The Art of Success

Director

Martin is a director of classic and contemporary plays, opera, staged oratorios, music theatre, and cabaret.

Martin has been nominated for Best Director 2016/2017 by the Off West End Awards for his production of Noel Coward’s Home Chat.

He was also nominated for the same award for his production of Hamlet in 2013.

Having spent many successful years as an actor, working at most theatres in the UK as well as on tour in the USA, Martin used this as a natural springboard to directing.

His experience as an actor affords him a unique and insiders relationship with acting companies, that allows collaboration in a way that creates superb work within an encouraging and supportive environment.

Based in London, Martin’s work is actor/performer centered, producing work that is intelligent but playful, thought-provoking but instinctive, truthful but theatrical.

Movement & Intimacy Director

Steve teaches movement at many of the country’s leading Drama Schools.

He trained at Mountview and has honed his skills over the last twenty years in numerous scripted, devised and physical theatre productions as a performer, co-creator and director notably working with Rufus Norris, John Cleese and Jenny Sealey.

In his role as movement director and support at Mountview he has been involved with productions including Nativity, Richard II and Marat Sade.

Steve’s next project is creating a piece of devised theatre with students at Drama Studio London.

Costume Designer

Elliott is a Canadian Set and Costume Designer for theatre and opera.

He is a graduate of Edinburgh’s Scenehouse Programme and he holds a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of British Columbia.

Theatre highlights include Cartas Vivas (Cervantes Theatre, London/Teatro de La Abadía, Madrid) and Midnight: A New Musical (The Union Theatre/Seoul, South Korea).

Opera credits include La Canterina, The Boatswain’s Mate (Buxton International Festival), Dewi in the Deep (Royal Opera House) and Candide (Blackheath Halls Opera).

Lighting Designer

Alex designs lighting for theatre and opera across the UK and Internationally.

Notably Home at Chichester Festival Theatre and The White Factory at Marylebone Theatre.

Alex has been nominated for two Off West End Awards for Best Lighting Design for The White Factory at the Marylebone Theatre and You are Here at the Southwark Playhouse.

Alex was also the 2019 Association of Lighting Production and Design Lumière 2019.

Recent design work includes: Home (Chichester Festival Theatre), Sherlock and the Whitechapel Fiend and  Treasure Island (Barn Theatre, Cirencester), It’s a MotherF**king Pleasure (New York), Kin - The Musical (Teatro Technis) and The White Factory (Marylebone Theatre).

Sound Designer

Sonum is a Yorkshire-based musical director, composer and sound designer.

Credits as MD/pianist include: Guts The Musical (Hull Truck Theatre, upcoming), Beauty and the Beast (Cast), Pinocchio (Hull Truck), Spring and Port Wine (Bolton Octagon), Sleeping Beauty (Cast), Just an Ordinary Lawyer (Leeds University/Hull Truck), 71 Coltman Street and The Railway Children (Hull Truck), Aladdin (Buxton Opera House/ Embassy Theatre), Dick Whittington (Grange Theatre), Bend it Like Beckham (workshop, Dominion Theatre), Bring on the Bollywood (Belgrade Theatre), His Indian Boyfriend and Kat in Kixx (Theatre Royal Stratford East), John and Jen (Rosemary Branch), Swallows and Amazons (Bristol Old Vic), They’re Playing Our Song (Catford Broadway).

Recent credits as Composer and Sound Designer include: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Blue Stockings (Mountview), Lumbejills (Capitol Theatre, upcoming), Ladies Unleashed (Hull Truck), Animalis Carnivale (Roehampton University), Favour (Bush Theatre), Red Sky at Night (Mikron Theatre), Arabian Nights (Hoxton Hall), Relativity (Finborough Theatre), Not the End of the World (Edinburgh Fringe), Rare Dreams and Persona both for Youth Music Theatre UK and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warhorse Theatre Works).

Assistant Choreographer
Vanessa Abreu

Assistant Movement Director
Ami Nagano

Fight Choreographer
Marcello Marascalchi

Voice Coach
Matt Harrison

Assistant Director
Ryan Heenan

Production Manager
Cory Duffill

Costume Supervisor
Kate Page

Stage Manager
Carol Mannix †

Deputy Stage Manager
Genelle Sellars°

Assistant Stage Managers
Amy Ashcroft †
May Wells 

Production LX
Gareth Morgan
Amy Goater

Production Sound Engineer
Ollie Brennan
Wayne Harris

Lighting Programmer
Ben Spreckley

LX Operator
Ryan Littler

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Artists/Prop Makers
Alex Holl ‡
Amy Kennington ‡
Will Coyne ‡

° PG Dip Stage Management student
† FdA/BA Theatre Production Arts student
‡ Scenic Art and Prop Making student