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The Remains of the DayAlex Loveless' musical adaptation based on the novelTHE REMAINS OF THE DAYby Kazuo Ishigurodirected by Chris Loveless Kazuo
Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day will premiere as a
stage musical at the Union Theatre, Southwark Wed 1st - Sat 25th
September 2010 The Union Theatre
'I must admit the idea of it being a musical was at first a rather challenging one. But as Sondheim has proved, it is possible to combine searching drama with music to tremendous effect, so I thought, why not let these guys run with it? I listened to Alex Loveless play some musical ideas on a piano and that convinced me it could work. Adapting this story as a musical, I could see, might have the advantage of highlighting its comedic and surreal aspects. It's an adventurous approach and I'm keen to support it.' - Kazuo Ishiguro, The Stage, 28-May-2009, p 3
The show will be produced by Simon
James Collier in association with Fallen Angel
Theatre Company and Ben David Productions. |
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Christopher trained at London School of Musical Theatre. Touring/regional
theatre includes: Ensemble/played Judas in Godspell ( Fringe theatre: Bullet in Sitting Ducks (Sitcom mission, New Diorama), Demitrius in Shakespeare for Breakfast (Edinburgh Fringe), React! Impro for kids (Edinburgh Fringe). TV includes: Casualty, Doctors
and Titty Bang Bang (BBC), Teachers
(C4). Christopher will be appearing as
Simple Simon in Jack and the Beanstalk, at the Millfield Arts Centre this Christmas.
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Trained
at Central. West End credits include: King (Piccadilly), Cain in Children of
Eden (Prince Edward) Wil
Scarlet in Robin
of Sherwood (tour and Piccadilly),
Carousel
(Shaftesbury), Leonardo
( Tours include Magaldi in Evita, The Plant in Little Shop of Horrors, Dad in Saturday Night Fever. Provincial theatre includes: Jack & the
Beanstalk; Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, playing Pharaoh at the Little Theatre, Middlesbrough; Follow The Star (Chichester); Bill Sykes in
Oliver,
Fringe
credits include: Zengara in Assassins
(New End, Hampstead), Hogarth in Hogarth (Bridewell) and Broadway in the Shadows ( Television
credits include: The Bill (twice), and film credits include the role of Simon in The
Sea Change (Dir. Michael Bray).
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Trained at Arts Ed. West End credits include: Featured Ensemble in the 48 hour Showtime Challenge: Crazy for You (London Palladium). Concerts include: Barbara Cook and Friends (London Coliseum, conducted by Gareth Valentine), Featured Soloist/Petra in Simply Sondheim: Good Thing Going (Cadogan Hall, conducted by David Firman). Fringe credits include: Understudy Fromme in Assassins (Union Theatre), Understudy Johanna in Sweeney Todd (Union Theatre), Sigma Bracebridge in Nightingale: A Tale of Love and War (Posk Theatre), Holly in Tickledom (Upstairs at the Gatehouse). Film credits include Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (Dir. Matt
Whitecross).
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Lucy trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, winning the Cameron Mackintosh Award. Lucy is thrilled to be playing the part of Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day, her first role after the birth of her son. She began her career creating/playing roles such as Cathy in the original musical play Whistle Down the Wind for the NYMT, Meg the pirate and the infamous Lucy Lockit in The Beggars Opera. Theatre/TV includes Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar Warehouse), Noel and Gertie (Salisbury Playhouse), New Boy (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh), Procession of Shades (Chanticleer Theatre), Merrily We Roll Along, Oct 2010 (Queens Theatre), Argos commercial (Smugglers). Lucy is CEO of Little Hands Theatre School in
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Sophie
trained at Theatre credits include: Nurse/Ensemble/piano/violin in Anyone Can Whistle (Jermyn Street); Gladys in The Pyjama Game (Ye Olde Rose and Crown); Miranda Ferrari in A Comedy of Arias (New Ambassador’s Theatre, Jermyn Street, Edinburgh Fringe); Hermione in Missing (Diorama); Sophie in 100 (Camberley Theatre); Woman 1 in Closer Than Ever (Jermyn Street, Edinburgh Fringe); Eliza de Feuillide in JANE The Musical (Artrix Theatre, Birmingham); Ensemble in Living on an Island (Talk of London); Grace/Swan/Dot in Honk! (Oxford Studio Theatre); Ruby in Dames at Sea (Prince Regent Theatre); title role in The Little Matchgirl (Gainsborough Theatre); Doris/Dance Captain in Jack and the Beanstalk (Lincoln); Little Pig in The Tail of the Big Bad Wolf (Boxmoor Playhouse). Original cast recordings include Eliza de Feuillide - JANE The Musical and Benedicte - A Song For Europe. Sophie is also an accomplished classical musician with an LRSM in piano, having worked as an accompanist mainly on TV, and as a vocal arranger to recording artistes. In her spare time, Sophie runs a ladies choir in Marlow and produces shows supporting charities in her area.
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Reuben Kaye is very proud to be making his London Music Theatre debut in The Remains of the Day. An Australian by birth, Reuben has just moved from his home town of Melbourne. After graduating from VCA (BA Music Theatre), Reuben has worked tirelessly throughout Australia in music theatre, cabaret, stand-up and straight theatre. His debut one man show Reuben Kaye is Out of Line won him the 2006 ‘Under Our Wing Touring Award’ from The Butterfly Club, resulting in tours to the Melbourne International Comedy Fest, Hobart Comedy Fest and Melbourne Cabaret Fest. An award-winning cabaret artist in Australia, Reuben recently made his London cabaret debut at the now closed Pizza on the Park. The closing of Pizza on the Park had nothing to do with his performance. Theatre: Brilliant Traces, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, Genre Bender (State Theatre), Russian Bride (State Theatre), Silly Season (Alexander Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Union Theatre), Boxed In (workshop), Baby The Musical (Federation Hall), Superfreaks (National Tour), Wishful Thinking, Knight On A Bike (workshop), Factor (workshop), Another Day In Vienna (workshop), Wasted Underground (45 Downstairs). Cabaret: Reuben Kaye is Out Of Line, Fa La LA!, Be A Little Less Stupid, Behind Closed Doors, Midsumma Nights ’07 '08 '09, Reuben Krum and Karin Muznieks are your Christmas Spread, Reuben Kaye is Going To The Dogs and Mayhem Cabaret (Green Room nomination for best contribution to cabaret).
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Stephen
Rashbrook trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then joined the Royal
Shakespeare Company to play Sebastian in Twelfth Night,
also appearing in Othello, The Merry Wives
of Windsor, Julius Caesar, The Knight of
the Burning Pestle, Peter Pan, and the original award-winning
production of Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird, which
played in London and on Broadway. West End theatre includes Hamlet directed by Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On and The Lady in the Van. His work at the National Theatre includes Hamlet directed by Richard Eyre, Luther directed by Peter Gill and The Winter’s Tale directed by Nick Hytner. Since 2005, Stephen has appeared
as Frank Sinatra in The Ratpack Live From Las
Vegas at the Strand, TV credits includes forty episodes of Emmerdale as Rev. Tony Charlton, Doctors, Powers, New Tricks, A Touch of Frost, My Dad’s the Prime Minister, Urban Gothic, Dream Team, Allo Allo and Grange Hill. Other music theatre credits
include the Sound of Music
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Dudley
trained at the He has appeared in four His repertory work includes
seasons at He played Dr. Wheedon in the national tour of Beyond Reasonable Doubt, joined Miss Watson`s Music Hall at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, and went on to play Mr Allworthy in the tour of Tom Jones. He is no stranger to panto,
either, and loves playing Dame. He has also sailed round the world three times as a member
of the Stadium Theatre Company on board S.S. Canberra, and has many TV and film
appearances to his credit. Dudley is still recognised as the interviewer from hell in the Bacardi Breezer commercial.
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Gemma left the Italia Conti Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2008 with a BA Hons in Acting. Since then, she has appeared in many productions on stage and screen. These include: Julie in Ray Davies’ Come Dancing (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Arrabella in Hansel and Gretel (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Kathleen Cook in Rock and Chips for the BBC, Shiraz Bailey Wood in Diary of a Chav (Tristan Bates Theatre), Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Brentwood Theatre). Gemma was also a soloist in the recent ‘Voices for a Better World’ charity concert License to Thrill, singing to over 10,000 people at the O2 Arena, and she is the co-producer of The Royal Knees Up cabaret evenings at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. Gemma is delighted to be a part of this production.
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Katia graduated from SLP College Leeds, also gaining her Licentiate Teaching qualification with the London College of Music. Credits include: Stars Falling, a new British musical (The Key Theatre), Wicked Lips (Battersea Barge), Unknown Destination (Battersea Barge), Trouble, the Musical (Saving Grace Productions), Gotta Sing! (Voicebox Productions), Gala Evening of Song (Casting Couch Productions, UK tour), Love Central (Scottish tour), Chariot (workshop), Cinderella (Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds) and has performed as a lead singer in five seasons of The Good ol' Days at City Varieties in Leeds. Amongst Stage shows, Katia has also sung in various bands and has performed gigs around the UK. Katia is also a keen musician and plays piano, flute and piccolo to an advanced standard. Katia is thrilled to be involved in The Remains of the Day and is excited to be working with such a talented cast, and would like to thank her amazing family and friends for their continuous love and support!
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Paul has clocked up over 2,000 performances in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and other musical credits both in the West End and on tour include: Nine, Cavalcade, Dick-Daredevil, Annie, Little Women, City of Angels, Follies, Bless the Bride, One Touch of Venus, and the 50th anniversary tour of The Boy Friend, where he was also Resident Director. Paul has spent the last two summers in Wales at the award-winning Aberystwyth Arts Centre, playing Harry in My Fair Lady and The Kralahome in The King and I. Plays have included Twelfth Night, The Father, A Christmas Carol, The Cheeky Chappie, An Inspector Calls, and on television he has appeared in The Bill, Bergerac, Home To Roost, Winning Streak, Rag Dolly Anna, and both episodes of It’s Now Or Never. He has produced and directed Little Shop
of Horrors, Anything Goes, Bye Bye Birdie, Barnum, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and the ‘sell out’ revival of The Best Little
Whorehouse In Texas. He also
directed the musicals Oliver! and The Wizard of
Oz, and understudied Paravicini
and Major Metcalf in the He was lucky enough to play both parts in performance, though not at the same time! Paul is a much sought-after pantomime Dame, director and script writer, and is delighted to be going ‘straight’ for a while in this production of The Remains of the Day. For more information on Paul please go to:
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Leejay trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and graduated in 2008. Before training, Leejay toured internationally with his own cabaret show, as well as releasing a dance single which enjoyed modest success both in the UK and abroad. Since training, Leejay has built up a credible CV of plays and musicals. These include the European premiere of Errol Bray’s The Choir (Above the Stag Theatre), the London premiere of Reefer Madness (The Bridewell), Clouds (The Bridewell), Election Idol (The Brighthelm Centre, Brighton). Leejay was hailed “the star of the show“ by Whatsonstage.com for his performance as the cat in Honk! (George Square – Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Most recently, Leejay was seen in Vavoom! The Story of a Showgirl (The Courtyard Theatre). For more information on Leejay check out his
website
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Alan
was born in Theatre credits include Oliver!, Amadeus, Piaf, An Inspector Calls, The Mikado, And Then There Were None, She Loves Me (Perth Theatre); The Duchess Of Malfi (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Innocent (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Twelfth Night, Of Mice And Men, The Merchant Of Venice, The Lass Wi’ The Muckle Mou’ (Brunton Theatre Co., Musselburgh); Carousel (Chichester Festival Theatre); A Wee Touch O’ Class, The Thrie Estaitis, The Big Window, Night Sky (Edinburgh Festival); The Parson’s Pirates (Opera Della Luna) and many tours including his own one man show, Being Frank with First Base Theatre. West End and other credits include: Me And My Girl (Adelphi Theatre); Brigadoon (Victoria Palace Theatre); Les Miserables (Palace Theatre - where he understudied and played both the male leads, Jean Valjean and Javert); The Phantom Of The Opera (national tour and Her Majesty’s Theatre - playing M. Andre and understudying the role of the Phantom); Kiss Me Kate (Victoria Palace Theatre); Mary Poppins (Bristol Hippodrome and Prince Edward Theatre); The Sound Of Music (The London Palladium - played Herr Zeller and understudied and played Max Detwieller; Gone With The Wind (New London Theatre); Carousel (Savoy Theatre, playing Mr Snow). In 2009 Alan made his National Theatre debut in The Power Of Yes by David Hare in the Lyttelton Theatre. He has just finished working as Resident Director on The Fantasticks (The Duchess Theatre).
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Rebecca trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her acting credits include Gifted (White Bear), The Audition (Greenwich Playhouse), Winter (tour with Forest Forge Theatre Company), Pulse (short film directed by Tommaso Paino), Goodbye (short film directed by Richard Cosgrove) and various readings and short devised projects. She
is currently filming a feature film, Simple Things, in
which she plays the lead. She is in the process of establishing her own theatre company,
with which she is currently working on a site-specific piece, to be performed in She writes plays and prose, and is
involved in various blues and jazz music projects, in which she sings.
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Creative Team
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Richard BatesMusical Director |
As Musical Director: Tick Tick…BOOM! (Union Theatre), From the Ritz to the Anchor & Crown (Noel Coward Society), A Night At The Music Hall (both Canal Café Theatre), Oh No It Isn’t (Union Theatre), Little Fish (European Premiere, Finborough Theatre), Fairystories (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), NewsRevue (2008 & 09 seasons, Canal Café Theatre), Edges (UK Premiere), It’s Behind You (both Union Theatre), Assassins (Landor Theatre), Wonderboy (Nitro Centre), Pride & Prejudice, the Pantomime (Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA), Sweeney Todd (Edinburgh Festival), as well as Too Darn Hot: A Night at the Musicals, Marry Me A Little, The Threepenny Opera and Bugsy Malone. Richard also serves as musical director for James Haslam’s cabaret performances. |
Poppy Ben-DavidCo Producer |
Poppy Ben-David trained at The
Royal Ballet School and was the recipient of the Ursula Moreton, James Monahan and Ninette
de Valois Awards for Choreography. As a choreographer, she created five professional works
including Siren Song for the Royal Ballet at the
Royal Opera House and Gabriel’s Poem for
The Birmingham Royal Ballet. In 2002, she won the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for
Entrepreneurs and began producing dance works for Ballet Central’s National Tour. In
2005, Poppy stopped working as a choreographer and focused on production. As a producer,
Poppy produced Sweeney Todd for the Union
Theatre, November 2008. She was also Associate Producer on the all male Mikado at the Union Theatre in July 2008 and
producer of the sell out Magic to Cry For season
at the Canal Café Theatre 2008. Poppy also produced A
Day of Magic at the Arcola Theatre, 2008. In 2009, Poppy produced Piff the Magic
Dragon’s debut record breaking Between 2007 and 2009, Poppy worked for the production team at Ambassador Theatre Group. Productions included Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker, Guys and Dolls, The Rocky Horror Show, Elling, Fat Pig, West Side Story, The Lover & The Collection and Noises Off. Poppy has also worked for Rambert Dance Company, Birmingham Hippodrome, Jongleurs, The Bush Theatre, The Corner Shop PR and The Society of London Theatre. In December 2008, Poppy was awarded the Stage One New Producer's Bursary and currently works as Assistant Producer for Sweet Pea Productions. Productions whilst there have included The Misanthrope, starring Keira Knightly and Damian Lewis. |
Simon James CollierProducer |
Simon is CEO and Co-Founder of
the noted Okai Collier Company and has produced and been the creative director on over
fifty plays and musicals in Simon has also written and published over twenty children’s books and novels and recently produced Dance With Me, his first feature film, which will be in cinemas in 2010. He is currently developing two other features for production in 2010/11. He also directed The Difference We Make, a documentary for Southern Housing Foundation as well as presenting celebrated events at St. Martin in the Fields (The Crusaid Requiem), Hackney Empire (Inspiration Innovation Integration Season) & St. Paul’s Cathedral (Service of Thanksgiving, Remembrance & Hope for World AIDS Day). |
Adam DechanelGraphic Design |
| Adam Dechanel is a prolific author,
illustrator and graphic designer whose career spans nearly a decade. He has worked in
television, film, books, short stories and graphic novels for many years. Throughout his
wide-ranging career he has had a series of novels published including the high profile Superman: Tempered Steel. Adam is well known in the
illustration field and has worked extensively with Warner Bros, DC Comics and The Walt
Disney Company. He also exhibits his artwork in galleries around He is the co-creator of publishing label Okai Collier Kids that pioneered the CDbook entertainment format. His concept for graphic novel anthologies Vanston Place: The Secret Adventures and The Timber Wharves Gang were short listed for a SNAC award. In theatre, Adam has worked on productions including Collision, Blavatsky’s Tower, Gifted, Bloodline, Passion, A… My Name Is Alice, My Matisse, In His Hands, The Smilin’ State, The Sister Wendy Musical, The Dorchester, A Mother Speaks and Dracula, and also spearheaded the marketing campaign for the critically acclaimed European premieres of Purlie and Preacherosity. He also wrote A Wrongful Execution, which featured as a reading for the acclaimed Inspiration, Innovation and Integration Season. |
Fallen Angel Theatre CompanyCo Producer |
Fallen Angel was established in 2007 and focuses on new writing and innovative revivals of provocative and challenging works. Productions to date include: Moonshadow, Dracula, The Custom of the Country, Gifted (all White Bear); Vampire Nights, Ray Collins Dies On Stage, (all Alma Theatre, Bristol); Normal (Tobacco Factory, Bristol); Blavatsky's Tower (Brockley Jack); Stairway to Heaven (Blue Elephant). |
Matt HallSound Design |
Matt
is currently Deputy Head of Sound at Chichester Festival Theatre following a move from the
North as Deputy Chief Technician and Resident Sound Designer at the Theatre By The Lake in
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Kazuo IshiguroNovelist |
Born
in Kazuo Ishiguro has also worked as a
screenwriter and a song lyricist. He lives in Books in order of publication: A Pale View of Hills (1982 winner Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986 winner Whitbread Book of the Year Award, winner Premio Scanno, finalist for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, finalist for the Booker Prize), Never Let Me Go (2005, finalist for the Booker Prize, winner Premio Serono, winner Corine Internationaler Buchpreis, winner Casino de Santiago European Novel Award, finalist US National Book Critics Circle Award). Latest book Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall published May 2009. Screenplays for cinema: The White Countess (2006, directed by James Ivory), The Saddest Music In The World (2003, directed by Guy Maddin) co-written with Guy Maddin and George Toles. Screenplays for TV: A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (Channel 4, broadcast 1984), The Gourmet (Channel 4, broadcast 1986). Songs (co-written with Jim Tomlinson): The Ice Hotel, I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again, So Romantic and Breakfast On The Morning Tram, featured on Stacey Kent’s 2007 Grammy-nominated album Breakfast On The Morning Tram (Blue Note). |
Rowland LeeInstrumental & Ensemble Vocal Arrangements |
Rowland Lee studied composition and
piano at the Royal College of Music and has written much orchestral, choral and chamber
music including The Crusaid Requiem,
featuring the Mezzo-Soprano Sarah Connolly MBE, performed at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in
2003. Conducting engagements next year
include concerts with the Orchestra of the Czar's Chapel, Other
credits as musical director/pianist/arranger include; Marry Me A Little and The Great Big Radio Show
(the Bridewell), Over my Shoulder ( |
Chris LinceLighting Design |
As
lighting designer, Chris has most recently lit Stairway
to Heaven (Blue Elephant Theatre), Gifted
(White Bear Theatre) and Blavatsky’s Tower
& Compression (BrockleyJack Studio Theatre).
He has worked extensively with director Benet Catty on productions of Howie the Rookie, |
Alex LovelessAdaptation of the Book, Music & Lyrics |
Alex
trained at the London College of Music, Awards include Vivian Ellis Prize for ‘Promising Newcomer’ and the Howard Goodall Award for Composition. Writing credits include Dracula (White Bear Theatre, 2008), and extensive
work for youth theatre. Alex’s work has been showcased in the |
Chris LovelessDirector |
Chris trained at the Directing credits include: Moonshadow (Time Out Critics’ Choice &
Show of the Week), Dracula, The Custom of the Country (Time Out Critics'
Choice) & Gifted (all White Bear); Vampire Nights, Ray Collins Dies On Stage, Walter’s Monkey & Thursday Coma (all Alma Theatre, Bristol); Normal (Tobacco Factory, Bristol); Blavatsky's Tower (Brockley Jack); Stairway to Heaven (Blue Elephant); The Demon Box (Finborough Vibrant Anniversary
Festival); Script Space III (Tobacco Factory). Assisting credits include Othello (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory).
Producing credits include studio and fringe productions, and an internship with ATG in
their |
Diana MonteiroStage/Company Manager |
Diana has recently completed her BA (Hons) in Theatre with Textual Practices at Dartington College of Arts. She has previously directed a devised piece Moments We Like (2009), Hysteria (2006) and When We’re Broken (Warehouse Theatre, 2006) for which she won awards for Best Director and Best Technical Support. She has collaborated extensively on several devised pieces, including When Stone Footsteps Lead to the Lighthouse, which was shown at the Dartington Campus Festival 2010. In 2006 she was Deputy Stage Manager for the International Playwrighting Festival at the Warehouse Theatre and a lighting assistant at Croydon Clocktower for a deaf show. As an actress, Diana has performed in a range of pieces including Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of a Nightingale, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Diana has also undertaken a Contextual Enquiry Project exploring modes of directing, during which time she worked with Okai Collier (Collision, Hackney Empire), Foursight Theatre (Corner Shop, site-specific) and Uninvited Guests (in residency at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre), as well as conducting interviews with directors Gillian Hambleton (Northumberland Theatre Company), Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment) and Mole Wetherell (Reckless Sleepers). |
Omar F. OkaiMovement Director |
Omar F. Okai is an
award-winning director and/or choreographer of over forty musicals and plays, productions
of which were not only in For the He is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the noted Okai
Collier Company, which has gained an excellent reputation for encouraging new writing and
staging cross-cultural productions. Okai also co-produced four Off-West End studio
productions for directors including Lynda Baron (The
Dorchester) and Ruth Carney (My Matisse),
along with Rowland Lee’s acclaimed The Crusaid
Requiem at St. Martin in the Fields and the HIV/AIDS
Service of Remembrance at |
Christina PomeroyCostume |
Chris has worked as Costume Designer on a number of Okai Collier Company productions including Elegies (Bridewell); Purlie (Bridewell, nominated for 4 What’s On Stage awards); Blavatsky’s Tower & Bloodline (Brockley Jack Studio Theatre); Ruthless (Stratford Circus, winner of 5 Musical Stages Awards); Preacherosity and The Dorchester (both at Jermyn Street West End Studio Theatre); The Sister Wendy Musical, The Smilin’ State, Collision and In His Hands (Hackney Empire), and Dracula & Gifted (White Bear Theatre).
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Amy RycroftCasting |
Casting credits for the English Theatre Frankfurt include: The Full Monty, Educating Rita, Hysteria, Hair, Gaslight, Death Trap, Laughing Wild, Nevelle’s Island, The Last Virgin, Blithe Spirit, RENT; Other theatre casting credits include: Blavatsky’s Tower & Bloodline (Brockley Jack Studio Theatre), Gifted (White Bear), A Day at the Racist (Finborough Theatre), The Tenants (Drill Hall), Ruth (New End Theatre, London) A Wrongful Execution (Acorn Theatre, Hackney); Borrowed Time (New End Theatre, London); Purlie (Bridewell Theatre); Passion (Bridewell Theatre). Music Video & Commercial casting credits include: Andre Rieu (Decca Records), Dreamboats & Petticoats 3 (Universal Music Op), Bingo Wings Music Video (MJNA Records). Associate Producer and Producer
credits include: Circus Agogo (New End Theatre);
A Wrongful Execution (Acorn Theatre, Hackney); The Last Session (Acorn Theatre, Hackney); Bridewell Theatre Farewell Gala (Bridewell
Theatre); Purlie (Bridewell Theatre). Production
Assistant on Death of a Salesman (Lyric
Theatre, |
David ShieldsSet and Costume |
| David’s production credits include: Song & Dance and Carmen Jones (European tours, directed by Anthony
Van Laast), Oh! What a Night (Blackpool Opera House, directed by Kim Gavin), A Christmas Carol ( Other credits include the Scandinavian productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Fame,
Grease, Saturday
Night Fever, and Mannen fra La Mancha (Det
Norske Teatret, Oslo, directed by Runar Borge), Mapp and Lucia (Jermyn
Street Theatre and Greenwich), Naked Flame (UK tour), The Hobbit
(Queens Theatre, London and UK
Tours, directed by Roy Marsden), Diamond and
Shamlet (King’s Head Theatre,
London), Saturday Night Fever (UK national
tours, Apollo Victoria Theatre and
Johannesburg, choreographed and directed by Arlene Phillips, plus the more recent Madrid
and Spanish tour directed by Karen Bruce), Instant
Magique and Oui, J’ adore, and a
further six productions at the Royal Palace Kirrwiller France. David has also designed
twelve world-touring productions for |
Band
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Elaine Booth – Reeds |
Elaine studied music at the Elaine has played in the pit bands for many shows, from classics such as Sweet Charity and My Fair Lady through to a musical version of Shakespeare's As You Like It. This is Elaine's second time at the Union Theatre, and she's excited to be part of another new musical. |
Mary Erskine – Cello |
| Having graduated from Having performed widely as a solo pianist, Mary is now singer/keyboardist with London-based electronica/pop collective, The Shadow Orchestra. On the cello, she has played in a variety of ensembles, including the Oxford University Orchestra, as well as recently building a number of credits as a session cellist, recording for artists such as Belleruche, Official Secrets Act and Al Lewis. |
Lorna Young – Violin |
Lorna has recently
completed her BA Honours degree in Music, specialising in the violin, at Leeds College of
Music and throughout this time has been nurtured into a confident and talented performer.
For her final performance within the college she was privileged enough to lead the Leeds
Community Symphony Orchestra under conductor John Stringer. A keen orchestral player, she
has performed with the Lorna has recently performed a solo version of
‘Duelling Violins’ Lord of the Dance
(Blackpool, The Grand Theatre) and has had
a busy schedule as lead violin within the ‘Melati String Quartet’ ( Lorna has collaborated extensively with other
musicians in the Leeds area and has played many venues performing with singer songwriters,
a Latin swing band and on one occasion been part of the support act for the international
band Feeder at the |
