Junkyard

Director

Simone is a Director and Movement Specialist who has worked extensively in the UK as well as in the USA and Australia. For the past 20 years she has been working across the industry in both theatre venues and also in non traditional site-specific spaces. She is a Globe Practice specialist, with an active interest in and experience of actor training and is a tutor with Open Door.

Ben Goddard

Ben has musically directed countless shows in the UK and around the world. For 20 years Ben was the Resident MD for the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich with the Actor Musician company and Pete Rowe. Previously for Mountview he wrote a score for Jane Eyre and musically directed Made in Dagenham, Mr Burns and Red Riding Hood. As a composer he has provided music for over 50 plays, and he is also a musical director at Eastenders for the BBC.

Choreographer

Emma’s recent credits include A Comedy of Errors (Silk Street), Acis and Galatea/ Blond Eckbert (Potsdam Winter Opera), Semele (Glyndebourne), Il Trovatore (The Royal Opera House), In the Realms of Sorrow (StoneNest), Fascinating Aïda (UK tour), Vinegar Tom and Kipps (Mountview), Bajazet (Irish National Opera/Royal Opera House), Apollo e Daphne, 4/4 and Berenice (Royal Opera House), Cosi Fan Tutte (Nevill Holt Opera/NI Opera, Belfast) and Eyam (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre).

Set & Costume Designer

Laura is a designer whose research and practice is concerned with the material and sensorial potential of performance. Laura represented the UK at the International Design Festival Prague Quadrennial with her design for Talking Heads at Leeds Playhouse. Subsequently, the design was exhibited in the V&A Museum and The National Centre for Craft and Design. Design includes: Our Town (Silk Street Theatre, Barbican), In This Smoking Chaos, The Rising Sun (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), The Snow Queen (Polka Theatre), Children’s Day: Reimagined (Fevered Sleep/Leeds2023), Hello and Goodbye (York Theatre Royal), Talking Heads (Leeds Playhouse) and Economy of Ecology (New Diorama Theatre/HOME Manchester).

Lighting Designer

Hayden is a lighting designer, programmer and technician from Oxford now living in London. He has lighting designed various plays and musicals both at Montview and for the Edinburgh Fringe. He has also worked on various productions in London’s West End and the Olivier Theatre at the Royal National Theatre. Hayden will be graduating from Montview’s Theatre Production Arts course with a specialism in Lighting Design and Production.

Sound Designer

Justin was born in Blackpool and has over 20 years experience working with Sound. Starting his career as an Audiologist and then moving into theatre. He has toured with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Annie, West Side Story, Fame, Chicago, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Beauty and the Beast and Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling. He operated Phantom of the Opera for two years in the West End. He has worked for the English National Opera and the Barbican providing sound requirements for many internationally acclaimed artists including the London Symphonic Orchestra. He worked at the BBC World Service as a studio manager to cover the Jubilee, the London Olympics and also help with the relocation of broadcasts from Bush House to New Broadcasting House. Sound designs include Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall), Songs for Nobodies (Ambassadors Theatre), Lone Flyer (Jermyn Street Theatre), Anyone Can Whistle (Southwark Playhouse) and Wild the Musical (Rose Theatre, Kingston).

Voice Coach
Andrea Lewis

Assistant Director
Anna Wellman*

Assistant Musical Director
Ben Payne**

* MA Theatre Directing student
** MA Musical Direction student

Production Manager
Naomi Wildridge (she/her)

Costume Supervisor
Jessie McKenzie

Stage Manager
Harlee Chevis† (they/them)

Deputy Stage Manager
Katie Browes† (she/her)

Assistant Stage Managers
Rachel Sarah Leveney† (she/her)
Alex Plaistow†
May Wells (she/her)

Production Electrician
Amy Goater (she/her)

Lighting Programmer
Jack Goodwin† (he/him)

Production Sound Engineers
Ollie Brennan
Wayne Harris (he/him)

Sound Operator
Lateef Oshinoowo (he/him)

Sound 2
Alex Duckworth (he/him)

Sound 3
Chloe Palmer† (she/her)

Lead Carpenter
Hannah Smith (she/her)

Lead Scenic Artist
Will Coyne‡

† Theatre Production Arts student
‡ Scenic Art and Prop Making student