Tim Rice has worked in music, theatre and film since 1965 when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Rather than pursue Tim’s ambitions to write rock or pop songs, they turned their attention to Andrew’s obsession – musical theatre. Their first collaboration was based on the life of Dr Thomas Barnardo, the Victorian philanthropist: The Likes of Us. Their next three works together were much more successful – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.

Tim has since worked with other distinguished popular composers such as Elton John (The Lion King, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast), Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess) and Stuart Brayson (From Here to Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach and Rick Wakeman, among others. He is currently writing and presenting a podcast (titled Get Onto My Cloud) reminiscing about his years in music, theatre and film – playing hits and flops, out-takes and number ones.

Every now and then, inspired by his hero and friend the late Sammy Cahn, he presents an evening of his songs, mercifully performed by top singers and musicians rather than by him, to which Tim adds reminiscence and comment, recalling their creation, success (or rejection) and the joy (usually) of working with great composers.

His recent musical From Here to Eternity returned to London in November 2022. A new Broadway presentation of Chess is scheduled in the autumn of 2023. In early 2024, a new production of his Tony®-winning Broadway hit Aida will make its UK West End debut.

Sir Tim’s interests beyond music, film and theatre include cricket – as English an interest as you can get. He founded his own cricket team in 1973, which has now played over 700 matches, including several in the USA. He dedicates considerable time to several British educational institutions and charitable organisations, many connected with sport for disadvantaged children. He crops up here and there in all branches of the media, drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of popular music since Elvis was a lad. He has won several awards, mainly for the wrong thing or for simply turning up, but since you ask: one Emmy®, five Grammys®, three Tonys and three Oscars®, making him an EGOT. None more gratifying than the Johnny Mercer Award.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1969) to Bad Cinderella (2022).
Lloyd Webber has had shows running continually in the West End for 50 years and on Broadway for 43. When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS,and The Phantom of the Opera he equalled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

Lloyd Webber owns six London theatres including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Reopened in July 2021,the latter was completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It was one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theatres
is ploughed back into the buildings. Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed anthems for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina and for two Olympic ceremonies, including “Amigos Para Siempre” the official song of the 1992 summer games in Barcelona. He wrote “Let Us Love In Peace” for the aftermath of the attacks on The World Trade Centre, and wrote and performed “Sing” with Gary Barlow at Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond in 2012. Lloyd Webber curated musical theatre performances for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee concert in June 2022.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997.

Sylvia Addison is one of London’s foremost Orchestral Contractors and clients include Theatre producers, composers, conductors, orchestrators, record producers and vocal artists in many fields of the music industry.

Theatre Credits include: The Little Big Things, The Wizard of Oz, Old Friends, We Will Rock You, Mrs Doubtfire the Musical, Bake Off the Musical, Charlie and the Chocoate Factory tour, My Fair Lady tour, Strictly Ballroom tour, The Phantom of the Opera, The Drifter’s Girl, ALW’s Cinderella, Les Miserables – Sondheim Theatre and International Tour + Les Miserables Staged Concerts, Mary Poppins, Back to the Future, White Christmas, Lion King – London and tour, Sleepless, BIG, the Musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Beautiful – the Carole King musical, Blues in the Night, Adrian Mole, Fiddler on the Roof, Only Fools and Horses, Fun Home, Fat Friends, Five Guys named Moe, Dreamgirls, Rent, School of Rock, Elf the Musical, Mrs Henderson Presents, Bend it Like Beckham, Barnum UK Tour, Miss Saigon, Stephen Ward, Scottsboro Boys, Merrily We Roll Along, Top Hat, The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary, Ghost, Betty Blue Eyes, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Love Never Dies, Legally Blonde, Sweet Charity, A Little Night Music, Oliver!, Carousel, La Cage aux Folles, The Witches of Eastwick, Drowsy Chaperone, Lord of the Rings, Evita, Acorn Antiques, The Woman in White, Tell Me on a Sunday, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bombay Dreams, The Full Monty, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar, Starlight Express, The Beautiful Game, Whistle Down the Wind.

Alli has enjoyed a varied career as both Associate Director and Resident Director on many projects, in theatres, arenas and site specific events.

Just prior to JCS, Alli was Associate Director on Spitting Image Live – Idiots Assemble (Phoenix Theatre) and before that, spent three years as Associate Director on Bat Out of Hell (International Tour).

Other work includes – European Director; Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular (European & Asian Companies).

Associate Director; Strictly – The Professionals (Arena Tour), The Play What I Wrote (Birmingham Rep and UK tour), The Man In The White Suit (Wyndhams Theatre), Dirty Dancing (West End & UK Tour).

Resident Director; Jersey Boys (UK Tour).

Assistant Director; CBeebies Live! (UK Arena Tours), Tweenies (UK/Hong Kong), Bob The Builder (World Tour) and Cry Of The Celts (Royal Albert Hall).

A Fellow of the International Dance Teachers Association, Alli is part of the organising team behind Miss Dance of Great Britain/Dance Master UK.

Represented by Chris Davis @ Gavin Barker Associates.

As Musical Director, theatre includes: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock, The Bodyguard, An Officer and a Gentleman, Nativity! The Musical (National Tours); Legally Blonde (International); The Last Five Years (London).

As Associate MD/Cover Conductor, theatre includes: My Neighbour Totoro, The Wild Party (London); The Rocky Horror Show (International); Grease, Legally Blonde (Curve & International); The Sound of Music, Wonderland (National Tours).

Michael also enjoys a growing relationship with orchestras in the UK and abroad and has performed the classical repertoire extensively.

As conductor, orchestras include: BBCSSO, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra Szeged, Leipziger Symphonie, Scottish Opera & HM Royal Marines among others. Michael studied orchestral conducting with Martyn Brabbins at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and piano at Trinity College of Music in London.

West End Theatre includes: Cake (Garrick), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne), Be More Chill (Shaftesbury), Heathers (Haymarket), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo), Matilda (Cambridge), Ghost (Piccadilly).

London Theatre includes: Why Am I So Single (Sadlers Wells), Ground Hog Day, Jekyll & Hyde, High Society (Old Vic), Metamorphosis, Othello, I Think We Are Alone, Fatherland (Frantic Assembly) Nutcracker (Southbank Centre), Origin (Almeida), Evita (Regent’s Park), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park & Barbican), Leave To Remain, Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), Ghost Quartet (Boulevard), The View Upstairs (Soho), But I’m a Cheerleader, My Night With Reg, High Fidelity, Torch Song (Turbine), In the Heights (Kings Cross) Five Guys Named Moe (Marble Arch), Working, Xanadu, Carrie, Casa Valentina, Side Show (Southwark Playhouse), The Etienne Sisters (Stratford East), Paper Dolls (Tricycle) and Bare (Union).

UK Tours include: Jesus Christ Superstar, Bugsy Malone, The Cher Show, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Priscilla Queen of
the Desert, RENT 20th Anniversary.

Regional Theatre includes: Starter for Ten, The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic), Oscar at the Crown (Palais du Variety), Lizard Boy (Hope Mill & Gilded Balloon), Piaf, Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse), Insane Animals (HOME), The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd). International Theatre includes: Cabaret (Lido, Paris), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles), Matilda (International Tour), Ghost (International Tour).

TV & Film includes: Disenchanted, Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty & the Beast (Disney), Matilda (Netflix), Greatest Days (Elysian), I Have a Dream (Talkback), The Voice, So You Think You Can Dance, Over The Rainbow (BBC) and Superstar (ITV).

Film & TV credits include: Assistant Costume Designer, Secret Invasion (Marvel); See How They Run.

Theatre credits include: Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park) Tartuffe, John, Network, Salome, Amadeus, Hedda Gabler, The Motherfucker With The Hat, The James Plays Trilogy, Doctor’s Dilemma, One Man Two Guvnors, London Assurance, Men Should Weep, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Much Ado About Nothing, Statement of Regret, Measure for Measure (National Theatre); As You Like It (@sohoplace Theatre); Walden, Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter Theatre); Girl from the North Country (Old Vic, Noel Coward, Gielgud Theatre & UK Tour); Rosmersholm, Jeeves and Wooster, That Face (Duke of York’s); All About Eve (Noel Coward); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Michael Grandage Company, Noel Coward); Wings (Young Vic); Electra, Resurrection Blues (The Old Vic); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Lion in Winter (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre); La Bete (Comedy Theatre & Broadway); Private Lives (Vaudeville theatre); Little Dog Laughed (Garrick); Judgement Day, Duet for One (The Almeida); Ring Round the Moon (Playhouse); A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory & Garrick Theatre); Dealers Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory & Trafalgar Studios); Girl From The North Country (Belasco Theatre & Public Theater, NY & Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto); Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyric Opera Chicago, US Tour); Madness of King George (Nottingham Playhouse); The Sound of Music, Strife, Taken at Midnight, Mack and Mable, Love Story, Music Man (Chichester Festival Theatre); A Doll’s House Part 2, Sweet Charity, Committee, Saint Joan, One Night in Miami, The Vote, City of Angels, Passion, Dimetos, Red, Parade (Donmar Warehouse); Frost Nixon (Donmar & Gielgud); Measure for Measure (NT), A Disappearing Number, Noise of Time (Complicite).

From Sardinia originally. Giuseppe trained in London until 2002, he then moved to Australia. In 2003 Giuseppe became Head of Hair and Makeup for Disney’s the Lion King in Sydney Australia and South East Asian tours. Giuseppe was Head of Wigs Hair and Makeup at the National Theatre U.K. from 2011 – 2021 working and leading Hair and Makeup teams in over 250 productions. He led a large team working on numerous stage productions, NTLive cinema broadcast, and still shoots for press/digital including shoots for Vanity Fair, Vogue U.S. etc.

Giuseppe is now a freelance creative for Hair and Make-up designer/supervisor across theatre, film/editorial in the U.K & Europe. Working on award winning theatre and hybrid film projects including Romeo and Juliet (N.T), Prima Facie (NTLIVE), Ocean at the end of the lane (NT UK Tour). He is also a co-founder of UK non-profit ‘Levelling Up’ which offers masterclasses addressing the lack of awareness regarding textured hair and makeup for actors of colour. Most recently he has designed hair and makeup for UK tour of the award winning ‘Ocean at the end of the lane’ and the completely reworked Disneys AIDA in the Netherlands.

Recent credits include: Rocky Horror Show (UK tour, Italy, Korea, South Africa and Australia) 9-5 The Musical, Spamalot, Midnight Tango, Dance Til Dawn, Speed Twins, Some Girl I used to know, Water babies, Robin Cousins’ ICE, Annie Get your Gun, Love me Tender, Rock of Ages, Cats, The Producers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Jersey Boys, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Annie, Guys and Dolls, Sister Act, Grease, Crazy For You, Nativity! the Musical, Sunset Boulevard, An Officer and a Gentleman, Beautiful, White Christmas, On Your Feet, Pretty Woman, Waitress, Tony the Rock Opera and West Side Story.

Simon Gooding is one of the UK’s most prolific production managers with a career spanning over 40 years. SGPM Ltd and GJPM Ltd provide Production Management services around the globe to both touring and residential theatre productions.

Recent credits include: Annie – UK tour, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Australia tour, Waitress – UK tour, The School Of Rock – UK tour, Pretty Woman – West End, Beautiful – UK tour, White Christmas – West End, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – West End and UK tour, On Your Feet – UK tour and West End, The Rocky Horror Show – UK and International tour, White Christmas – West End and UK tour, Magic Mike – West End, Benidorm Live – UK tour, An Officer and A Gentleman – UK tour, Cats – International tour, Evita – International tour, Sunset Boulevard – UK tour, Annie – West End, Toronto and UK tour, Crazy For You – UK tour, Grease – UK tour, Nativity – UK tour, Sister Act – UK tour, Funny Girl – UK tour, to name but a few.

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Ashley is originally from Shrewsbury in England and is now working in both London and New York City. He made his Broadway debut in the original cast of King Kong as the Resident Choreographer and most recently was in the original Broadway cast of Diana The Musical which was filmed for NeGlix. Last year he performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with Jimmy Fallon and worked with choreographer Mandy Moore on the new Snow White film for Disney and Apartment 7A working with actress Julia Garner.

Theatrical credits include: Jesus Christ Superstar (US, Chicago Lyric Opera); An American in Paris (Dominion Theatre); 42nd Street (Theatre Du Chatelet); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Jekyll and Hyde (Old Vic); Assistant Dance Captain in Mack and Mabel (Chichester and UK Tour); Dance Captain in Monty Python Live (mostly); One down, five to go at London’s O2 Arena; Drew McOnie’s Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell), Chicago (Leicester Curve); Dance Captain for the Original UK Production of Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical (UK Tour); Wicked (Apollo Victoria), Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace); Original Cast of Shoes (Sadlers Wells); Night of 1000 Voices (Royal Albert Hall); understudy & played Mary Sunshine in Chicago (Cambridge Theatre); understudy & played Nick & Goody in Fame the Musical (UK tour); Original UK Cast of High School Musical (UK Tour); Original Cast of Never Forget the Take That musical (UK Tour).

TV/Film credits include: The Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade NYC, Snow White (Walt Disney Pictures), Apartment 7A (Paramount Players), The EnTre Universe (BBC); Bruce’s Hall Of Fame (London Palladium/ BBC); Galavant (ABC Television); Avengers: Age of Ultron (interna[onal cinema); Tom Vek Aroused Music Video (Dir: Saam Farahmand); The Clothes Show Live (NEC, Birmingham); production dancer for Grease is the Word (ITV1); featured vocalist & dancer in You’re The Star – High School Musical 2 (Disney Channel). Choreographer for animate movie Master Moley (Warner Bros). Ashley would like to dedicate his work to his Nephew, Henry, aka Henry Chops. @ashleyjandrews

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, and raised in Teaneck, NJ. Dance training at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and The Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre. Acting Training at William Esper Studios. Performing with Forces of Nature, Philadanco, Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre, Deeply Rooted Chicago Dance Theater, Donald Byrd/The Group, Williams/Henry Dance Theatre, Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance.

Theatrical Credits: Vinnette Carroll’s Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, Oprah Winfrey presents: The Color Purple First National tour and ArthurArent’s One-Third of a Nation.

TV/Film Credits: Sony Pictures Across the Universe, Fox Searchlight Film Lifted, the HBO Series Boardwalk Empire, and Theodore Collatos Tormenting the Hen. Rehearsal

Director Credits: Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre, Donald Byrd/The Group, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (interim on tour). Teaching Guest Artist at multiple schools, colleges, and universities. Site Director at Ailey Camp, Missouri.

Associate Artistic Director at Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance.  Associate Choreographer for Motown the Musical on Broadway and all U.S. and U.K. tours and productions. (Choreographer re-stager for the U.K. tour). Associate Choreographer on Born for This. Choreographer of First Noel at the Apollo. Co-Director of One Harlem Night. Director of While I Have the Floor. Stage Director of Jesus Christ Superstar promotional video. Director/Choreographer The Color Purple 2022 & Director/Choreographer of Jelly’s Last Jam 2023 at Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Currently, Resident Director of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations Tour, Associate Director of the Jesus Christ Superstar 50th anniversary tour. As part of Brian’s ongoing passion to see art change lives, he is the Director of DEI at CFRT and the Director of Work Light Production’s Work Equity Action Department.

Theatre includes: La Cage Aux Folles & Once on this Island (OAT RP); Yeomen of the Guard (ENO); Cabaret (@ The Kit Kat Club); Jesus Christ Superstar (OAT RP also US Tour); Evita; Little Shop of Horrors; The Turn of the Screw (OAT RP). City of Angels (Garrick); Sweet Charity, Pacific Overtures, Parade, Passion, Spelling Bee, The Vote (also Channel 4), Committee… (Donmar Warehouse); Martin Guerre (UK Tour); Miss Saigon (UK Tour/ Japan/Sweden); Les Misérables (UK Tour/ Berlin/Belfast/Scandinavian Arena Concert Tour); Sweeney Todd (Royal Opera House/ ENO); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour); Sinatra (Palladium/UK Tour); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival); On the Town (ENO); Mother Courage (National Theatre); Privates on Parade (Noel Coward); A Chorus Line (Palladium); Urinetown (Apollo); The Last Five Years (The Other Palace); Kiss Me, Kate (Opera North/UK & European Tour); Calendar Girls (UK Tour); The Band (UK Tour/Berlin).

Awards include: 2022 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design, Cabaret at (The Kit Kat Club); Olivier Award Nominations for Jesus Christ Superstar (OAT RP), Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse); Parade (Donmar Warehouse); Mother Courage (NT).

Theatre includes: A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke (Almeida/West End); Constellations (West End/Broadway/Royal Court); Next to Normal, Henry V; Berberian Sound Studio; The Lady From The Sea, Splendour (Donmar Warehouse); TheWelkin, Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical!, Protest Song (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Almeida); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); The Song Project, Gundog, Road, Nuclear War, a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun), X, Linda (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie, West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Julius Caesar, Doctor Faustus (RSC); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); Nora: A Doll’s House (Young Vic/ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); The Son (Kiln Theatre/West End); Harm (Bush Theatre); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); Black Men Walking (Eclipse/Manchester Royal Exchange/UK Tour); Plenty (Chichester Festival Theatre); Woyzeck, Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep); Imogen (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Weir, A Streetcar Named Desire (English Touring Theatre); A Number (Nuffield Southampton Theatres/Young Vic).

Dance includes: We Are As Gods (James Cousins Company); Enowate (Dickson Mbi Company); Clorinda Agonistes (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance); Opus 131 (Russell Maliphant Dance Company); Blak Whyte Gray (Blue Boy Entertainment); Clowns, Sun, Political Mother, In Your Rooms, Uprising (Hofesh Shechter Company); Don Quixote (Royal Danish Ballet); Untouchable (Royal Ballet); Grey Matter, Tomorrow, Frames (Rambert).

Opera includes: Orphee Et Eurydice (Royal Opera House/Teatro Alla Scala); Fidelio (Nederlandse Reisoper); Aida, Fidelio, Nothing (Royal Danish Opera); Tosca (Opera North); Nabucco (Opera National de Lorraine); Phaedra (Linbury Studio).

Tom studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he was made an Associate in the 2016 honours list.

He is the recipient of the 2023 Olivier award for Best Score & Orchestration for Standing At The Sky’s Edge, which also won the Olivier for Best New Musical.

Tom Has Worked Extensively With Artists From The Music Industry To Co-Create New Music Theatre. Such Artists Include Elton John (TAMMY FAYE / Almeida Theatre), Richard Hawley (STANDING AT THE SKY’S EDGE / National Theatre), Damon Albarn (WONDER.LAND / National Theatre) David Arnold (MADE IN DAGENHAM / West End), Guy Chambers & Robbie Williams (THE BOY IN THE DRESS / Royal Shakespeare Company).

As A Composer: COMMITTEE / Donmar Warehouse, PITY / Royal Court, LITTLE RED / National Youth Ballet of Great Britain.

Tom is an Associate Artist of the Donmar Warehouse and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In 2015 and 2016 Tom provided the production design for the MTV Video Music Awards.

Awards and nominations include: 2022 Evening Standard Award for Best Designer, 2022 Olivier Award nominations for Best Design and Best Costume Design, 2022 Critics’ Circle Award for Best Designer (Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre); 2019 Critics’ Circle Award and Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Designer (A Very Expensive Poison, Old Vic); 2016 Tony Award nomination for Best Costume Design (King Charles III, Broadway); WhatsOnStage Awards for Best Set Design for Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – also WOS Award for Best Costume Design), Constellations (Royal Court) and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens).

As Theatre Director and Creative Director: Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Christine and the Queens’ ‘Chris’ at Salle Pleyel (Apple Music); Sam Smith’s ‘The Thrill of It All’ at Tate Modern (Apple Music); Ben Platt’s ‘Sing to Me Instead’ US Tour; Liam Gallagher’s MTV Unplugged (City Hall, Hull); Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Dreamworld’ (World Tour).

As Production Designer: 2015 MTV Video Music Awards (Microsoft Center, LA) & 2016 MTV Video Music Awards (Madison  Square Garden, NYC); Cabaret (West End); Summer and Smoke, King Charles III, Mr Burns – A Post-Electric Play, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Through a Glass Darkly (Almeida); Berberian Sound Studio, Marys Seacole, Belleville, The Lady From the Sea, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Weir, Elegy (Donmar Warehouse); The Deep Blue Sea, Medea, 13, Julie (National Theatre); Fairview, A Number (Young Vic); A Very Expensive Poison, Woyzeck (Old Vic); Jesus Christ Superstar (and US Tour/Barbican); Little Shop of Horrors, Carousel (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, No Quarter, Remembrance Day (Royal Court).

Opera Design: Carmen (costumes – Metropolitan Opera); Walküre (Royal Danish Opera); Cunning Little Vixen, Wozzeck (English National Opera); Tosca (Opera North); How The Whale Became (Royal Opera House); The Flying Dutchman (Scottish Opera); Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park).

Dance Design: Outwitting the Devil Akram Khan Company; Grand Finale (Hofesh Shechter Company); Light: Bach Dances (Royal Danish Opera & Hofesh Shechter).

Drew is the Artistic Director of The McOnie Company and a proud Associate Artist of London’s Old Vic Theatre. He won the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography for In the Heights in 2016 and he was nominated for the same award in 2017 for this production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Previous theatre credits as director/choreographer include: King Kong (The Broadway theatre, New York) Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre, London’s West End/Toronto/West Yorkshire Playhouse); On the Town (Olivier Award Nomination for Best Musical Revival 2018 – Regent’s Park); The Wild Party (The Other Palace) Torch Song (Turbine Theatre- London) Cake The Marie Antoinette Playlist (UK Tour).

Theatre credits as a choreographer include: Carousel (Regents Park) Jesus Christ Superstar (Olivier Award Nomination for Best Theatre Choreography 2017 – Regents Park/Barbican Theatre/ US National Tour), In the Heights (Olivier Award Winner for Best Theatre Choreography, Winner of the Off West End Theatre Award for Best Choreography-Southwark Playhouse and Kings Cross Theatre), The Lorax (Old Vic), Hairspray (BroadwayWorld Award Winner for Best Choreography- UK Tour), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith, National Tour), Oklahoma! (National Tour), The Sound of Music (Curve Theatre Leicester), Chicago (Curve Theatre Leicester), West Side Story (NYMT), Laurel and Hardy (The Watermill).

Ballets: Merlin (National Tour- Northern Ballet), XYZ (Classical Creative Project), for NYB- Monochrome Suite (Sadlers Wells), The Old Man Of Lochnagar (Sadlers Wells and Hackney Empire) Little Red Riding Hood (Wimbledon Theatre) To You (Sadlers Wells).

Film credits as choreographer include: Greatest Days – The Take That Movie Musical (Elysian Films) Me Before You (Directed by Thea Sharrock).

For the McOnie Company: Jekyll and Hyde (BroadwayWorld Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Dance – Old Vic Theatre), DRUNK! (Curve Theatre Leicester/ The Bridewell Theatre London) which lead to him being nominated for the ‘Emerging Artist Award’ at the National Dance Awards, Making Midnight (Jermyn Street Theatre/ Latitude Festival) Slaughter (Audience Choice Award Winner – The Place Prize) and Be Mine! (Robin Howard Theatre).

Upcoming projects for The McOnie Company: The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Nutcracker (Jazz adaptation at London’s Southbank Centre).

Tim Sheader has been Artistic Director of the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park since 2008. He leaves in December 2023 to take
up post as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse.

This production of Jesus Christ Superstar started at the Open Air Theatre. It has also played seasons at The Barbican, London and Lyric Opera House, Chicago as well as touring the US and Canada for 3 years. It won both the Olivier and Evening Standard Best Musical Awards.