The Parent Agency - a new family musical

Training: Susi Earnshaw Theatre School

West End Theatre: Gavroche in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre), Gavroche in Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Sondheim Theatre) & Christopher Hillard in Mrs Doubtfire (Shaftesbury Theatre).

Television: Call the Midwife, Killing Eve, Motherland, Ted Lasso, Breeders & Tulipop Tales.

Film: Patrick in True Things (True Things Films Ltd).

Other: Voicework for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Who Is Erin Carter? & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Presenting work for Play Your Pets Right. At the end of 2024 Max was involved in a confidential workshop for a new musical.

Max would like to thank his family, teachers, friends and his agents at Byron’s Management for the support! He is ecstatic to be originating the lead role of ‘Barry’ in The Parent Agency with this wonderful cast.

Osian enjoys all aspects of singing, drama and dance. He is also a very keen footballer. He would like to thank his big sister Mali, parents, and the rest of his family for all their support. He would also like to say a big thank you to his agents at TTA.

Theatre includes: Confidential Musical Workshop – lead role, Gavroche – Les Miserables (Sondheim Theatre), Young Donny – The Osmonds a New Musical, Heini – Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s Theatre and National Theatre Live), Tiny Tim – The LMTO ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Dominion Theatre).

Animation: Voice of Cubby the Lion – Brave Bunnies.

Commercial: PJ Masks online commercial – Disney.

Television: Randolph Rochester – Belgravia: The Next Chapter.

Short Film: Jay – Ping Pong.

Radio: Young Jamie Theakston – NSPCC Childhood Day & Letter for Santa awareness days.

Eli is very excited to make his stage debut in The Parent Agency at Storyhouse Chester.

With recent performances on both the big and small screen including…

FILM: Wonka, Wicked Little Letters, Blitz, Wicked, Greatest Days, Napoleon

TV: Trying

He loves to sing, act and dance. When not at school, Stagecoach, or troupe, Eli can be found at Scouts, reading or writing.

He wants to say a massive thank you to his PA and Executive Driver, mum and dad!

Training: The Theatre Workshop

Theatre credits include: Jeremy Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2024 UK tour) and La Bohème for Ellen Kent Opera (Brighton Theatre Royal).

Louis’s other passions include playing the piano,reading, writing comics and playing Minecraft.

Louis is thrilled to be originating the role of Barry in The Parent Agency. He would like to thank his family, his teachers and his agent Daisy & Dukes for their continued support.

Training: Mountview Academy.

Stage Credits: Margaret in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre& UKTour); Tessa in Wish You Were Dead (UK Tour); Heidi Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward Theatre); Joan in You Are Here (Southwark Playhouse); Bridget in St Anne Comes Home (The Actors Church); Christina in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre); Tina Ruston in A Small Family Business (National Theatre Olivier); u/s and Lauren in Viva Forever (Piccadilly Theatre); Les Misérables (25th Anniversary Tour); Teacher and u/s Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); u/s Jeanie in Fat Pig (Trafalgar Studios); Susannah Townley in Three Hours After Marriage (Union Theatre); Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew (Changeling Theatre Company); Lucy Lockett in Beggar’s Opera (Changeling Theatre Company); u/s and Donna/Tanya in Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales); Virus/cover Kim and Big Sue in Taboo (UK Tour); Starting Here Starting Now (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Kitty in Charley’s Aunt (CMC).

Television Credits: Sound of Music Live (ITV); Comedy Cuts (ITV2).

Film credits: Beauty and the Beast (Disney).

Rakesh is originally from Hull and trained at the Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama.

Rakesh has just finished working on Tom Fletcher’s The Creakers at The South Bank Centre, a co-prod with Plymouth Theatre Royal, playing Larry & The Creaker King.

Prior to this he completed a successful 2 years as Mr Wormwood in the RSC’s production of Matilda the Musical in the West End.

Other Theatre includes: ‘Fisherman’s Friends’ (Original Cast) Anna Jordan’s ‘Pop Music’ (Paines Plough & Birmingham Rep), ‘Man Of La Mancha’ (Coliseum) ‘We Will Rock You’ (Dominion Theatre), ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ (Phoenix Theatre) ‘Rock Of Ages’ (Original UK Tour), ‘Wind In The Willows’ (Original Cast) ‘Britains Got Bhangra’ (Stratford East/Original UK Cast) and ‘The Assassination of Katie Hopkins’ (Theatre Clywd).

Television: ‘Better’, BBC

Film: Disney’s ‘Disenchanted’ (2022), Dr Farookh in ‘Tehran’ (2023)

Recordings/Workshops: Bend It Like Beckham (Original Cast Recording). Zen and Now (Concept Album). The Doncastrian Chalk Circle (National Theatre).

Rakesh is Founder and Principle of The Boury Academy CIC. A Lambeth Performing Arts Organisation breaking down barriers and increasing diversity in the arts through affordable access to professional training (www.thebouryacademy.co.uk).

Instagram: @rakkyb

Training: Arts Educational School, London. Awarded the Cone Ripman Prize for Musical Theatre.

Theatre includes: Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UK Tour), Vicki in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour and Los Angeles), Dancer in Salome (London Coliseum, English National Opera), Khahidja in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Insideout Productions, The Tron Theatre).

Film & TV includes: Blythe in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Warp Films), Stella (fifth colony) in How to Talk to Girls at Parties (See-Saw Films), Rebecca in Honey (Floodwater Films), Lauren in What I Learnt (Marmalade Film and Media), Red in Little Red Hoodie (Imagine Pictures and Hopscotch Films)

Elliot graduated from Leeds Conservatoire in 2023.

Theatre credits include: Napoleon: Un Petit Pantomime (Jermyn Street Theatre); Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder (West End); I Should Be So Lucky (UK Tour); Annie Get Your Gun (Lavender Theatre); Of Mice and Men (Leeds Playhouse); Carnival Messiah (Harewood House) and Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep).

Training: Guildford School of Acting (2023 graduate).

Theatre credits include: White Christmas (Mill at Sonning); Shrek the Musical (London’s Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, UK & Ireland Tour).

Credits whilst training: Cry-Baby (Racky Plews); Company (Alison Pollard); Jack and the Beanstalk (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); The Pirate Queen (Anna Fox).

You can find Natasha on TikTok and Instagram: @tashacayabyab

Training: Italia Conti (2024 Graduate)

Theatre credits: Pinocchio in Pinocchio (Stratford East); Pinocchio in Shrek: The Musical (Eventim Apollo).

Theatre whilst training: Dance Captain & Grandmaster Chad & Nikos in Legally Blonde; Doody in Grease; Ensemble in Cinderella.

Music Videos: Dancer in Niji; Midas The Jagaban.

Social Media: @_MiniMayhem

Training: The Urdang Academy and Guildford School of Acting.

Credits include: Katherine Howard and Dance Captain in Six The Musical (NCL); Ensemble in Cinderella (Jordan Productions); Guest in Connections (The Other Palace).

Credits whilst training: Lauren in Kinky Boots (Bernie Grant Arts Centre); Eve in Children of Eden (The Urdang Academy).

Sarah is delighted to be a part of this incredible company and would like to thank her family, friends and agent for their constant love and support.

Instagram: @sarah_mcfarlane

Training: The Urdang Academy

Theatre credits include: Ensemble/2ndCover Artie in Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); Cy in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour & Peacock Theatre, London); Dancer in Johannes Radebe: Freedom Unleashed (UK Tour & Peacock Theatre, London); Buggins in Kipps: The New Half A Sixpence Musical (The Urdang Academy); Billy Flynn in Chicago (The Urdang Academy); Aladdin in Aladdin (Red Entertainment)

Other credits include: Dancer in Life; Dancer in Samsung x Rebekah B Creative Commericial

Training: The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow.

Theatre credits include: King Ferdinand the Second in The Queen is Mad (Lion and Unicorn, London); Dr Winkel in The Third Man (Menier Chocolate Factory, London); Starkeeper/Doctor Seldon in Carousel (Kilworth House); Ensemble in Girl From the North Country (Gielgud); Monsieur Andre and u/s Phantom in Phantom of the Opera (West End and National Tour); Jailer/Mercer/Judge in Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Mr Price in Kinky Boots (Adelphi); Mac in A Damsel In Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre); Ezekiel Cheever in The Crucible (The Old Vic); Doctor and u/s Lear in King Lear (Chichester and BAM New York); Mr Miller/Warden u/s and played Mister Tom in Goodnight Mister Tom (Phoenix Theatre/National Tour); Zeller in The Sound Of Music (Manama, Bahrain and London Palladium); Judge Taylor in To Kill A Mockingbird (Ashcroft, Croydon); Alan in Step 9(of12) (New Britannia, Hackney); Ben in The Secret Garden (Birmingham Rep); Resident Director on The Fantasticks (Duchess); Narrator in The Power Of Yes (National Theatre); Mr Snow in Carousel (Savoy); Frank Kennedy in Gone With The Wind (New London); Von Hussler u/s and played Mr Banks in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward); Bishop/Combefere u/s and played Valjean and Javert in Les Miserables (Palace); Ralph in Kiss Me Kate (Victoria Palace); Lass Wi’ The Muckle Mou’, The Merchant Of Venice, Of Mice And Men, Twelfth Night (Brunton, Musselburgh); A Wee Touch O’ Class, The Thrie Estaitis, The Big Window, Night Sky, The Bruce (Edinburgh Festival); The Duchess Of Malfi (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Brigadoon (Victoria Palace); Me And My Girl (Adelphi); Oliver!, Amadeus, Piaf, An Inspector Calls, The Mikado, And Then There Were None, She Loves Me (Perth); The Innocent (Traverse, Edinburgh).

Film and Television include: London Road (Cuba Pictures), Para Handy (BBC), Taggart (STV), Timewatch (BBC).

Recordings include: Cast albums of Brigadoon, Mary Poppins, The Sound Of Music and the Original West End Cast recording of Kinky Boots – nominated for a Grammy Award in 2017.

Training: LAMDA

At the National: The Father & The Assassin, The Royal Hunt Of The Sun, Market Boy, The Man Of Mode

West End: Bombay Dreams, The Far Pavilions

Other Theatre: Life of Pi (UK Tour), The Band’s Visit (Donmar), East Is East (Bolton Octagon), Paradise Of The Assassins, Macbeth, Bollywood Jack (Tara Arts), A Subject Of Scandal & Concern (The Finborough Theatre), East Is East (Leicester Haymarket), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (ESC), Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, The Relapse (RSC), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour), Pinocchio (The Old Rep Birmingham), The Witches Of Eastwick (UK Tour), Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Madinat Theatre, Dubai), Aspire (The Dome Sports Stadium, Qatar), Call Me Madam (Union Theatre), I Was Looking At The Ceiling & Then I Saw The Sky (Southwark Playhouse), Tamburlaine (Opera North), Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Stratford-East), Dick Whittington (Oldham Coliseum), Ali Baba (The Theatre, Chipping Norton), Half N Half (Wales Millennium Centre)

Television: Coronation Street, Harley Street, The Cops, The Vice, Law & Order UK, Doctors, Crisis Command, Clocking Off, Blood Strangers, Tales From Pleasure Beach.

Film: East Is East

Althea graduated from GSA in 2015 and recently played Fairy Forget-Me-Not in Snow White at New Theatre Royal Lincoln.

Prior to this she toured the UK in Anna Hibiscus’ Song as Story Teller 1, Mama and Angel – this was her second tour with the show.

Althea’s other theatre credits include playing Mouse in The Gruffalo at Warwick Arts Centre, Lauryn in CLASSIC! which after premiering at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester went on to Edinburgh Fringe and Cunard Cruises. Prior to this, she spent Christmas at The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster playing Maid Marian in their production of Robin Hood. Althea also spent 4 years touring around the UK and internationally, including Kids Fest, with Tall Stories Theatre Company performing as Janet Smed in The Smeds and The Smoos and The Gruffalo’s Child in The Gruffalo’s Child. During the pandemic, Althea performed as Daisy Cow in a Zoom Panto Jack in the Beanstalk but spent a lot of her time as a deviser working on multiple Research and Development projects such as Funnybones, The Smeds and The Smoos and CLASSIC!

Althea has also performed in the Guinness World record holding comedy sketch show News Revue numerous times. In 2019, she was cast in the 40th Anniversary show which went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and did a one night only West End transfer at the Arts Theatre. Other career highlights for Althea include playing Khadija and Nonkosi in Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens at the Union Theatre, London, playing Zuma and understudying Mayor Goodway in the UK and International Tour of Paw Patrol: Race To The Rescue and Sparks the Elf in The Extraordinary Tale of Holly Christmas at The Lowry, Manchester.

Television Credits Include: Althea can currently be seen in CBBC’s Odd Squad playing Gabrielle and portraying Pauline Henry in the ITVX documentary Waco Untold: The British Stories.

Althea is thrilled to bring this incredible story to life and would like to dedicate her performances to her amazing family and agent. She wouldn’t be where she is today without them.

<strong>About:</strong> Elliot is thrilled to be joining the cast of <em>The Parent Agency</em>. He would like to say thank you to his family, friends and his agent for their continued support.

<strong>Training:</strong> The University of Chichester BA (hons) in Musical Theatre

<strong>Credits:</strong> Dance Captain/ Swing in The UK Premiere of <em>Becoming Nancy</em> (The Birmingham Rep); Ensemble and understudy in HyJack’s <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> (Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre).

<strong>Credits while Training:</strong> Jimmy Winter in <em>Nice Work If You Can Get It</em> (The Alexandra Theatre); Ensemble and understudy in PHA’s <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> (Worthing Pavilion); Joe/Josephine in <em>Sugar</em> (Worthing Pavilion).

Training: The Urdang Academy, Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Credits include: Swing in Becoming Nancy (Birmingham Rep), Bex in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour), Ensemble in Bugsy Malone (UK Tour), Baby Bear in Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Birmingham Hippodrome & Hull New Theatre), Snow White in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Princes Theatre, Clacton), Dancer in Britain’s Got Talent (ITV), Pony the Hat in Emil and The Detectives (National Theatre), Alice in Matilda The Musical (Stratford & Cambridge Theatre), Alison Summers/Keeley Gibson in Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace), Workhouse Girl in Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Young Eponine/Young Cosette in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre) and Gretl in The Sound of Music (London Palladium).

Jessica is represented by Brewis Scott Associates and is thrilled to be joining the cast of The Parent Agency. She would like to thank her family and friends for their continued love and support.

Sophia trained at London School of Musical Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Lucille in THE GREAT GATSBY (Immersive London), Harlow Hayes in AROUND THE WORLD IN 80s DAYS (Grand Theatre, Blackpool), Natasha in ZOMBIES THE MUSICAL (The Other Palace, Studio), Roza in GLASGOW GIRLS (Scottish Tour), Nana in IT HAPPENED IN KEY WEST (Charing Cross Theatre), U/s Sarah / u/s Mayor / u/s Black Dude in TOXICAVENGER (West End / Edinburgh), Roza in GLASGOW GIRLS (UK Tour), Nikita in BOLLYWOOD ROSE (British Asian Festival/Watford Palace Theatre).

Christmas shows include: Aurora in SLEEPING BEAUTY (Oxford Playhouse), Alice Fitzwarren in DICK WHITTINGTON (Exeter Northcott Theatre), Princess Rose in SLEEPING BEAUTY (Derby,Arena), Jill in MOTHER GOOSE (Millfield Theatre, London) and Ellie in SANTA’S MIXED UP MARTIAN (The Victoria Theatre, Halifax & The New Wimbledon Theatre).

Other Performance Work: Flick/Narrator in HATCHED! (Audiobook Musical).

For more information about Sophia, visit: www.access-uk.agency

Robbie is an actor from the North East of Scotland and is a 2021 graduate from Arts Educational Schools London (BA Hons) and also trained at The Dance School of Scotland, Glasgow.

Credits include: Julian/Pryce in LIFELINE (Signature Theatre, New York); Davy in SUNSHINE ON LEITH (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Will in GROUP PORTRAIT IN A SUMMER LANDSCAPE (Lyceum/Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Dickon in THE SECRECT GARDEN (PFT); Tulsa in GYPSY (PFT); Peter Pan in PETERPAN AND WENDY (PFT); Dick Whittington in DICK WHITTINGTON (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford).

Workshops include: Renton in TRAINSPOTTING.

Credits while training include: GUS THE THEATRE CAT in CATS and SHALFORD in KIPPS.

David Baddiel is a comedian, author, screenwriter and television presenter.

In 1992, he performed to 12,500 people with Rob Newman at the Wembley arena in the UK’s first ever arena comedy show and was credited as turning comedy into “The New Rock’n’Roll”. This followed the hit TV shows The Mary Whitehouse Experience (BBC Two) and Newman and Baddiel in Pieces (BBC Two). David later created and presented – with Frank Skinner – Fantasy Football and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned. Alongside The Lightning Seeds, the pair also wrote the seminal football anthem Three Lions. David has made several acclaimed documentaries, including the 2016 travel documentary David Baddiel On The Silk Road (Discovery) and in 2017, The Trouble with Dad (Channel4). More recently he created and presented Confronting Holocaust Denial and Social Media, Anger and Us on BBC Two.

David has published ten hugely successful children’s books (The Person Controller, AniMalcolm, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked, Birthday Boy, Head Kid, The Taylor Turbochaser, The Parent Agency, Future Friend, The Boy Who Got Accidentally Famous and Only Children) and recently he published the Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction polemic Jews Don’t Count, and due to the success of this book, David has also written and presented a documentary under the same title for Channel 4, which was released in late 2022. David’s most recent non-fiction book, The God Desire, was published earlier this year. David has also written four critically-acclaimed adult novels (The Death of Eli Gold, Time For Bed, Whatever Love Means and The Secret Purposes), as well as writing the hit comedy film The Infidel.

David Baddiel returned to stand-up comedy in 2013 with his critically acclaimed show, Fame: Not The Musical. In Spring 2016 David premiered My Family: Not the Sitcom, which ran on London’s West End for 15 weeks and was nominated for an Olivier Award. His latest show, Trolls: Not the Dolls, toured in 2020 and 2021.

David has created and starred in a several returning radio shows, including Heresy (BBC Radio 4), Don’t Make Me Laugh (BBC Radio 4), and David Baddiel Tries to Understand (BBC Radio 4).

Dan Gillespie Sells is the songwriter and front person of pop band The Feeling. His twenty-yearcareer has taken him (and his songs) into the worlds of dance, theatre, TV and film. He hascomposed, arranged, and produced for and withartists as varied as Becky Hill, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Rufus Wainwright and Chaka Khan.

His composer credits for theatre include: Brokeback Mountain (@sohoplace) and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Crucible Theatre & Apollo Theatre, London). Everbody’s Talking About Jamie celebrated it’s 1,000th West End performance in 2021 and has since toured the UK and been seen in cities around the world including Tokyo, Los Angeles and Seoul. The production was adapted into anAmazon Original Movie in 2021 with Film4. His other composition credits include: Oliver Twist and David Copperfield (Audible’s all-star dramatizations of Charles Dickens, produced by Sam Mendes) and 3 with D (London Coliseum), a collaboration with the Royal Ballet’s Edward Watson and choreographer Javier De Frutos, since performed at Stuttgart Ballet and The Joyce Theater in New York. Dan is the recipient of the 2015 Stonewall Award for Entertainer of the Decade for his work in the LGBT community and the 2007 Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year. Other awards include Best Composer at The Stage Debut Awards in 2017, plus BRIT, Olivier and BAFTA Film Award nominations including Outstanding Achievement in Music.

Tim most recently directed Dylan Mulvaney in her one woman show Faghag (Wessex Grove & Seaview) and developed, directed and choreographed the acclaimed new musical Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) in the West End. The album of Two Strangers has been streamed over 5 million times to date. This summer Tim directed and co-choregraphed the UK premiere of Something Rotten! in concert at Drury Lane. Tim choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, and choreographed Neil Patrick Harris as the Toymaker in Doctor Who: The Giggle (BBC/Disney+). Tim trained at Mountview Academy, having studied Music at Oxford University, specialising in Orchestration. Tim has also worked in the West End as a Musical Director and Arranger and is a singing coach, recently working Bill Nighy for his Oscar-nominated performance in Living.

As Director:

Dylan Mulvaney: Faghag (Soho Theatre and Assembly Rooms); Something Rotten! (Drury Lane, West End); Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) (Criterion, West End); Kinky Boots (New Wolsey Theatre); The Hound of the Baskervilles (UK Tour); Treasure Island (Bolton Octagon); The Season (New Wolsey Theatre); The Oliviers in Concert (Royal Festival Hall); The Stable (Lyric, West End). 

As Associate Director:

High Society (Old Vic) and A Little Night Music (Tokyo).

As Choreographer:

West End: Merrily We Roll Along (Harold Pinter, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Tokyo, Huntington, Menier); A Christmas Carol (Dominion); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Apollo); Stepping Out (Vaudeville); Mouthful (Trafalgar) Saturday Night (Arts). Further: Little Shop of Horrors (Royal Exchange); Dusty (UK Tour), The 40th, 41st and 43rd Olivier Awards (BBC/ITV); Parade (Southwark Playhouse). Opera: La Périchole (Garsington), La bohème (Middle East tour); The Marriage of Figaro (European tour).

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Originally trained in Music at Oxford University and Royal Academy of Music. Jon retrained on the Motley Theatre Design Course graduating as a Linbury Prize finalist in 2000.

Since then he has designed extensively in dance, opera and theatre for companies worldwide including The Royal Opera House, Royal National Theatre, London, National Theatre of Scotland, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Young Vic, London, Theatre de Complicité, and both Finnish and Norwegian National Ballets.

An associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has designed numerous productions including Hamlet, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale and the entire 2012 season.

He designed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London and was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for his production design for the Red Bull film, Human Pinball.

Theatre credits include the stage version of Miyazaki’s legendary anime film, Spirited Away (Toho, Japan / London Coliseum); King Lear starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh in the West End / TheShed, New York; Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods directed by Terry Gilliam (Theatre Royal, Bath): Bat Out of Hell (London/Germany/Toronto/New York/Las Vegas); WICKED (Stage Entertainment, Hamburg); The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland/ Royal National Theatre/ World Tour); Ghost Stories (West End/Toronto/Moscow/ Melbourne); MAMETZ (Nationa lTheatre of Wales, winner Best Design UK Theatre Awards); and You For Me For You (Royal Court, Best Design, Evening Standard Awards).

Dance credits include The Nutcracker (Norwegian National Ballet, Nationale Ballet deBordeaux), designs for Ballet Rambert, the Royal OperaHouse, Netherlands Dans Theater, and works by Liam Scarlett for the Royal Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, and English National Ballet.

Opera credits include Ainadamar (Metropolitan Opera); Serse, The Golden Dragon, Rigoletto, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Halle Opera); Cendrillon (Glyndebourne): Die Walküre (Bordeaux National Opera); The Knot Garden (Theatre an der Wien); The Lighthouse (Montepulciano); and Agrippina (Grange Park Opera).

Carrie-Anne Ingrouille is currently represented in the West End and on Broadway with her critically acclaimed choreography on  SIX The Musical playing at the Vaudeville Theatre, London and the Lena Horne Theatre, New York. For her work on the show, Carrie has received Tony, Drama Desk, Olivier, WhatsOnStage, Offie and Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nominations for Best Choreography.

Notable Choreography and Movement Direction credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre), Dear Evan Hansen (Nottingham Playhouse, UK Tour), The Merry Widow (Glyndebourne Opera), Sisters of Mersey (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Lido2, Paris), Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Village Idiot (Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nottingham Playhouse & Ramps on the Moon), The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible, Lyric Hammersmith & ETT), Monsoon Wedding: The Musical (St.Ann’s Warehouse, New York), Antigone (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Our Generation (National Theatre & Chichester Festival Theatre), Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park), This is My Family (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Catherine Tate Show Live (UK Tour), Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Suicide (National Theatre), The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House, The Roundhouse).

Carrie is currently the Associate Choreographer for the U.K productions of Hamilton.

Sarah trained at Wimbledon College of Art and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Design credits include: Jesus Christ Superstar (Folketeateret, Oslo); 101 Dalmatians (UK Tour); Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre); An Interrogation (Summerhall Old Lab); Fireside (Lost Dog); The SpongeBob Musical (UK Tour + Southbank Centre); We Will Rock You (World Tour); Monopoly Lifesized (UK); The Walk (Complicité); Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (Leicester Curve + UK Tour); Southern Belles (Kings Head); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Julius Ceasar (Bristol Old Vic); The Wizard of Oz (Blackpool Opera House).

Zoe is a theatre lighting designer whose work has been seen on the West End, throughout the UK and internationally. She won the 2019 Theatre and Technology Award Lighting Design for The Uunreturning Frantic Assembly UK Tour, Lightmongers’ ALD Award ‘New Talent in Entertainment Lighting’ and the OFFIE award for Lighting Design for her work on Tiny Dynamite at the Old Red Lion Theatre.

Recent designs include: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ambassadors Theatre, West End and Southwark Playhouse); TWELFTH NIGHT (RSC); The Artist (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Underdog: The Other Other Bronte (National Theatre); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (Kenny Wax Family Entertainment for MAST Mayflower and UK & Irelanest End & d Tour); Bonnie and Clyde (WUK Tour); Robin Hood (Regent’s Park); The Vortex (CFT); Beginning (Royal Exchange Manchester); How Not To Drown (Thickskin UK Tour); Good (Harold Pinter Theatre, West End); The Importance of Being Earnest (ETT), Migrations (The Welsh National Opera); Our Generation (National Theatre); Hamlet (Bill Kenwright Ltd at Theatre Royal Windsor); The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly UK Tour); Meek (Headlong UK Tour); Emilia (Vaudeville Theatre, West End).

Francesca Hsieh is an Asian-American theatre director, maker and facilitator. Assistant Directing credits include Vanya at The Duke of York’s Theatre, directed by Sam Yates, A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction at the Barbican Centre, directed by Katie Mitchell, and working as the director observer on Tosca at English National Opera, directed by Georg Zlabinger. Her directing credits include Don’t Call Me China Doll (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Underbelly Bristo Square), I’m Sorry I’m Not Lucy Liu (Camden People’s Theatre), and Shakespearean Support Group (Standby for Places podcast – streaming on all platforms). Francesca is part of the Higher Education faculty at Shakespeare’s Globe and is the Creative Engagement Coordinator at Complicité. She has her MA in Theatre Directing from Royal Holloway, University of London and a BFA in Musical Theatre Performance from the University of Utah.

As Sound Designer: ‘MARY POPPINS’ (UK & International Tour), ‘WHY AM I SO SINGLE’ (Garrick Theatre, London), ‘SPRING AWAKENING 15th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT’ (Victoria Palace Theatre, London), ‘BABIES’ (The Other Palace, London), ’42 BALLOONS’ (Lowry Quays, Salford), ‘THE LITTLE BIG THINGS’ (@sohoplace, London), ‘MANDELA’ (Young Vic Theatre, London), ‘OLIVER!’ (Cameron Mackintosh / Hori-Pro – Japan Premiere), ‘RENT’ (Hope Mill Theatre Manchester), ‘SIX’ (Lyric Theatre – London), ‘SIX’ (Brooks Atkinson Theatre – New York), ‘SiX’ (Sydney Opera House & Australian Tour), Walt Disney Theatrical & Cameron Mackintosh’s ‘MARY POPPINS’ (Prince Edward Theatre London), ‘SiX’ (UK Tour 2019), ‘SiX’ (Arts Theatre London), ‘THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK’ (Cirkus Arena Stockholm), ‘AMÉLIE’ (Werk7 Munich), ‘BILLIONAIRE BOY’ (Nuffield Theatres Southampton), ‘SIX’ (UK Tour 2018), Walt Disney Theatrical & Cameron Mackintosh’s ‘MARY POPPINS’ (Zurich, Dubai).

As Associate Sound Designer: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White (London and Broadway), The Sound of Music (London,Toronto and UK tour), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi), Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria, Madrid Teatro Coliseum and UK tours), Zorro – The Musical (Garrick, Paris Folies Bergère), Scrooge – The Musical (UK tours), Der Schuh des Manitu (Theater des Westens – Berlin), Ich War Noch Niemals in New York (Operettenhaus, Hamburg & Coliseum, Stuttgart), Hair (The Gate), Whistle Down the Wind (Palace), Starlight Express (UK Tours), The Phantom of the Opera (London and Broadway sound re-designs, Hamburg, Paris), Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular (Venetian), Sister Act –The Musical (London Palladium). The new Cameron Mackintosh 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables (International Tours, Madrid, US First National Tour, Spanish Tour) and Phantom Of The Opera (National Tour), Love Never Dies (Adelphi and Australia), Michael Grandage’s production of Evita (1st National US Tour), Miss Saigon (Netherlands, Japan). Half A Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre, Noel Coward Theatre – London).

Paul associate designed and mixed the 25th Anniversary Concert of Les Misérables at The O2 Arena and the 25th Anniversary Production of Phantom Of The Opera at The Royal Albert Hall.

Credits include: Wigs Hair & Make Up Designer Hairspray (2024/25 UK & Ireland Tour); Wigs Designer Neville Holt Opera Festival 2024 The Magic Flute; Make Up Designer Shrek the Musical (2023/24 UK & Ireland Tour & London Apollo); Make Up Designer Madagascar the Musical (UK,Australia , Asia and USATour); Wigs Hair & Make Up Designer Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre London); Wigs Hair & MakeUp Supervisor Drop the Dead Donkey (UK Tour); Wigs Hair & Make Up Supervisor Steel Magnolias the Play (UK Tour); Associate Make Up Designer Mrs Doubtfire: The New Musical Comedy (WestEnd); Associate Make Up Designer Mrs Doubtfire (USA Tour); Head of Wigs, Hair & Make Up MrsDoubtfire: The New Musical Comedy (Manchester/West End); Associate Make Up Designer Shrek the Musical (Australian Tour); Make Up Supervisor Shrek the Musical (UK & Ireland Tour); Head of Make Up Shrek the Musical (UK & Ireland Tour); Make Up Designer Laid in Earth (Sadlers Wells, English National Ballet); Associate Make Up Designer Harry Potter & the Cursed Child (Toronto); Head ofWigs, Hair & Make Up Harry Potter & the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre. West End); Make Up Supervisor The Grinch Who Stole Christmas:The Musical! (UK Tour); Head of Wigs, Hair & Make Up The Grinch Who Stole Christmas: The Musical! (UK Tour); Head of Wigs, Hair & Make Up White Christmas the Musical (UK Tour); Head of Wigs, Hair & Make Up Grease the Musical (UK & IrelandTour); Head of Wigs & Make Up Fiddler on the Roof (Playhouse Theatre, West End); Head of Wigs, Hair & Make Up Harold Pinter Season (Harold Pinter Theatre, West End); Head of Wigs, Hair & Make Up Dirty Dancing (Phoenix Theatre, West End & International Tour) Head of Wigs, Hair & Make Up Miss Saigon (UK & Ireland Tour) and Head of Wigs, Hair & Make Up Royal Shakespeare  Company’s A Midsummer Nights Dream (UK & Ireland Tour).

Other Credits Include: BBC, Channel 4, HBO, Apple TV, Opera North, Scottish Opera, English National Ballet, Disney Theatrical, The Lion King, Jersey Boys, We Will Rock You and Beauty & the Beast.

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Jill Green is originally from Newcastle.  Full member of the CDG.

Casting Associates: Olivia Laydon & Tom Shiels.

Recipient of the 2024 What’s on Stage Award for Best Casting Direction for The Little Big Things, @Soho Place.

Theatre includes Becoming Nancy (Birmingham Rep); The Devil Wears Prada (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Dominion Theatre); War Horse (New London Theatre / Tours 2015 – 2025); The Little Big Things (@Soho Place); Disney’s Aladdin (Prince Edward Theatre & 2023/24 UK Tour); Crazy For You (Gillian Lynn Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre); Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward); Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Theatre/ Prince Edward/Piccadilly/UK & Ireland Tours); The Lion King Tour (2015-2024 UK & Ireland /International Tour); 101 Dalmatians (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Bedknobs And Broomsticks (UK Tour); Touching The Void (Duke of York’s//Bristol Old Vic & Tour); Hairspray (London Coliseum); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Bridge Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time (Gielgud Theatre/Piccadilly Theatre/Tours 2015-2019); Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Aldwych/ Tours to 2020); Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre); Kinky Boots (Adelphi/UK & Ireland Tour); Young Frankenstein (Garrick); Jane Eyre (UK Tour 2017/National Theatre); La Strada (The Other Palace); Show Boat (New London/Crucible Theatre Sheffield); The Scottsboro Boys (UK Casting, Garrick/Young Vic); The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane/UK Tours); Contact (Queens Theatre); Fosse (Prince Of Wales)

Film – Dancers for: Steve McQueen film – Blitz ; Paddington 2; Beyond the Sea

Plus many Workshops & Readings.

Olivia Laydon as Casting Director for Jill Green Casting;  Clueless (Trafalgar Theatre );  Singin’ in the Rain (Dubai), A Chorus Line (Leicester Curve, Sadlers Wells & UK Tour), My Fair Lady (Leicester Curve) A Chorus Line (Leicester Curve, Sadlers Wells & UK Tour) Elephant & Piggie, Mermaids & Pirates and The Dream (Perform in the Park)

www.jillgreencasting.org

Instagram: @jillgreencasting

Theatre: Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre and UK & International Tour); Back to the Future (Adelphi Theatre); Aspects of Love (Lyric Theatre); My Fair Lady (UK & Ireland Tour); Elf (Dominion); The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo Theatre and Storyhouse Chester); Cinderella (Gillian Lynne); Sinatra The Musical (Birmingham Rep); Starter For Ten (Bristol Old Vic) as Casting Associate and Children’s Casting Director for Grindrod Burton Casting.

Amy is the Children’s Casting Director for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour); MJ the Musical (Prince Edward Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Almeida Theatre); Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre) for Jessica Ronane Casting.

Film/TV: Hamnet Children’s Casting Associate (Working Title) for Nina Gold; Matilda The Musical Ensemble Casting (Netix/ Working Title); Disenchanted Ensemble Dancer Casting (Disney); Zombies 4 UK Casting (Disney) for Grindrod Burton Casting.