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Christian is originally from South Wales and trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
Theatre includes; Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas (Birmingham Rep), Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre, West End), Shit-faced Showtime: A Pissedmas Carol, Shit-faced Showtime: Alice Through the Cocktail Glass (London and Edinburgh), Turning the Screw (New Wimbledon Theatre), Present Laughter (FST), Cinderella (Gordon Craig Theatre).
Television includes; Autopsy; The Last Hours of Roy Orbison (ITV), D-Day 80 at the Royal Albert Hall (ITV), VE Day; a celebration to remember (BBC) and campaigns for McDonald’s, Audible and Paddy Power.
Theatre:
Charles Cholmondeley in Operation Mincemeat (Riverside Studios/ West End), U/S Charles and Hester in Operation Mincemeat (Original West End Cast) Jonathan in The Play That Goes Wrong (UK Tour), Sam Monaghan in The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (West End/ UK and Ireland Tour), The Play That Goes Wrong (West End) The Clockmaker’s Daughter: In Concert (Cadogan Hall) Borstal Boy (Gaiety Theatre), Tobias in Sweeney Todd (Cork Opera House), Fyedka in Fiddler On The Roof (Gaiety Theatre), Celtic Tenor in Rhythm Of The Dance (World Tour)
Film and TV: Roy (CBBC) Fame: The Musical (RTÉ) Popes (Short Film)
Recordings: The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Studio Cast Recording), Horseland (TG4), Kappa Mikey (TG4)
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre Credits: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (West End Ambassadors Theatre); Sappho: The Poetess (DEM Productions); Rosie and Hugh’s Great Big Adventure (The North Wall/Pleasance Courtyard/Soho Theatre); Get Happy (Told by an Idiot, Barbican); Ride (Leicester Curve/Southwark Playhouse); Wuthering Heights, Malory Towers (Wise Children, UK & International Tours); Never Tickle a Tiger, That Pesky Rat (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Scarecrows’ Wedding (Leicester Square Theatre, UK Tour); Metamorphosis (Tristan Bates Theatre); Daisy Pulls it Off (Charing Cross Theatre)
Radio Credits: Temporal (Sweet Talk Ltd); Read the Room (Big Fish/BBC Radio 4)
Theatre includes: Raquel in Only Fools & Horses (UK Tour); Alternate Margaret, Cover Ray & Miss Hedge in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour); Vocalist in Disney100: The Concert (UK & European Arena Tour); Deb in Elf (Bahrain & Dubai); Mary Brown in But I’m A Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre); Ms Fleming/Veronica’s Mom in Heathers the Musical (The Other Palace/UK & Ireland Tour); Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music (Tallinn, Estonia); Sister Berthe/Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (UK & Ireland Tour); Pearl/Dinah/Voice of Control in Starlight Express (UK & International Tour/Really Useful Group/Bochum); Nancy in Groundhog Day The Musical (The Old Vic); Lead Vocalist in The Judy Garland Songbook (UK Tour); Shelley in Batboy (The Southwark Playhouse); Mistress in Evita (Ljubljana Festival); Meat in We Will Rock You (UK Tour); Liesl in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West End); Kate/Molly in Annie (West End).
Television includes: Georgina played series lead Lauren Waters in Britannia High (ITV); Rebecca Chalmers in The Story of Tracy Beaker (BBC); Nikki in Magic Grandad (BBC)
Radio includes: Charlotte’s Webb, When Marnie Was There & The Dweller in High Places (BBC Radio 4)
Georgina was also a vocalist in the Disney motion pictures Lilo & Stich 2 and Mulan 2
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre credits include: Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre)
Credits whilst training include: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Bells are Ringing; Wind and the Willows; Weird Romance: The Girl Who Was Plugged In.
Jamie-Rose Monk trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include: (THE) WOMAN (Park Theatre), ROMEO & JULIET; HANSEL & GRETEL; PRINCESS ESSEX; THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (The Globe), CHRISTMAS ACTUALLY (The Southbank Centre), GREATEST DAYS THE MUSICAL (National Tour), THE WITCH FINDER’S SISTER (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), TALENT (Sheffield Crucible), DICK WHITTINGTON (National Theatre), (A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Bridge Theatre), THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE (Park Theatre), YAP YAP YAP (Royal Festival Hall and Soho Theatre), FAT – A ONE WOMAN SHOW (Hackney Showrooms/Gaggle Productions), THE POISONERS’ PACT (Stuff of Dreams Tour), MONOLOGUE SLAM WINNER’S EDITION (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Triforce Promotions).
Television credits include: MY LADY JANE (Amazon Studios), GANGSTA GRANNY STRIKES AGAIN (BBC), DOCTORS (Semi Regular, BBC), HOLBY CITY (BBC), CLASS DISMISSED (Series Regular, Series 1-3, CBBC), GAMEFACE (Objective Fiction).
Film credits include: HOLMES & WATSON (Columbia Pictures Corporation).
Comedy credits include: BUTTERY BROWN MONK (Leicester Square Theatre), THE GAG SHOW (Gaggle Productions).
Radio credits include: SKETCHTOPIA – Series 1 & 2 (BBC Radio 4), ATHENA’S CANCEL CULTURE (BBC Radio 4).
Training: Rose Bruford College
Theatre Credits: Biff Tannen in Back To The Future The Musical (Adelphi Theatre, West End), Francis Henshall in One Man, Two Guvnors (Liverpool Playhouse, Bolton Octagon, Theatre by the Lake), Baloo in The Jungle Book (Theatre by the Lake)
Television Credits: Tinhead in Ladhood (BBC), Mal in Coronation Street (ITV), Degsy in DI Ray (ITV), Aiden Fieldhouse in Doctors (BBC)
Film Credits: Eddie in This Is The Winter (Outsider TV), Can You See Me? (Raine Films)
Originally from South Wales, Morgan trained at Emil Dale Academy and Arts Educational School.
Theatre credits include; Adam/James in I’m Autistic, A New Musical (Edinburgh Fringe 2025 with Genuinely Confused Theatre Company), Toby in Babies (Lyric Theatre & The Other Palace), History Boys (UK Tour), Buttons in Cinderella & The Glass Slipper (Landmark Theatres) and Buttons in Cinderella (Jordan Productions).
Workshops include: Martin Guerre (Old Vic Theatre), Dirty Words (Fourwheeldrive York) and Babies (Indigo Productions & Crossroads Live).
Theatre includes: Lovers Actually (The Other Palace), Till the Stars Come Down (National Theatre/Theatre Royal Haymarket), Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre, West End), Stranger Sings (The Vaults), Distinguished Villa (Finborough Theatre), Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera (Park Theatre), Groan Ups (Mischief Theatre, UK Tour & West End), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Mischief Theatre, West End).
Television includes: The Goes Wrong Show (BBC).
Workshops include: Especially For You (Anthony Banks), The Wall (Complicitè & Simon McBurney), Bedbug (National Theatre Connections & Anthony Banks).
Opera includes: Arianna In Crete (Royal College of Music).

David is a member of SpitLip and a co-writer of Operation Mincemeat. An Olivier-award-winning, triple Tony-nominated writer / actor / composer, he originated the role of Charles Cholmondeley on the London Fringe, West End and Broadway, which also saw him nominated for Best Actor in a Musical at the Olivier Awards 2024.
Outside of SpitLip, David is a freelance actor/writer/director/composer in his own right, creating innovative work ‘full of energy, wit, fun, anger and…joy’ (The Times). His multi-award-winning beatbox retelling of Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster, co-created with the BAC Beatbox Academy, was one of The Guardian’s Top 10 Shows of 2018 and was later adapted for TV by David and the team for BBC Four.
David is also a member of award-winning comedy writing collective Kill the Beast who are currently developing shows with BBC Studios and Comedy Central US.
Further credits include:
Theatre: Saint Jude (Swamp Motel: Composer/Sound Design), Dog Show
(Pleasance Theatre: Co-creator/Composer/Performer)
Film and TV: The Sunnyridge 3 (Disney+/Blink Industries: Voiceover), Hex Vet (Nickelodeon: Voiceover)
Radio/Podcast: The Sink (BBC Sounds: Composer), Who Exploded Vivien Stone? (Fremantle/Kill the Beast: Co-Writer/Performer)
Felix is Co-Artistic Director of SpitLip, and a freelance composer and performer in a multitude of different acts and guises. Felix specialises in fusing music and lyrics with vast amounts of excitement and joy, drawing inspiration from classic musical theatre, preposterous glam pop, hard rock, hip-hop and every genre under the sun. As a performer he has toured internationally with Felix Hagan & The Family, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, and played everywhere from pub back rooms to vast arenas (once in the same week). As a songwriter and producer he has composed top ten albums, Christmas number ones and soundtracks for Mercedes, Honda, Hovis and Odeon. His latest solo album “Happy Songs” was released in Feb ’26. Felix regularly performs around London and Manchester.
Theatre includes: The Windsors: Endgame (Runaway), Operation Mincemeat (SpitLip), Don’t Wake The Damp and Director’s Cut (Kill the Beast).
Film and TV includes: Bad Education (Tiger Aspect) Spitting Image (Avalon/Britbox), Jack Whitehall Live (Netflix), Cockroaches (ITV), and Backchat With Jack Whitehall (BBC).
Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer-performer and co-writer and star of Operation Mincemeat which won Best New Musical at the 2024 Olivier Awards and was nominated for Best Musical at the Tony Awards 2025. She was also nominated for Best Actress in a Musical at the Oliviers for originating the role of Ewen Montagu on the West End and Broadway, and won the Broadway World Fans Choice Award for Best Lead Performer in a Musical.
Outside of Operation Mincemeat, Natasha is a part of the award-winning dark-comedy theatre troupe Kill the Beast and created and starred in her own critically acclaimed BBC scripted fiction series The Sink which was nominated for Best Podcast/Online Audio at the Audio Drama Awards 2021 and named one of the Top 20 Podcasts of 2020 by The Guardian.
Theatre includes: Operation Mincemeat (Golden Theatre, Broadway; Fortune Theatre, London); Director’s Cut, Don’t Wake the Damp, He Had Hairy Hands and The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (Kill the Beast).
Film and TV writing includes: Mitchell & Webb are Not Helping (Channel 4), Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Channel 4), Dogs in Space (Netflix), The Amazing World of Gumball and Bravest Warriors (Cartoon Network).
Radio and Podcast includes: Creator/writer The Sink (BBC)
Zoë Roberts is an award-winning writer-performer, and co-writer and star of Operation Mincemeat, which won Best New Musical at the 2024 Olivier Awards and was nominated for three Tony Awards including Best Musical in 2025. She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Johnny Bevan & Others.
Outside of Operation Mincemeat, Zoë is part of the award-winning dark-comedy theatre troupe Kill the Beast. She specialises in making hugely entertaining, genre-defying stories infused with complete and utter silliness.
Theatre includes: Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre, Riverside Studios, Southwark Playhouse, New Diorama, The Fortune Theatre in the West End, The Golden Theatre on Broadway); the Ivy Isklander series (Swamp Motel); Saint Jude (Swamp Motel);Director’s Cut, Don’t Wake the Damp, He Had Hairy Hands and The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (Kill the Beast).
Film & TV writing includes: Dogs in Space (Netflix)
Podcast & Radio writing & performing includes: Who Exploded Vivien Stone? (Fremantle/Storyglass), Behind the Screams (Little Earthquake) and Eglantine Whitechapel: Supernatural Detective (Kill the Beast)
Robert directs the award-winning West End and Broadway productions of Operation Mincemeat.
Robert was appointed the Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre in January 2025. His production of Hamlet will shortly transfer to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.
Previously, as Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert was the director of the musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge created by Richard Hawley and Chris Bush, which opened in March 2019 to outstanding reviews.
It won ‘Best Musical Production’ at the UK Theatre Awards’ and the ‘2020 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre’. It was revived at the Crucible in December 2022 before a run at the National Theatre and in the West End, going on to win Best Musical at the 2023 Olivier Awards.
At Sheffield, Rob directed Coriolanus with Tom Bateman and a critically acclaimed revival of The York Realist co-produced with and presented at The Donmar Warehouse in London where he was Associate Director. Robert also directed Miss Saigon, Guys and Dolls, Julius Caesar, Of Kith and Kin (co-produced with The Bush Theatre), The Wizard of Oz and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Rob directed Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe, starring Michelle Terry, in winter 2018.
In 2016 he directed Breaking the Code at Manchester Royal Exchange in the play’s first major revival for 30 years. In that year, he also directed Henry V at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre starring Michelle Terry.
As Associate Director of the Donmar Warehouse he directed Splendour by Abi Morgan and a revival of My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot which transferred to the Apollo Theatre, West End.
Previous productions include: A Breakfast of Eels by Robert Holman, (Print Room 2015), Carthage by Chris Thompson (Finborough Theatre, 2014), Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun by John McGrath (Finborough Theatre, 2012), Sunburst by Tennessee Williams (UK Premiere, Holborn Grange Hotel, 2012).
He was Associate Director for Sixty-Six Books/Bush Theatre: In the Land of Uz by Neil LaBute, The Middle Man by Anthony Weigh, David and Goliath by Andrew Motion, Snow in Sheffield by Helen Mort and A Lost Expression by Luke Kennard.
Recent theatre works include Operation Mincemeat (Southwark, West End and Broadway), Midsomer Murders (tour), Private Lives (tour/West End) with Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge, Opera della Luna’s The Mikado (Wilton’s and tour) Some Mothers do ‘ave ‘em (tour) Orpheus in the Underworld (Buxton Festival & Bloomsbury) Nightingales (Bath) Candide (Iford), Twelfth Night (RSC), Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado about Nothing (RSC, Chichester and The Haymarket), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bath), Spamalot (West End and tour), The Rocky Horror Show (West end, Tour and Korea), The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Urinetown and Suessical (Laban Trinity). Dr Who Live (Arena tour), The History Boys (Tour), Peter Pan a Musical Adventure and The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep and West Yorkshire Playhouse). The Merry Wives of Windsor (The Globe and USA) and The Comedy of Errors (The Globe).
Jenny won the 22nd Annual Theater Fans Choice Award for Best Choreography for her work in Operation Mincemeat on Broadway and was nominated for an Olivier and a Whatsonstage award for her choreography for Jerry Springer the Opera (National Theatre, West End, National Tour and Sydney Opera House).
Films include Nativity and Confetti, both starring Martin Freeman, and Vagabond Shoes starring Iain Glenn. Television includes Marie Lloyd and Fanny Hill (BBC4) Al Murray’s Happy Hour (ITV1) Kombat Opera (BBC2) and several Harry Hill TV series.
Ben is an Olivier Award nominated stage designer who trained at Central Saint Martins College of Art.
Theatre credits include: Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Crucible Theatre, Olivier National Theatre and Gillian Lynne Theatre West End), Operation Mincemeat (West End and Broadway), Hamlet (Lyttelton, National Theatre), Sylvia (The Old Vic), Miss Saigon, Rock, Frost/Nixon, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, She Loves Me, The Band Plays On and KES Reimagined (Sheffield Crucible), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Leeds Playhouse and HOME Manchester), Happy Meal (Traverse), The Watsons (Chichester and Menier Chocolate Factory), The Bear/The Proposal (Young Vic), Swive (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), HIR (Bush), Frankenstein, Breaking the Code, Doctor Faustus, A Taste of Honey and The Producers (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Good With People (Paines Plough and at 59E59, NY), The Dazzle, Bug, and Fool For Love (Found111), Hobson’s Choice and Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park), Way Upstream (Chichester), Creditors directed by Alan Rickman (Donmar Warehouse and Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY).
Dance credits include: Mixtape Celebrating 20 years of ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company (Sadlers Wells Theatre), Message in a Bottle (Universal Music Group and Sadler’s Wells), Some Like It Hip Hop, Into The Hoods (Sadler’s Wells and UK tour), The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House and The Roundhouse).
Opera credits include: The Merry Widow (English National Opera).
Mark Henderson is a lighting designer with over 40 years’ experience and has designed extensively for all the major theatre, dance and opera companies in the UK and has lit over 70 West End and over 25 Broadway productions.
Mark was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Lighting Design, in 2006 won a Tony Award for The History Boys on Broadway and in 2013 won the WhatOnStage lighting design award for Sweeney Todd.
Mark won a Welsh BAFTA in 2000 for his work on the televised opening of the Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
His recent and upcoming work in theatre includes Beneatha’s Place at The Young Vic, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Dancing at Lughnasa at The National Theatre and Sheffield Theatres, and Paradise at the National Theatre. His extensive CV includes The Boy in the Dress for the RSC; The Bodyguard and Girl From the North Country on UK and international tours; Oklahoma at Chichester; Sweet Charity at the Donmar Warehouse; Light in the Piazza at the Royal Festival Hall; Into The Woods at Theatre Royal, Bath; Newsies at the Troubadour, Wembley.
Opera includes designs for English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne. Dance includes designs for English National Ballet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, The Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Rambert. Other work for performance includes Kate Bush Live: Before The Dawn.
Mike trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Recent projects include: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (UK Tour), Kat’a Kabanova, Luisa Miller and Tristan and Isolde for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Cenerentola and Manon Lescaut for Grange Festival Opera, and co-producing and engineering the album recording of Flowers For Mrs Harris.
Theatre credits include: She Loves Me, Guys & Dolls and Flowers for Mrs Harris (Crucible, Sheffield), Allelujah! (Bridge), The Price, Lady In The Van, Relatively Speaking and Hobson’s Choice (Theatre Royal, Bath), Man to Man (Wiltons), Forbidden City (Esplanade, Singapore), Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (Duke of Yorks), Rent (St James & Tour), Wild Honey, Hapgood and Drawing the Line (Hampstead), Enemy of the People, For Services Rendered, Taken at Midnight and Arturo Ui (Chichester), Temple (Donmar), Three Winters, Chewing Gum Dreams, Home, Hymn, St Matthew Passion and Caroline or Change (National Theatre) and Jerry Springer – The Opera (Lyttelton & Cambridge Theatre) for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Sound Design.
With his company, Loh Humm Audio, Mike provides audio engineering services for theatres.
Grammy Award winner, Tony, Emmy, Olivier & Drama Desk nominated arranger, composer, producer, conductor and trumpeter, Steve Sidwell, has featured on numerous albums, television shows, advertising campaigns and films with his
distinctive and innovative orchestrations and compositions.
Television commissions include: The 95th Academy Awards with Sofia Carson & Diane Warren, the 79th Academy Awards with ‘Elements & Motion’, the Platinum Party at the
Palace, the London 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony, the Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony, BBC Special for VE Day 75 years, BBC Special for VJ Day 75 years, the BBC
Music Awards, Concert For Ukraine, Ariana Grande at the BBC, The Royal Variety Show, The Voice UK Series 1 & 2, Robbie Williams Live At The Albert Hall, Children In Need Rocks and Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.
Theatre credits include: Orchestrating Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Bat Out of Hell, Operation Mincemeat, We Will Rock You, Made In Dagenham, Our House, Lion King: Rhythm Of The Pridelands, The Christmasaurus and Daddy Cool.
Record producer credits include: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Grammy Winner), Sheridan Smith, Operation Mincemeat, Lion King: Rhythm Of The Pridelands; Bradley
Walsh and The Nolans.
Numerous advertising credits include award winning Honda Choir, M&S Christmas (featuring Dame Shirley Bassey) and Stella Artois “cool” campaign.
Film credits include: Film Music Co-Producer on Bohemian Rhapsody, Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Teachers Pet, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie and Finding Nemo.
Recording Credits include: Robbie Williams, George Michael, Paul McCartney, Sir Mick Jagger, Dame Shirley Bassey, Mark Knopfler, Amy Winehouse, Snow Patrol, Lily Allen, Ariana Grande, Muse, Dizzee Rascal, Take That, Annie Lennox, Leona Lewis, Tom Jones, Sting, Elton John, The Feeling, McFly, Will Young, Bryan Ferry, Joss Stone, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Gregory Porter, Ellie Goulding, Jess Glynne, The Who, Ian Dury, Wet Wet Wet, Charlie Watts, Henry Mancini and Michael Nyman.
Joe was the musical director of Operation Mincemeat for three years – at Riverside Studios, then on the Original Cast Album, in the West End, and on Broadway. He was nominated for The Stage Debut Award for Best Creative West End Debut and the Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution (with orchestrator Steve Sidwell).
Other theatre as musical director includes: Rags (Park Theatre), My Fair Lady (Mill at Sonning), 35mm: A Musical Exhibition (The Other Palace), The Rink, Superhero, and Wasted (Southwark Playhouse),The Events (UK & US Tour / Queen Elizabeth Hall), Assassins (Pleasance) and Side by Side by Sondheim (Headliners Club).
As associate musical director: Spring Awakening (Almeida), Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible), Ghost Quartet (Boulevard) and Love is Only Love (The Other Palace).
As an actor: Our Town (Almeida).
Awards: Off West End Award for Musical Director, 2018 (The Rink) and 2020 (Rags).
PEARSON CASTING CDG CDA CSA are award-winning Casting Directors based in London and New York. In 2022 they won ‘Best Casting In Regional Theatre’ at the CDG Awards for their work on RENT, and in 2025 won ‘Best Casting of a Live Performance’ at the CDA Awards for STARLIGHT EXPRESS. They were also included in ‘The Stage 100′ in 2025.
Recent Theatre Includes: Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre), Avenue Q (Shaftesbury Theatre), Titanique (Criterion Theatre & Lido 2 Paris), Starlight Express (Troubadour, Wembley), SIX The Musical (Vaudeville Theatre & UK/International Tours), Come Alive: The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular (Empress Museum), Coven (Kiln Theatre), Hot Mess (Edinburgh Fringe & Southwark Playhouse), Wicked The Musical (UAE & India Tour), Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (The Other Palace), Police Cops The Musical (Southwark Elephant), The Phantom of the Opera (International Tour), Play On! A Jazz Musical (Talawa Theatre Company), No Such Thing As Wolves (Birmingham Hippodrome Studio), Bluey’s Big Play (UK Tour), Fly More Than You Fall (Southwark Elephant), Pretty Woman (US National Tour), Clue (US National Tour) and 42 Balloons (Lowry Theatre).
Workshops Include: Artemis Fowl, Personality – The Lloyd Price Musical, Straight Forward.
Film and TV Includes: TV – Anne for World Productions & ITV as Casting Assistant. Feature Films – Crystal (Xenon Films), Stephen (Melanie Manchot). Short Films – No Traveller Returns (Andrew Pennington Productions), Mummy’s Boy (Typecast Productions), Wormfood (Ali Coulson/Sarah Higgins) and Power of Numbers (Standard Chartered/Liverpool FC).
Georgie is a director specialising in original work and adaptations. She is an associate artist at The Watermill.
As Director: One Man Musical by Flo & Joan (Soho Theatre, Edinburgh, nominated for Outstanding Show at Melbourne Comedy Festival), Instructions for A Teenage Armageddon, (Garrick Theatre, original production at Southwark Playhouse nominated for 4 OffWestEnd Awards) Wizard of Oz, Camp Albion & A Christmas Carol (Watermill Theatre), Vinegar Tom (Mountview), Queen Mab (Actors Church), Our Town (Royal Academy of Music), Eigengrau (Waterloo East Theatre), D-Day 75 (Watermill Theatre & Greenham Trust), CHUTNEY (Bunker Theatre, nominated for 4 Off-West End Awards), Into The Numbers & Dubailand (Finborough Theatre), Dreamless Sleep (Arts Theatre).
Associate Director: Hamlet (National Theatre & Brooklyn Academy of Music), Operation Mincemeat (West End), Operation Mincemeat (Broadway), Dawn French is a Huge Tw*t (West End & U.K Tour).
Assistant Director: Sweet Charity & Our Town (Watermill Theatre), Legally Blonde: The Musical (Bernie Grant Arts Centre).
Paul Isaiah Isles is a movement director, choreographer, and senior agent at Link Artists, with over 20 years’ experience as a West End performer. His stage credits include hit musicals such as The Lion King (original cast), Saturday Night Fever, Oh What a Night, Porgy and Bess, A Chorus Line, Fame, and The Full Monty.
Beyond the stage, Paul has danced for artists including Madonna and Shirley Bassey, and appeared on television in The Royal Variety Show, Stars in Their Eyes, and Top of the Pops. His screen work also includes appearances in Disney’s Cinderella, Snow White, and the film adaptation of Wicked.
Paul’s choreography credits include Al Murray’s Make Christmas Great Again (ITV), Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, Love’s Labour’s Lost for the Oxford Shakespeare Company, Gin Craze at the Royal & Derngate, and assistant choreographer on Orpheus in the Underworld for Opera Della Luna. He is currently Associate Choreographer on Operation Mincemeat, in the West End, on Broadway, and on the UK tour.
CURRENT & RECENT LONDON THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Into The Woods , Hercules, Oliver!, Come Alive!, The Devil Wears Prada, Operation Mincemeat, ABBA Voyage, Cabaret, Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, MJ The Musical, Evita, Brigadoon, Burlesque, Shucked, Clueless, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Next to Normal, Hello, Dolly!, Kiss Me, Kate, Spirited Away, Opening Night, Sunset Blvd, Crazy For You, Aspects of Love.
CURRENT & RECENT TOURING & REGIONAL THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE: Johnny and June, One Day, Operation Mincemeat, The Greatest Showman, Top Hat, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, Fiddler on the Roof, & Juliet, Pretty Woman, The Rocky Horror Show, The Government Inspector, Redlands, Aladdin, Pretty Woman the Musical, Sinatra, Rock Follies, The Sound of Music, Assassins.
Sam is a musical director, pianist, arranger and conductor. He trained at Leeds Conservatoire.
Theatre credits (as both MD and/or Associate MD) include: A Christmas Carol (Octagon, Bolton); Extraordinary Women (Jermyn Street Theatre); Jack & the Beanstalk (Chipping Norton Theatre); Around the World in 80 Days (Octagon, Bolton); The Worst Princess (Full House Theatre/UK Tour); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Crucible, Sheffield); The Beauty Parade (Wales Millennium Centre); The Last Ship (US/Canada/UK/Éire); Baddies the Musical (Unicorn, London); The Donkey Show (Proud Camden); Oliver! (Watermill, Newbury); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3⁄4 (Curve, Leicester); Out There (Riverside Studios); Promised Land & Leeds Lads (Red Ladder Theatre, Leeds); Loserville (Leeds Playhouse); Variété (Riverside Studios); Ruby the Musical (Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, York).
Alongside theatre work, Sam is the MD and founder of London Sound Project, a choir and band delivering high-end gigs in exciting venues throughout London.
Training: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (BMus (Hons) Classical Piano Performance).
Theatre credits include: tick, tick… BOOM! (Assistant Musical Director, China Tour); The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Assistant Musical Director, Chichester Minerva Theatre); SIX the Musical, West End (Assistant Musical Director, Vaudeville Theatre); Lizzie (Musical Director, Hope Mill Theatre); Unfortunate (Associate Conductor, Southwark Playhouse Elephant and UK Tour); Cinderella Pantomime (Musical Director, The Winding Wheel, Chesterfield); No Limits (Musical Director, Turbine Theatre); Wicked (Deputy, UK Tour); Titanique (Deputy, Criterion Theatre); Bonnie and Clyde (Deputy, Garrick Theatre); Bat Out of Hell (Deputy, Peacock Theatre); SHOUT! The Mod Musical (Keyboard 2, Upstairs at the Gatehouse)
Cabaret credits include: Pink Doll Cabaret (Crazy Coqs); Claudia Kariuki (Piano Smithfields) and Rhys Wilkinson’s Connections (The Other Palace).
Workshop credits include: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Music Assistant).
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Work as Director includes: Inside No. 9 – Stage/Fright (UK No. 1 Tour), The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show (Pleasance Courtyard), The Lost Lionesses (The Space), Phalanx (Lion & Unicorn), Ink Festival (Halesworth, Suffolk) Harvest (Omnibus Theatre), He Who Opens the Door (Finborough Theatre), Aphiemi (Golden Goose Theatre), the critically acclaimed Us (White Bear Theatre), double Off-West-End award nominated The Friday Freedom Fighters (Etcetera Theatre), In the Shadow of the Black Dog (Seven Dials Playhouse), A Night For Sense UK (Other Palace Theatre) and Grimms Tales (Camden Roundhouse, UK & International tour). Work as Co-Director includes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Riverside Studios).
Work as Associate Director includes: the Olivier Award nominated Inside No. 9 – Stage/Fright in the West End (Wyndham’s Theatre) and Taskmaster Live at Dock X. Work as Assistant Director includes: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in the West End (Trafalgar Studios) and Miller’s Crossing (Secret Cinema).
Awards: Winner of ‘Best Direction of a New Play’ for The Lost Lionesses in the Broadway World UK Awards.
Patrick is delighted to have survived 44 years working in theatre. After working as master carpenter at The Duchess and Aldwych Theatres he went to Richmond Theatre for 5 years as technical manager. He then started work as a production manager and has since been responsible for more than 270 West End shows, 80 major tours, 250 pantomimes, shows on Broadway, Toronto, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, China, Singapore and many other countries round the world.
Productions include: The Producers (Garrick), Mean Girls and Plaza Suite (Savoy), Muriel’s Wedding (Leicester), Crazy For You (Gillian Lynne), Operation Mincemeat (Fortune and Broadway), Wizard of OZ Palladium), Ain’t Too Proud (Prince Edward), Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward and UK Tour), Drifters Girl ( Garrick and UK Tour), Get Up Stand Up (The Lyric), 42nd Street, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Drury Lane), Amelie (West end and UK Tour), Kinky Boots ( Adelphi and UK tour), Bodyguard (Dominion, UK and World tours), Everybody’s Talking about Jamie, Mary Stuart (Apollo), Hamlet (The Barbican), An American in Paris (Dominion), Spring Awakening (Novello), Dirty Dancing (Piccadilly UK and World tours), Top Hat ( Aldwych, UK tour and Japan), One Man Two Guvnors, Frozen, Elephant Man, Waiting for Godot, Lion in Winter, Flare Path, Last Confessions, (Haymarket), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Photograph 51, Hay Fever, Million Dollar Quartet, Blackbird, Suddenly Last Summer, Master Builder, Private Lives, Good bye Girl (Noel Coward), Mirror and The Light, Imperium, Frost Nixon, Nicholas Nickleby, Don Carlos, Blythe Spirit (Gielgud), Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria), Lady Windermere (Vaudeville), Red, Lady Day, No Man’s Land, American Buffalo, Charles III, Shawshank Redemption (Wyndhams). Buddy, Jolson, Annie (Victoria Palace).
Chris has worked across the industry for over 12 years at several theatres including Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Royal Shakespeare Company, and worked on numerous shows in the West End, regionally and on tour.
Chris’ recent production management credits include: When We Are Married, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Donmar); Wendy and Peter (Barbican); Dear Evan Hansen (UK and Asia Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre); Muriel’s Wedding, Evita (Curve); Amaze (Criterion Theatre); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Robin Hood, The Tempest (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Marvellous (@sohoplace).
Chris currently works as a Production Manager for Patrick Molony Ltd, and for the past 4 years has worked with Patrick on a number of productions.
Shows production managed by Patrick Molony Ltd include: Muriels Wedding, Evita (Leicester Curve); Dear Evan Hansen (UK and Asia Tour); Hello Dolly (London Palladium), Mean Girls, Plaza Suite (Savoy Theatre); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo, Ahmanson Los Angeles & UK Tour); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UK Tour); The Drifters Girl (Garrick & UK Tour); Bodyguard (UK Tour); Wizard of Oz (Curve, Palladium & UK Tour); Get Up Stand Up (Lyric Theatre); Marvellous (@sohoplace); Fatal Attraction (UK Tour); Ain’t Too Proud (Prince Edward Theatre); Murder on the Orient Express (Chichester Festival Theatre & Theatre Royal Bath); Crazy for You (Chichester Festival Theatre & The Gillian Lynne Theatre); The Enfield Hauntings (Ambassadors Theatre).
2026 marks 20 years of Marcus Hall Props, and in that time they have worked on over 350 of the most prestigious plays and musicals across the world.
With a workshop proudly based in South East London, Chris & Jonathan, and the team have worked on many shows including Phantom of the Opera, Hamilton, Back to the Future, Starlight Express, Into the Woods, Operation Mincemeat, MJ, Just for One Day, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, Come From Away, Groundhog Day, The Great Gatsby, Mamma Mia! The Party, Mrs Doubtfire, The Wizard of Oz and many many more
As well as building these shows for the UK, they have also been able to build many of them for International Productions. Supplying props to countries, including; Australia, Japan, China, Holland, Belgium, Canada, Germany, USA, Spain, as well as the seas in between, working on board ships for Royal Caribbean and Cunard.
Other projects include working with The London Transport Museum, Fortnum and Mason, Aesop, The Great British Menu, Arlo Parks, Sam Smith, The Brits, The Shard, NBC/Universal, and others.
Lydia has worked as a costume supervisor, designer and maker for theatre, dance and film since graduating from The Central School of Speech and Drama in 2003
As supervisor, credits include: Paddington The Musical (Savoy Theatre); A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); & Juliet (Shaftesbury Theatre, Opperettenhaus Hamburg); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Cher Show (UK tour); Strictly Ballroom (UK tour); True West (Vaudeville Theatre); Bat Out of Hell (West End and North American tour); Benidorm Live (UK tour); The Band (UK tour); The Hired Man; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Much Ado About Nothing; Hot Stuff (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios); Tommy (UK tour); After The Dance (Theatre By the Lake); The Crucible (UK tour); Made In Dagenham (New Wolsey/Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre); Sex In Suburbia (UK tour); Return to the Forbidden Planet (25th anniversary UK tour); M!longa (Sadlers Wells); Money: The Gameshow (Bush Theatre); Pericles (Regent’s Park Theatre)
Design work includes: Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer (UK tour); Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson (feature film)
Costume making includes: Quantamania (feature film); Annihilation (feature film); Assassin’s Creed (feature film); First European Games ceremonies (Five Currents Events); various productions for Sadler’s Wells.
Shari has a breadth of experience across stage, screen, fashion, beauty and advertising and is thrilled to have worked closely with the design team and cast of Operation Mincemeat in a collaborative process to create the makeup and hair designs for both London’s West End and on Broadway.
Other credits include:
Theatre: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (West End / World Tour), Abigail’s Party (Stratford East), Magic Mike (Hippodrome), Oedipus (West End), Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park), Immersive 1984 (Hackney Town Hall), Pride (West End), English National Ballet (various), Orange Tree Theatre (various).
Film & Television: Pirates of the Caribbean, Christopher Robin, Stardust, Robin Hood,
Birds of a Feather, Lockwood & Co., This Morning, Hustle, Mock the Week, Top Gear.
Fashion, beauty and advertising: Rolls Royce, Calvin Klein, Juicy Couture, Ted Baker, Chivas, British Airways, Dove, The North Face, Guinness.
Stuart has worked professionally in the theatre industry for over 35 years. He started his career in Rep and spent many years touring on some of the largest musicals, and for more than 20 years he has been freelance mainly working as a Programmer.
Avalon is a multi-award-winning talent management, television production and live promotion group with offices in London, Los Angeles and New York. Avalon, Artists Rights Group and The Agency together represent a diverse and distinctive roster of artists including actors, comedians, writers and directors, among them Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, Tony and Olivier Award-winners.
Avalon has produced live shows including the hit musical Jerry Springer: The Opera, the first West End production to win all four UK Best New Musical awards, including four Olivier Awards, which led to Jon Thoday, alongside former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson, becoming the last person prosecuted for blasphemy in the UK and prompting a welcome change in the law; Newman and Baddiel: Live at Wembley, the first ever arena comedy show in British history; Frank Skinner’s record-breaking show at Battersea Power Station; Al Murray’s Olivier-nominated West End run; Russell Howard’s ten consecutive nights at the Royal Albert Hall, breaking a record previously held by Frank Sinatra; David Baddiel’s Olivier-nominated one-man show My Family: Not The Sitcom; and is currently producing Operation Mincemeat, the double Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical running concurrently in New York City, London, and across the UK, with the 40-week nation-wide run serving as the launch pad of the world tour.
Avalon is the UK’s largest independent television production company, with over 40 shows in production in the last year including: hit entertainment format Taskmaster (Channel 4 in the UK, Network 10 in Australia, TV4 in Sweden, TVNorge/Discovery+ in Norway); multi-Emmy award winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO); Not Going Out (BBC), the UK’s longest running sitcom on air; Tall Tales & Murder (BBC/RTE), a highly anticipated darkly comedic crime drama and an upcoming live-action, sketch comedy series The Terrors Of Jordan Mendoza (Adult Swim). Other landmark Avalon shows include Catastrophe (Amazon/Channel 4), Breeders (FX/Sky), Starstruck (HBO Max/BBC), Flatbush Misdemeanors (Showtime), Workaholics (Comedy Central), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), TV Burp (ITV) and Fantasy Football League (BBC/ITV/Sky).
Andrew has produced, co-produced, executive produced and/or general managed among many others: Operation Mincemeat (Olivier Award for Best Musical, Tony nomination), A Little Night Music (Olivier, Tony and Drama Desk nominations); Zorro (Olivier nomination); Porgy and Bess (Olivier nomination); The Producers (Olivier Award for Best Musical); Jerry Springer the Opera (tour); Marc Salem’s Mind Games; Taboo (Olivier nomination); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Olivier Award for Best New Comedy); Madame Melville; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Side Man; Soul Train (Olivier nomination); Perfect Days (Olivier nomination); Gross Indecency – The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; Show Boat (Olivier nomination, Prince Edward Theatre); The Who’s Tommy (Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production); Crazy For You (tour); Return to the Forbidden Planet (Olivier Award for Best Musical); Evita (tour); Me and My Girl (tour); Jesus Christ Superstar for the Shiki Theatrical Company of Japan; Show Boat (Olivier Award for Outstanding Revival of the Year of a Musical, London Palladium).
Rodeo Productions is an independent production company founded by Rebecca Quigley and Aidan Grounds. It specialises in the development, management and producing of high-impact, large-scale theatre and live entertainment. With a strong reputation for delivering ambitious, high-quality productions, Rodeo works across a wide range of genres and international markets, with world-leading composers, creatives and writers.
Current credits include Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular (London & Australia); Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing (West End & Broadway); general managing the critically acclaimed Operation Mincemeat (UK Tour); and Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Lyric Hammersmith). Recent productions include Sam Holcroft’s A Mirror (West End); Indigo (Curve Leicester); and House of Life (Edinburgh Fringe, London, NYC & Oslo).
The global hit musical & Juliet has played in the West End, on tour in the UK & Ireland, and Australia & Singapore; and it continues to run on Broadway, on tour in North America and Germany.
Rodeo provide executive producing and consultancy services to major entertainment companies and creative institutions, including Working Title, Netflix, Maddison Wells, Tilted, and Avalon. Rodeo also provide venue management services to companies including The Seelig Group and Immersive Octopus.
