Merrily We Roll Along

Fight Choreographer
Rachid Sabitri (he/him)

Voice Coach
Maddie Joyce (she/her)

Intimacy Director
Sachi Kimura (she/her)

Assistant Director
Sarah La Plain (she/her)

Assistant Musical Director
AJ Hill (he/him) ¨

¨ MA Music Direction student

Production Manager
Naomi Wildridge (she/her)

Costume Supervisor
Nicola Cox (she/her)

Stage Manager
Leo Watson (he/him) Δ

Deputy Stage Manager
Abbie Grimes (she/her) ΔΔ

Assistant Stage Manager
Joe Doyle (he/him) Δ
Beke Langanke (she/her) ΔΔ

Production Electrician
Edward Morley Δ

Production Sound Engineer
Wayne Harris (he/him)

LX Programmer / Operator
Mimi Storey (she/her) Δ

Followspots
Yota Kitade
Hua Xiaoyu

Sound Operator
Tia Morris (she/her)

Sound 2
Nick Searle (he/him)
Caner Bozcur (he/him)

Sound 3
Genelle Sellars (she/her)

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith (she/her)

Scenic Art Manager
James Wilkes (he/him)

Deputy Scenic Artist / Prop Maker
Sally Strong (she/her)

Scenic Artist / Prop Maker
Alex Holl

Fit Up Crew
Catriana Black ΔΔ

ΔΔ PG Dip Stage and Production Management student
Δ FdA Technical Production/Stage Management student

MD/Conductor/Keys 2
Dan Jackson (he/him)

Assistant MD/Keys 1
AJ Hill (he/him) ¨

Bass
Aiden Platts

Flute/Clarinet/Tenor Sax
Dan Czwartos

Trumpet
Sam Davies

Drums
Jacob Slade

¨ MA Music Direction student

Director

Martha is a director and writer. She wrote the book for hit musical Babies, nominated for Best New Musical at the 2025 WhatsOnStage Awards.

Director credits include: Babies, In Pieces, Jane (The Other Palace), In the Land of Eagles, Agatha (Pleasance), The UN Inspector (Mountview), 9 to 5 (Arts Ed), Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Tempest (YSC), Hamlet, Twelfth Night (RCSSD), Babies: The Staged Concert (Lyric Theatre), Legally Blonde (Italia Conti). As Tour Director: The Shark is Broken (UK & Ireland tour).

Associate Director credits include: The Producers, The Bridges of Madison County, She Loves Me, Indecent, The Lie (Menier), Fiddler on the Roof (Playhouse, Olivier for Musical Revival), Love in Idleness (Apollo), Identical (Lowry/Nottingham), The Book Thief (Curve/Belgrade), The God of Carnage (TR Bath), West Side Story, Top Hat (Kilworth).

Martha’s new musical, Every Day, premieres at Birmingham Hippodrome this summer.

Musical Director

MD credits include: Top Hat, Wicked, Chicago, Violet, Tipping the Velvet, Piaf, Jerry Springer The Opera and The Master and Margarita.

Work for The National Theatre includes: Twelfth Night, The White Guard, Burnt by the Sun, The Cherry Orchard, London Assurance, Theatre of Blood, Follies, The Witches, Hex and Singin' in the Rain.

Work for New Adventures includes: Romeo and Juliet, The Midnight Bell, Nutcracker!, The Red Shoes, and The Car Man.

Other West End conducting credits include: Cabaret, Moulin Rouge, Crazy For You, Come From Away, Aspects of Love, 42nd Street, The Go-Between, Guys and Dolls, The Drowsy Chaperone, Marguerite, and Bugsy Malone.

Choreographer

George trained at Laine Theatre Arts.

Choreography credits include: A Christmas Carol the Musical (The Lowry), Winghaven Park (The Actors Church), The Rink (Minack Theatre), The Drowsy Chaperone and Kipps! (Laine Theatre Arts), Public Domain (Vaudeville Theatre), Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), Come Dine With Me (Edinburgh Fringe), Dick Whittington (Broadway Theatre Barking), and The Mountbatten Festival of Music (Royal Albert Hall).

Assistant credits include: High Society (The Mill at Sonning), Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall), and Peter Pan (Mayflower Theatre, Southampton).

Performing highlights include: Top Hat, Hairspray, 42nd Street, Singin’ in the Rain and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Set & Costume Designer

George is an award nominated set and costume designer working across Theatre, Film and TV.

His work as a designer includes: Into the Woods, The UN Inspector, Curtains the Musical and Faustus: That Damned Woman (Mountview), Bonnie and Clyde (Old Joint Stock), Much Ado About Nothing (Changeling Theatre), An Open Studio (Soho Place Theatre), Saviour (Music Video), Florence (BFI Film Festival) and Sorry for Your Loss (Kings Head Theatre).

As design Assistant/ Associate, his work includes: Practical Magic II (Warner Bros. Studios), Slow Horses (Apple TV), Back to the Future (Broadway), The Devil Wears Prada (West End), Starlight Express (Wembley Troubadour), Girls Aloud (UK tour), Britain's Got Talent (ITV), Creakers the Musical (Southbank Centre) and Mamma Mia: I Have a Dream.

Lighting Designer

Mark’s credits include: Once, Clybourne Park and Betty Blue Eyes (first national tours), Tony! Tony Blair the Rock Opera (Harry Hill and Stephen Brown), Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Mast Mayflower Made), The Standard Short Long Drop (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design – The Vanguard (Camden), Ken (Terry Johnson and Hampstead), House and Garden (The Watermill), Return to the Forbidden Planet (25th Anniversary tour), Don’t Look Now (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design – Queen’s Theatre), Michael Morpurgo’s Butterfly Lion (Kenwright), Dell Computers Gala (Buenos Aires), The Full Monty, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oliver! (Bermuda City Hall), working with Willy Russell on Educating Rita and Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse), Shirley Valentine (Royal Court Liverpool), David Copperfield, Pride and Prejudice, Farm Boy, The Hired Man and Kissing Sid James (New York E59) and numerous pantomimes for Evolution Productions.

Sound Designer

David has worked as a sound designer and engineer in theatre for over 30 years and has mixed and designed shows in the West End, UK, Europe and Worldwide.

Most recently as Designer or Associate on productions of Come Fall in Love, Cake, The Duchess, Saturday Night Fever, American Idiot, Eugenius, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweeney Todd and various plays and pantomimes over the years.