Legally Blonde

Director

Franny trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Current projects: directing Legally Blonde (Mountview), directing Bare (Chichester Conservatoire), and Associate Director for Bugsy Malone (UK tour).

Recent credits as Director: Lysistrata Jones (ArtsEd, London), and UK Premiere of The Little Prince by James D. Reid and Nicholas Lloyd Webber (ICTheatre, Brighton).

As Associate Director: SIX The Musical (UK tour/West End/NCL Cruises 2019-2022), Turn of the Screw (UK tour), The Rink (Southwark Playhouse), Titanic The Musical (UK/Ireland tour/Hamburg State Opera), and Spamalot (UK tour 2018).

As Assistant Director: Pickle Jar (Soho Theatre) and Ever Onward Workshop (The Other Palace).

In addition, Franny mentors emerging artists, provides dramaturgical support to developing projects and regularly facilitates workshops.

Represented by Gavin Barker Associates

Musical Director

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Sam is an arranger, pianist and musical director who regularly works with leading artists, such as Ramin Karimloo, Hadley Fraser and Alice Fearn.

With a particular passion for new work, Sam was recently musical director for the UK première of Andrew Lippa’s musical The Man in the Ceiling and will shortly provide new arrangements for the first major revival of Lift.

Choreographer

Grace is Senior Dance Tutor at Mountview.

Credits include: Betwixt! (Trafalgar Studios), Fast and Furious Live (UK and European arena tour),

New York, Blood Brothers, The Fix, The Dead, Heathers, Much Ado About Nothing, Bernarda Alba and Parade (Mountview),

Dick Turpin (Crossroads Pantomimes, Grand Opera House, York), The Grand Old Dame of York, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Dick Whittington, Mother Goose (York Theatre Royal/Oxford Playhouse),

The Outback Games (The Space @ Venue 45, Edinburgh, nominated for NTN Award), Gadget Show Live (NEC Birmingham), Under Milk Wood, Robin Hood, Mother Goose and Dick Whittington (Oxford Playhouse),

The Tempest (S4K/UK/UAE tour), Anything Goes (Beck Theatre), Lucky Stiff (Bridewell Theatre), UK premiere of Zombie Prom (Landor Theatre).

Set and Costume Designer

Jason’s credits include: West Side Story, Chicago, Evita, Grease, JCS, Hair (Ljubljana Festival),

Top Hat Mill (Sonning), Wedding Singer, Nice Work, Spring Awakening (ArtsEd),

Aspects of Love, Gods and Monsters, Mack and Mabel (Southwark Playhouse),

The Guide for the Homesick, New Boy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Life Coach (Trafalgar Studios),

Orpheus, Sunday in the Park with George, Imaginary (Other Palace),

My Little Pony Rainbow Rocks, The Sound of Music, Hairspray (Asia),

The Three Little Pigs (world tour) and Honk! (Derngate Theatre).

Academia: RADA, E15, Mountview, Regents, EdgeHill, Kingston and Middlesex Universities.

Lighting Designer

Adam is a Mountview alum.

Since graduating, he has gone on to be Assistant Lighting Designer on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Bend it Like Beckham in the West End.

His own design credits include: Flowers For Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios), Then Now & Next (Southwark Playhouse), We Need New Names (UK tour),Gone Too Far (Theatre Royal Stratford East), From Here to Eternity (Charing Cross Theatre), Flashdance (European tour), Snowflake/Tornado (UK tour/BBC), Robin Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin (Harlow Playhouse), The Nutcracker,Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast (New Theatre Royal Portsmouth), Mephisto Waltz and Swingle Stepping (Royal Opera House, Main Stage).

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
Laura Neel

Assistant Director
Charles Quittner
MA Theatre Directing student

Assistant Musical Director
James Hall
MA Musical Direction student

Additional Music Preparation by
Joe Church

Musical Director / Keys 1
Sam Young

Assistant MD / Keys 2
James Hall
MA Musical Direction student

Bass
Danny Miller

Drums
Alex Maxted

Guitar
Kobi Pham

Trumpets
Mark Harrison
Jacob Phillips

Woodwinds
Andrew Isherwood
Emma Mackinder

Production Manager
Davin Patrick

Deputy Production Manager
Cory Duffill

Pre-Production Manager
Alysha Laviniere

Wardrobe Supervisor
Megan Ayrton

Dresser
Lili Fuller

Stage Manager
Hope Killen †

Deputy Stage Manager
Olivia Stone †

Assistant Stage Managers
Katie Browes †
Harlee Chevis †
Anna Matthiesen †
Production Electrician
Freddy Sherwood †

Assistant Production Electrician
Alec Whyborn †

Lighting Programmer
Tristan Tereszczuk †

Lighting Operator
Chloe Palmer †

LX Crew 1 / Followspot
Alex Hannah †

LX Crew 2
Sofie Mirza †

LX Crew 3
Billy Highfield †

Production Sound Engineer / Sound No. 3
Matt Greed

Assistant Production Sound Engineer / Sound No. 2
Nathan Brown

Sound No. 1
Ethan Traynor †

Sound No. 3
David Luggar †

Lead Carpenter
Daniel Cheyne

Deputy Lead Carpenter
Tom Barnett

Lead Scenic Artist
Marcus Lim

Scenic Artists & Prop Makers
Piper Ashworth ‡
Leonie Elliott ‡
Megan Elliott ‡
Emily Gray ‡
Alex Holl ‡
Christine Moon ‡

† FdA/BA Theatre Production Arts Student
‡ Scenic Art and Prop Making Student