour) and What A Feeling (UK tour).
Artist credits include: Omar, G4, Michael Bolton, Paloma Faith, Will Young, Lesley Garret, Jacqui Dankworth, Nikki Yanofsy, Dionne Warwick, Cleveland Watkiss, Aleisha Dixon, Ayumi Hamasaki, Lee Mead, Katherine Jenkins, Shakin’ Stevens, Ray Gelato, Robin Gibb (Bee Gees), Stephen Gately (Boyzone), Peter Cox (Go West), Booty Luv, John Barrowman, Bernie Nolan, Connie Fisher, Kerry Ellis, Jodie Prenger, Odyssey, Bucks Fizz, Brian Conley, Anthony Costa (Blue), Alvin Stardust, Noel Sullivan (Hear’say), Journey South (X-Factor), Nikki Evan (X-Factor), Donny Osmond and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Television includes: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC), ITV’s Superstar, Tonight’s The Night (BBC), Ruth Jones TV Specials (BBC).
The James Pusey Group released their debut album First Chapter in 2012.
James has been studying the sitar/Indian music since 1993 and was awarded the Ernest H Morris award by Leeds College of Music for outstanding work in multicultural music in 1996. This led him to complete an MMus course at Leeds University splitting his study between jazz guitar and sitar/Indian music. He has made several study trips to Mumbai, India where he is a student of Pandit Arvind Parikh.
Theatre includes: Ghost the Musical; Spring Awakening; Jersey Boys; Wicked; Avenue Q and Guys & Dolls. Huw has also played on four tours of Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds.
Artist credits include: performed and recorded with artists including Dionne Warwick, Lionel Richie, Herbie Hancock, Lang Lang, Shania Twain, Mica Paris, Imogen Heap, Pixie Lott, Rebecca Ferguson, Caro Emerald, Cliff Richard, Rumer and Alexandra Burke.
Huw performs regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta, performing the UK premiere of Natasha Barrett’s solo Deconstructing Dowland with the Sinfonietta in 2009.
Huw’s playing is featured on several film soundtracks, including Twilight: New Moon, Coco Before Chanel, and Rise Of The Guardians. In 2006, Huw provided the guitar work for the worldwide Gibson Guitars Empress Commercial, directed for, and aired at The Superbowl halftime.
Training: Andy was a chorister in the choir of New College, Oxford and studied Cello and Double Bass at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Theatre includes: Evita; Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Ghost the Musical and Hair.
Album credits include: Freddie Mercury, Sharleen Spiteri, Jimmy Sommerville, Madonna, The Pet Shop Boys, Shirley Bassey, 5-Star, Gloria Gaynor, Cliff Richard, China Crisis, Tom Jones, Bananarama, Steve Marriot, Ronan Keating, Seal, Hue & Cry, Nana Mouskouri, Debbie Harry, Michael Ball, Elaine Paige, Tracie Bennet and New London Chorale. Andy has also worked on countless albums for the Spanish and South American markets and also recorded many albums as a member of the rhythm section for all the main London Orchestras.
Films credits include: Narnia - the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Robin Hood, How to Train your Dragon, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Leap Year, Nine, 3 Twilight films, Shanghai Noon, Last Orders, Spy Kids, The Guru, Calender Girls, Gosford Park, The Recruit, Little Shop of Horrors, Hugo, The Hobbit, Seven Psychopaths and the Full Monty. He has worked on projects in Poland with Zbigniew Preisner and at the Ghent film festival with Hans Zimmer.
Television includes: resident bass player on the chat shows Wogan and Barrymore, and has played for all the Stars in their Eyes shows and recorded the tracks for Pop Idol and Pop Stars - the Rivals. The Rock Gospel Show, Ruby Wax, Surprise Surprise, Brian Conley, Miss World, the Children in Need house band, various Royal Variety show house bands, Des O’Connor Tonight, Songs of Praise, The Paul Daniels show, Night Fever, and the Generation Game. As a composer, Andy has written many works, including the theme to the long-running police series, The Bill.
Andy has received chart success with the song Einsein a go-go and has toured extensively as a founder member of the group Landscape.
Theatre includes: Ghost the Musical; Hairspray; Sister Act; Saturday Night Fever; The Producers; Spamalot; The Full Monty; Tell Me On A Sunday and The Beautiful Game.
Artist credits include: Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Lionel Richie, JLS, Take That, One Direction, Dame Shirley Bassey, Pixie Lott, Leona Lewis, The Bee Gees, Annie Lennox, Will Young, Joss Stone, Westlife, Beverley Knight, Paloma Faith, Seal, Lisa Stansfield, Katherine Jenkins, Michael Bolton, Dionne Warwick, Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, Josh Groban, Belinda Carlisle, Sister Sledge, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Pointer Sisters, BBC Concert Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Training: James trained at the Royal Academy and then at the Royal College of Music, London.
Theatre includes: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Palace); Imagine This (New London & Plymouth); Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith); Menopause The Musical (Shaw); High School Musical (UK tour); Jerry Springer the Opera (UK tour); and deputized on Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal); Singin’ In The Rain (Palace); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour); Saturday Night Fever (UK tour); La Cava (Piccadilly); Closer to Heaven (Arts); Dirty Dancing (Aldywch & UK tour); Porgy & Bess (Savoy); The Fantasticks (Duchess); Cabaret (Lyric); A Tribute to Dirty Dancing (Olso, Norway); Magic of the Musicals (UK tour); Hollywood & Broadway (UK tour) and A Night at the Musicals (UK tour).
Orchestral credits include: Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony and Northern Sinfonia.
Artist credits include: Hayley Westenra, Adam Guettel, Kerry Ellis, Boy George, Curiosity Killed The Cat, Belinda Carlisle, Paul Young, Altered Images, Pepsi & Shirlie, Midge Ure, Brother Beyond, Kid Creole, The Real Thing, Marti Webb and Lee Mead.
James is the director of West End Allstars, a successful corporate entertainment group.
Training: Following a stint in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Martin Williams studied saxophone and jazz performance at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, and then composition at the Royal College of Music in London.
Martin joined the BBC Big Band in 1998 and since then has been featured on hundreds of broadcasts and has played with guest artists such as Ray Charles, Patti Austin, Dr. John, Amy Winehouse, Michael McDonald, Phil Woods, Michel Legrand, George Shearing, Jamie Cullum and George Benson. Other freelance work includes concerts and broadcasts with Michael Bublé, Kylie Minogue, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Lionel Richie, Diana Krall, Glen Campbell, Harry Connick Jr, Westlife, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, UB40, Dizzee Rascal, Paloma Faith, Boyz II Men, Idina Menzel, Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa.
Theatre includes: Dirty Dancing; Chicago; Anything Goes; Shrek; Legally Blonde; Guy and Dolls; Cats; Crazy For You; Saturday Night Fever and Top Hat.
Television includes: five series of The X Factor, four series of Britain's Got Talent, eight years on Children In Need, Parkinson, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, I'd Do Anything, Any Dream Will Do, Surprise Surprise, The Royal Variety Performance, Dancing On Ice, Tonight's The Night and Popstar to Operastar.
Recording credits include: The Lady Killer (Cee Lo Green), The Garden (Zero 7), Grand Slam (Zero 7), Difficult Second Album (Chris Moyles), Classic Sinatra II (Frank Sinatra), Goodby Swingtime (Matthew Herbert Big Band), There’s Me and There’s You (Matthew Herbert Big Band), Red (The Guillemots), The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Andy Williams), Don’t Talk (Clare Teal), Live at the Paris Olympia (Petula Clark), Best of Broadway (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), Immersion (Pendulum), Ask a Woman Who Knows (Natalie Cole), Hallelujah (Alexandra Burke), Men in Scarlet (Chelsea Pensioners), Heroes (Michael Ball), Live in Berlin, Strict Tempo, Radio Days, Swing It!, Evidence (BBC Big Band), Try a Little Tenderness (Madeline Bell), Tribute to Benny Goodman (Ken Peplowski), Absolutely Live (George Benson), She (Laura Mvula), The Golden Boy (Freddie Mercury & Monserrat Caballe), and the Grammy nominated Roots (Jessye Norman).
Training: Pat studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he gained a First Class Honours degree and was awarded the prestigious Principal's Prize upon graduation.
West End Theatre credits include: Shrek (Drury Lane), Legally Blonde (Savoy), Sweeney Todd (Adelphi), Wizard of Oz (Palladium), Betty Blue Eyes (Novello), Les Misérables (O2 concert), Oliver! (Palladium & Drury Lane), Chicago (Garrick), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych), Zorro (Garrick), Spamalot (Palace), Sinatra (Palladium), Anything Goes (Drury Lane), Rat Pack (Novello), Jerry Springer the Opera (Cambridge Theatre), The Producers (Drury Lane), Witches of Eastwick (Drury Lane), My Fair Lady (Drury Lane), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Beauty and the Beast (Dominion), Miss Saigon (Drury Lane), Crazy For You (Prince Edward), Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyceum), Fame (Cambridge Theatre), Fosse (Prince of Wales), Matthew Bourne's Play without Words (National Theatre).
TV credits include: Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor, The Hour, Darcey Bussell Dances Hollywood, Parkinson, I'd Do Anything, Tonight's the Night, Barrymore, The Royal Variety Performance, BAFTA Awards.
Artist credits include: Dame Shirley Bassey, Robbie Williams, Paloma Faith, Snow Patrol, Elvis Costello, Dianna Krall, Michael Ball, Jamie Cullum, Will Young, Mark Owen, Natalie Cole, David Cassidy, Susan Boyle, Michael Crawford, Seth McFarlane, Lorna Luft, John Barrowman, Martine McCutcheon, Engelbert Humperdinck, Michael McDonald, Barry Manilow, Kevin Spacey, Dame Cleo Laine, Russell Watson, Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins.
Film credits include: Les Misérables, Moulin Rouge, The World is Not Enough, My Week with Marilyn, Lost in Space, Confetti, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Mona Lisa Smile, Tomb Raider, Evita, Madagascar, Valiant and the Grammy nominated Beyond the Sea.
Orchestral Credits include : John Wilson Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Pat regularly plays with the BBC Big Band, Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra and plays lead trumpet with the Laurence Cottle Big Band. He has also worked with many other artists at the forefront of British jazz such as the Stan Tracey Big Band, John Surman Brass Project, John Dankworth Big Band, Tim Garland, Don Weller Big Band and the Mark Nightingale Big Band. He is also proud to be a founder member of the highly acclaimed John Wilson Orchestra, with whom he has performed in many successful BBC Proms and UK tours.
Lawrence Kasdan (Original Screenplay) has directed, written or produced twenty-one motion pictures, including BODY HEAT, THE BIG CHILL, SILVERADO, THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST and GRAND CANYON. Among them, he has written or co-written four of the most successful films in motion picture history -- RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, RETURN OF THE JEDI and THE BODYGUARD, the first original screenplay Kasdan sold. THE BIG CHILL and THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Picture. THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST was named Best Picture of 1988 by the New York Film Critics Circle. GRAND CANYON won the Golden Bear as Best Picture of the 1992 Berlin Film Festival. Nominated for four Academy Awards and six Writers Guild Awards, Kasdan was honored by the Writers Guild of America with its Laurel Award for advancing the literature of motion pictures.
Recent productions include his play Red Dog Howls (New York Theater Workshop), Still Life (Manhattan Class Company), Folding the Monster, The Chaos Theories (Shotgun Theater), In This, Our Time and Big Kids. Alexander was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards for his work on the additional book and lyrics of the off-Broadway hit, Zanna Don’t! He has recently begun work on the latest film by director Alejandro Gonzalez-Innaritu (Babel, 21 Grams, Biutiful), and has just completed work on the original screenplay, The Year of the Monarchs. Alex is a member of the Dramatists Guild and NYTW’s Usual Suspects.
Theatre includes: The Sunshine Boys (Savoy); 13, After the Dance, Happy Now?, The Emperor Jones and Free (NT), Cause Célèbre (Old Vic); Plenty (Sheffield); Ruby Wax’s Losing It (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Misanthrope (Comedy); As You Like It (Globe); Mrs Klein and Cloud Nine (Almeida); Equus (Gielgud and Broadway). Thea was associate director to Peter Hall, and artistic director of the Southwark Playhouse and Gate Theatre.
Television includes: Henry V starring Tom Hiddleston for the BBC and Neal Street.
Tim trained at Central St Martins School of Art & Design, London.
Theatre credits include: Timon of Athens; Welcome to Thebes; Rafta Rafta; Present Laughter; Henry V; The Talking Cure; Vincent in Brixton; Humble Boy; Stanley; Hamlet; Sleep with Me; Darker Face of the Earth; Flight; Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre); Out of a House (National Theatre co-production with Complicite); Betty Blue Eyes (West End); Shrek the Musical (West End and Broadway); Spamalot (West End and Broadway); Private Lives (West End); Suddenly Last Summer; The Crucible (Broadway); Endgame; 3 Lives of Lucie Cabrol (Complicite); Mrs Klein (Almeida Theatre); My Fair Lady (Paris).
Opera credits include: La Traviata (Vlaamse Opera); Figaro (Aix-en-Provence); Love for 3 Oranges (Cologne); Carmen, Orpheus in the Underworld, Return of Ulysses (Opera North); Ariadne auf Naxos and Il Trovatore (Scottish Opera).
Film credits include: Stage Beauty (2003 dir Richard Eyre); Closer (2004 dir Mike Nichols); Notes on a Scandal (2006 dir Richard Eyre).
Exhibitions: Vivienne Westwood - a London Fashion (Museum of London); Diaghilev & the Ballet Russes (V&A).
Awards: Olivier Awards for Stanley (National Theatre) and Private Lives (West End), Tony Awards for Private Lives (Broadway); and Shrek the Musical (Broadway).
Arthur is Portuguese, born in South Africa and studied dance in Johannesburg. He came to London to train at the London Contemporary Dance School, gaining a masters degree. He is currently an associate artist for DanceEast Jerwood Dance House, Ipswich.
Most recently, Arthur directed and choreographed THE METAMORPHOSIS for the Linbury Studio Theatre Royal Opera House for which he won the 2012 South Bank Award and was nominated for an Olivier.
His commissions include SNOW WHITE IN BLACK (National Dance Award Modern Repertoire) for Phoenix Dance Theatre/Sadler’s Wells; AND THEN GONE for Bare Bones/ Linbury ROH; THE STEPFATHER for CandoCo Dance Company/Queen Elizabeth Hall; MISCHIEF (TMA Award Achievement in Dance) a collaboration with Theatre Rites, Sadler's Wells and Dance Touring Partnership recently revived at The New Victory Theatre, New York; DANCING IN THE DARK for Images of Dance; ROMEU E JULIETA for Dancando com a Diferenca, Madeira; UTOPIA a site specific commission for the International Dance Festival Birmingham; THE ART OF THE IKETTES for Intoto Dance; GOD'S for London Contemporary Dance School Graduation and MOJO for Theatre Rites at the Barbican, Salzburg Festival The New Victory Theatre, New York.
For his own company, Open Heart Productions - BOOMSHE SHEBOOM and BUGGER, A FAIRY TALE, CAMP The Place and most recently GOD'S GARDEN a co-commission from DanceEast and ROH2.
Other productions - SHOW BOAT and LA BOHEME (Royal Albert Hall); WEST SIDE STORY (Municipal Festival of Larnaca, Cyprus); STREET SCENE (Evening Standard Award Best Musical) for The Opera Group and Young Vic; MAPPA MUNDI, WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN and DETROIT (Royal National Theatre); CALEDONIAN ROAD and BECKY SHAW (Almeida Theatre); THE WINTER'S TALE (Royal Shakespeare Company - Stratford, London and New York); The GLASS MENAGERIE (Young Vic); IDOMENEO with Placido Domingo (Los Angeles Opera); LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (Lithuanian State Opera , Israeli Opera); THE GAMBLER (Opera Zuid); CARMEN (Royal Opera House, Den Norske Opera) recently filmed in 3D; LA CENERENTOLA (Garsington Opera); ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Minnesota Opera) and THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER (English National Opera).
Future work includes revivals of STREET SCENE for Theatre du Chatelet Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona and THE METAMORPHOSIS at Linbury Studio Theatre Royal Opera House.
Arthur continues to create and research work for Open Heart Productions and his next production for the company is NOBODY'S BABY premiering in Spring 2013.
ARTHUR'S WORK CAN BE VIEWED ON www.arthurpita.com
Mike Dixon graduated from Trinity College of Music in 1979 and since then has become one of the most experienced and respected musical forces in London's West End and on British television. His work spans all genres of music as Musical Supervisor, Musical Director, Arranger and Composer.
Theatre includes: Hair; Zorro; Never Forget; We Will Rock You; Daddy Cool; Footloose; Grease; Jesus Christ Superstar; Aspects Of Love; Doctor Dolittle; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; La Cage Aux Folles; Peter Pan; Bless The Bride; Mr Cinders; Godspell; Look to the Rainbow.
Television includes: Text Santa; Over The Rainbow; Children In Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall; The Electric Proms; Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway; We Are Most Amused; For One Night Only; Concert for Diana; Glastonbury 2007; MusiCool; Pop Idol; The Royal Variety Show; Miss World; The British Comedy Awards; Star For a Night; Call Up The Stars; Night of a Thousand Stars; The Brian Conley Show; The Shane Ritchie Experience; Whatever You Want; Late Night with Jerry Springer; We Are The Champions; The Queen's Jubilee Rock Concert; The Prince's Trust 30th Anniversary Concert; BBC Proms in the Park; Saturday Night Divas; Guilty Pleasures; An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck, An Audience with Joan Rivers; An Audience With Shirley Bassey; An Audience with Lionel Richie...Live!.
Radio includes: Elvis Forever; Elbow at Abbey Road; Andrew Lloyd Webber's Birthday in the Park; Friday Night Is BOND Night; Cheltenham Jazz Festival; The Billie Holiday Story; The Billy Strayhorn Story; Jazz Royalty; Friday Night Is Music Night; BBC Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre Competition.
Recordings include: The Sound of Rodgers and Hammerstein; The Performance with Dame Shirley Bassey; Zorro; Seven; We Will Rock You; Grease; Doctor Dolittle; Jesus Christ Superstar; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Aspects of Love; Evita (movie).
Other events include: Macmillan Centenary Gala; Wimbledon Theatre Centenary Gala; Welcoming The World, St Pancras International Royal Opening; Dame Shirley Bassey, The Dame is Back!; Launch of Ventura; Arcadia & Adonia.
Mike has received awards in the Australian entertainment industry Helpmann Award 2004 for Best Musical Direction.
Chris Egan has become one of the UK's most respected musical talents. He has worked in all genres of music as a Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator & Musical Director.
Theatre: End Of The Rainbow (Broadway, West End); Crazy For You (West End); Witches Of Eastwick (UK tour); Never Forget (West End & UK tour); The Wedding Singer (UK tour); Grease (West End, Worldwide tour); Daddy Cool (West End & European tour); Footloose (West End, UK tour, South Africa); Love Shack (UK tour); Kiss Me Kate (UK tour); Calamity Jane (West End).
Television: Upstairs Downstairs; Queens Diamond Jubilee; Royal Variety Performance (2005, 2007 & 2009); Guinness World Records Smashed; For One Night Only; Britannia High; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria (Toronto); Guilty Pleasures; Graham Norton's Big Finish; Saturday Night Diva's; MusiCool; Cirque De Celebrity; Paul O'Grady Show; Soapstar Superstar; An Audience with Lionel Richie; BBC Proms In The Park; Duet Impossible; Prince's Trust 30th Anniversary Concert; Just The Two Of Us; An Audience with Joan Rivers; Another Audience with Dame Shirley Bassey; Baby Ballroom The Championship (UK & International); Children In Need; Late Night with Jerry Springer; BBC TV License Campaign; Girlstuff Boystuff (animation series).
Radio: BBC Voice of Musical Theatre (2000-2006); Friday Night Is Music Night; John Barrowman Radio 2 Special; Michael Ball Celebrates Anthony Newley; James Bond Special.
Concerts: Elaine Paige (UK, European, Australian, American & Asia Concerts); Dame Shirley Bassey (UK Arena tour & Concerts); Lionel Richie (Hyde Park); Jane McDonald (UK tours); Shalamar (UK tour).
Special Events: Heathrow Terminal 5 Royal Opening; St. Pancras International Royal Opening; Morse Live at the Albert Hall; P&O Naming Cermonies of "Ventura" & "Arcadia"; Laurues Sports Awards Monte Carlo; Young World Arena tour.
Chris's production music compositions (currently over 300 tracks) can be heard all over the world on numerous TV stations.
Chris has written arrangements & performed with many artists including: Lionel Richie; Annie Lennox; Lady Gaga; Oliva Newton-Jown; Phil Ramone; Hayley Westenra; Tony Hatch; Ronan Keating; Michael Ball; Robin Gibb; Dame Shirley Bassey; and Leslie Bricusse.
Chris is currently Elaine Paige's musical director and is creative director of "Vivace", a company that provides first class music production services for film, television, theatre, video games and interactive-media.
Mark Henderson has lit extensively for all the major theatre, opera and dance companies in the UK and has lit over 50 West End productions. He was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002 and 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards for Lighting Design, was awarded a Tony in 2006 and has also received a Welsh BAFTA.
Theatre includes: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; The Iceman Cometh; The Judas Kiss; Copenhagen; Democracy; Hamlet; The Real Thing; The Sound of Music; Our House; Up for Grabs; Grease; West Side Story; Spend Spend Spend; Neville's Island; Follies; Mutiny; Passion; Rowan Atkinson in Revue; Enron; All My Sons; When We Are Married; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Blithe Spirit; Hay Fever; Sweeney Todd; Racing Demon, Les Parent Terribles, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, All My Sons, Mourning Becomes Electra, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, Emperor and the Galilean, One Man Two Guvnors (National Theatre).
Opera includes productions for ENO, The Royal Opera, WNO, Opera North and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Dance includes productions for LCDT, Rambert Dance Company, The Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet and SWRB.
Television and film includes: The Tall Guy; Leeds Piano Competition; Under Milk Wood.
As sound designer: I Dreamed a Dream (UK tour); Chess (Toronto); The Sound of Music (Moscow); A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; A Christmas Carol; Never Forget (UK tour); Jesus Christ Superstar (national tour Spain); Dancing Shadows (world premiere Seoul, Korea); Daddy Cool; Daddy Cool (international tour); Christmas Carol; Cabaret (Milan); The Fall and Rise of Lenny Smallman; Home Truths (national tour); We Could Be Heroes; The Snowman; ASTA Showcase for Cameron Mackintosh; Children of Eden; Pippin; Tommy; West Side Story; Cabaret; Once on this Island; The Angel; opening ceremony of The Jubilee Bridges; Just So; Les Misérables.
As associate sound designer: My Fair Lady; The King and I; Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour); Doctor Dolittle (UK tour); Sunset Boulevard (UK tour); The King and I (UK tour); Nutcracker; Anything Goes; Mamma Mia! (Europe, China and Korea).
As production sound supervisor: Mamma Mia!.
Richard has worked with various artists in concert in the rock and pop world and has provided sound design for many television and corporate shows. His sound mixing credits also include various arena shows both in the UK and Nigeria, and several CD recordings.
Duncan's theatre work includes – Epidemic (Old Vic Tunnels); All New People (Duke of York's and UK Tour); Shrek the Musical (Drury Lane); Zatopek! (20x12 Festival); Frisky & Mannish: Extra Curricular Activities (Edinburgh Festival/UK Tour); Pete Firman (Edinburgh Festival/UK Tour); Chris Cox - Fatal Distraction (UK Tour); Principles & Deceptions (Edinburgh Festival); Peter Pan (Dublin/Southampton); Ivan and the Dogs (UK and International Tour); Catwalk Confidential (Miami/London); A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic); Reasons to be Cheerful (Theatre Royal, Stratford East and two UK Tours); The Tempest (Old Vic/Bridge Project); Kristina (Royal Albert Hall); The Real Thing (Old Vic); The Hairy Bikers Big Night Out (UK Tour); Blowing Whistles (Leicester Square Theatre); The Norman Conquests (Old Vic/Broadway); Sir Barrington Ganch - My Life is Art (Edinburgh Festival); All About My Mother (Old Vic); Frost/Nixon (Donmar/Geilgud) and Evita (New Zealand Tour). He has also been involved in the productions of Dirty Dancing (Aldwych); Lord of the Rings (Drury Lane) and Sinatra (Palladium).
Television work includes - BBC News, London Olympics 2012, Newsnight, BBC Sport, Match of the Day, The One Show, Strictly Come Dancing, Big Brother and BBC documentary pilot, Unknown Islands.
In 2001, Duncan won the BFI's Young Filmmaker of the Year Award.
Sarah Bird started her career in BBC Radio and Television Drama and instigated the BBC's first in-house casting department.
Theatre includes: The Ladykillers (West End); The Madness of George III (West End);The Way of the World (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Cause Célèbre (Old Vic); Me and my Girl (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); When We Are Married (Garrick); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); Juliet and her Romeo (Bristol Old Vic); Mrs Klein (Almeida); Calendar Girls (West End and tour); God of Carnage (West End); Brief Encounter (West End); Cloud Nine (Almeida); Equus (West End); Heroes (West End); ART (West End and tour); The Play What I Wrote (West End and tour).
Film includes: A Bunch of Amateurs; Stormbreaker; As You Like It; Ladies in Lavender; Swimming Pool; Wilde.
Television includes: Hustle; Crash; Messiah; Ny-Lon; Madame Bovary; Hetty Wainthropp Investigates; Pie in the Sky; Wycliffe.
Marc originally trained as an actor at Drama Centre London before moving into casting to assist the Casting Director Sarah Bird.
Theatre includes: The Woman In Black (West End); An Inspector Calls (National Tour); Mother Adam (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Hairy Ape (Southwark Playhouse); Sign of the Times (Duchess Theatre); Calendar Girls (National tour); Goodnight Mister Tom (Chichester Festival Theatre/The Children's Touring Partnership); Far Away (Bristol Old Vic); and The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath/West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Televison and Theatre work with Sarah Bird includes: Hustle and Crash and numerous plays including The Madness of George III (Theatre Royal Bath/West End); Cause Celebre' (The Old Vic); Me & My Girl (Sheffield Theatres); When We Are Married (West End); Calendar Girls (West End & Tours); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic).
Michael Harrison has produced more than 20 productions in the UK and abroad including: Aspects of Love starring David Essex which transferred to the Jo'burg Civic Theatre; Jolson & Co starring Allan Stewart; The Witches of Eastwick starring Marti Pellow; Chess directed by Craig Revel Horwood (UK tour and Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto).
This year he will produce I Dreamed a Dream, the Susan Boyle story starring Elaine C Smith and guest starring Susan Boyle. Michael co-produced Elaine Paige's last two concert tours including her 40th anniversary tour and is also managing director of Qdos Pantomimes Ltd; this Christmas the company presented 23 major productions across the UK.
David Ian has produced theatre shows all over the world. His credits include: Grease, Saturday Night Fever, The King and I, West Side Story, Singin’ in the Rain, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Anything Goes, The Producers, Defending the Caveman, Guys and Dolls, Daisy Pulls It Off, The Sound of Music, La Cage Aux Folles, Sweet Charity, Flashdance, Gypsy, The Shawshank Redemption, The Phantom of the Opera, My Fair Lady, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Chess, Rocky Horror Show, Cats, Chicago, Dr Dolittle, Starlight Express, Seminar, Steel Magnolias, Ghost the Musical and Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
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