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Alexandra Burke
Morticia
Alexandra Burke is one of the UK’s most distinguishable powerhouse voices, having sold over five million records in the UK. Her #1 chart-toppers include the million-selling Bad Boys, Start Without You, and Hallelujah. Her double-platinum debut album Overcome has sold over 865,000 copies.
On screen, Alexandra starred in the Paramount+ six-part crime drama Curfew, playing school teacher Helen alongside Sarah Parish and Mandip Gill. She received a BIFA nomination for her debut film role as Candice May in Pretty Red Dress, currently available on BBC iPlayer.
Over the last decade, Alexandra has established herself as one of the UK’s most sought-after West End leading ladies, starring in The Bodyguard, Sister Act, Chess, Chicago, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Most recently, she reprised her role as Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act at London’s Dominion Theatre throughout Summer 2024.
Alexandra first rose to fame in 2008, winning The X Factor and performing a duet with Beyoncé in front of over 10 million viewers. The iconic performance has since been viewed over 40 million times on YouTube. Her double-platinum debut album Overcome featured three #1 singles, spent a year on the UK Album Chart, and earned three BRIT Award nominations.
Her studio albums Overcome (2009), Heartbreak on Hold (2012), and The Truth Is (2018) have spawned multiple hit singles, including Bad Boys (feat. Flo Rida), All Night Long (feat. Pitbull), Start Without You (feat. Laza Morgan), Elephant (feat. Erick Morillo), and Broken Heels. Her debut single Hallelujah was a million-selling chart-topper, making her the first British female soloist to achieve this feat. It was also the best-selling single of 2008.
Alexandra made her theatre debut in 2014 as Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard before stepping into the role of Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act in 2016. In 2018, she starred in Chess at the London Coliseum, followed by Roxie Hart in the West End production of Chicago.
In honour of her late mother, Alexandra founded The Melissa Bell Foundation, a charity that helps disadvantaged children access music, dance, and drama classes at the world-renowned Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. She is also an ambassador for Symprove, Smart Works, Breast Cancer Care, The Royal Commonwealth, WellChild, Diabetes UK, and Notting Hill Carnival.
A firm favourite across both stage and screen, Alexandra reached the final of Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) in 2017. In 2021, she was crowned ‘Star Baker’ on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer and was the only remaining woman to win Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Alexandra is currently writing and recording her eagerly awaited fourth studio album.
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Lesley Joseph
Grandma
Lesley is best known for playing Dorien Green, the neighbour from hell, in the sitcom Birds of a Feather, alongside Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson. Having recorded over 130 episodes, Birds of a Feather became a national institution, watched at its height by 23 million people.
Most recently, Lesley starred in the West End and UK tour productions of Sister Act as Sister Mary Lazarus and Mother Superior. In 2018, she starred as Frau Blücher in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein at the Garrick Theatre, earning an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. She also toured the country in Annie the Musical, reprising her role as Miss Hannigan, and in Calendar Girls the Musical.
Lesley trained at LAMDA before carving out a career on stage. Her theatre credits include Home (Sir Peter Hall’s production), Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Piaf by Pam Gems, Frosine in The Miser (with Ian Richardson), Dooniasha in The Cherry Orchard, and Hortense in The Boyfriend. She played Mrs Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millieand toured with Edward Hardwicke in Office Suite by Alan Bennett. She also produced and starred in Singular Women, a one-woman show written by Stewart Permutt at the King’s Head Theatre. Lesley was later seen inExclusive Yarns(Comedy Theatre), where she was spotted by Laurence Marks, leading to her role in Birds of a Feather.
Lesley is also well known for her work in pantomime, including an eight-year tour with John Nettles in Dick Whittington. She was presented with the big red book for This Is Your Life at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton.
On television, Lesley starred in the ITV soap Night and Day for nearly two years. Other TV credits includeRumble (with Brian Glover), Easy Money, Spywatch, Minder, Roots, and The Knowledge. She played Green Beryl in The Secret of Eel Island (Channel 5) and guest-starred as Erica in the BBC’s The Slammer.
Lesley has made numerous light entertainment appearances, including a regular spot on GMTV for three years and presenting on Wish You Were Here. She also hosted a highly successful weekly talk show on BBC London and was honoured to have a rose named after her at the Chelsea Flower Show.
In 2016, Lesley joined Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Anton du Beke, and later took part in the Strictly Come Dancing National Arena Tour. She also starred in the BBC’s Pilgrimage: The Road To Rome, where she embarked on a journey from the Swiss Alps to Rome and met the Pope.
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Clive Rowe
Uncle Fester
Theatre credits include: The Baker’s Wife (Menier Chocolate Factory), Sister Act (Hammersmith Apollo) The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre); Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse); Blues In The Night (Kiln Theatre); In The Willows (UK Tour); Guys and Dolls (Royal Albert Hall); Me and My Girl (Chichester); Jack and the Beanstalk(Wimbledon); The Light Princess (National Theatre); The Hothouse (Trafalgar Studios); The Ladykillers (West End and UK Tour); Kiss Me Kate (Chichester & Old Vic Theatre); No Naughty Bits (Hampstead Theatre); The Wiz (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Company (Donmar Warehouse); The Fantastics (Duchess Theatre); Twelfth Night, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Trolius & Cressida (all Regent’s Park Theatre); Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); Carousel, Fuente Ovejuna, Caroline or Change, The Villains Opera, Money, Candide, Peter Pan, Guys and Dolls, Trackers (all National Theatre); As You Like It (Wyndham’s Theatre); Simply Heavenly (Young Vic/Trafalgar Studio); Zenobia, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night (all RSC); Once On This Island (Birmingham Rep); Carmen Jones (Old Vic); Just So (Tricycle Theatre); School for Scandal (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Boys from Syracuse, Lady Be Good, Twelfth Night and Carmen Jones (all Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Clive has returned to The Hackney Empire on numerous occasions to play The Dame in their Christmas pantomime; Dick Whittington and his Cat (Hackney Empire).
Television credits include: The Canterville Ghost (BBC), Midsomer Murders ((ITV), Will (TNT); So Awkward – 4 Series (CBBC); Evermoor – 2 Series (Disney); The Kennedys (BBC); The Fun Police (Roughcut); All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Tracy Beaker, Dalziel & Pascoe, Networked, Casualty, Bloodrights and Say It With Music (all BBC); American Voices (Lodestar Productions); The Bill (ITV); Spatz(Thames); Paper Mask and After the War (Granada); Snakes and Ladders (Yorkshire TV); Entertaining Angels Unaware (Carlton).
Film credits include: Beauty and the Beast; Manderlay; Crime Strike.
Clive’s awards include: 1997 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Guys and Dolls; He was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2023 for his performance in Sister Act, 2009 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for Mother Goose at Hackney Empire, and in 1993 for Best Supporting Performance in Carousel.
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Ricardo Afonso
Gomez
Current Work: Guest entertainer onboard the luxury cruise line Seabourn, having produced his own shows A Life Through Song and Icons.
Theatre credits include: Cardinal Dalla Costa in the world premiere of Glory Ride – Staged Concert (The Other Palace); Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Barbican Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Royal Arena Denmark); Zorro/Don Diego de La Vega in Zorro: The Musical In Concert (Cadogan Hall); Lead Vocalist in The Classic Rock Show (UK & Europe Tour); Frankie Belize in Carmen (London Workshop); Taxi Driver in Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre); Lead Vocalist in From Hackney to Hollywood: The Don Black Songbook (UK Tour); Alberto Beddini in Top Hat The Musical (Aldwych Theatre, UK Tour); Lead Vocalist in Thriller Live (Lyric Theatre); Lead Vocalist in The Wonderful World of Captain Beaky and His Band (Royal Albert Hall); Galileo in We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Lead Vocalist in Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals (UK Tour); Willie Lopez in Ghost (London Workshop); Lead Vocalist in The Night of 1000 Voices (Royal Albert Hall).
Recording credits (UK): Lead Vocalist of The Deccan Traps (originals band); Father Christmas in Barry the Penguin’s Black And White Christmas (Lesley Ross & John-Victor); Satan in Paradise Lost (Lee Ormsby & Jonathan Wakeham); One Not Two for Surrounded by Sounds (Tim Prottey-Jones); Dreamer for Only You Can Save Mankind (Leighton James House); The Meerkat Muchachos for Bush Tales (Matthew Jameson); Trial of The Heart for Act One: Songs From The Musicals (Alexander Bermange).
Recording credits (Portugal): Spirit in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (DreamWorks); Robin Hood in Shrek (DreamWorks); Cy in The Lorax (DreamWorks); Mighty Ducks opening title song (Disney); Beauty and the Beast end title song (Disney); Cruella de Vil song for 102 Dalmatians (Disney); DuckTales opening title song (Disney); Goofy and Son opening title song (Disney); Stanley opening title song (Disney); Pokémon album (Nintendo).
Ricardo appeared on The Voice UK (BBC One, 2013) as part of Team Danny.
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Lauren Jones
Wednesday
Training: Arts Educational School, London.
Theatre credits include: Kim/Cover Edward Scissorhands in Scissorhandz (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Trish/Alternate Bonnie in Bonnie & Clyde (UK & Ireland Tour); Ich in Rebecca (Charing Cross Theatre) – Offie-nominated for Best Lead Performance in the English-language premiere of Rebecca; Trish/Alternate Bonnie in Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick Theatre); Trish/Cover Bonnie/Cover Blanche in Bonnie & Clyde (Arts Theatre); Lisette/Cover Adele in The Magician's Elephant (RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre); Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Curve Theatre).
Workshops include: Virginia Poe in The House of Edgar; Juliet in Breaking the Quill; Juliet in Inside William (2022 & 2023).
Concerts include: Soloist at Feierabendhaus Knapsack, Hürth; West End Live 2022 as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie & Clyde; ArtsEd Choir and soloist in The Music of the Night (Royal Albert Hall); The Olivier Awards (Royal Albert Hall, 2019); To Gillie, With Love (Gillian Lynne Theatre).
Albums include: Bonnie & Clyde (Original London Cast Recording); Cherry Tree in Hijinks & Caviar.
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Nicholas McLean
Pugsley
Theatre credits include: Pugsley Addams in The Addams Family In Concert (London Palladium); Lola in Kinky Boots (Gaiety Theatre); Charlie Davenport in Annie Get Your Gun (London Palladium); Boq in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Man 1 in First Date (Lambert Jackson/Broadway HD); Gary Coleman in Avenue Q (UK & Ireland Tour); Benny in Pied Piper (Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot); Henri in South Pacific (St James Concert and Assembly Hall, Guernsey); The Doctor in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre); TJ in Sister Act (Gordon Craig Theatre).
Television credits include: Baxter in The Tale of Mr Tumble (CBeebies).
Workshop credits include: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Starry (Ameena Hamid Productions); Eric in Nanny McPhee(GWB Entertainment); Mason in Proud (Turbine Theatre); Georgio in The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit(Southwark Playhouse).
Other work includes: Errol in Errol’s Garden - The Audio Musical; Merman in Hilda (Netflix); Sammy in Hatched! The Audio Musical; Jamie in Subway (MPTheatricals); Buttons in Cinderella (KidZania worldwide); Pepper in Mamma Mia! The Immersive Experience (du Arena, Abu Dhabi).
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JACOB FOWLER
Lucas Beineke
Jacob trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and has recently returned from making his New York debut with his solo show Direct From London.
In 2020, Jacob won the BBC One show Little Mix: The Search with his band Since September. Following their win, the BBC produced a mini-series documenting the band’s first official UK tour, The Empty Seats Tour. The band subsequently supported Little Mix on their sold-out 2022 UK arena tour, Confetti.
Outside of the music industry, Jacob has a wealth of leading musical theatre credits, including J.D. in Heathers the Musical (UK Tour & The Other Palace), Hunter in [title of show] (Southwark Playhouse), Ben in Before After (Southwark Playhouse), Prince Topher in the European premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Hope Mill Theatre), Bobby in Dreamboats and Petticoats: Bringing on Back the Good Times (UK Tour), Mohr in Vanara (Hackney Empire), Kings of Broadway (Palace Theatre, London), and Hunter in In Pieces (Turbine Theatre).
Screen credits: Little Mix: The Search (BBC One), Blue Peter (BBC), This Morning (ITV).
Recording credits: Little Baby Bum (Audiobook), Gio in A Tale of Little Italy (Cast Recording), three singles with Since September (Let You Go, 11:11, All The Broken Hearts), Catfish the Musical, and Rain Before the Rainbow for Leo & Hyde. He also performed the finalist composition in the Mercury Musical Developments Stiles and Drewe - Best New Song competition 2021.
Workshop credits: A Tale of Little Italy, Dan in Halls the Musical, Hunter in In Pieces, Mohr in Vanara Musical (Wild Yak).
Concert credits: Solo concert (The Green Room 42, NYC), Louis in Cool Rider (London Palladium), West End Halloween (Lyric Theatre), There's No Place Like Home (Lyric Theatre), Comparing Notes with Edward Seckerson(Crazy Coqs), Jacob Fowler: Intimate and Live (Crazy Coqs), Roles We’ll Never Play (Lyric Theatre), Scott Alan (Crazy Coqs), Roles We’ll Never Play (Turbine Theatre).
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Kara Lane
Alice Beineke
Theatre credits include: Come Fall In Love – The DDLJ Musical (Minky, Playful Productions & Aditya Chopra); The Necklace (Madam Forestier, World Premiere, Belfast Ensemble); The Hatpin (Agatha Makin, Taylor Wright Productions); The Addams Family Musical (Alice Beineke, London Palladium & UK Tour, Music & Lyrics Ltd., Aria Entertainment); Rebecca (Mrs. Danvers, Original English Production, Charing Cross Theatre); The Sound of Music (Baroness Elsa Schraeder, National Tour, Bill Kenwright Ltd.); Mary Poppins (Winifred Banks, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd. & Disney); Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman, Derby Theatre & Colchester Mercury Theatre); Oklahoma! (Gertie Cummings, Music & Lyrics Ltd.); Annie Get Your Gun (Dolly Tate, ATG National Tour); Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney, Kilworth House Theatre); Oliver! (Rose Seller & First Cover Nancy, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.); Lend Me a Tenor – The Musical (First Cover Diana Divane, World Premiere, Gielgud Theatre, London’s West End); The Rocky Horror Show(Magenta/Usherette, ATG National Tour & Singapore); Evita (Understudy Eva Perón, National Tour); Scrooge (Ghost of Christmas Past, National Tour); Jesus Christ Superstar (Mary Magdalene, National Tour).
Film and TV credits include: Mystery Island (Phoenix Green, Hallmark); Doctors (Vanessa Ormonde, BBC).
Kara studied classical singing at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, acting at MASQUE (Sydney), and dance at Brent Street Performing Arts College (Sydney). She most recently trained at RADA in Advanced Acting Fundamentals.
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Dale Rapley
Mal Beineke
Theatre credits include: Kyoto (RSC & Good Chance Theatre, Swan Theatre Stratford & @sohoplace); As You Like It(Shakespeare’s Globe); Singin’ in the Rain (Japan & UK Tour); Gypsy (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Bridges of Madison County (Menier Chocolate Factory); Richard III and Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York); The Addams Family Musical (UK Tour); King John (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Richard III (Leeds Playhouse); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre); Wicked (UK Tour); Larisa and the Merchants (Arcola Theatre); Hello, Dolly! (Leicester Curve); The Merchant of Venice and Holding Fire (Shakespeare’s Globe); Heartbreak House (Palace Theatre, Watford); Professor Bernhardi (Arcola Theatre); Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and High Society (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Young Vic); Lady into Fox and A Christmas Carol (Lyric Hammersmith); Flora the Red Menace (Orange Tree Theatre); The Tempest and Philoctetes (Cheek By Jowl).
TV credits include: Young Sherlock, This England, Das Boot, Silent Witness, Poirot, Casualty, EastEnders, Aquila, Medics.
Film credits include: Mein Prinz Mein König (Germany), Paper Mask.
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Dickon Gough
Lurch
Training: LIPA; Opera studies at Birkbeck.
Theatre credits include: Mordcha in Fiddler on the Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Lurch in The Addams Family Musical (London Palladium, Original UK Cast, National & International Tour); Barker in Aspects of Love (Lyric Theatre); Charles/William in As You Like It (@sohoplace); Big Six in City of Angels (Garrick Theatre); Porter in The Midnight Gang (World Premiere, Chichester Festival Theatre); Coster in Clocks 1888: The Greener (Hackney Empire/National Tour); Sergeant of Police in Pirates of Penzance (Kilworth House Theatre); Colline in La Bohème (OperaUpClose – Olivier Award-winning production, Soho Theatre/Charing Cross Theatre); Leporello in Don Giovanni (Soho Theatre); Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore (Ravenna Festival, Italy); Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld(Bloomsbury Theatre); Masetto/Commendatore in Don Giovanni (Opera della Luna); Cascada in The Merry Widow(Opera della Luna); Krol Roger, Guillaume Tell, Die Fliegende Holländer, Billy Budd (Royal Opera House); Carmen(Royal Ballet, choreographed by Carlos Acosta); Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi (Opera Holland Park); Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Wyllyotts Theatre).
Vocal work includes: Founding member of Mosaic Voices, Letter to Kamilla (debuted at No. 5 in the Classical Charts); Guest Vocalist on All Blessed (Faithless, produced by Rollo Armstrong); Guest Vocalist on Safe From Harm soundtrack (produced by Rollo Armstrong).
In 2010, his bottom was cast for the Walkers Crisp campaign for their ‘Builders Breakfast’ flavour, which sold 225,000 packets of crisps.
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Matthew White
Director
Directing credits include: Pacific Overtures (Nissay Theatre, Tokyo/Menier Chocolate Factory); Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre), which won three Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, and the Evening Standard Best Night Out Award; Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Little Shop of Horrors (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Addams Family(two UK tours); The Boy Friend, She Loves Me, Candide, and The Last Five Years (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Producers (UK tour); West Side Story and Kiss Me, Kate (Kilworth House); The Magic Flute (Peacock Theatre); Maria Friedman - By Special Arrangement (Donmar Warehouse); Far From The Madding Crowd (Watermill Theatre); and Mr Stink (Leicester Curve/UK tour). Other international work includes Top Hat (Tokyo); Little Shop of Horrors (Toronto); Cabaret and Rent (Frankfurt); The Addams Family (Singapore); and The Woman in Black and Perfect Wedding (Vienna).
Acting credits include: The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre); Legacy (Menier Chocolate Factory); Awaking Beauty(Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Glee Club (New Vic Theatre, Stoke); Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre), for which he received an Olivier nomination for Best Supporting Actor; Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Shaftesbury Theatre); Children of Eden(Prince Edward Theatre); and Cinderella (Old Vic Theatre).
Television and film credits include: Doctor Who (BBC); Law and Order (ITV); Judge John Deed (BBC); A Christmas Carol (Hallmark/CBS); and Be Happy (Els Films de la Rambla).
As a writer, he has recently completed his first play, The Variations, and his most recent published works include Staging Musicals (Bloomsbury); Top Hat (R+H Theatricals); an adaptation of Far From The Madding Crowd (Samuel French); and a series of children’s musicals, Revolting Rhymes (Harper Collins).
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Diego Pitarch
Designer
Diego Pitarch was born in Valencia, Spain, where he trained as an architect. In 1992, he moved to Paris to complete a four-year course in Interior Design at the prestigious E.S.A.G. school of Design. He graduated top of his class and received an Excellency Award for his thesis in Theatre Design. While in Paris, he collaborated with renowned American designer Hilton McConnico, contributing to the design of an exhibition celebrating the Carré Hermès at the Suntory Museum in Osaka, Japan.
In 1999, Diego relocated to London to study at the Slade School of Art, where he completed his MA in Theatre Design. In 2001, he was selected for the Linbury Prize, with his design for Katya Kabanova for the Welsh National Opera placing him among the finalists.
Since then, Diego has built an international career as a theatre designer, working with renowned directors and companies. His work has appeared in theatres across the UK, Europe, and the Caribbean. Recent successes include costume design for White Christmas (Dominion Theatre) and Night of the Living Dead Live, for which he was awarded an Offie for Best Design. He is currently working on multiple projects in Asia and the Middle East.
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Alistair David
Choreographer
Theatre credits include: White Christmas (Sheffield Crucible); Sister Act (UK Tour, Hammersmith Apollo); The Addams Family (Theatre Royal Nottingham, UK Tour); Malory Towers (Wise Children); Rough Crossing (Theatre Royal Windsor & UK Tour); Ghost The Musical (UK Tour, Dubai, Moscow & Paris); Curtains (UK Tour); The Producers (Manchester Royal Exchange); Me and My Girl, Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester); Beauty and the Beast, Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate (BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall); The Book of Mormon (Det Ny Teater, Denmark); Charlotte Olympia SS17 Fashion Show (Sheraton Park Lane Hotel); The Two Noble Kinsmen (RSC); Show Boat (New London Theatre/Sheffield Crucible); My Fair Lady, Anything Goes, The Way of the World, Annie Get Your Gun, Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible); Only the Brave (Wales Millennium Centre); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Sound of Music (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); My Fair Lady (Aarhus Teater, Denmark); Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith); A Man of No Importance (Salisbury Playhouse); Paper Dolls (Tricycle); 42nd Street Gala (London Palladium).
Alistair directed and choreographed Robbie Williams’ worldwide concert tour Swings Both Ways. Television work includes choreography for Channel 4, Nickelodeon, and MTV.
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Richard Beadle
Musical Supervisor
Orchestrator
Richard Beadle is a professional composer, songwriter, orchestrator, and conductor. He is the Associate Musical Supervisor for Hamilton in London and on its UK & Ireland Tour. He was the original Musical Director at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London.
Other credits include Musical Supervisor for The Bodyguard (West End & Worldwide) and Orchestrator and Musical Supervisor for The Addams Family (UK Tour). He was also the Orchestrator and Musical Director of The Girls (Calendar Girls) at the Phoenix Theatre and on UK Tour, by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth.
Richard’s compositions for television include The Clinic (ITV), Reunion Hotel (BBC1), Commando: Britain’s Ocean Warriors (BBC1), Ken & Barbie Killers: The Lost Murder Tapes (Discovery+), and Gareth Malone’s All Star Music Quiz(BBC2). He composed the score for The Choir: Our School By The Tower, the RTS award-winning BBC documentary about the staff and pupils at Kensington Aldridge Academy dealing with the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Theatre Musical Director credits include The Bodyguard (Adelphi Theatre); Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre); Hair(Gielgud Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Palace Theatre); Grease (Piccadilly Theatre & UK Tour); Fame (UK Tour); Blood Brothers (UK Tour); The Rocky Horror Show (UK & European Tours).
Richard was Musical Associate for Series 1 of ITV’s Victoria, an arranger and vocal coach for the BBC’s Pitch Battle, and served as Chairperson for the UK vote in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. His album of musical theatre music, Songs, is available on all major streaming platforms.
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Richard Brooker
Sound Designer
Richard’s extensive sound design credits include Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse), The Time Traveller’s Wife (West End), Spitting Image Live (Phoenix Theatre, West End), TONY – The Tony Blair Rock Opera (London/Tour), Saving Grace(Riverside Studios), Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol (Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank), Grease (Dominion Theatre, West End), Dreamgirls (West End & UK Tour), The Addams Family (UK Tour), Chess (Moscow), West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, Sweet Charity (Manchester Royal Exchange), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), Sunshine on Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse & UK Tour), One Love (Birmingham Rep), Funny Girl (West End & UK Tour), Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined (West End/Menier Chocolate Factory), Sister Act (UK Tour), The Bodyguard (West End, UK & US Tours, Australia, Germany, Korea & Paris), Made in Dagenham (West End), Dance Til Dawn (West End & UK Tour), Sweeney Todd (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Manchester Royal Exchange), Fiddler on the Roof (UK Tour), Avenue Q(Korea), Back Beat (Toronto & Los Angeles), I Dreamed a Dream (UK Tour), and The Snowman (Peacock Theatre, UK Tour, Finland, Seoul).
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Ben Cracknell
Lighting Designer
Ben trained at Rose Bruford College and was awarded a Fellowship in 2021.
His West End credits include The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward), Grease (Dominion Theatre), The Drifters Girl (Garrick), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium), Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Young Frankenstein (Garrick), Inala (Peacock Theatre), Annie (Piccadilly), and multiple London Palladium pantomimes.
Regional and UK tour credits include The Wizard of Oz, Billy Elliot (Curve), Sunset Boulevard, The Color Purple(Curve), The Cher Show, The Addams Family, The Osmonds, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Rock of Ages (UK Tours), The Importance of Being Earnest (Birmingham Rep/Curve), Kiss Me Kate (WNO/Opera North), and Saturday Night Fever(Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour).
International work includes Wicked (Sao Paulo), We Will Rock You (World Tour), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Australian Tour), Chess (Tokyo/Osaka), and Legally Blonde (South Korea).
Television includes The Olivier Awards (2011–2023), The Classic Brit Awards (Royal Albert Hall), and The Princes Trust Awards (ITV).
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Andrew Hilton
Musical Director & Conductor
Andrew studied conducting and musical direction at the University of East Anglia.
His musical direction credits include Pinocchio (Theatre Royal Newcastle), Too Wong Foo (Hope Mill), Ian McKellen’s Mother Goose (UK Tour), Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol (QEH, West End), 9 to 5 (Savoy, West End), Young Frankenstein (Garrick, West End), Chicago (UK Tour), The Addams Family (UK Tour), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(UK Tour), Sister Act (UK Tour), and The Producers (UK Tour).
As a musical supervisor and orchestrator, his work includes Allegiance (Charing Cross Theatre), Hair, Rent, Cabaret(English Theatre Frankfurt), and I Do! I Do! (Vienna English Theatre).
His cast album recordings include Young Frankenstein and 9 to 5.
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Aria Entertainment
Producers
Founded in 2012 by award-winning producer Katy Lipson, Aria Entertainment has staged over 80 productions in the West End, Off-West End, and on UK tours.
West End credits include Brokeback Mountain (World Premiere, @sohoplace), Cruise (Olivier-nominated, Duchess Theatre & Apollo Theatre), and the critically acclaimed transfer of The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre).
UK tours include The Osmonds, The Cher Show, Hair, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Here and Now: The Steps Musical, and two national tours of The Addams Family.
Recent London productions include Zorro, From Here to Eternity, Broken Wings, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Little Women, and Rags, with international productions of The Addams Family (Singapore), Hair (Germany), The Last Five Years (China & Taiwan), Zorro (South Korea), and Cruise (International). Several productions (The Toxic Avenger, The Last Five Years, Little Women) are available on BroadwayHD.
From 2016 to 2019, Lipson served as Producing Artistic Director at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, where she led European and Northern premieres of Pippin, Parade, Little Women, Yank!, and the first UK production in over 50 years of Jerry Herman’s Mame. She also worked with Stephen Schwartz to reimagine Rags.
Lipson has been recognized with the Off-West End Award for Best Producer (2017) and a nomination for International Producer of the Year by the League of Professional Theatre Women (2019). She is a recipient of the Stage One Bursary and Start-Up Award and mentors on Stage One’s Bursary and Bridge the Gap programmes. She has appeared on The Stage 100 list multiple times for her contributions to UK theatre. Her productions of Hair, Spring Awakening, and Flowers for Mrs Harris have all won WhatsOnStage Awards.
Dedicated to developing new musicals, Lipson created From Page to Stage, a festival that ran from 2013–2017, supporting over 100 new works, many of which have gone on to full productions and worldwide licensing.
Recent and upcoming projects include The Addams Family in Concert (London Palladium, starring Michelle Visage & Ramin Karimloo) and its 2025 UK tour, Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, starring Tony Award-winner Alex Newell), and KENREX (Sheffield Theatres).
Company Director: Katy Lipson
General Manager: Kristie Winsen
Production Assistant: Ylan Assefy-Waterdrinker
Literary Manager: Tom Ramsey
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John Stalker Productions
Producers
John formed his company in 2011 after leading major UK theatres, including The Duke’s Lancaster, Liverpool Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, and Edinburgh’s Kings and Festival Theatres.
His producing highlights include The King and I, High Society, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(UK Tours), The Addams Family (UK Tour & Singapore), and Doctor Dolittle (UK Tour).
He founded Music and Lyrics Ltd, a consortium dedicated to musical theatre production. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the League of Independent Producers.
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YLAN ASSEFY-WATERDRINKER
Production Assistant
Training: Laine Theatre Arts
Born in Geneva, Ylan works between London, New York, and Switzerland. After graduating from Laine, he has participated in over 50 musicals. His passion for musical theatre began with watching Charlie Chaplin films and he made his stage debut as Gomez in The Addams Family (2015). He later ventured into directing at the age of 17, with Legally Blonde followed by several productions including Grease and The Last Five Years. In 2020, he co-founded LYMPA (Live Your Musical Passion Association) with the aim of developing professional musical theatre in Geneva and has since written and produced The Writer (2022). He also directed and produced the symphonic concert Young Broadway (2023) at the BFM. Collaborating with Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz on The Queen of Versailles for Broadway in 2025 and with Katy Lipson on numerous West End projects, Ylan remains active on the international stage. Most recently, he produced Tick, Tick… BOOM!, Geneva's first immersive musical. His goal is to further develop this art form in Switzerland while creating moments of escape for audiences. He extends heartfelt thanks to his parents and his sister Lema for their unwavering support throughout his journey.
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ANDREW LIPPA
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Andrew Lippa is a composer, lyricist, singer, actor, conductor, and producer. His concert work Unbreakable premiered with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus in 2018, featuring 300 artists, including himself. That same year, he conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a sold-out concert of A Little Princess at the Royal Festival Hall. His song Evil Like Me, written for Kristin Chenoweth in Disney’s Descendants, helped the soundtrack reach #1 on the Billboard 200, earning a gold certification in 2017. Lippa’s works include I Am Harvey Milk, an oratorio performed at Lincoln Center and Disney Hall, and The Man in the Ceiling, a musical adaptation of Jules Feiffer’s book. His Broadway credits include Big Fish, The Farnsworth Invention, The Addams Family, and the Drama Desk-winning The Wild Party. He has collaborated with writers such as Adam Gopnik, Bob Martin, and director Sergio Trujillo. Lippa is president of the board of The Dramatists Guild Foundation.
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Marshall Brickman
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Marshall Brickman is an Academy Award-winning writer and Tony-winning playwright. His work for the stage includes The Addams Family, Jersey Boys (Tony, Olivier, and Grammy Awards), and Turn of the Century (directed by Tommy Tune). His film credits include Annie Hall (Academy Award), Manhattan, Sleeper, and Manhattan Murder Mystery, among others. He served as head writer for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Dick Cavett Show. Brickman began his career as a musician, recording the platinum-selling Deliverance soundtrack with Eric Weissberg. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Playboy.
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Rick Elice
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Rick Elice co-wrote Jersey Boys (Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Awards) with Marshall Brickman, as well as The Addams Family, Peter and the Starcatcher (five Tony Awards), and The Cher Show. His upcoming projects include The Princess Bride for Disney, Smash (produced by Robert Greenblatt, Neil Meron, and Steven Spielberg), and musical adaptations of Water for Elephants and Silver Linings Playbook. He is also writing Treasure, an original musical with Benjamin Scheuer. Elice’s memoir, Finding Roger: An Improbably Theatrical Love Story, chronicles his life and work. He credits his love of theatre to legendary artists such as Sondheim, Stoppard, Prince, and Robbins.