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TEVYE
Andy Nyman is an award-winning actor, director and writer who has earned acclaim from both critics and audiences for his work in theatre, film and television. His most recent theatre work includes the West End run of Martin McDonnagh’s Hangmen, the highly acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory; Abigail’s Party in London’s West End, and in the original production of Ghost Stories which Andy starred in and co-wrote & co-directed with Jeremy Dyson.
Andy’s extensive television credits include Wanderlust, The Eichmann Show, Campus and Dead Set as well as his highly acclaimed performance as Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders. This year he will be seen in the up and coming series Hanna (Amazon).
Andy’s extensive film credits include The Commuter, Death at a Funeral, Kick-Ass 2, Black Death, The Brother’s Bloom, Severance and Shut Up & Shoot Me, for which Andy won the ‘Best Actor’ award at the Cherbourg Film Festival in 2006. Later this year Andy will be seen playing opposite Renee Zelwegger in Rupert Gould’s Judy Garland film Judy and next year in Disney’s new blockbuster Jungle Cruise.
This year saw the release of the film version of Ghost Stories. Based on their own play, the film was written and directed by Andy & Jeremy Dyson. Andy stars alongside Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther & Paul Whitehouse. The film has been hailed as a ‘Modern Horror Classic’ and was recently number 16 in Empire magazines list ‘ The Great 25 Horror films ever made’.
Andy has collaborated with Derren Brown for almost 20 years. As well as co-writing and co-creating much of Derren’s early TV work, Andy has also co-written and directed 6 of Derren Brown’s stage shows winning the ‘Best Entertainment’ Olivier Award for Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes and recently won the New York Drama Desk Award for ‘Best Unique Theatrical Event 2017’ for Derren Brown: Secret. Andy’s book The Golden Rules of Acting has become a bestseller within the acting world.
GOLDE
Judy Kuhn is a four-time Award nominee whose work on Broadway includes the 2016 revival of Fiddler on the Roof; Fun Home (Tony & Drama League Award Nominations); the Roundabout’s 1993 revival of She Loves Me (Tony Award Nomination); Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors (Lincoln Center Theatre); Chess (Tony & Drama Desk Nominations); Les Miserables (Tony & Drama Desk Nominations); Rags (Drama Desk Nomination); Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (original cast). Off-Bway & Regional theatre includes: Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortell Award); The Cradle Will Rock (City Center); Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine’s Passion at CSC directed by John Doyle (Drama League Award Nomination); the U.S. premiere of Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles), Three Sisters (Intiman Theatre), Eli’s Comin’ (Obie Award), The Ballad of Little Jo (Steppenwolf Theatre Co./Jeff Award Nomination), Dream True (Vineyard Theatre), As Thousand’s Cheer (Drama Dept.); The Glass Menagerie (McCarter Theatre). In London’s West End she starred in Metropolis (Olivier Award Nomination).
Judy sang the title role in Disney’s Pocahontas as well as the in the sequel Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World. Other film and television appearances include: Enchanted, Elementary (CBS) Hope & Faith (ABC), Law & Order (NBC), All My Children (ABC), The Secret Life of Mary Margaret…(HBO), My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (PBS), The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS), The Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert (PBS), In Performance At The White House (PBS).
Judy has performed on concert stages around the world including appearances at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, and The Royal Albert Hall. She can be heard on numerous original cast recordings as well as her four solo CD’s: Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel (PS Classics); All This Happiness; Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro (Sh-K-Boom) and Just In Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne.
CHAVA
Nicola trained at the Glasgow Academy of Musical Theatre Arts (GAMTA) and graduated with a first class honours degree in June 2018.
Nicola is delighted to be making her professional and West End debut in such a monumental production and would like to thank her parents and those close to her for their continued support
HODEL
Harriet trained at Laine Theatre Arts graduating in 2012.
Theatre credits include: Hodel in Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Lisa in Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre), Joyce in Sunny Afternoon (Harold Pinter Theatre), Janet in The Rocky Horror Show (European Tour), We Will Rock You (Dominion) and Dolly the Fairy in Jack and the Beanstalk (Norwich Theatre Royal).
Other credits include: ‘Let’s Fly To The Moon’ music video for The M’goo Project.
LAZAR WOLF, the Butcher
Training: Drama Studio London.
Theatre Includes: ‘Lazar Wolf’ in Fiddler on the Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory) ‘Cord Elam’ in Oklahoma (Grange Park Opera) ‘George’ in The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre) ‘Doc’ in West Side Story (Kilworth House Theatre) Major Courtney in The Ladykillers (The Watermill Theatre); Foster Wilson/Pawnee Bill/ cover Charley in Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour); Keith in Dick Whittington and his Cat (Lyric, Hammersmith); Smee in Peter Pan (Richmond Theatre); John in Get Got (Janski Productions); Stephano in The Tempest; Tranio in The Taming Of The Shrew; Man 1 in The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); Male Authority Figure/ Wilbur And Edna In Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Poppineau in In The Club (Hampstead Theatre); Christmas Present/ Fezziwig and Others in A Christmas Carol (Hidden Pearl Productions); Falstaff in The Merry Wives Of Windsor (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Witch/ Porter in Macbeth (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Chorus in The Incarcerator; Luce/Courtesan/Abbes in A Comedy of Errors (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Vanity/Squire in Mother Goose (Pneuma Arts); Boswell in Office Suite (Theatre Royal); Prospero in The Tempest (Ragz Theatre Company); Al in April In Paris (White Fox Productions); C.S.M Rivers/ Arthur Boogis in The Accrington Pals (White Fox Productions).
Television: Gavin Dunn in Doctors; Colin Stephens in CUFFS; Clerk Of The Court in Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC Television); Catering Manager in Where The Heart Is (Meridian Broadcasting); Thomas Bradley in Silent Witness (BBC Television).
Commercial: Magician in Harvey’s Sofa Advert. Butcher in Tescos. Regular Character in Peugeot Channel Four Indent (Kuncklehead); Dad in Morrison’s Commercial (DKLW); Kevin in ABC 1 (Walt Disney); Dad in BT (A. V. Browne Advertising); Premiership Football (Sky Television).
Film: Janitor in Like Crazy (Ascension Productions).
Workshop: Eric and Ensemble in Rehab (Union Theatre) Bock And Others in Mephisto (MJE Productions).
Dermot is also a Playwright, and his play Third Finger, Left Hand is currently playing in Prague, after a successful run at the Trafalgar Studios.
Dermot is looking forward to taking this wonderful production of Fiddler on the Roof to a wider audience.
You can follow Dermot on Twitter and Instagram: @derrybear
PERCHIK, a Student
Stewart’s most recent theatre work includes: Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Rink (Southwark Playhouse); A Streetcar Named Desire (The Curve); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Return of The Soldier (Jermyn Street Theatre); Godspell in Concert (Lyric); Cool Rider (Duchess Theatre); Ghost The Musical (UK Tour); The History Boys, The Resistible Rise of Aurturo Ui & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warwick Arts Centre); Loserville (Garrick Theatre); Jason Robert Brown and Very Special Guests (Apollo); Sweeney Todd (Rose Theatre); Songs For A New World (Bridewell Theatre); Parade (The Lowry, Salford).
Television includes: Moonstone (BBC); Godfrey Abelwhite; West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic (BBC)
Film includes: Easy Virtue
MOTEL, a Tailor
Joshua graduated from Guildford School of Acting in 2017. Since then, his theatrical credits include Curly in Oklahoma! (Gordon Craig Theatre); Paul McCartney & U/S Ringo and Bobby in Cilla – The Musical (UK Tour) and Lesser Weasel/ Cover Mole in The Wind in The Willows (London Palladium).
Theatre whilst training: Mr Black in The Wild Party; Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie; Lt. Brannigan/Cover Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls; Kurt Weill/Ensemble in Speak Low (Original Cast).
Concerts: The Olivier Awards 40th Anniversary Concert (Royal Festival Hall and BBC Radio 3).
Workshops: Hugo/Ensemble in Odd: A New Musical (Perfect Pitch); Oliver De Bois in As You Like It (GSA); Agamemnon in The Oresteia (GSA). Joshua is delighted to be transferring to the West End with the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Fiddler on the Roof.
YENTE, the Matchmaker
Louise has worked extensively across Theatre, Film and Television.
Musical Theatre credits include: Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Palladium Theatre), Follies (Royal Festival Hall), Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre), Oliver (Cameron Mackintosh), Gypsy (Chichester Festival Theatre/London’s Savoy).
Further, non-musical, stage credits include: Our Country’s Good and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Edinburgh Lyceum), The Cherry Orchard (Royal Shakespeare Company), Noises Off (Picadilly Theatre), The Good Person of Szechwan (Young Vic) and The Nap (Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre).
Film credits include: The Pirates of Penzance (Universal Pictures), Billy The Kid and The Green Baize Vampire (ITC), Topsy Turvey (Mike Leigh’s Thin Man Films) and Crush (Film Four/Sony); Louise was also one of the original puppeteers & voice for Jim Henson’s many Muppet films: The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Great Muppet Caper, Muppet Treasure Island and Muppets Most Wanted.
Television credits include: Spitting Image (ITV), Allo Allo, Casualty, Doctors, The Alan Clarke Diaries (all BBC), Coronation Street (Granada) and Strike Back (Left Bank Pictures). Louise has just completed filming The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson/Netflix) a remake of the 1982 fantasy film of the same name; a prequel series to the film Dark Crystal in which she reprises her character from the original film.
FYEDKA
Theatre: Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Annie (ED/Mirvish Theatre, Toronto), Romeo and Juliet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company), The Winters Tale (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company), A Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre), White Christmas (West Yorkshire Playhouse), West Side Story (UK Tour).
Film: Murder on the Orient Express (20th Century Fox).
TZIETEL
Molly trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (2018 Graduate).
Theatre whilst training: Charlotte Donne in Animus; The Witch in Into the Woods; Hope Cladwell in Urinetown and Wendla in Spring Awakening.
Molly is delighted to be making her professional and West End debut in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Fiddler on the Roof.
LUKA/YUSSEL, the Hatmaker’s assistant
Miles is London born and bred. He started performing professionally at the age of 19. His credits include Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Guys & Dolls at Chichester Festival Theatre, Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith, the role of Omar in Disney’s Aladdin, Pinocchio workshop for the National Theatre playing the title role and The Lorax at the Old Vic playing the roles of brother and baby bear. His television credits include CBBC’s Scoop as the Newspaper Boy.
SACHA/NOAH, a Woodman
Philip trained at Laine Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: understudied and played Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Ziegfeld Tenor and understudied and played Nick Arnstein & Eddie Ryan in Funny Girl (Savoy Theatre); Joey in Warhorse (New London Theatre); Eat Pray Laugh! Barry Humphries’ Farewell Tour (London Palladium and National Tour); Josh in 9 to 5: The Musical (National Tour); Troy Bolton in High School Musical (Indonesia), Anthems, Kerry Ellis & Brian May (Royal Albert Hall), Lead Vocalist for Tokyo Disney.
Workshops include: Pinocchio (NT Studio) directed by John Tiffany.
Film and Television includes: Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street (Feature Film); Galavant (ABC Studios); The Royal Variety Performance 2018 (ITV); The One Show (BBC); The Oliviers 2018 (ITV); Tonight At The London Palladium (ITV).
THE RABBI
Theatre credits include: Ko-Ko in The Mikado (Gielgud Theatre), Manfred in Sunset Boulevard (London Coliseum), Gus The Theatre Cat in Cats, Pimp/Clacquesous in Les Miserables, the original casts of Blood Brothers and Top Hat and the ill-fated Out Of The Blue. He has played Ko-Ko in The Mikado numerous times over the last 25 years, for The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (Sadlers Wells, UK Tour, BBC2) and The Carl Rosa Opera Company (UK & USA Tours), and notably with Dame Hilda Bracket as Katisha. Other G&S roles on national tour include Jack Point in The Yeomen Of The Guard for the D’Oyly Carte, Bunthorne in Patience and Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore for the Carl Rosa Opera Company, and the title role in The Sorcerer for Opera Della Luna. Other regional productions include MC in Cabaret (Leicester Haymarket), ‘Hold Me Touch Me’ in The Producers (UK Tour) & Noël Coward in Noël and Gertie (Sherringham Little Theatre). Opera roles include Goro in Madama Butterfly, Bardolph in Falstaff and Pang in Turandot.
Directing credits include: The Mikado and Iolanthe for The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company/Raymond Gubbay, Madame Butterfly for English Festival Opera at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and tours of La Boheme, La Traviata and Carmen. He was Julian Clary’s director for three years, directing productions of Cinderella (Brighton/Richmond/Woking), and his one-man shows Amore (West Beth Theatre, New York) and Natural Born Mincer (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane & National Tour). Other notable pantomime productions as director include Cinderella with Mickey Rooney, Peter Pan with Simon Callow & Bonnie Langford, and Sleeping Beauty with Anita Dobson and Tim Vine at Richmond Theatre, where he also made his debut as a pantomime dame, playing Nurse Penny. Fenton has worked closely with writing team Charles Miller and Kevin Hammonds, directing & developing the original productions of Brenda Bly: Teen Detective, When Midnight Strikes, Hope & RSVP ASAP.
VLAD/ELIJAH, the Butcher’s assistant
James made his professional debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Spamilton and following has been in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s original production of Fiddler On The Roof.
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Credits whilst training include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Parade and Damn Yankees.
His workshop credits include: This Half Life, Legend and Vibez at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Other Credits include: Ball & Boe Back Together Again for ITV, Ball & Boe at the O2 Arena and the ITV Gala at the London Palladium.
HERSCH, the Baker
Adam trained at the Birmingham Conservatoire and is an associate of The Royal Academy of Music.
Theatre: Farris in Broken Wings (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Co-Director of Aladdin (The Hexagon, Reading), Standby Thenardier in Les Miserables (Queens Theatre), Repertory Company in From Page to Stage: Four Showcases (Southwark Playhouse), Co-Director of Peter Pan (The Hexagon, Reading), Les Miserables (Dubai Opera), Old Deuteronomy in Cats (Germany, Blackpool & London Palladium), Leah’s Guide to Winning The Lottery – workshop (Perfect Pitch), Grantaire/Bishop + 1st u/s Thenardier in Les Miserables (Queens Theatre), Seasonal Sauce (Watermill Theatre), Editor Daily in The Cradle Will Rock (Arcola Theatre, London), Grantaire u/s Thenardier & Valjean in The 25th Anniversary Production of Les Miserables (Barbican, Paris & UK Tour), The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Julian in Love Shack (UK Tour), West End Girls (Opera House, Jersey), Our Miss Gibbs (Finborough Theatre), Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (Jack Lyons Theatre) and Closer Than Ever (The King’s Head).
Film/TV: Kenneth Branagh’s The Magic Flute and Do us a Flavour (Walker’s Crisps).
Recordings: Broken Wings (Concept Album), Take Flight, Les Miserables Live! (Grantaire)
Concert work includes: Sir Elton John (Wembley Arena/Royal Albert Hall/NEC), Chess in Concert (RAH),
Playing Our Part (Cadogan Hall), Classic Spin (St Petersburg, Russia) and the Classical Brit Awards (RAH/
ITV).
BORIS/YUDAH, the Bagel Man
Training: Musical Theatre (BA Hons) Arts Ed in London.
Theatre: Boris/ Yudah, the Bagel Man in Fiddler On The Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory; Trioperas, Peacock Theatre; ensemble and cover Northbrook in Mary Poppins, UK Tour; Cosmo Brown in Singin’ in the Rain, Kilworth House; Cameron Mackintosh’s Barnum, UK tour; ensemble in the critically acclaimed production of Guys and Dolls at Chichester’s Festival Theatre; ensemble in White Christmas at Edinburgh Playhouse, ensemble and cover Cosmo Brown in Singin’ in the Rain, Palace Theatre; Swing in Cats European Tour, Swing in Berlin’s production of Dirty Dancing, Ensemble in the UK tour of White Christmas. Adam’s West End debut was in Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre where he understudied and played Neil Kellerman. Adam appeared in Children Will Listen the 75th Birthday Gala for Stephen Sondheim at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and Follies in concert at the Palladium.
Further credits include: Prophecy workshop, Heaven on Earth workshop, dancer in the Carmen Nebel Show, James and the Narrator in a workshop for Moments, a new musical at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Starkey the Pirate (understudy Captain Hook) in Peter Pan, Ensemble in BBC’s Britain at War: A Nation Remembers, Blue Peter & Children In Need.
MORDCHA, the Innkeeper
Theatre: Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Edward IV, Brackenbury, Catesby, Richard III; Duncan, Porter, Ross, Macbeth; Friar Tuck, Reynold, Robin Hood; Longaville, Constable Dull, Love’s Labour’s Lost (all Guildford Shakespeare Company); Radio Interviewer, End of the Rainbow (UK Tour); Wilfred Cedar, For Services Rendered (Union Theatre); Michael, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Broadway Studio); King Henry, Henry IV Parts 1&2 (Forty Hall Open Air Theatre); Earthworm, James and the Giant Peach; Messrs. Scoblowski & Thompson, Daisy Pulls It Off (The Watermill); Carney, A Man of No Importance (Salisbury Playhouse); Pedro, Blind Eye & Pasden, Compliance (Theatre 503); Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night (Iris Theatre); Victor Green, Bar Mitzvah Boy (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Simon Palmer, White Witch (The Chelsea Theatre); Dr. Henry Shackleton, Eleanor Marx the Jewess of Jew’s Walk (Upstairs at The Sydenham Centre).
West End: Tabarro/Georges/Albin, La Cage aux Folles (The Playhouse); Trio/Max Detweiler, The Sound of Music (The Palladium).
Film: Dr. Knapp, The Therapist (RSA Films); Headmaster, Farming (Farming the Film Ltd.); Daniel, A Simple Man (Wychwood Films).
TV: Edward III, London: The Greatest City (Channel 4); Franz the horn player, Eroica (BBC).
Radio: Mr. Furnival, Orley Farm; Lord Williams, Rudolpho’s Zest; Narrator, Together (all BBC).
Robert has recorded The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for Classic Audiobooks. He played the Narrator, Soldier and Devil in Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at the Wimbledon International Music Festival. In a previous life Robert was, for twenty years, a French horn player and a member of The Philharmonia for ten of them. He can be heard as one of the soloists in Schumann’s Konzerstuke for Four Horns and Orchestra with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique for Deutsche Grammaphon.
MENDEL, the Rabbi’s son
Theatre and dance credits include: The Rabbi’s Son in Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Rudolf Nureyev in Dancing With The Devil (Sadler’s Wells); Johann Strauss Gala Tour (Raymond Gubbay); The World’s Greatest Show (Open Heart Productions); La Bohème (Royal Albert Hall); Dr Dee (ENO); Cabaret (Lyric Theatre); Carousel (Chichester Festival Theatre); On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall/ Japan Tour); Pinocchio (Royal Opera House); Peter and the Wolf (Hackney Empire); Romeo and Juliet (English National Ballet); Sleeping Beauty the Musical (Lilian Baylis Studio); One Touch of Venus (The Linbury); Maurice Bejart Bolero (Sadler’s Wells); Mappa Mundi (National Theatre); Alchina (ENO).
Film credits include: Ironbark (Film Nation/SunnyMarch); Damascus Cover (Cover Film Ltd); Miss Peregrin’s Home for Peculiar Children (dir. Tim Burton); Mortdecai (Lionsgate); Muppets Most Wanted (Disney); Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (dir. Kenneth Branagh/Paramount Pictures); World War Z (Paramount Pictures); Alexander (dir. Oliver Stone/Warner Bros.); Piccadilly Jim (dir. John McKay).
Television credits include: Will (TNT); Birds of a Feather (ITV).
Choreography: The Kitchen with Janie Dee (RCSSD); Waltz of the Toreadors (Minerva Theatre Chichester); In Our Life Time (The Print Room) Benny has been guest teaching in Ballet, Contemporary Dance and Jazz at Jie Ballet in Chengdu City, China.
FRAYDA, Miriam’s daughter
Robyn trained at The Urdang Academy and National Youth Music Theatre.
Stage Credits: Campbell in Bring It On: The Musical (Southwark Playhouse); Joanna in The Dysfunctional Guide to Being a Third Wheel (Workshop – The Other Palace); Tats in BRASS (Hackney Empire; Leeds City Varieties).
Credits Whilst Training: Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre (Bernie Grant Arts Centre); Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Urdang).
Robyn is thrilled to be making her West End Debut.
SHAINDEL/FRUMA-SARAH
Gaynor Miles began her singing studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, while she was a student reading English at University College London.
Her first performances were in musicals such as The Arcadians, where she played the leading role of Sombra, at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, Gianetta, The Gondoliers at the Bristol Old Vic, and as Elizabeth in Robert and Elizabeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre. She played Mabel in the UK tour of The Pirates of Penzance, and Paquette in the Scottish Opera/Old Vic production of Candide, directed by Jonathan Miller and conducted by John Mauceri.
Gaynor has played the title role in Offenbach’s La Belle Helene at the Kammeroper, Vienna, Musetta in La Boheme for Travelling Opera at the Barbican Centre and on tour, as well as First Lady and Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute. She appeared in the premiere of Stephen McNeff’s opera The Wasteland at the Donmar Warehouse.
For Music Theatre London, she appeared in their acclaimed, modern productions of The Marriage of Figaro (Countess), Don Giovanni (Elvira), The Magic Flute (Queen of the Night), La Cenerentola, (Ramiro), La Traviata (Flora), and Eugene Onegin (Larina).
NAVA, a young mother
Theatre Credits include: Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Celtic Angels Christmas, US Tour, Frenchy in Grease Cork Opera House, Jasmine in Jedward and the Magic Lamp, Olympia Theatre, Sonice in The Promise: An Irish Musical, The Helix and Leisl in The Sound of Music (Cork Opera House).
Parts played at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts: Adele in Jane Eyre, Sally Ann Gritton, Ensemble in Kiss Me Kate, Darren Lawrence, Marion Maidley in Hoods The Musical, Stephen Jameson, Tracey Candler in Lockhart, Jonathan Butterell, Louise/Betty in Sunday In The Park With George, Alex Sutton, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Eve Matheson, Maggie in Dancing in Lughnasa, Gary Lilburn and Ensemble in Wonderful Town Jeremy Lloyd Thomas.
MIRIAM, a mother
Training: Mountview Theatre School, winning the Dame Judi Dench Scholarship.
Theatre credits: Lady Conway & understudy Mrs Henderson in Mrs Henderson Presents (Noel Coward Theatre, London & Toronto); Jennyanydots & Grizabella, Cats (national tour), Mrs Potts, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (international tour); Rosita, Murderous Instincts (Savoy Theatre); Bridget in Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre); Miss Dilber & Mary in Scrooge (UK Tour); understudied and played Fantine & Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); Mrs Potts and Madame de la Grande Bouche, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (national tour); Servant, premiere workshop of The Woman in White (Sydmonton Festival); Jane Thornhill, Hogarth (Bridewell Theatre); Les Misérables at Windsor Castle for HRH Queen Elizabeth II and President Jacques Shirac.
Opera credits: Madame Butterfly, Il Trovatore, La Bohème and The Mikado, English Festival Opera, (Holland Park Theatre).
Recordings: Vocals for the Les Miserables movie (Pinewood Studios), Singin’ in the Rain, 42nd Street, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Rocky Horror Show (TER Records at Abbey Road Studio).
Concerts: Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert (02 Arena), Les Misérables at the Odyssey Belfast, Bournemouth International Centre, Powderham Castle and Broadlands, Romsey. Masters of the Musicals, Songs from the West End, Bahrain & Dubai.
THE CONSTABLE/AVRAM
Theatre includes: Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Best Man (Playhouse and Tour), Veterans Day (Finborough), Floyd Collins (Wilton’s), Guys & Dolls (Tour), Walking the Chains (Bristol), Blue/Orange (Sherman), High Society (Tour), The White House Murder Case (Orange Tree), 1936 (Lilian Baylis), Death of a Salesman (Tour), Othello (Southampton), The Subject Was Roses (Hamburg), Sunset Boulevard (Comedy), Footloose (Tour), Ballad of Little Jo (Bridewell), Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward), Life During Wartime, The Cenci (Lyric Studio), Baby Doll (Birmingham), Not About Nightingales (RNT), Popcorn (Tour), Henry V, A Chaste Maid (Globe), Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi), Macbeth (Greenwich and Tour), Sweeney Todd, Hands Up, Mikado, (New Vic), Twelfth Night, A Chip in the Sugar (Eye), Romeo & Juliet, Micro-musicals (Scarborough), Assassins (Library), Little Murders, Comedy of Errors, A View From The Bridge, Romeo & Juliet (Exchange), All My Sons (Watford), Company (Exeter), Children of Eden (Prince Edward), As You Like It, Singer, The Duchess of Malfi, Moscow Gold (RSC), Les Miserables (RSC & Palace), Pravda (Worcester), The Hired Man (Leicester and Astoria), Brighton Rock (Coventry), A Touch of Spring (Harrogate). Antony and Cleopatra, Kean and The Greeks (Hartford).
Television: Search for Tomorrow (NBC), Edmond, One Day, Death of a Gentleman (BBC).
Film: The American Way, Children of God, Wind Jammers, Cargo.
ASHER, Miriam’s son
Ed trained at The Dance School of Scotland and at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: Dan & u/s Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Kilworth House Theatre) directed by Andrew Wright; u/s Dick in Dick Whittington (London Palladium); u/s Emmett in Legally Blonde (Monte Carlo); u/s Prince Charming in Cinderella (London Palladium); Mouse/Keiron in wonder.land (National Theatre & Theatre du Chatelet, Paris) directed by Rufus Norris; Amos/Julius/Edgar in Barnum (National Tour).
Workshops include: The Midwich Cuckoos directed by Lyndsey Turner; The Ignatius Trail; Scourge Of All Nations; The Threepenny Opera directed by Rufus Norris (all NT Studio).
As Assistant Choreographer: Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios).
Most recently: Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep).
BIELKE
Sofia loves to act, sing and especially to dance!
For the last four years she has been training hard as an Acrobatic Gymnast. Last year she represented Great Britain at the European and World Championships, where her trio came fifth in the World.
Sofia performed at West End Live last summer. She is very excited to be playing Bielke in Fiddler on the Roof, which will be her theatre debut.
BIELKE
Lottie studies at the Jayne Marie Dancing School in Hertfordshire, where she has been since age 5, studying ballet, tap, Modern, contemporary as well as drama and musical theatre. She also regularly attends Tring Park Classical Ballet Academy.
Lottie is so thrilled to be joining this amazing production, which marks her debut on the London Stage. She would like to thank her family, friends and teachers for all their support and hopes you enjoy the show.
SHRPINTZE
Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School, The British Theatre Academy, The Ballet School.
Theatre includes: Amanda and Lavender in Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre), Ginnie in Goodnight Mister Tom (Southwark Playhouse), Gretl in The Sound of Music (UK Tour), Molly in Annie Jr (Arts Theatre), ensemble in Oliver! (Minack Theatre).
SHRPINTZE
Lia has been performing since she was five years old and attended part-time theatre classes, which is where her love for singing, dancing and acting grew. Lia is now a full-time student at a renowned theatre school. Her passion is dancing, especially jazz and lyrical. Lia is making her stage debut and is excited to be performing in this show.
Lia can be seen in the soon to be released Disobedience a feature film with Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz.
BIELKE
Talia is extremely excited to be joining the cast of Fiddler on the Roof. She lives in Buckinghamshire with her family attends Allstars Academy. Talia is in year 6 and her favourite subjects are Maths, PE and French. She is a keen netball player and is also learning to play the guitar. Talia has played Gretl Von Trapp in the Sound of Music UK tour in 2016/17 and made her West End debut in 2018 in Les Miserables as both Young Eponine and Little Cosette. She is represented by Daisy & Dukes.
SHRPINTZE
Training: House of Talent School, Victoria Jane School of Dance.
Theatre includes: Original cast member Shonelle in School of Rock the Musical (New London Theatre 2016). Laurence Olivier Awards (Royal Albert Hall). Maggie in 13 The Musical (The Ambassadors Theatre). Ensemble in The Secret Garden (The Ambassadors Theatre). Dancer in Aladdin, Cinderella and Snow White Pantomime (The Radlett Centre).
TV includes: Michael McIntytre’s Big Show, Tonight at the London Palladium, The One Show and BBC Children in Need.
Other: Shoshana has performed at Proms in the Park and Camp Bestival with School of Rock and taken part in a Short film entitled A Dancer Dies Twice.
BIELKE
Training: Berkshire Theatre School. Isabella trains in all dance genres, acting and musical theatre and has gained numerous lead roles in local shows including the Farrer Theatre, Eton College. She enjoys playing the piano, guitar and writing stories.
Theatre Credits: Collabro Tour – BTS Choir (Hexagon, Reading).
Television/Commercial: BBC drama Motherfatherson and Kaspersky online commercial.
Isabella is thrilled to be making her West End debut as Beilke in Fiddler on the Roof. She would like to thank her Mum and Dad for their continuous support. She is represented by Daisy & Dukes.
SHRPINTZE
Training: London Studio Centre.
This will be Valentina’s professional debut.
AUTHOR
Joseph Stein won the Tony Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for Fiddler on the Roof. His other musicals include Zorba (Tony nom., Drama Critics Circle Award); Rags (Tony nom.); The Baker’s Wife (Olivier Award nom., London); Take Me Along (Tony nom.); Juno; Irene (starring Debbie Reynolds); The King of Hearts; All About Us; and Enter Laughing: The Musical (Lucille Lortel nom., outstanding revival). He also co-authored, with Alan Jay Lerner, Carmelina; and with Will Glickman, Mr. Wonderful (starring Sammy Davis, Jr.), The Body Beautiful, and Plain and Fancy. His plays are Enter Laughing, Before the Dawn, and Mrs. Gibbons’ Boys. Stein grew up in the Bronx and first became a social worker while pursuing writing. He began his career in TV and radio, writing for The Sid Caesar Show, Your Show of Shows and Henry Morgan Show, and for personalities including Tallulah Bankhead, Phil Silvers, Jackie Gleason and Zero Mostel. On Broadway he made his debut contributing to the revues Lend an Ear (featuring Carol Channing) and Alive and Kicking. He wrote the screenplays of Enter Laughing and Fiddler on the Roof, for which he won the Screen Writers Guild Award. In 2008, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
DIRECTOR
His 2016 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream means he has now directed all thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s plays. From 1968 to 1986, he was the youngest ever Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, The Cherry Orchard, The Coast of Utopia, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He has directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s plays Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock n Roll; and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love and The Woman in White by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Other theatre includes: The Lady From The Sea (Almeida); Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind (Old Vic); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester), Kiss Me Kate (Chichester & Old Vic); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); A Chorus of Disapproval and All That Fall (West End); Relative Values (Theatre Royal Bath and West End); The Wars of the Roses (Kingston Rose Theatre); Pericles (TFANA New York); Schikaneder (Vienna); Agnes Colander (Theatre Royal Bath). Previously at the Menier Chocolate Factory he has directed A Little Night Music, Aspects of Love, Love in Idleness and Lettice and Lovage. At Glyndebourne he has directed Idomeneo, Porgy & Bess, Cosi Fan Tutte and Peter Grimes and at the Royal Opera House Porgy & Bess, Katya Kabanova and Sophie’s Choice.
Films include: Hedda, Lady Jane, Twelfth Night and the recently completed Red Joan with Judi Dench.
CHOREOGRAPHER
As Choreographer credits include: Fiddler on the Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Return of the Soldier (Hope Mill Theatre & Jermyn Street Theatre); Little Baby Bum; Flashdance; The Night Pirates; Footloose; Little Shop of Horrors (UK & International Tour); The Beautiful Game (NYMT); The Sweet Smell of Success; Amour (Royal Academy of Music); Lovesick (Berkeley Rep, California & NYC Workshop); The Producers (International Tour); Em (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama); Side Show (Southwark Playhouse); Aladdin (Theatre Clwyd); Rags The Musical (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Pure Imagination (St James’ Theatre); Jerry’s Girls (St James’ & Jermyn Street Theatre); Bette Midler & Me (Edinburgh Festival & UK Tour); The Road to Qatar (Edinburgh Festival & Landor Theatre); Angelina Ballerina the Musical (UK & Australian Tour).
As Resident/Associate: Guys & Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End & UK Tour) and The International Trend Awards (NYC).
As Director credits include: Carmen La Cubana (Co-director, Chatelet Theatre, Paris & International Tour); Sweet Charity (& Choreographer, Urdang Academy); The MGM Story (& Choreographer, Upstairs at the Gatehouse & UK Tour); The Railway Children (Resident Director, King’s Cross Theatre); West Side Story (Resident Director, UK Tour).
HAIR AND WIG DESIGN
Richard has enjoyed a great career in hair, make-up and wigs. He has worked on Finding Neverland, Evita, La Cage Aux Folles, Frost Nixon, Waitress and Priscilla in New York.
London theatre credits include: Guys and Dolls at the Royal Albert Hall, Pack of Lies, Pinter at the Pinter, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Labour of Love, Spamilton, Lazarus the David Bowie Musical, The Libertine, Mrs Henderson Presents, Elf, The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Season, The Ruling Class, Assassins, Urinetown, Forbidden Broadway Richard the Third, From Here To Eternity, The Commitments, Strangers On A Train, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Merrily We Roll Along, Privates on Parade South Pacific, Top Hat, Hairspray, Passion, Legally Blonde, End of the Rainbow, Piaf, Sweet Charity, Frost/Nixon, Guys and Dolls, The Producers, Kiss Me Kate, Starlight Express and Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Nationwide productions include: The Madness of King George for Nottingham Playhouse and National Theatre LIVE, Cilla the Musical, White Christmas, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, We Will Rock You, Nine To Five, A Damsel in Distress at Chichester Festival Theatre, Benidorm the Musical, Abigail’s Party and Little Britain Live.
He owns London’s Wig Specialities.
Film credits include: The Ghost Writer, Titanic, It’s De-Lovely, Star Wars, Mask of Zorro, Disney’s The Santa Clause and Richard Harris as Dumbledore in Harry Potter.
Television includes: ITV’s Cilla, Vikings, Black Sails, Ripper Street,, Mr Selfridge, Little Britain, Catherine Tate Show, French and Saunders, Poirot, Miss Marple, Gavin and Stacey, House of Saddam and Larkrise to Candleford.
Richard is Personal wig-maker to Sir Sean Connery, Kylie Minogue, Sheridan Smith, Paloma Faith, Iggy Azalea, Jessie J and Dame Edna Everage.
Plans include: Uncle Vanya at Hampstead Theatre, the London productions of Waitress, Nine to Five and Sleepless the Musical.
LIGHTING DESIGNER
West End Credits: Chimerica (Harold Pinter Theatre); Elf – The Musical (Dominion Theatre); Quiz (Noël Coward Theatre); The Girls – A Musical Comedy (Phoenix Theatre); The Go-Between – Staring Michael Crawford (Apollo Theatre); Close To You – Bacharach Reimagined (CriterionTheatre); Impossible (Noël Coward Theatre); Strangers On A Train (Gielgud Theatre); The Full Monty (Noël Coward Theatre & National Tours); Allan Cumming – I Bought A Blue Car Today (Vaudeville Theatre); Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program (Vaudeville Theatre).
For the RSC: Timon of Athens, The Rover, Candide (The Swan Theatre); All’s Well That Ends Well (Royal Shakespeare Theatre).
For The National Theatre: Antony & Cleopatra, Salome and Le Bancs (Olivier Theatre, National Theatre).
For Walt Disney Imagineering: Mickey & The Magician (Disneyland Paris, Disney Studios Park) (future projects opening 2019).
Other Theatre, Arena Tours & Events: Twelfth Night – A Musical Adaptation (Young Vic); Destiny (MGM Theater Macau); Spamilton (Menier Chocolate Factory); Dynamo Live: Seeing Is Believing (Hammersmith Apollo and National & Australian Arena Tours); Tell Me On A Sunday (Majestic Theatre – Shanghai and China tour); The Crucible (Old Vic Theatre, London); Strictly Ballroom – The Musical (Toronto & WYP); Ghost – The Musical (National Tour – co-design with Hugh Vanstone); Philadelphia Here I Come!, Knives In Hens (Donmar, London); One Love: The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep); BIG – The Musical (Plymouth Theatre Royal & Dublin); The Winslow Boy & Single Spies (Chichester Festival Theatre and National Tours); Dynamo: The Power of X (Copper Box Arena, London); The Life of the Party (Menier Chocolate Factory & TheatreWorks California); Bronte (Shared Experience); The Wondershow (Roundhouse); Once A Catholic (Tricycle & Royal Court Liverpool); Rebecca (Kneehigh Theatre, National Tour); Calendar Girls (National Tours); Children of the Smoke (Glasgow Green/Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme); Hope Place (Everyman, Liverpool); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Royal Festival Hall).
Awards: Laurence Oliver award, London – for Best Lighting Design (winner), Theater Bay Area award, CA – Most Outstanding Lighting Design (winner), Knight Of Illumination award – London – Best Lighting Design for a play (nomination), What’s On Stage award, London – Best Lighting Designer (nomination), London Technical Theatre award – Achievement in Lighting Design (nomination), UK Theatre award – Best Design (nomination).
SOUND DESIGNER
Credits Include: The Bay At Nice, Fiddler on the Roof, Spamilton, The Gronholm Method, Barnum, The Lie, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ – The Musical, Love In Idleness, She Loves Me, The Truth, Dinner With Saddam, Assassins, Two Into One, The Lyons, The Color Purple, Travels With My Aunt, Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Alchemist, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Tantalus, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Ruthless! The Musical (Arts Theatre); Albion, Against (Almeida); Furniture, Shelter, Sive, Waiting for Godot, King Of The Castle, The Irish Shakespeare Project, Brigit, Bailegangaire (Druid); Still Alice (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Goat, Or Who Is Silvia? (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Winter’s Tale (Edinburgh Lyceum); The Nest (Lyric Belfast); Sherlock Holmes, Stepping Out (Theatre Royal Bath); The Truth (Wyndham’s); A Steady Rain; The American Plan (St James’s); Stepping Out; Henry IV (Parts I & II); Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell; Blithe Spirit, The Rivals, Hedder Gabler; The Winslow Boy; Balmoral; Peter Hall Company Season (Theatre Royal Bath); Welcome Home Captain Fox!, My Night With Reg, Versailles, The Night Alive, A Voyage Around My Father, The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse); The Color Purple (Broadway); The Twits, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court Theatre); Medea, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Misterman, Tristan & Yseult, (NT); The Merchant of Venice, Cloud Nine (Almeida); Clarence Darrow, A Flea In Her Ear, National Anthems, Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Vic); Journey’s End (Duke of York’s/New York. Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design); Equus (Gielgud /New York. Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play); Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol, Mrs Pat, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Chichester Festival Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); The Birthday Party (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Seagull (Headlong); Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre Kingston); Arcadia (ETT); The Night Alive, The Philanthropist, Pygmalion (New York); My Night With Reg, Goodnight Mister Tom, The Vortex, A Voyage Around My Father, And Then There Were None, Some Girls, Waiting for Godot and What the Butler Saw (West End).
MUSICAL SUPERVISOR & DIRECTOR
Paul Bogaev is a multi-award-winning music director, arranger, conductor, and composer. He received his first Grammy for Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, for which he produced, orchestrated and conducted the Tony award-winning score. He was also music director on Broadway for Tarzan, Bombay Dreams (Tony nomination for best orchestrations), Sunset Boulevard, Aspects of Love, Chess, Les Miserables, Starlight Express, Cats and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. In addition, he was brought in to “doctor” U2’s Spiderman. Bogaev’s second Grammy was as Executive Producer of the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film musical, Chicago.
His other film musicals include: Nine, Across the Universe, Dreamgirls, Connie & Carla, and the animated Lion King, Tarzan, Mulan, and Emperor’s New Groove. Bogaev also served as music director of the ABC-TV film musicals Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Annie (Emmy Award) and South Pacific.
Among the pop, film, and theater stars he has worked with are with Sting, Phil Collins, Elton John, U2, ABBA, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Beyonce, Hugh Jackman, Glenn Close, Jennifer Hudson, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger and Judi Dench.
As a symphony conductor, he directed the music for Francis Ford Coppola’s presentation of the silent film epic
Napoleon with major orchestras around the world. In the summer of 2016, he arranged a complete modernization of the score of Oliver! and played the leading role of Fagin as a burned out rock and roller. Most recently, he directed the music and played Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
ORCHESTRATIONS
Jason studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After winning the 1988 Vivian Ellis Prize, Jason was invited by Peter Hall to compose the musical Born Again (Chichester Festival Theatre starring Mandy Patinkin and José Ferrer). As Associate Composer at Chichester 2003-5, Jason wrote music and lyrics for several new musicals; The Water Babies and Six Pictures of Lee Miller (nominated for the British Composer Awards), and A Christmas Carol (also West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep.) His new musicals Lockhart and Cold Front are currently in development.
Jason has composed incidental music for over 50 plays, including 17 productions for the late Steven Pimlott, and more recently for the Unicorn Theatre’s much-revived The Velveteen Rabbit.
Orchestration credits includes: The Menier Chocolate Factory’s Sunday in the Park with George, La Cage aux Folles and A Little Night Music (all also West End and Broadway, winning the Drama Desk Award and two Tony nominations for Best Orchestrations), as well as Maria Friedman: Rearranged, Candide and She Loves Me.
Jason has accompanied many artists including Elisabeth Welch, Michael Ball, Dame Felicity Lott, Anne Reid, and Maria Friedman.
LYRICS
Mr. Harnick’s career began in the 1950s with songs in revues both on and off Broadway (e.g. The Bottom Beguine, The Merry Little Minuet). With Jerry Bock he created a number of memorable musicals including Fiorello! (Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize), Tenderloin, The Apple Tree, She Loves Me (Grammy) and Fiddler on the Roof (Tony). Other collaborations: Rex (Richard Rodgers), A Christmas Carol (Michel Legrand), A Wonderful Life (Joe Raposo), The Phantom Tollbooth (Arnold Black) and The Audition (Marvin Hamlisch). He has written three musicals himself: Dragons, A Doctor in Spite of Himself and Malpractice Makes Perfect. Currently: Rothschild and Sons (a re-conceived version The Rothschilds). Mr. Harnick is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Songwriters Guild.
COSTUME DESIGN
Design credits include: Harold and Maude, The Woman in White, The Knowledge, The Braille Legacy, Death Takes a Holiday, Ragtime, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, The Mikado (Charing Cross Theatre, London); Summer In London (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London); Allegro, Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse, London); Murder in the Cathedral (Middle Temple, London); The Country Girl, Keeler (West End & UK Tours); Larkrise to Candleford, The Haunting, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical, Blockbuster: The Musical (UK Tours); La Fanciulla del West, Un Ballo in Maschera, Die Fledermaus (Opera Up Close, Kings Head Theatre, UK and West End Tours); Vieux Carre, Quasimodo, A Tale of Two Cities (Theatre Up Close, London); The Handyman (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre & UK Tour).
Associate Design credits include: Richard III (Old Vic, BAM & World Tour); Dr Dee (Manchester International Festival & ENO).
SET DESIGNER
Theatre includes: Lettice and Lovage (Chocolate Factory); Saint Joan, One Night in Miami; The Vote; City of Angels; Committee, The Physicists; Lobby Hero; Divas; Black Comedy/The Real Inspector Hound; A Voyage Round My Father (Donmar Warehouse); Twelfth Night (Young Vic); Stepping out, While the Sun Shines (Theatre Royal Bath); Taken at Midnight (Haymarket); Quiz (West End); Rock ‘n’ Roll (Duke of York’s/NY); The Full Monty (Noel Coward); The Wizard of Oz (Palladium/Toronto/Paris/US Tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s); Noises Off (Piccadilly/NY); The Sound of Music (Paladium/Toronto/Tokyo/Australia); Pericles (NY); Heroes (Wyndhams/LA).
Extensive credits for the West End, NT, Almeida, RSC (as Associate Artist) and Chichester Festival.
Opera includes: Don Giovanni (Sydney); Norma, Giulio Cesare, Anna Bolena, Die Fledermaus (NY Metropolitan); Tristan und Isolde (Tokyo/Vienna); Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne/Chicago); Elixir of Love (ENO); Poppea (Paris/Berlin); Andrea Chenier (ROH); On the Town (Paris).
Film includes: Hamlet.
ORIGINAL BROADWAY PRODUCER, DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Jerome Robbins is world renowned for his work as a choreographer of ballets as well as his work as a choreographer and director in theater, movies and television. His Broadway shows include On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam, and Fiddler on the Roof. His last Broadway production in 1989, Jerome Robbins Broadway, won six Tony Awards including best musical and best director.
Among the more than 60 ballets he created are Fancy Free, Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Dances At a Gathering, In the Night, In G Major, Other Dances, Glass Pieces and Ives, Songs, which are in the repertories of New York City Ballet and other major dance companies throughout the world. His last ballets include A Suite of Dances created for Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 & 3 Part Inventions (1994), West Side Story Suite (1995) and Brandenburg (1996).
In addition to two Academy Awards for the film West Side Story, Mr. Robbins has received four Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards, an Emmy Award, the Screen Directors’ Guild Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Mr. Robbins was a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient and was awarded the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur. Mr. Robbins died in 1998.
CHILDREN’S CASTING
Jo Hawes trained at LAMDA and started her career at the Theatre Royal Windsor in Stage Management. In London she was part of the Stage Management team for Annie, The Pirates of Penzance, On Your Toes, and La Cages Aux Folles. Following several years as a theatrical PA she became the Children’s Casting Director for Oliver! at the London Palladium in 1995. Many wonderful shows have followed and current productions include Les Miserables in London and on tour, Miss Saigon (UK Tour) and Fiddler on the Roof. In 2019 she is looking forward to casting the children for Mary Poppins when she returns to the West End.
Jo gives Masterclasses in the Art of Auditioning to children and young people from 7 years old. She also runs very successful Performing Arts Courses in which the young performers take part in musical numbers but also learn other skills such as make-up, puppetry, flying, mime, photography and making and working with props.
Her book Children in Theatre is a useful handbook for parents, children and industry professionals. Jo is married to a musician, has children who are all involved in the industry and lives in Berkshire.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
As Associate/Assistant Director: Love in Idleness (Apollo Theatre, West End / Menier Chocolate Factory); The Lie, She Loves Me (Menier Chocolate Factory); God of Carnage, Agnes Colander (Theatre Royal Bath); Richard III/ Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York); Top Hat, Thoroughly Modern Millie, West Side Story (Kilworth House Theatre); The Patriotic Traitor (Park Theatre London).
As Director: Macbeth, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (The Young Shakespeare Company, UK & International Tours); As You Might Like It (Rosemary Branch Theatre); Our New Girl (Women Redressed Festival, Park Theatre London); Wolf (The Bunker Theatre); Between the Sheets, Potato Salad, When I Wake (Waterloo East Theatre), Love and Money (Studio Theatre, Norwich), The Psychosocial Gathering (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Spring Awakening: The Musical (Studio Theatre, Norwich).
Martha is currently an Associate Director at the Young Shakespeare Company.
COMPOSER
Jerry Bock, byname of Jerrold Lewis Bock, (born Nov. 23, 1928, New Haven, Conn., U.S.—died ssNov. 3, 2010, Mount Kisco, N.Y.), studied at the University of Wisconsin and wrote songs for Wonders of Manhattan (honorable mention Cannes Film Festival 1956); composer: music for Broadway show Catch a Star, 1955, Mr. Wonderful, 1956, (collaborated with Sheldon Harnick on) The Body Beautiful, 1958, Fiorello!, 1959 (Pulitzer prize, Drama Critics award, Antoinette Perry award), Tenderloin, 1960, She Loves Me, 1963, The Apple Tree, 1966, The Rothschilds; Fiddler on the Roof, 1964 (nine Tonys – best musical of the year). Recipient Johnny Mercer award Songwriters Hall of Fame, 1990; named to Theatre Hall of Fame, 1990. Composed the score for the film, A Stranger Among Us; wrote words and music for Pinocchio, Land of Broken Toys, and A Show of Hands for The Children’s Theatre Festival, University of Houston, 2000-2006; Emmy Award 2010 Best Original Song, Children’s and Animation, Little Airplane Productions. Jerry always gave thanks to his children Portia and Georg and his wonderful wife Patti who is now deceased.
Ross trained at Kent University studying Drama and Theatre, and Mastered in Set Design. He has been the resident assistant at the Royal Opera House and has assisted many established designers for the National Theatre, Royal Ballet and West End.
Theatre includes: (as Associate Designer) The Bodyguard (Worldwide); Dreamgirls (West End); Shrek (Tour); Travesties (West End/ Broadway).
ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER
Jane began her training at the Dance School of Scotland and then went on to graduate from Laine Theatre
Arts.
Choreography includes: Spring Awakening (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Pop, Soul, Movies and Musicals Shows (Marella Cruises); 9 To 5 The Musical and Violet (Bernie Grants Arts Centre); Carrie (Ivy Arts Centre); Legally Blonde (Pleasance); Associate Choreographer: The Bodyguard (Seoul, Stuttgart & Vienna); The Producers (International Tour); Legally Blonde (Sydney Lyric, Australia); Footloose (UK Tour); Groundhog Day (Old Vic); Pure Imagination (St James).
Casting Choreographer: Children’s Regional Casting for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour); The Bodyguard (Paris).
West End Theatre includes: Resident Choreographer/Children’s Director in Gypsy (Chichester Festival Theatre & Savoy); Dance Captain in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original cast, Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Assistant Resident Director/Dance Captain in Legally Blonde (original London cast, Savoy); Dance Captain in Carousel (Savoy); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward); Footloose (Novello); Dance Captain in ENO’s On the Town (London Coliseum); Assistant Dance Captain in Tonight’s The Night (Victoria Palace).
UK Touring Theatre includes: Dance Captain in The Wedding Singer; Annie Get Your Gun; Grease; Candy in Oh! What A Night.
Recordings include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Legally Blonde; Tonight’s The Night.
ILLUSION
Theatre includes: The Invisible Man (Menier Chocolate Factory), A Little Night Music, Matilda, Ghost The Musical, The Woman in White, Groundhog Day (Old Vic and Broadway), The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout), Pippin (including US tour), An Act of God, Finding Neverland (and US tour), Side Show, The Woman In White, Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth (Armory), The Phantom of the Opera (US tour).
West End includes: The Lord of the Rings, Our House, The Invisible Man, The Witches, Zorro.
Film: Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hugo.
Paul has worked extensively with the RSC and National Theatre, and worked as a consultant on David Blaine Live, Dynamo’s Seeing is Believing international tour, and the live shows of David Copperfield, Penn and Teller, Derren Brown, Kate Bush and Catherine Tate. He was awarded The Creative Fellowship of The Magic Castle, Hollywood and the Maskelyne Award by The Magic Circle, London and winner of a New York Drama Desk award for his work on Ghost The Musical. He is a Gold Star Member of The Inner Magic Circle and is an associate artist at The Old Vic Theatre, London.
ASSOCIATE MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Matthew recently served as guest musical director on Spamilton (Menier Chocolate Factory), and assistant musical director on Ruthless! The Musical (Arts Theatre).
Other UK credits include: musical director/arranger for cabaret What Would Julie Do? (The Pheasantry, 2018), assistant musical director on Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour, 2017), Keys 2 on Evita (UK & European Tour, 2017), and musical director for the third year productions of The Drowsy Chaperone (The Urdang Academy), and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (University of Cumbria).
Matthew is the composer of the original work Real Women, which featured in the London Opening Gala of From Page to Stage in 2016, and for the podcast The Penny Peepshow. He holds a Masters of Music in Vocal Pedagogy, and is a classically trained pianist from the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney.
