The Addams Family

Urinetown - Director

Richard is International Associate Director of Back to the Future The Musical (West End/Broadway). He is also UK Associate Director of MJ The Musical.

Previous directing credits at Mountview include Carrie and The Addams Family.

Other directing credits include Funny Girl (UK tour Director), GROWL (UK tour/China), Bandstand, Legally Blonde, Once on This Island and Top Hat (Arts Educational), Ruthless! The Musical (Arts Theatre) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatr Clwyd)

The Addams Family - Musical Director

Zach is currently an Associate Conductor on Only Fools And Horses The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket).

As MD: We Will Rock You 20th Anniversary (UK tour), Pippin (Southwark Playhouse/Hope Mill Theatre), Legally Blonde, The Wild Party (Arts Ed), Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Guildford School of Acting).

As Assistant MD: Sleepless: A Musical Romance (Wembley Park Theatre), The Best of the West End (Royal Albert Hall), The Best of Rock Musicals (Hammersmith Apollo), The Life (Southwark Playhouse).

The Addams Family - Choreographer

Choreography: Brief Encounter (New Wolsey Theatre/UK tour), 42 Balloons (Vaudeville Theatre), But I’m a Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre).

Assoc. Dir. and Choreo: Bonnie and Clyde (Garrick Theatre).

Dir: Dare You Say Please (King’s Head Theatre), We’re Few And Far Between (White Bear Theatre/Drayton Arms).

Assoc. Dir. and Choreo: Chess in concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

Assoc. Choreo: Fangirls UK workshop (Sonia Friedman Productions), Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), In the Heights (The King’s Cross Theatre).

Assist. Dir: Bonnie and Clyde in concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

Projects in development: The Children’s Inquiry (LUNG Theatre) and ICON: The K-Pop Musical (Carter Dixon McGill).

Urinetown - Set Designer

Sophia is a set, costume and puppet designer.

She most recently designed How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse), Once (Barn Theatre) and Compositor E (Omnibus Theatre).

Further credits include the UK premiere of Head Over Heels (Hope Mill Theatre), Daddy Issues (Seven Dials Theatre), The Moors (Hope Theatre), Clinton Baptiste (Hackney Empire/UK tour), Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion Theatre), A Christmas Carol (The Barn Theatre), How to Make a Revolution (Finborough Theatre), Gorgon: A Horror Story (VAULTS Festival), Faustus (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Neck or Nothing (Pleasance Theatre), The Little Prince (Omnibus Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arthur and Merlin (St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden).

Sophia previously assisted designer Philip Witcomb on the production Bonnie & Clyde (Arts Theatre).

The Addams Family - Associate Set Designer

Ethan is a Performance Design graduate (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama).

Design credits include: The Scar Test (LAMDA), Little Sweet Thing (LAMDA), The Bakers Wife (Playground Theatre), The Concrete Jungle Book (The Pleasance), Offie-nominated Rabbit Hole (The Union), The Bridges of Madison County (Quick Fantastic), Spring Awakening (RCSSD).

Associate design credits include: Wonderville (Immersive Venue Haymarket), Millennials (The Other Palace), Les Misérables (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

Peter trained at RADA.

His Theatre credits include The Smeds and the Smoos (Tall Stories), A Singe Man (Park Theatre), Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic), Macbeth (Stafford Festival Shakespeare), Translunar Paradise (Theatre Ad Infinitium), Chicago (Pimlico Opera), and Orestes (Shared Experience).

His Opera credits include Paul Bunyan (Welsh National Youth Opera), and Orpheus in the Underworld (Royal College of Music), and his lighting for Dance includes work for the Royal Ballet, Sadlers Wells and the Gartnerplatz Theatre, Munich.

Sound Designer

Chris is a sound designer of musicals and plays.

His work includes: From Here to Eternity, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Love Letters, Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency, The Great Murder Mystery, The Hired Man, and many more.

As an associate designer, he’s worked on international projects such as Kam Yama Kam and Miranda.

Previously Head of Sound at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Chris holds a degree in Sound, Light, and Live Event Technology from the University of Derby.

Associate Set Designer
Ethan Cheek (they/he)

Fight Choreographer
Marcello Marascalchi

Voice Coach
Laura Neel

Assistant Musical Director
Maggie Yu (she/her)
MA Musical Direction student

Ptaszynski Producer
Jac O’Kody (she/her)

Production Manager
Davin Patrick (he/him)

Assistant Production Manager
Laura Mann

Production Assistant
Will Fieldhouse (he/him) °

Costume Supervisor
Katie Higgins

Stage Manager
Lili Fuller † (they/them)

Deputy Stage Manager
Lea Bethmann † (she/her)

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Managers
Abbie Kell † (she/her)
Melanie Oglesby † (she/her)

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager / Sound No. 3
Emily Stimpson † (she/her)

Assistant Stage Manager / Thing
Alex Plaistow † (he/him)

Assistant Stage Manager
Callum Mack † (he/him)

Production Electrician
Gareth Morgan

Lighting Programmer
Efa Gregory †

LX 1
Ben Edwards †

Music Technician
Alistair Hobson

Sound No. 1
Nathan Brown †

Sound No. 2
Matt Greed †

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Deputy Scenic Construction Manager
Tom Barnett

Lead Scenic Artist
Alison Drummond ‡

Scenic Artist / Prop Maker
Janet Caddick

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

MD / Conductor / Keys 1
Zach Flis (he/him)

Assistant MD / Keys 2
Maggie Yu (she/her)
MA Musical Direction student

Reed 1
Jamie Fathers (he/him)

Reed 2
Chris Hatton

Bass
Daniele Borgato (he/him)

Drums
Dave Cottrell