Team

Desmonda Cathabel

Desmonda Cathabel

Eurydice

Desmonda Cathabel

Desmonda Cathabel

Eurydice
Desmonda Cathabel is from Jakarta, Indonesia. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and won the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2022. Work in theatre includes Disney’s Aladdin (as Princess Jasmine) on UK and Ireland tour; Miss Saigon at Sheffield Crucible; and From Here to Eternity at Charing Cross Theatre. Concerts include Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Sondheim; Treason at Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Legacy: Maria Friedman and Friends at the Menier Chocolate Factory; and Comparing Notes with Desmonda Cathabel for Crazy Coqs. TV includes Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream (quarter finalist).  
Victoria Hamilton-Barritt

Victoria Hamilton-Barritt

Persephone

Victoria Hamilton-Barritt

Victoria Hamilton-Barritt

Persephone
Victoria Hamilton-Barritt’s work in theatre includes The Odyssey and Hex at the National Theatre; Nine: The Musical in Concert at The Lowry; Bronco Billy at Charing Cross Theatre; The View Upstairs at Soho Theatre; The Wild Party at The Other Palace; In The Heights at King’s Cross Theatre and Southwark Playhouse; Chicks for New Diorama and Made By Brick; Gypsy at Leicester Curve; Saturday Night Fever on tours; Oh! What a Night on UK tour, in Hamburg and Monte Carlo; Cinderella at Gillian Lynne (2022 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical, 2022 Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album); Death of a Salesman and Grease at the Piccadilly; Murder Ballad at the Arts (2017 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical); Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens at Criterion ; A Chorus Line at London Palladium; Flashdance at Shaftesbury and on tour; Desperately Seeking Susan at Novello; Fame at Aldwych; West Side Story on Broadway and on international tour; and Mamma Mia! at Prince Edward. TV includes Holby City, Call the Midwife and The Cast. Film includes A Bunch of Amateurs.
Chris Jarman

Chris Jarman

Hades

Chris Jarman

Chris Jarman

Hades
Chris Jarman’s work in theatre includes The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre; The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and The Merchant of Venice for the RSC; Once on this Island at Regent’s Park; Christmas at the Snow Globe at Shakespeare’s Globe; Wicked The Musical at the Apollo Victoria; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (original London cast) at the Palace Theatre; The Book of Mormon (original cast) at the Prince of Wales; Sister Act The Musical (original London cast) for Stage Entertainment; and Gone with the Wind (original cast) at the New London.  TV includes My Lady Jane, Game of Thrones – House of the Dragon, The Lark, Maternal, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Dodger, Foundation, Thunderbirds Are Go, Run, Doctor Who, Demons, Sand Serpents, The Bill, Holby City and Spartacus. Films include Ralphie, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Lady of Heaven and Johnny English Reborn.
Cedric Neal

Cedric Neal

Hermes

Cedric Neal

Cedric Neal

Hermes
Cedric Neal’s work in theatre includes Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at the Donmar; Guys and Dolls at the Bridge (Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical); 42nd Street for Théâtre du Châtelet; The View Upstairs at Soho Theatre; Porgy and Bees at Regent’s Park; Dreamgirls at Signature Theatre, Arlington; Stagger Lee, Death of a Salesman and It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane…It’s Superman at Dallas Theatre Center; Back to the Future at the Adelphi Theatre; Chess at London Coliseum; Motown at Shaftesbury; and After Midnight at the Brooks Atkinson, Broadway.
DYLAN WOOD

DYLAN WOOD

Orpheus

DYLAN WOOD

DYLAN WOOD

Orpheus
Dylan Wood trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Dance School of Scotland. His work in theatre includes No Love Songs at Dundee Rep; The Bunker and 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War for Wonder Fools; Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood and Teddy (also on UK tour) at the Watermill; Aladdin at Macrobert Arts Centre; Moorcroft and Underwood Lane for Tron; Meet Me at the Knob for A Play, a Pie and a Pint; Cinderella for PACE; Orphans at the National Theatre Scotland; Close Quarters at Sheffield Theatres; Electric Eden at Shanghai Arts Festival; and King Lear and Snow Queen at Bristol Old Vic. TV includes Dog Days, Unfair, Midsomer Murders, Sister Boniface and Casualty. Short film includes Perambulations of a Justified Sinner.
Melanie Bright

Melanie Bright

Fate

Melanie Bright

Melanie Bright

Fate
Melanie Bright trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Work in theatre includes Jesus Christ Superstar at the Barbican; The Wild Party at The Other Palace; Tommy at Blackpool Winter Gardens and English Theatre Frankfurt; Quasimodo King’s Head; We Will Rock You UK tour; Jersey Boys at Trafalgar Theatre; Rebecca at the Charing Cross Theatre; and Les Misérables in the West End. TV includes Guilt and The Olivier Awards. Films include Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Samson and Delilah (short).
ALLIE DANIEL

ALLIE DANIEL

Fate

ALLIE DANIEL

ALLIE DANIEL

Fate
Allie Daniel trained at Mountview, and currently teaches vocal technique at The Urdang Academy. Her work in theatre includes How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Southwark Playhouse; As You Like It at Sohoplace; Happy Meal at the Traverse and on UK tour; Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on UK tour; Millennials at Turbine; and RENT at Hope Mill. Concerts include backing vocalist for Ariana Debose at London Palladium; and Peter and the Wolf with Triorca at Cadogan Hall.
Lauran Rae

Lauran Rae

Fate

Lauran Rae

Lauran Rae

Fate
Lauran Rae trained at Italia Conti Academy, Barbican. Work in theatre includes Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical at the Lyric; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo and Olivier Awards; Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park; Bugsy Malone at Lyric Hammersmith, Olivier Awards and Sunday Night at the Palladium; Ghost the Musical on Asian tour; High Fidelity at The Turbine; Hairspray in Macau, Hong Kong and at Gordon Craig, Stevenage; Bare the Rock Opera at Greenwich; A Monster Calls at Bristol Old Vic and the Kennedy Center Washington DC; Aladdin at Cambridge Arts;  Soundclash at Edinburgh Fringe. TV includes Enterprice and The One Show (with Bugsy Malone).
Femi Akinfolarin

Femi Akinfolarin

Worker

Femi Akinfolarin

Femi Akinfolarin

Worker
Femi Akinfolarin trained at Bird College of Dance and BRIT School. Work in theatre includes Wizard of Oz, Treason and Dr Dolittle on UK tours; West Side Story at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the Bridge; Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Piccadilly; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at London Palladium; and Man of La Mancha at London Coliseum. TV includes Break Up of Bands.   Short film includes Sammy in Rumet.
Michelle Andrews

Michelle Andrews

Worker

Michelle Andrews

Michelle Andrews

Worker
Michelle Andrews trained with Laine Theatre Arts. Work in theatre includes Anton & Giovanni, Anton Du Beke, Made in Italy and Anything Goes on UK tours; Jack and the Beanstalk at Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent; Chicago on international tour; Him & Me for Strictly Theatre Co; Street Scene and Kiss Me, Kate at Opera North; Oklahoma! at Chichester; Guys and Dolls at Mill at Sonning; Pippin at Southwark Playhouse; On The Town for Open Air Theatre; Sweet Charity at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; West Side Story at Kilworth House; Miss Atomic Bomb at St. James, London; Cinderella at Cambridge Arts; Hairspray and Chicago at Leicester Curve; Top Hat at Aldwych; and Crazy For You at Novello. TV includes Sanditon, The Universe, Byker Grove, The Olympic Opening Ceremony and Ant & Dec.
Ollie Bingham

Ollie Bingham

Worker

Ollie Bingham

Ollie Bingham

Worker
Ollie Bingham trained at ArtsEd. Work in theatre includes Matilda the Musical on UK tour and in the West End; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on UK tour; Evita at the Barbican; Singing in the Rain at The Mill at Sonning; Rent on UK tour; Soho Cinders at the Union; and Eugenius! at London Palladium.
Laura Delany

Laura Delany

Worker

Laura Delany

Laura Delany

Worker
Laura Delany is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Harvard University. Productions while training include Legacy: Maria Friedman and Friends at Menier Chocolate Factory and Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Sondheim Theatre. Work in theatre includes Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club at Playhouse Theatre and The Emperor’s New Clothes at American Repertory Theater.
Sebastian Lim-Seet

Sebastian Lim-Seet

Worker

Sebastian Lim-Seet

Sebastian Lim-Seet

Worker
Sebastian Lim-Seet is a Malaysian-Scottish actor, singer and musician. He trained at the University of Aberdeen and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Work in theatre includes Ceilidh for Noisemaker; Kinky Boots at Chester Storyhouse; The Snow Queen at Edinburgh Royal Lyceum; Scots for 54 Below, New York City Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe; Shiprats for A Play, a Pie and a Pint; and Cinderella for Dundee Rep and Dance Theatre. TV includes Dog Squad.
Lucinda Buckley

Lucinda Buckley

Swing / Dance Captain

Lucinda Buckley

Lucinda Buckley

Swing / Dance Captain
Lucinda Buckley trained at Rose Bruford College, where productions included London Road, The Tempest, As You Like It and After the Dance. Work in theatre includes Dick Whittington at Chipping Norton; and Hadestown (original West End cast) at the Lyric.
Juan Jackson

Juan Jackson

Swing

Juan Jackson

Juan Jackson

Swing
Juan Jackson trained at Florida State University. Work in theatre includes Disney’s Aladdin on UK tour; Next to Normal at The Court Theatre, Christchurch, New Zealand; Titanic – The Musical at Melbourne Town Hall, Australia; Passion at Hope Mill, Manchester; Sasha Regan’s HMS Pinafore on UK tour; Five Guys Named Moe at Upstairs at the Gatehouse; Artaban at Actors’ Church; Rent at Drama Centre, Singapore; Miss Saigon on Australian tour; The King and I at Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia; The Convict’s Opera for Sydney Theatre Company; The Rocky Horror Show on Korean, New Zealand and Singapore tours; Cats on Australian and Korean tours; and Next to Normal at Drama Centre, Singapore and The Court, New Zealand. Juan Jackson’s single ‘Candy’ is available on all platforms.
OISÍN NOLAN-POWER

OISÍN NOLAN-POWER

Swing

OISÍN NOLAN-POWER

OISÍN NOLAN-POWER

Swing
Oisín Nolan-Power trained at the Royal Academy of Music, London. His work in theatre includes Fame on European tour; Rags at Park Theatre; West Side Story at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin; and Jane Eyre at the Gate, Dublin. @Oisin_Nolan
Lindo Shinda

Lindo Shinda

Swing

Lindo Shinda

Lindo Shinda

Swing
Lindo Shinda trained at the Performance Preparation Academy (PPA).  Work in theatre includes 101 Dalmatians on UK tour; Dick Whittington at Salisbury Playhouse; and Jack and the Beanstalk at Yvonne Arnaud. @lindoshinda
Jasmine Triadi

Jasmine Triadi

Swing

Jasmine Triadi

Jasmine Triadi

Swing
Jasmine Triadi trained at Italia Conti. Work in theatre includes 101 Dalmatians on UK and Ireland tour; The King and I on UK and Ireland tour and in the West End; Cinderella (title role) at Salisbury Playhouse; and Pigs Might Fly on UK tour.

Anaïs Mitchell

MUSIC, LYRICS & BOOK

Anaïs Mitchell

MUSIC, LYRICS & BOOK
Anaïs is a singer-songwriter whose recordings include the original studio album of Hadestown (2010, featuring Justin Vernon and Ani Difranco) and Young Man in America (2012). Reinterpretations of traditional music include Child Ballads (2013, with Jefferson Hamer) and Bonny Light Horseman (2019, as Bonny Light Horseman). She has headlined worldwide and supported tours for Bon Iver, Josh Ritter and Punch Brothers. Awards include BBC Radio 2 Folk Award and Folk Alliance International Spirit of Folk Award. Year-end best lists: NPR, Wall Street Journal, MOJO, Uncut, Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer. Hadestown is Anaïs’s first musical.

Rachel Chavkin

DEVELOPED WITH AND DIRECTED BY

Rachel Chavkin

DEVELOPED WITH AND DIRECTED BY
Rachel is a director, writer and artistic director of the TEAM. Hadestown (NYTW, National Theatre, London) has been one of her greatest joys. Tony and Lortel nominations and Drama Desk Award for Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Ars Nova, A.R.T.). London: Mission Drift (National Theatre), American Clock (Old Vic). Select New York and regional: Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (LCT; Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lortel noms.), Malloy’s Preludes (LCT3), Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova and national tour), Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould’s Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Royal Family (Guthrie Theatre) and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac. Her first film, Remind Me, was an official selection of the Venice and Beverly Hills Film Festivals. 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity. Upcoming: Wohl’s Continuity (MTC), Malloy’s Moby Dick (A.R.T.). Proud NYTW Usual Suspect and Member SDC.

David Neumann

CHOREOGRAPHER

David Neumann

CHOREOGRAPHER
David Neumann is an award-winning choreographer and movement director. His recent work includes Hadestown on Broadway, the US tour, at the National Theatre, and at New York Theatre Workshop; Swept Away on Broadway, at Berkeley Rep, and Arena Stage; Grounded at The Kennedy Center and the NY Metropolitan Opera; Die Schweigsame Frau at Bard Summerscape; Stew’s The Total Bent at The Public Theater; Annie Baker’s The Antipodes at Signature Theatre; Brandon Jacob Jenkins’ An Octoroon at Soho Rep and Theater for a New Audience; and Geoff Sobelle’s The Object Lesson (which he also directed) at BAM and New York Theatre Workshop. In film and television, Neumann was choreographer and movement director for I Am Legend, Kindred, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and White Noise. As Artistic Director of Advanced Beginner Group, his Bessie and Obie Award-winning original work has been presented at Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts, and the Whitney Museum. For Hadestown, Neumann received the 2019 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography of a Broadway Musical, a 2019 Tony Award nomination, and the 2022 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography. He is currently working on Galileo, which premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2024, and The Recipe, a new play by Claudia Shear.

RACHEL HAUCK

SCENIC DESIGNER

RACHEL HAUCK

SCENIC DESIGNER
Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me, Latin History for Morons. Recent work: Hadestown (National Theatre; Citadel; NYTW); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob’s Pillow); Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder (The Public); Amy and the Orphans, On the Exhale (Roundabout Theatre Company); Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons). Princess Grace, Lilly awards; Drama Desk, Lortel nominations; Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.

Michael Krass

COSTUME DESIGNER

Michael Krass

COSTUME DESIGNER
Michael Krass’ Tony-nominated work includes Hadestown, Noises Off, Machinal and The Constant Wife on Broadway. Other work in New York includes What the Constitution Means to Me, The Cherry Orchard, Heisenberg, Reckless, Living on Love, The Lyons, Twelve Angry Men, After the Fall, Hedda Gabler, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and The Rehearsal on Broadway. Krass has designed multiple new works off-Broadway, across the United States and internationally, including the original production of Driving Miss Daisy for Playwrights Horizons; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Gate, Dublin; Pelleas and Melisande at the Mariinsky; and Our Town in Minsk. He has served as resident designer for New York’s Ballet Tech, taught undergraduate design and cultural history at New York University and directors and actors in the graduate school at Brown University.

Bradley King

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Bradley King

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Collaborations with Rachel Chavkin include The Great Comet, Lempicka, Preludes and three previous incarnations of Hadestown. Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Great Comet (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s award winner). Off-Broadway: Shows for MCC Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre and many others. Numerous regional theatre and opera productions across the U.S. and worldwide. MFA, NYU. bradleykingld.com

Nevin Steinberg

CO-SOUND DESIGNER

Nevin Steinberg

CO-SOUND DESIGNER
Nevin Steinberg is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning sound designer for Broadway, off-Broadway, touring and international live productions. His recent Broadway projects include The Notebook, the 2023 revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tony Award), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Tony nomination), Hadestown (Tony Award), Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination). He designed over 30 Broadway productions with Acme Sound Partners and received five additional Tony nominations for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences, Hair and In the Heights.

Jessica Paz

CO-SOUND DESIGNER

Jessica Paz

CO-SOUND DESIGNER
Jessica Paz is a multi-award-winning Sound Designer. Her collaboration on the Broadway production of Hadestown earned her a Tony and Drama Desk award. Other Broadway work includes A Beautiful Noise, POTUS, Dear Evan Hansen (associate), Bandstand (associate), Disaster! The Musical (associate), The Assembled Parties (associate) and Fela! (associate). Off-Broadway work includes Little Shop of Horrors, Twelfth Night, Othello, Miss You Like Hell, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Ugly Lies the Bone, A Sucker EmCee and Becoming Dr. Ruth off-Broadway. Paz has worked on productions at Berkeley Repertory, The Alley, American Repertory, The Old Globe, and Kansas City Repertory. Jessica Paz has been a front-of-house engineer for musicians including The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Antibalas, Julia Haltigan, Femi Kuti, Lady Antebellum, Candy Shop Boys, and many others. She is a member of IATSE Local 829, Soundgirls.org, Women’s Audio Mission, USITT, and co-chair of the board of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association.

Liam Robinson

MUSICAL SUPERVISOR AND VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

Liam Robinson

MUSICAL SUPERVISOR AND VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Liam Robinson is a performer, composer, songwriter and producer living in NYC. He joined the Hadestown team in 2016 at New York Theatre Workshop and continued on its epic journey to stages across the globe. His songwriting duo Robinson & Rohe, with writer Jean Rohe, released their sophomore album Into the Night in 2023 on Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records. As an instrumentalist and singer, Liam has performed in bands with Anaïs Mitchell, Becca Stevens Mick Flannery, and André De Shields among others, and was in the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning War Horse. His work as record producer is highlighted on Jean Rohe’s “Sisterly”, awarded Best Adult Contemporary Album at the Independent Music Awards. LiamRobinson.com

Michael Chorney

ARRANGMENTS & ORCHESTRATIONS

Michael Chorney

ARRANGMENTS & ORCHESTRATIONS
MICHAEL CHORNEY is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and orchestrator. He has produced over 30 records for other artists as well as 15 recordings of original works. Michael has been involved with Hadestown, his first work for the stage, since its inception. He lives and works in Lincoln, Vermont, and is music director for dance at Middlebury College.

Todd Sickafoose

ARRANGMENTS & ORCHESTRATIONS

Todd Sickafoose

ARRANGMENTS & ORCHESTRATIONS
Todd Sickafoose is a composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader and double bassist. Having collaborated on Hadestown since the early Vermont days in 2006, he produced each of the four current recordings – from the original studio album in 2010 to the most recent Live From London. He also produced Anaïs Mitchell’s album Young Man in America. For over 20 years, Sickafoose has recorded and performed internationally with songwriter/activist Ani DiFranco. Writing for his band Tiny Resistors, he recently released Bear Proof, a chamber jazz hybrid commissioned by the Doris Duke Foundation. Awards include a 2019 Tony and a 2020 Grammy. toddsickafoose.com

Ken Cerniglia

DRAMATURG

Ken Cerniglia

DRAMATURG
Broadway: Aladdin, Peter and the Starcatcher, Newsies, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan. Regional/touring: Freaky Friday, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, High School Musical, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Signature Theatre, Fisher Ensemble, Arena Stage. Hadestown at NYTW, Citadel, National Theatre London. Book writer for the new musical Atlantis, premiere April 2019 Virginia Repertory Theatre. Education: UC San Diego. Catholic University, University of Washington. Past president, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Jennifer Mullins

Wigs & Hair Design

Jennifer Mullins

Wigs & Hair Design
Jennifer-Reneé has been doing hair for over a decade for mediums such as Film, Television, and theatre. Productions such as: American Crime (Television), NBC’s Saturday Night Live (Television),Dungeons and Dragon (Film), Killers of the Flower moon(Film) a myriad of others as well as theatrically, The San Francisco Opera, Hadestown Broadway, Hadestown North American Tour.

Jacob Sparrow

UK CASTING

Jacob Sparrow

UK CASTING
Jacob Sparrow worked in the National Theatre’s Casting Department from 2015 to 2019, before becoming a freelance Casting Director. His work in theatre includes The Hot Wing King, The Confessions, Pericles, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2021 tour), Hadestown (also West End), Faith, Hope and Charity (also tour), Rutherford and Son, Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical!, Downstate, Follies, Amadeus and LOVE (also tours and film) at the National Theatre; Oklahoma! at the Young Vic and Wyndham’s; Girl in the Machine at the Young Vic; Once on this Island, Carousel and Our Town at Regent’s Park; The Good Person of Szechwan for ETT; Village Idiot at Nottingham Playhouse; Hungry at Soho Theatre; Black Love at the Kiln; Little Shop of Horrors, The Crucible, Anna Karenina and Much Ado About Nothing at Sheffield Crucible; Jitney for the Old Vic, Headlong and Leeds Playhouse; The Big Life and Burn It Down at Theatre Royal Stratford East; Wuthering Heights for Wise Children; You Bury Me at Bristol Old Vic; Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Leeds Playhouse and HOME Manchester; The Book Thief at Bolton Octagon; As You Like It at @sohoplace; Backstairs Billy at the Duke of York’s; and Orlando and City of Angels at the Garrick.

MARIA CROCKER

UK Associate Director

MARIA CROCKER

UK Associate Director
Maria Crocker trained on the National Theatre Directors Course and is a Headlong Origins alumnus. Her work in theatre includes Pinocchio (as assistant director) at the National Theatre; as director: You Heard Me at Battersea Arts Centre and on UK tour; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Growth at Northern Stage; Scarborough Porpoise at Pilot Theatre; Amai Vangu at Live Theatre; Assassins at Mountview; Pronoun at ALRA; and Found at Alnwick Playhouse; as associate director: Local Hero for the Lyceum, Edinburgh; Meek for Headlong and Birmingham Rep; Gods are Fallen and All Safety Gone for Greyscale on international tour; The Gamblers for Greyscale and Dundee Rep; as assistant director: Mood Music at the Old Vic; Animal Farm at Northern Stage; and Catch 22 on UK tour. Maria Crocker was runner-up for Sir Peter Hall RTST Directors Award MGC Futures Bursary.

TAREK MERCHANT

Music Director & associate music supervisor

TAREK MERCHANT

Music Director & associate music supervisor
Tarek Merchant holds a First Class Degree in Music from the University of York and a further First Class Degree in Actor-Musicianship from Rose Bruford College. His work in theatre includes The Odyssey, The Doncastrian Chalk Circle, Hex, Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear and Pericles for the National Theatre; Don Quixote (also West End), Fair Maid of the West, Miss Littlewood, The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the RSC; 101 Dalmatians at Regent’s Park; The Band’s Visit (What’s On Stage Award nomination for Best Musical Direction) at the Donmar; Sweeney Todd at the Liverpool Everyman; Our Town and Twelfth Night at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; and The Grinning Man and Swallows and Amazons at Bristol Old Vic; and The Crown Jewels and Girl From the North Country in the West End.

Victoria Gimby

Resident Director

Victoria Gimby

Resident Director
Victoria (director/writer/dramaturg) trained at RADA (MA) and Mountview (BA), specialising in the development of new musical theatre. She spent the last four years as the international associate director on Sister Act and as the postgraduate development lead at Leeds Conservatoire, creating several theatre-making MA’s (Dramaturgy & Musical Theatre Creatives). Current projects include Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (book writer and co-lyricist), My So-Called Haunting (co-book writer), Dead Funny (playwright) and short films Forty and Stages (writer/director). As associate director, work includes Sister Act in the West End, on UK tours, in Germany and The Netherlands; Rock of Ages on a UK/European tour; Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus at The Other Palace; 27 the Musical at the Cockpit; Zanna, Don’t! at The Landor; and The Mikado at Leicester Square Theatre. As director, work includes Jack and the Beanstalk at Sunderland Empire; A Good Panto Die Hard at Gilded Balloon; Beauty and the Beast at Bournemouth Pavilion; The Cereal Cafe at The Other Palace; Three Little Pigs on UK tour; Peter Pan at Chelmsford Theatre; Grimm Tales at Reading Rep; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at St Leonards-on-Sea Festival; and News Revue. As writer, work includes The Grand Expedition at Gingerline; By Virtue Fall (winner LOST Theatre Festival); and A Little Bit of Dickens on UK tour.

BOBBY WINDEBANK

Resident Choreographer

BOBBY WINDEBANK

Resident Choreographer
Theatre includes: A Face in the Crowd at Young Vic; The Time Traveller’s Wife in the West End; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in West End and on UK tour; Mimma at Cadogan Hall; Rock of Ages on UK tour; Guys and Dolls at Kilworth House Theatre; Our House on UK tour; Cats at Cyprus; Thoroughly Modern Millie on UK tour; West Side Story and Singin’ in the Rain at Kilworth House Theatre; Carmen at O2 Arena and Royal Albert Hall; Hairspray and Chicago at Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Macbeth on UK tour; Romeo and Juliet on UK tour; and Oliver! in theWest End. TV includes American Monster for Discovery; The Railway Children and Randall and Hopkirk for ITV; and 999 and The Mystery of Men for BBC. Film includes Wicked for Universal; and Snow White and The Little Mermaid for Disney.

Joanna Cichonska

Associate Music Director

Joanna Cichonska

Associate Music Director
As musical director, work includes Cold War at Almeida Theatre; Assassins at Chichester Festival Theatre; Spring Awakening at Almeida Theatre; The Producers at Royal Exchange Theatre; Cinderella at Lyric Hammersmith; A Little Princess for National Youth Music Theatre; Titanic at Charing Cross Theatre; Spring Awakening at LAMDA; and Side Show at Southwark Playhouse. As associate musical director/conductor, work includes Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre); and This Is My Family and Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre). As assistant musical director, work includes & Juliet (Shaftesbury Theatre); Fun Home (Young Vic); and Oliver! (Curve Theatre, Leicester). As keyboard, work includes An American in Paris (Dominion Theatre).

Richard Morris & Sylvia Addison for Music Solutions

Orchestral Manager

Richard Morris & Sylvia Addison for Music Solutions

Orchestral Manager
Theatre credits include: Titanique (Criterion Theatre); Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); SIX (Vaudeville Theatre and tour); A Chorus Line (Sadler’s Wells and tour); Mean Girls (Savoy Theatre); Starlight Express (Troubadour Theatre); The Little Big Things (@sohoplace); Strange Loop (Barbican Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium, Gillian Lynne Theatre and tour); Old Friends (Gielgud Theatre); We Will Rock You (Dominion as well as Coliseum and tour); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre and tour); Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Mrs Doubtfire (Shaftesbury Theatre); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical (tour); My Fair Lady (tour); Strictly Ballroom (tour); The Phantom of the Opera (His Majesty’s Theatre); The Drifters Girl (Garrick Theatre and tour); ALW’s Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre and international tour as well as Les Misérables staged concerts); Back to the Future: The Musical (Adelphi Theatre); Lion King (London Lyceum Theatre and tour); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium and tour); Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre and tour); Blues in the Night, Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy Theatre); Only Fools and Horses the Musical (Haymarket Theatre and tour); Fun Home (Young Vic); Five Guys Named Moe, Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre and tour); School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre); Miss Saigon, Stephen Ward, Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic); Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre and tour); The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary concert (Royal Albert Hall); Ghost the Musical (Piccadilly Theatre); Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre); Legally Blonde the Musical (Savoy Theatre); Sweet Charity, Oliver! (London Palladium); Carousel (Savoy Theatre); and The Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

EMMA PILE

UK Associate Scenic Designer

EMMA PILE

UK Associate Scenic Designer
Emma Pile’s work in theatre includes Roald Dahl’s The Witches, LOVE, Cleansed, Small Island, Exit the King, Young Chekhov: Platonov, Young Chekhov: Ivanov and Young Chekhov: The Seagull at the National Theatre; The Beauty Queen of Leenane for Theatre by the Lake; The Contingency Plan at Sheffield Crucible; and High Times and Dirty Monsters on UK tour. As a pre-visualisation artist: The Trials and Silence at the Donmar; Clorinda Agonistes at Sadler’s Wells; and 2:22 A Ghost Story in the West End. As a freelance digital artist: Hairspray at Kilworth Theatre; The Third Man at Menier Chocolate Factory; Private Lives at the Donmar; The Producers at Det Ny Teater, Copenhagen; and Enemy of the People for the Park Avenue Armory. Opera includes Orfeo at Zurich Opera and The Creation (Schopfung) at Cologne Opera.

ALEXANDRA MANNIX

US Associate Lighting Designer

ALEXANDRA MANNIX

US Associate Lighting Designer
Alex Mannix graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Classics and received her Master’s in Design from NYU Tisch. Her work in theatre includes Lempicka at La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego; Once at Geva Theatre Center, Rochester; Carnival of the Animals at Hearst Dance Theater, Princeton; DiSiac 2.0 and Eclipsed at the Berlind (McCarter Theatre Center); Assassins, Pippin and The Crucible for the Princeton Summer Theater; and How to Dance in Ohio, Bad Cinderella and Flying Over Sunset on Broadway.

MICHAEL ODAM

UK Associate Lighting Designer

MICHAEL ODAM

UK Associate Lighting Designer
Mike Odam’s work in theatre includes Legally Blonde, Singin’ in the Rain and Thoroughly Modern Millie at Kilworth House; Cabaret in Cologne; 24 Hour Musicals, Hairspray and 42nd Street in Hamburg; Priscilla Queen of the Desert on UK tour; and Phantom of the Opera, Aladdin, The Prince of Egypt, Wicked, Priscilla, Tarzan, and Beauty and the Beast in the West End. Other credits include five short plays in Pori, Finland. Opera includes Orpheus at the Royal Opera House. Stage presentations include Mulan in Disneyland Paris and Millennium Celebration at Disneyland Paris.

KELSH B-D

UK Associate Sound Designer

KELSH B-D

UK Associate Sound Designer
Kelsh B-D’s work in theatre includes Tina – The Tina Turner Musical at Stuttgart Apollo; Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol at the Southbank Centre; Anything Goes at the Barbican and on UK and Ireland tour; Saving Grace at the Riverside Studios; Rent at Hope Mill; Chess in Moscow; The Bodyguard in Stuttgart and Vienna, also on tour in France, UK and Ireland; Annie in Toronto; The Snowman at the Peacock and on UK tour; and Xanadu at Southwark Playhouse; and Sunset Boulevard and Hamilton (also Hamburg Stage Operettenhaus and UK and Ireland tour) in the West End. Concert includes The Phantom of the Opera in Moscow and Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey on tour.

RACHEL WOODHOUSE

Costume Supervisor

RACHEL WOODHOUSE

Costume Supervisor
Rachel Woodhouse studied Costume for the Stage and Screen at the Bournemouth Arts Institute. Her work in theatre includes Imperium for the RSC; The Snail House at Hampstead; Ghosts (also BAM and Trafalgar Studios) and Little Eyolf at the Almeida; Blithe Spirit (also UK tour and West End) and In Praise of Love at Theatre Royal Bath; and Sunset Boulevard, Betty Blue Eyes, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, and Les Misérables 25th Production in the West End. Opera includes Return of Ulysses, Berenice, Don Carlos, Boris Godanov and Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House; On the Town, Sir John in Love and King Arthur at the English National Opera; Anastasia, Swan Lake and Coppelia for the Royal Ballet; Matthew Bournes’ Nutcracker! at Nymans; The Stepmother and An Enemy of the People at Chichester; and Enron and 1984 for Headlong.

Casting is subject to change without notice. Producers cannot guarantee the appearance of any particular cast member.

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