Daniel Brocklehurst
Writer
Danny has written on some of the most successful TV shows of recent years including BAFTA winners Shameless and Clocking Off. He created the recent BBC hit series Sorted and co wrote the comedy Linda Green. He is currently writing an ITV series called Is This Love, starring Max Beesley and a feature film based on the Fathers 4 Justice movement.
For the stage, Danny has written My Eight Times Table, Nobody and, the winner of the North West Playwrights Best Play and subsequently adapted for BBC Radio 4, Loaded.
Between 1992 and 1999, Danny worked as a freelance journalist for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Big Issue, the Manchester Evening News and City Life.
Since leaving journalism he has worked as a full-time scriptwriter. Danny has had nominations for RTS Network Newcomer and BAFTA Best New Writer Awards. He was featured in the writers section of the Broadcast Hot 100 in 2006.
He lives in Manchester.
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Guy Jones
Writer
Guy’s current projects include a new play under commission to Nabokov Theatre Co. and co-writing the movie MARLON BRANDO’S CORSET for United British Artists.
Other credits include MARLON BRANDO’S CORSET (U.K. Tour), and FRESHLY GROUND (The Miller, London). His short plays include ISM and SCARE TACTICS (both at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London), and VIOLENT B (Jerwood Studios, London).
Guy also writes on theatre for guardian.co.uk.
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Ed Curtis
Writer/Director
Ed Curtis is a writer and director based in London, where he also runs Ed Curtis Associates (E.C.A.), a theatre production company.
Current projects include co-writing and executive producing the movie Marlon Brando’s Corset for United British Artists.
Other credits include Prison and Conspiracy (Perrier Award Nomination), both starring acclaimed sketch group The Dutch Elm Conservatoire (Pleasance Theatre, U.K. Tour, West End), Calamity Jane (U.K. Tour and West End), Little Shop of Horrors (Derngate Theatre, Northampton), The Big Odyssey (U.K. Tour), Ben Willbond (Pleasance Theatre), Classic Entertainment (Pleasance Theatre) and as an Associate Artist of Tour de Force Ltd. Henry V (Arundel Festival) and Macbeth (Connecticut, U.S.A.).
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Karen Bruce
Choregrapher
Karen won an Olivier Award for her choreography on Pacific Overtures at the Donmar and is director and choreographer on Footloose, recently in the West End and currently out on UK tour for which she has been nominated for the Whatsonstage Best Choreography.
She also choreographed The Producers for Stage Entertainment in Spain currently, and is director/choreographer on Fame which will shortly be at the Shaftesbury and is also on UK tour. She is Associate Choreographer/Director on Saturday Night Fever (West End, No 1 tour, Australia and Singapore and currently in Korea) as well as devising entertainment seasons for ‘Princess Cruises’ as director/choreographer.
Her choreography work also includes Far Pavillions (West End); Annie Get Your Gun (No 1 tour); Brighton Rock (Almeida); A Chorus Lock and Sweet Charity (both at Sheffield Crucible with Sweet Charity winning the TMA Best Musical award) and the Opening Ceremony at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
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Bob Bailey
Set Design
Recent credits include Trance (Bush Theatre); Side By Side By Sondheim (The Venue); The Way Home (Liverpool Playhouse); La Cantratice Chauve (Royal Opera House); the UK Tour of The New Statesman; Paradise Bound (Liverpool Everyman).
Other theatre credits include the UK tour of Anything Goes; Rent (English Theatre Frankfurt); The Real Thing (Theatre Royal Bath & UK Tour) and Macbeth (Holland Park Opera); Cabaret (English Theatre Frankfurt); Love Me Tonight (Hampstead Theatre); Men (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh); Aeroplane Man (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London); Ronde (RADA; George Bernard Shaw Theatre, London); Venecia (Gate Theatre, London); About Face (Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House); Angels In America (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Dancing at Lughnasa (Jermyn Street Theatre, London); Seeds Under Stones (RSC, Stratford Fringe Festival); Horse-Play and All Nighter (both for the Royal Ballet ‘Dance Bites’ Tour); Splendids (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith).
In 1999 Bob was awarded the Time Out Designer of The Year award for his Set Design for DV8’s production of The Happiest Day Of My Life (UK and European Tour).
Additional credits include Art Director for Gimme 6 (Sesame Street/ Common ground TV Productions) and Associate Designer for The Grimm Tales (The Young Vic, London, directed by Tim Supple).
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Chris Woods
Costume Design
Christopher studied English at Leeds University and Scenic Design under Percy Harris and Hayden Griffin at Motley and is currently the Designer for Charley’s Aunt (Theatre Royal Bath). Forthcoming work includes the multi-million pound musical Sleeping Beauty (West End, London) and Much Ado About Nothing (Everyman Playhouse).
Other recent credits include Designer for Six Dance Lessons & Six Weeks (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Associate Designer for Daddy Cool at the Shaftesbury Theatre; costume design for A Right Royal Farce at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington set and costume design for An Hour & A Half Late at the Theatre Royal Bath, set and costume design for Billy Liar at the Liverpool Everyman Playhouse, set and costume design for Daisy Miller at the Malvern Festival Theatre and UK Tour and set and costume design for Who’s The Daddy at the Kings Head Theatre, Islington.
Christopher’s designs for the West End Theatre include Lorna Luft’s Songs My Mother Taught Me (The Savoy); Beautiful & Damned (Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue); Cooper! Jus’ Like That (Garrick Theatre and UK Tour); The Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd (Albery & Comedy Theatres, Broadway, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and the Australian Tour); Jesus My Boy, with Tom Conti (Apollo Theatre); H.R.H (Playhouse Theatre); Pygmalion directed by Ray Cooney (Albery Theatre); The Importance Of Being Oscar, directed by Patrick Garland (Savoy Theatre); Murder is Easy directed by Wyn Jones (Duke of York’s Theatre); costume design for The Pyjama Game (Victoria Palace Theatre), for Shades directed by Simon Callow (Albery) and for The Rat Pack – Live from Las Vegas (Strand Theatre and European Tour).
Additional credits include costume design for Sweetbox (‘Addicted to Japan’ and ‘Korean Tours’); set design for Patti Boulaye’s Sundance at the Hackney Empire, costume design for Michael Flatley’s new international dance production Celtic Tiger, Once Upon A Time (Endemol, Denmark),a celebration of the Anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen’s birth; Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); the lavish production of Copacabana (Copenhagen); the highly acclaimed production of Chess for Rossen & Ronnow Musical Productions, directed by Craige Revel-Horwood; Beautiful and Damned (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford); An Evening with Burt Bacharach (Melbourne, Australia); The Mystery of Charles Dickens (National Tour); Never The Sinner (Library Theatre Manchester); The Chimes at Midnight, directed by Patrick Garland (Chichester Festival Theatre); the cult musical The Betrayal of Nora Blake, directed by Nicholas Grace (Jermyn Street Theatre); costume design for Les Enfants du Paradis (RSC at the Barbican); Good Morning Bill (Palace Theatre Watford); The Destiny of Me (Leicester Haymarket Theatre); The Stephen Oliver Trilogy (Covent Garden Festival); Gerald McBurney’s Desire (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group); Jerusalem for Reconciliation directed by Vanessa Redgrave (Royal Albert Hall); Stevie Wants to Play the Blues at the Los Angeles Theatre Centre and Eric Woolfson’s Poe – More Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Abbey Road), directed by Phil Wilmot.
Film work includes: Set & Costume design on the live sequences of A Christmas Carol (Miramax); The Ballad of the Sad Café (Merchant Ivory Films); The Lake, Camilla & William and Soft Top Hard Shoulder, all directed by Stefan Schwartz; Bird of Prey (Sneak Preview Films); Production design on The Von Recklinhausen Story and The Miracle (First Framework). For television, Christopher has designed An Evening with Charles Dickens and Charles Dickens at Christmas (BBC). Christopher’s work also includes design for numerous pop videos and commercials.
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James Whiteside
Lighting Design
James Whiteside graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1999.
Recent theatre credits include: 'Animal Farm' for the Peter Hall Company, Bath; 'Footloose' in the West End and on tour; 'This Piece Of Earth' and 'The Early Bird' for Ransom Productions, Belfast; 'Plunder' and 'Copenhagen' at the Watermill, Newbury; 'Vanity Fair', 'Grimm Nights And Everafter Days' and 'Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland' for Chicken Shed Theatre; 'Poor Mrs Pepys' at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; 'Fen' and 'Five Kinds Of Silence' at Live Theatre, Newcastle; 'Calamity Jane' in the West End and UK tours of 'Heroes' and 'Art'. In a long association with Tall Stories Theatre Company productions include: 'The Gruffalo' in the West End and Off-Broadway; 'Snow White' Off-Broadway and 'The Gruffalo’s Child' on tour. Also productions for the Croydon Warehouse, BAC, King’s Head, New End and Chelsea Theatres in London and for Princess Cruises on ships worldwide.
Work in opera includes: 'Maria De Buenos Aires' at Theatre Royal, Bath; 'HMS Pinafore' for Carl Rosa Opera and 'Madame Butterfly' on a US tour for London City Opera.
As Assistant Lighting Designer: 'Mary Stuart', 'Guys And Dolls' and 'Mary Poppins' in the West End, as well as relighting the Donmar’s 'Guys And Dolls' and 'This Is How It Goes' on tour and the Royal Opera’s 'I Masnadieri' at the Teatro Comunale, Bologna.
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Richard Brooker
Sound Design
Sound Designer: Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury Theatre, London), Daddy Cool International Tour (starting Berlin April ’07), Dancing Shadows (world premier Seoul Korea ’07), A Christmas Carol (Albery Theatre London), Cabaret (Teatro Della Luna, Milan), The fall and rise of Lenny Smallman (The Mill, Guildford), Home Truths (national tour), We could be heroes (RAM and The Bridewell), The Snowman (Peacock Theatre London and UK Tour), ASTA showcase for Cameron Mackintosh, productions of Children of Eden, Pippin, Tommy, West side Story, Cabaret, Once on this Island, The Angel, The opening ceremony of The Jubilee Bridge, Just So for Stiles and Drewe, Les Miserables for Rossen & Ronnow in Denmark
Associate Sound Designer: My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), The King and I (London Palladium), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour), Dr Dolittle (UK tour), Sunset Boulevard (UK tour), The King and I (UK tour), Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker (Sadler’s Wells and UK tour), Anything Goes (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Richard is the Production Sound Supervisor for Mamma Mia in London and Associate Sound Designer for Mamma Mia in Europe and Korea.
Richard Brooker 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.
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Mike Dixon
Musical Supervisor & Vocal Arrangements
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: 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, Bernstein’s Peter Pan, Bless The Bride, Mr Cinders, Andy Capp, Hair, Godspell, Look To The Rainbow, Dame Shirley Bassey – The Dame is Back! (Arena Tour)
Television: 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; A Nation Celebrates, The Queen’s Jubilee Rock Concert, The Prince’s Trust 30th Anniversary Concert at the Tower of London, BBC Proms in the Park, An Audience with…Jimmy Tarbuck, Joan Rivers, Another Audience With… Shirley Bassey and An Audience with Lionel Richie…Live!
Radio: Friday Night Is Music Night, BBC Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre Competition.
Recordings: Seven by Tony Banks with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, We Will Rock You, Grease, Doctor Dolittle, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Aspects of Love, Evita (The Movie).
Awards: Australian Entertainment Industry Helpmann Award 2004 for Best Musical Direction.
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Chris Egan
Orchestrator and Musical Arrangements
Chris entered the music industry at the age of 16 playing piano & keyboards for many West End shows. Since then he has recorded and performed with artists such as Leann Rimes, Martine McCutcheon, Will Young, Atomic Kitten, Jane McDonald, Shalamar, Elaine Paige, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The BBC Concert Orchestra and The BBC Big Band. His expanding reputation reflects his talent and versatility across a wide range of musical activities.
Chris’ Theatrical credits include Associate Musical Supervisor for the new musical Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury Theatre). Chris also orchestrating and writing new musical arrangements for the UK tour production of Footloose and the new pop musical Love Shack. He orchestrated the UK tour of Kiss Me, Kate and also revised the orchestrations for the West End production of Calamity Jane.
Chris has worked on many award-winning shows in London’s West End including Disney’s The Lion King, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams, Fosse, Witches Of Eastwick and most recently, The Producers.
For television and radio, he has arranged and orchestrated music for Cirque Du Celebritee (Love Productions), ITV’s The Princes Trust 2006 (also Musical Associate), BBC’s Just The Two Of Us, BBC1’s All Time Greatest Movie Songs, ITV’s Soapstar Superstar, The Royal Variety Performance 2005 (also Musical Associate), Another Audience With Shirley Bassey (also Musical Associate), BBC2’s Friday Night Is Music Night, BBC Voice of Musical Theatre, BBC Television License campaign, Late Night with Jerry Springer, Songs of Praise, Young World and Children In Need. Chris’s production music compositions and arrangements can be heard worldwide on numerous TV stations.
Some of the highlights of Chris’s career include composing the original score for the hit animation series Girlstuff Boystuff that is enjoying worldwide TV distribution. He arranged and orchestrated all of the music for Another Audience with Shirley Bassey and travelled to Las Vegas to perform on Jane McDonald’s DVD “Live In Las Vegas” filmed at the MGM Grand. He was also musical associate, co-arranger and programmer for this project.
More recently Chris provided arrangements and orchestrations for Shirley Bassey’s 2006 UK Tour The Dame Is Back. Other recent credits include Musical Director for Elaine Page in concert (UK & European tours) and provided orchestrations and arrangements for The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra New Musicals CD.
Chris Egan is the Creative Director of VIVACE, a company that provides music production services & support for Theatre Productions and Media Composers.
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James Orange
Casting Director
In 2007 James established James Orange Casting. Recent work includes: Never Forget (a new musical featuring the songs of Take That), Any Dream Will Do (BBC). Future projects: Tomorrow Morning (a new musical by Laurence Mark Wythe).
James joined David Grindrod Associates in 2003 and has worked with the company on the casting of over twenty musicals, including: Mamma Mia! (Worldwide), Chicago, The Lord of the Rings, Spamalot, The Sound of Music, Evita, The Woman in White, Jerry Springer the Opera and The Phantom of Opera (film). As an Associate for DGA, he has cast: Hair (Gate Theatre), The Rocky Horror Show (Royal Court Anniversary Gala) and Musicals in Ahoy – Rotterdam (star guests). He continues to act as a Casting Associate for DGA.
He has worked in education, casting and planning for Scottish Opera, English National Opera and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
He has an MA (Hons) in Theatre and Art History from the University of Glasgow.
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Simon Gooding
Production Manager
Simon has worked extensively in theatre for 25 years. Initially, he joined the Bristol Hippodrome Theatre as a technician before becoming head of department at the Theatre Royal, Bath.
After being asked to production manage Great Expectations for Apollo Leisure UK in 1994, Simon production managed numerous touring productions including Summer Holiday, Tommy Steele’s What a Show, Buddy, The Rocky Horror Show, Smokey Joe’s Café and the Aldeburgh Opera Festival.
In 1998, Simon joined CoüOrdination as senior production manager where he worked on many productions worldwide including Smokey Joe’s Café, Sesame Street Live, Soul Train, Jim Davidson’s Dick Whittington and Cinderella, Songs for a New World, Rosie and Jim’s Music Party and three world premiere stage musicals of Casper, The Mask and Spiderman.
In 2002, Simon returned to freelance production management providing services to shows including The Rocky Horror Show, My One and Only, White Folks, Sesame Street Live in Bahrain, Nixon’s Nixon, Vincent in Brixton, The Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas, A Little Night Music, The Baker’s Wife, Money to Burn, The Holy Terror, Simply Heavenly, The Witches, Love Shack, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Footloose, The Rocky Horror Show, The New Statesman, the move of Chicago from the Adelphi to the Cambridge Theatre and most recently Guys and Dolls.
Simon works for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art assisting in the training of future technicians, provides production management for themed corporate event companies and is production director for European Events Ltd.
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Steve Socci
Musical Co-Ordinator
Steve has worked in all areas of the music industry as a drummer/percussionist. He has played with some of the leading orchestras throughout the country including the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Big Band, Halle Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Welsh National Opera, Scottish opera and City Concert Orchestra with whom he has recently been working on a world premier of One Day More with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. Steve has also played on many TV sessions for the BBC including this years Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre, ITV with recording sessions for HMV and JVC. He has played percussion on world tours with The Supremes, The Three Degrees, Sister Sledge, Salina Jones and UK tours with Dame Shirley Bassey, Elaine Paige, Jane McDonald and Al Martino.
Steve’s Theatre credits include Birmingham Repertory Theatre productions of The Lost Empires, Damn Yankees and The Threepenny Opera, Divorce Me Darling at Chichester Festival Theatre, Evita in Cyprus, numerous productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, National UK Tours of La Cage Aux Folles, Copacabana, West Side Story and The Full Monty.
West End credits include Groucho at the Comedy Theatre, West Side Story at the Prince Edward Theatre and the Prince of Wales Theatre and Fosse at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
Steve has worked as Musical Co-ordinator for the West End productions of Calamity Jane at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Footloose at the Novello Theatre and the national tours of Kiss Me, Kate, Love Shack, and Footloose.
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Michael Broughton
Resident Director / Choreographer
Michael trained at the Stage Door School of Dancing (Bournemouth) and The Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts.
His most recent theatre credit is Assistant/Resident Choreographer for Bad Girls – the Musical (Garrick Theatre, dir. Maggie Norris and chor. Ann Yee).
Other credits include Assistant Choreographer for Der Kuhhandel in (Volksoper, Vienna); Dance Captain and Assistant to the choreographer for Arms & The Cow, choreographed by Craig Revel-Horwood and directed by David Poutney (UK Tour, Opera North); Assistant Director and Dance Captain, for Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury Theatre and UK National Tour) and Resident Director and Associate Choreographerfor the SFX/ Pola Jones production of West Side Story (UK National Tour).
His performing credits include Chess (Scandinavian Tour); Santa Claus: The Musical (Liverpool Empire); Mother Goose (King’s Theatre, Edinburgh) where he was also Dance Captain; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (The London Palladium); ‘Hank’ in Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury Theatre & UK National Tour), where he understudied the roles of ‘L.T. Danny Gilmartin’ and ‘Wild Bill’; Anything Goes (Grange Park Opera), La Traviata (Grange Park Opera); the role of ‘White King’ in Chess (Denmark); Dance Captain for West Side Story (Prince of Wales Theatre & UK National Tour); Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (Poole); Dick Whittington, Peter Pan, The Minstrel Show and as ‘Cuddles the Monkey’ in The Keith Harris Show, (Bournemouth Pavilion).
Television and film credits include The Girlie Show for Channel 4 and the film The Man Who Knew Too Little. Also, Michael plays the double bass and has played for Godspell, A Talent To Amuse and on a recording of How To Succeed in Business.
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