Alice in Wonderland

Director

Dan is Director of Public Performance at Mountview.

As a director, he worked at The Old Vic, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Soho Theatre, Theatre503, Arcola, Project Arts Centre and Smock Alley Theatre (Dublin), Latitude Festival, Edinburgh Fringe and Off-Broadway.

He was Artistic Associate at Soho Theatre. Previously for Mountview: Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Romeo and Juliet, Alice in Wonderland, The Wolves, King Lear, Hamlet, A Clockwork Orange, Boy, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Legally Blonde.

Composer & Musical Director

Daniel is a Mountview alum (MA Musical Direction) based in London and the Midlands and is heavily involved with new musical theatre writing, particularly with actor-musicianship.

He was MD on Oliver! (Aberystwyth), Marriage A La Mode (Chichester University), Oregano (LSMT), MD and orchestrator/arranger in developing The Return of the Soldier (Hope Mill Theatre), and is currently developing multiple projects.

He co-wrote, orchestrated and developed the London fringe hit Paper Hearts and is now working on upcoming productions of Deptford Wives as well as The Bow Maker – in collaboration with The National Theatre of Scotland.

New writing workshops include: Poppies, Plots, 1446: A Korean Musical, The Lost Ones, The Witches and the Singing Mice and Half-Broken Things.

His other professional credits include: Songs for a New World, Hello Again, Rent, Loserville, I Sing and Into the Woods.

Daniel is a Musical Supervisor for ‘Imagine Theatre’ and works on arrangements for pantomime productions.

Choreographer

Laura is a dancer, choreographer and director. She works across dance, theatre and film.

Her latest film No Drinks on the Dance Floor has received nominations at LIFF in Leeds, Lisbon Screen Dance Festival and Birmingham Film Festival.

She is also performing internationally with Candoco Dance Company touring with Last Shelter by Jeanine Durning.

Laura has been involved in several production’s at Mountview and has previously collaborated with Dan Herd on Alice in Wonderland, King Lear and Hamlet, as well as teaching movement across programmes.

Set Designer

Frankie trained at LIPA.

Credits include: A Typical Rainbow (Turbine Theatre), The Girl of Ink and Stars (Watermill Theatre), Where We Stand (Blackheath Halls), The Collective (Rose Theatre), Perfectly Ordinary, The Pride, Proof and Things We Want (Hope Mill Theatre), Wilderness (LAMDA), How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found (Liverpool Playhouse), The Beau Defeated (HOME Theatre), Linda, Road (Manchester School of Acting) and We Happy Few (Manchester School of Acting).

Assistant and Associate credits include: Sister Act (UK tour), Love Never Dies (international tour), Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat (UK tour), Ragtime (ArtsEd), Sleepless in Seattle (Troubadour Theatre) and Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse).

Set and Costume 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.

Lighting Designer

Alex has been nominated for an Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design for You are Here (Southwark Playhouse).

Alex was the recipient of the Association of Lighting Designers Lumiere Scheme.

Most recent design work includes: Home (Chichester Festival Theatre), The White Factory (Marylebone Theare), Private Lives (The Barn Theatre, Cirencester), The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), Rapunzel (Watermill Theatre), Anyone Can Whistle and You Are Here (Southwark Playhouse), Oppenheimer (Mountview), King Charles III and Let The Right One In (ArtsEd).

Sound Designer

Matthew has been a sound designer and engineer for the past 13 years, his work has taken him all over the world with shows ranging from Fringe Festivals, UK and international touring and the West End.

Credits include: Cabaret (The Playhouse), Death Drop (The Criterion), Hymn (Almeida), Alice in Wonderland (UK tour), 9 to 5 (Savoy), Young Frankenstein (Garrick), Thriller Live (Lyric), The Producers (international tour), Flashdance (UK tour), In the Heights and The Railway Children (King’s Cross Theatre), The Last Five Years (UK tour), Rent (Edinburgh Fringe).

Voice Coach
Gemma Maddock

Production Manager
Cory Duffill

Deputy Production Manager
Laura Mann

Production Assistant
Lilli Lehmann*

Costume Supervisor
Nicola Cox

Stage Manager
Bethany Jefferies†

Deputy Stage Manager
Mathilde Reynolds†

Assistant Stage Managers
Katie Browes†
Louisa Glading†

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager
Melanie Oglesby†

Production Electrician
Billy Highfield†

Production Sound Engineer
Matthew Greed†

Lighting Programmer
Tahleesha Stone†

LX 1
Jasper Anderson†

LX 2
Jonathan Wing†

Sound Operator
Nathan Brown†

Sound 2
Alec Whyborn†

Lead Scenic Artist
Alison Drummond‡

Deputy Scenic Artist / Prop Maker
Megan Elliott‡

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Artist / Prop Maker
Lisa Martin

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