A Little Night Music

Director

"Martin was nominated for Best Director by the Off West End Awards for his production of Noël Coward's 'Home Chat' and also his production of Hamlet' at The Rose Playhouse. Directing work includes: Haydn’s ‘The Seasons’ at the Barbican, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for Dukes Theatre, ‘Sense and Sensibility' and 'Urinetown', Liverpool, ‘The Eighth Wonder of the World', Brunel Tunnels, London, 'The Devil to Pay on Brook Street', Handel House, Mayfair, 'Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang', Rose Theatre, '’Regarding X’, Hackney Attic, The Three Georges', Gottingen Festival in Germany, 'A Door Must be Kept Open or Shut', Osborne Studio, London, 'A Night in CDU', Landor Theatre, 'Romeo and Juliet', St George's, Bloomsbury, 'Doctor Faustus', Rose Theatre, 'Too Clever by Half', Derby, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’, ‘Follies’, Romeo and Juliet', 'Into the Woods', 'Company', 'A Little Night Music', 'Hay Fever' ‘Anyone Can Whistle’ and 'Sunday in the Park with George' for The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, ‘The Country Wife’, ‘Tartuffe’ and ‘Orlando’ for BADA and ‘Anyone Can Whistle’ and ‘Snoopy, the musical’ for RADA. Also for Mountview: ‘Gypsy’ and ‘Flora the Red Menace’ Opera work includes: 'Acis and Galatea', Canons and St John's Smith Square, London, Teixeira's 'Te Deum' and Handel's Messiah, Casa Da Musica in Porto, 'L'Ippolito', Sable and Ambronnay Festivals in France and 'Comus', London Handel Festival."

Musical Director

Training: Royal Academy of Music, Sir Elton John Scholarship and Help Musicians UK.

As Writer/Composer: The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair (world premiere next year).

As Musical Supervisor: The Lion (Southwark Playhouse).

As Musical Director: City of Angels (Garrick, Assistant Musical Director), Queen of the Mist (Jack Studio Theatre), Ragtime (Charing Cross), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Manchester Cathedral), Les Misérables (Mountview), Chess (Leicester Curve), Amour (Charing Cross, also orchestrations), Preludes (Southwark Playhouse), One Man, Two Guvnors (Octagon Theatre), The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd).

Film: Rocketman (Children’s Casting MD/featured cameo)

Choreographer

Shelby trained at London Studio Centre and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School.

Theatre includes: As a dancer with Matthew Bourne: Cinderella, The Car-Man, Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Edward Scissorhands, and Swan Lake, Ballet Work 1020 (Martin Creed), Turandot and Lucrezia Borgia (ENO).

As Choreographer/Director/Associate: State Fair, A Little Night Music, London Road, Little Women, Company (Mountview), Oklahoma! (Wyndhams/Young Vic), Spike! (Hope Mill Theatre tour), Georgiana (Buxton Festival), Twilight Zone (Ambassadors), Little Women (Stanix), The Wind in the Willows (UK/Palladium), Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix), Made in Dagenham (Adelphi), Turandot (ENO), Magical Night (ROH), Sweet Charity (Royal Exchange), Speech and Debate (Trafalgar Studios), Merchant of Venice (Almeida), Anna Nicole – The Opera (BAM), Idomeneo (Grange Park), Carmen (Salzburg Opera), Dido and Aeneas, La Voix Humane (Opera North), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Lyon/La Scala/Opera Philadelphia/Opera de Rouen).

Film includes: The Danish Girl, The Theory of Everything, Collette, WWZ, Great Expectations, The CarMan, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake 3D.

Set Designer

Rhyannon has been working in professional theatre for over 20 years, both as a set and costume designer and as a maker.

Much of her work has been with community groups, theatre in education and drama schools, but she has also designed for a wide range of both small and large scale productions and tours, including the Chester Mystery Plays.

She designs for events, festivals and theme parks, and works as a mural artist and illustrator.

She is also Design Facilitator here at Mountview.

Set and Costume Designer

Alison trained in Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University and has worked in theatre and theatre production training ever since.

Her extensive career as a set and costume designer has included work for West Yorkshire Playhouse, Hull Truck Theatre, Perth Theatre, Bolton Octagon, and the role of Head of Design at Colchester Mercury Theatre.

Her work in higher education has included a decade working at East 15 Acting School as Deputy Director of Technical Theatre before joining Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in the role of Head of Design for another 10 years. Alison left Mountview last summer to focus on various creative and freelance projects.

Lighting Designer

Credits include: TONY! Tony Blair the Rock Opera (Leicester Square Theatre), Once (first national tour), Clybourne Park (first national tour), Return to the Forbidden Planet (25th Anniversary tour), Don’t Look Now (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design – Queen’s Theatre), Betty Blue Eyes (first national tour), Ken (Terry Johnson and Hampstead), House and Garden (Watermill Theatre), Michael Morpurgo’s Butterfly Lion (Kenwright), Dell Computers Gala (Buenos Aires), The Full Monty, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oliver!, (Bermuda City Hall), working with Willy Russell on Educating Rita, Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse) and Shirley Valentine (Royal Court Liverpool), Farm Boy, The Hired Man, Kissing Sid James (New York E59).

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Sound Designer

Matt’s West End sound design credits include: The House of Bernarda Alba, Journey’s End, When She Danced, Misery, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Macbeth, Nicholas Nickleby, and for Sir Peter Hall: Lysistrata, The Master Builder, A Streetcar Named Desire, Amadeus(West End/Broadway).

He was Sound Supervisor for the Peter Hall Seasons (The Old Vic/The Piccadilly). His West End musical work includes Blues in the Night, Love Story, Singin’ in the Rain and Sunny Afternoon for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Ptaszynski Producer
Jac O’Kody

Fight Choreographer
Marcello Marascalchi

Intimacy Co-ordinator
Steve Brownlie

Voice Coach
Hannah Benjamin

Assistant Musical Director
Cerys McKenna
MA Musical Direction student

Assistant Lighting Designer
Efa Gregory BA Theatre Production Arts - Lighting student

Production Manager
Davin Patrick

Deputy Production Manager
Laura Mann

Production Assistant
Michelle Dabenett*

Wardrobe Supervisor
Katie Higgins

Stage Manager  
Maddie Lawless † (she/her)

Deputy Stage Manager
Sean Anthony † (they/them)

Assistant Stage Managers
Abbie Kell † (she/her) 
Jonathan Scouse † (he/him)

Production Electrician
Jack Goodwin †

Production Sound Engineer
Ollie Brennan

Lighting Programmer
Chloe Palmer †

LX 1 / Followspot
Hayden Camidge †

LX 2 / Followspot
Tahleesha Stone †

Sound No. 1
Ethan Traynor † 

Sound No. 2
Nick Searle

Sound No. 3
Beth Jefferies †

Deputy Lead Carpenter
Tom Barnett

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Lead Scenic Artist & Prop Maker
Christine Moon ‡

Deputy Scenic Artist / Prop Maker
Emily Gray ‡

Senior Prop Making Tutor
Lisa Martin

* MA Creative Producing student
† FdA/BA Theatre Production Arts student
‡ Scenic Art and Prop Making student

Conductor/Musical Director
Jordan Li-Smith

Assistant MD / Keys
Cerys McKenna **

Violin
Martin Palmer

Viola
Jennifer McEwan

Cello
Verity Simmons

Double Bass
Will Henderson

Reeds
Jack Reddick

Bassoon
Emma Westley

Harp
Catrin Meek