Keith Allen is a stage and screen actor, writer, director and presenter.
Theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse & Alexandra Palace); Rehab The Musical (Playground); Homecoming (Theatre Royal Bath); Pinter 3: Landscape/A Kind of Alaska (Harold Pinter); Hogarth’s Progress: The Taster of the Town and Smack Family Robinson (Rose, Kingston); Gaslight (UK Tour); The Homecoming (Trafalgar Studios); Comedians (Lyric Hammersmith); Treasure Island (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Flanders Mare (Sound); The Celebration and The Room (Almeida and New York); The Homecoming and Murmuring Judges (National).
Television credits include: The Steeltown Murders; Agatha Raisin; The Pembrokeshire Murders; Marcella; Genius: Picasso; Bodyfarm; My Mad Fat Diary; Uncle; Robin Hood; Bodies; Death in Paradise; Between the Lines; Treasure Island; The Runaway; Undercover and Great Night Out.
Television writing and directing credits include: Unlawful Killing; Une Film De Keith Allen and a series of documentaries for Channel 4, including: Keith Meets Keith, Keith Allen Will Burn in Hell, Michael Carroll: King of Chavs and Tourette de France; You’re Frayed; Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown and The Comic Strip Presents.
Film credits include: The Buckingham Murders; Save The Cinema; La Cha Cha; Kingsman: The Golden Circle; Eddie the Eagle; Long Time Coming; Hector; The Last Showing; A Good Night; 24 Hour Party People; The Others; Trainspotting; Blue Juice; Shallow Grave; The Young Americans; Walter and Kafka.
Training: Urdang Academy.
Theatre includes: Chris in Miss Saigon (Sheffield Crucible); Ben in Babies in Concert (Lyric); Kempe in & Juliet (Shaftesbury).Mica’s recent television credits include a major recurring role in The Anansi Boys and her regular role in Eastenders.
Mica was recently honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with an MBE and signed a new three-record album deal with Warner Music. In 2007 Mica released her own book, Beautiful Within: Finding Happiness and Confidence in Your Own Skin.
Mica grew up singing in her grandparents' church, and by her mid-teens was making regular appearances with The Spirit Of Watts gospel choir, with whom she featured on the 1985 EP Gospel Joy. At the age of 18, she was featured on Hollywood Beyond’s album, If. Soon, she was signed to the 4th & Broadway label on Island Records and had her first Top Ten hit, My One Temptation (which peaked at number seven in the UK charts) as well as a collaboration with jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine on Like Dreamers Do and Breathe Life into Me, both of which were Top 30 UK hits. This was followed by a duet with US soul singer Will Downing on the classic Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song Where Is The Love which broke the UK Top 20. Following on from Mica's huge success she went on to film Gospel According to Mica: The Story of Gospel Music in Six Songs.
Mica has gone on to release eight more albums. Her latest album, Gospel, came out to critical acclaim in December 2020 and shot to Number One in the UK R&B Album Charts. The album seamlessly weaves together new material, timeless gospel classics and spellbinding contemporary versions of songs such as Mamma Said and (Something Inside) So Strong.Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre includes: Diana (Eventim Apollo); Lizzie (Hope Mill and Southwark); Head Over Heels and Rent (Hope Mill); Six: The Musical (Original West End Cast, Olivier Award Nomination); The Distance You Have Come (Apollo).
Concerts include: The Secret Garden (London Palladium); Here Come The Girls: Maiya Quansah-Breed (Crazy Coqs); I Could Use A Drink (Union); The Love Revue and Starry (Stanley Arts).
Theatre includes: Bat Boy (London Palladium); Bonnie and Clyde (Garrick); Rehab (Playground); But I'm A Cheerleader (Turbine); Gatsby (Southwark); Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket and Other Palace); Hair (London Palladium); Six (UK Tour); Rock Of Ages (UK Tour); Myth (The Other Palace); Wicked (UK and International Tour); The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Waterloo East); War of the Worlds (Dominion); Legally Blonde (Kilworth House); Jesus Christ Superstar, FAME, Miracle on 34th Street (UK Tour); The Theory of Relativity (Drayton Arms); Tina Turner Arena Experience (Holland); Bare: A Pop Opera (Greenwich); RENT (Tabard); Follies (Yvonne Arnaud) and 3 Composers 3 Countries (Landor).
Television includes: Emmerdale; Professor T and Eastenders.
Film includes: Empress Clawscream and Two Wolves.Theatre includes: The Story of Bart (UK Tour, Hippodrome); King The Musical (Hackney Empire); Assassins (nomination for Best Male Performance at the Offie Awards) and Rehab: A New Musical (Playground/Union); The Who’s Tommy (Greenwich); Sweeney Todd (ENO); A Class Act (nomination for Best Male Performance at the OffieAwards); Bent and Ragtime (Landor); Batboy: The Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Shaftesbury); Ragtime (Piccadilly); Aspects of Love (Prince of Wales); Hey, Mr Producer! (Lyceum); Les Misérables (Palace); Hairspray (Curve); Company (Derby Playhouse); Flora The Red Menace and Snoopy The Musical (Cambridge Arts); In The Midnight Hour (York Theatre Royal); Evita (Opera House, Manchester); Sweeney Todd (Watermill) and Jesus Christ Superstar (National Tour).
Film and television includes: Les Misérables; The Catch; Do Not Disturb; Taboo; The Bill; The Purple People Eater; Pebble Mill at One; The Royal Variety Performance and Wednesday at Eight.
Recordings include: Batboy: The Musical; Matador; Aspects of Love; Godspell; Oscar; Dracula; Les Misérables: The Complete Symphonic Recording; Jesus Christ Superstar; Scrapbook and Listen Up. John has also recorded five solo albums, all of which are available on iTunes and Spotify.
Oscar Conlon-Morrey is an award-winning actor, singer, compère, comedian and cabaret artist.
Theatre includes: Treason (London Palladium and UK Tour); Mother Goose (Duke of York's and UK Tour); Only Fools and Horses The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Toxic Avenger (Arts); Nativity! The Musical (Hammersmith Apollo and UK Tour); Cinderella: A Socially Distanced Ball (Turbine); The Fall and Anthony Munday (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) and Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Kilworth House).
Film includes: Spirit Rangers; My Friend Oscar; The Toxic Avenger the Musical; A Killer Party; Cinderella: A Socially Distanced Ball and First Date.
Oscar recently filmed a docudrama, My Friend Oscar, exploring Oscar Wilde’s time touring America. It will open in film festivals across the USA in 2024. He is currently writing a one-man show which will tour internationally in English and French.
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre includes: Disruption (Park); Million Dollar Quartet (Barn); Matilda (Cambridge); Spamalot (Mercury, Colchester and Daegu International Music Festival); Sweeney Todd (Derby); War of the Worlds (Dominion); Les Misérables (Queen's); The Phantom of the Opera (His Majesty’s); Cinderella (Old Vic) and Sweeney Todd (Royal Festival Hall).
Concerts include: Phantom 25 and Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert.
Film and television includes: Matilda the Musical; My Policeman; Les Misérables; Without Guilt; The Way; Death of England: Face to Face and Coronation Street.
Training: ArtsEd
Theatre includes: Gypsy (Mill at Sonning); Girl From The North Country (UK Tour); Matilda (Cambridge and UK Tour); Hairspray (UK Tour); The Addams Family (International Tour); Singin’ In The Rain (National); From Here To Eternity (Shaftesbury); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward and US Tour); Chicago (Adelphi); Ragtime (Piccadilly); The Full Monty and Witches Of Eastwick (Prince of Wales); Les Misérables (Palace and Endinburgh); Oklahoma! (National and Lyceum); Show Boat (Royal Albert Hall); Showstopper (Jermyn Street and UK Tour); Beauty And The Beast (Dominion); Cats (New London); A Christmas Carol (Arts); Sophisticated Ladies (Shakespeare’s Globe); She Loves Me (Savoy); Top Hat (UK Tour); South Pacific (UK Tour); The Witches Of Eastwick (UK Tour); Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour); Playing Away (Lillian Baylis); Chicago (Cyprus); Putting It Together (Harrogate); Les Misérables (Denmark); Me And My Girl (UK Tour and Zimbabwe); Aspects Of Love (Ipswich); Jekyll (Bromley); Noises Off (Westcliff); Doctor Who (UK Tour); Pal Joey (Bristol) and Guys And Dolls (Leicester).
Television and film includes: From Here To Eternity; The Bill; Eastenders; Oklahoma! and Magic Key.
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include: Heathers (Other Palace); Blood Brothers (UK Tour); Hairspray (Royal Caribbean); Hair (West End Live); The Who’s Tommy (Greenwich); Rapunzel the Musical (Gordon Craig); Cinderella (Victoria, Halifax) and Lazy Town Live (UK Tour).
In 2021, Carly competed in Simon Cowell’s talent competition Walk the Line on ITV.
Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre includes: Tarantino Live! (Riverside Studios); Dick Whittington (Leeds City Varieties); Footloose (UK and Dubai Tour); Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage (UK Tour) and Little Red Riding Hood (Liverpool Everyman and Leeds City Varieties).
Television includes: HollyoaksTraining: Arts Ed
Theatre includes: Dirty Dancing (Aldwych); We Will Rock You (Dominion); Peter Pan (Lyric); Mad, Funny, Just, (Aldwych); 20th Century Boy (UK Tour); Debbie Does Dallas (Edinburgh Fringe); Fat Pig and No Dinner For Sinners (Hamburg); Godspell (Cannizaro Park Festival); Starlight Express (UK Tour); and Move Along Sideways (Shaw).
Film and television includes: Shattered Circle; Wanting; The Dark; Yellowjacket; Footballers’ Wives; and The Bay.
Elliot Davis’ talents span musical theatre, film and radio.
His musical writing credits include Becoming Nancy; Loserville (Olivier Award nomination for Best New Musical); Peter Pan (revised book); Out There; Best Friends & Butterflies (Ticketmaster Award and Vivian Ellis Award for Best New Musical); What I Go To School For – The Busted Musical and Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be.
Elliot has worked as Musical Director for Burt Bacharach, Joss Stone, Marc Almond, The Moody Blues, Sophie Ellis Bextor and many others.
Elliot has also been a prolific music documentary maker for the BBC. His first feature film was commissioned by BBC Films and is due to start production in 2024.
Elliot is the inaugural recipient of the JJ Screenwriting Bursary in association with BAFTA.
Grant Black was born into song. He is the son of Oscar-winning lyricist Don Black. Grant started out working for music publishers and then moved into management, representing Adam Ant, Strictly Rhythm Records and many more.
Grant has enjoyed huge success as a songwriter with artists as varied as Van Morrison, Run DMC, Craig David, Sarah Brightman, Olly Murs and Corrine Bailey Rae to name a few. Grant is currently writing a musical, Casanova, with his father and Frank Wildhorn.
Gary is a multi-award-winning director and choreographer (on shows including Heathers The Musical, Thriller Live, Carrie and Fame) who has worked on arena tours with some of the world’s biggest artists, including Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Robbie Williams, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Tom Jones, Macy Gray, Girls Aloud and many more.
Television includes: The X Factor; Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway; The Royal Variety Performance and Comic Relief.
Other credits include two Royal Gala Performances, the BAFTAs, The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Concert at the Palace and the 2005 Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen at the Wales Millennium Centre.
Musical theatre includes: The Lord Of The Rings; Whistle Down The Wind (Watermill); The Lion (Southwark); The Light in the Piazza (Royal Academy of Music); The Wiz (Hope Mill); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard); Assassins (Watermill and Nottingham Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Shaftesbury Avenue and Off-Broadway, Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Set Design of a Musical); The Selfish Giant (Vaudeville); Cabaret (English Theatre Frankfurt); The World Goes Round (Stephen Joseph) and Saturday Night Fever (Theatre Royal Bath and UK Tour).
Other theatre includes: Murder In The Dark (UK Tour); The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse); Family Tree (UK Tour); Duet For One (Orange Tree); Blue/Orange (Royal & Derngate); Nothello (Belgrade, Coventry); The Art of Illusion and The Death of a Black Man (Hampstead); Footfalls & Rockaby (Jermyn Street); Antigone (Mercury, Colchester); The Gift (Stratford East); Black Men Walking (Royal Exchange); Crongton Knights and Noughts & Crosses (UK Tour); Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland); Giraffes Can’t Dance (Curve); The Children (English Theatre Frankfurt); Holes (Nottingham Playhouse and UK Tour); Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe); Sleeping Beauty, The Ladykillers and Sleuth (Watermill); Ghosts (Theatr Clwyd) and Island (National).
Katy is currently the UK Musical Supervisor for SIX The Musical. She was also recently Musical Supervisor on Bonnie & Clyde at the Garrick Theatre and will continue in the role as it heads on its UK Tour in 2024.
Training: University of Leeds and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre includes: Lizzie (Hope Mill); Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick and Arts); SIX (Vaudeville, Lyric, Arts and UK Tour); SIX: The Reunion Concert (Hampton Court Palace); RENT (Hope Mill); Bonnie & Clyde: The Reunion Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Frank & Friends: Frank Wildhorn in Concert (Cadogan Hall); Jersey Boys (Trafalgar); Millennials and Hair (Turbine) and Hex (National).
Workshops include: The Little Big Things
Designers Catherine Teatum and Rob Jones of Teatum Jones studied fashion design at Ravensbourne and Central Saint Martin’s respectively.
Launching in 2011, they created a brand known for designing fashion from human stories and pioneered the movement towards a more unified and inclusive fashion industry. They were the first brand at London Fashion Week to commit to casting models with disabilities.
Having presented award-winning shows since 2014 they’ve partnered with the world's most iconic retailers including Harvey Nichols, Liberty and Net - A - Porter. In 2016 they became the first British designers to win the prestigious International Woolmark Prize at New York Fashion Week.
Synonymous with dressing the powerfully talented and outspoken, their designs have been worn by Tracey Ellis Ross, Annie Lennox, Munroe Bergdorf, Jennifer Hudson, Zendaya and Andrew Scott. In 2018 they were asked to design Emma Watson's entire sustainable wardrobe for the G7 summit in Paris.
In 2022 they were elected members of the prestigious Artworkers Guild, recognised for their expertise in the craft of innovative and modern textile and fashion design. They designed over 150 unity-themed costumes for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee pageant, which was watched by over 10 million people.
In 2023 their work will be acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to join the permanent archival display of the world's most important fashion designers.
Lighting Design credits include: Only Men Aloud (UK Tour); Ray of Sunshine (Troxy); Liz Fraser at the Meltdown Festival (Royal Festival Hall); Massive Attack v Adam Curtis (Manchester, Germany and New York); Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Tour, Dreamboats and Miniskirts, Evita, Cabaret, Save the Last Dance and Fame the Musical (UK Tour); Massive Attack (World Tour 2014); Carrie (Southwark); Peter Pan, Snow White and Jack and the Beanstalk (Glasgow SECC); The War of the Worlds (Dominion); Shout! The Mod Musical (Blackpool Opera House); Jack and the Beanstalk and Beauty and the Beast (Nottingham Theatre Royal); Snow White (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Evita (Phoenix); Beauty and the Beast Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto and Dick Whittington Rock n Roll Panto (Leeds City Varieties); Aladdin (New Victoria, Woking) and IGNITE (P&O Cruises).
Tim is a professional member of the Association of Lighting Designers.
Chris has worked in various fields of the sound industry over the last 20 years as a sound designer and mix engineer, working on numerous productions and with many mainstream bands, artists and orchestras.
Theatre credits include: The Full Monty, Dreamboats and Petticoats, Footloose, Wonderland, 20th Century Boy: The Musical, Our House (UK Tour); Dirty Dancing (Dominion, UK Tour and European Tour); Hairspray, Cats, Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, Legally Blonde and Singin’ In The Rain (Kilworth House); Gypsy and Top Hat (The Mill, Sonning); Allegiance (Charing Cross); West Side Story and Chicago (Slovenia); American Idiot (Arts and UK Tour, Broadway World Award for Best Sound Design); Madagascar the Musical and The Producers (International Tour); Falsettos (Other Palace); TriOperas (Peacock); Thriller Live (Lyric, International and Arena Tour) and The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas (The Adelphi).
Concerts and Events include: Anne-Marie (International festivals and Arena Tour); BST Hyde Park 2017-2019; London 2012 Olympics; Ricky Gervais: Humanity (European Arena Tour) and the Invictus Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies 2014.
Jude Obermüller is a British musician, most often composing for Theatre and Recorded Media.
Scores include: Romeo & Juliet (BYMT); Beauty & the Seven Beasts (The Opera Story, London – Fedora Prize, runner-up); Julius Caesar (Singapore Rep); As You Like it & Farragut North (Southwark Playhouse); Alice in Wonderland (Storyhouse, UK); and Underground (59E59 Off-Broadway).
Music for Film and TV: Vogue; Comedy Central; and the tap-dance led film-short DATELEAP (Best New Music nomination, Fastnet Film Festival, Ireland).
Current musical works: Miss Havisham’s Wedding; Bardo: A Musical Webseries, and Feet Keep Me Flyin’ (BEAM 2023 – announcement coming soon).
As Musical Director: Frances Ruffelle (NY Theatre Workshop; Joe’s Pub; The Kennedy Center; Rockwell LA; Feinstein’s San Francisco), Eva Noblezada (Feinstein’s Washington DC); and for Michael John LaChiusa’s The Gardens of Anuncia (Public Theater, NYC).
As music educator: Something to Say (Student Academy Award-winner for Best Documentary, 2019).
Orchestrations/arrangements and musical assistance provided for Sir Trevor Nunn, Alan Cumming, J.K Simmons, Matt Lucas, Robbie Williams, and BASTILLE.
Jude was a full scholar at both London’s Royal College of Music, and NYU’s Tisch (Musical Theatre Writing). In 2021, he became a fellow of the coveted Johnny Mercer Songwriters’ Project. Jude lives in New York.
Anne started casting in 1992 as in-house Casting Director for the Apollo Leisure Group. She has cast numerous West End and touring plays and musicals.
Theatre includes: I Should Be So Lucky (UK Tour); Hairspray (Kilworth House); Identical (UK Tour); We Will Rock You (Coliseum and UK Tour); Strictly Ballroom (UK Tour); Bat Out of Hell (Dominion and UK tour); 9 To 5: The Musical (Savoy and UK Tour); The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios); Fatal Attraction, Abigail’s Party and Strangers On A Train (UK Tour); Old Vic New Voices Festival (Old Vic); The Mentalists and Barking In Essex (Wyndham’s) and Stones In His Pockets (New Ambassadors and Duke of York’s).
TV credits: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?; Any Dream Will Do; I’d Do Anything; Over the Rainbow; Superstar; Take That’s “Wonderland” Special and I Dream.
By 1995, at the tender age of 31, Clive Black had made Managing Director at EMI Records, having already sprinted through the ranks at Island Records and WEA, signing Mark Morrison, Marc Almond, Babylon Zoo and Eternal in the process. Over the course of his career, Clive has signed and released seven No.1 UK singles by five different artists - including 'Return of the Mack' by Mark Morrison, 'Spaceman' by Babylon Zoo, 'Something’s Gotta Hold Of My Heart' by Marc Almond, 'Wanna be the Only One' by Eternal, 'Sleeping Satellite' by Tasmin Archer and 'Thunder In My Heart' by Meck (feat. Leo Sayer) – and his stint at EMI would mean he oversaw the careers of Diana Ross, Whitesnake, and Kate Bush, and launch dance label Positiva.
In 1997, Clive founded Blacklist Entertainment, subsequently managing producer Trevor Horn, song-writer, Donovan, and, of course, his father, legendary songwriter and lyricist, Don Black O.B.E. and two years later, he set up the Blacknight label, a joint venture with Clive and Sir Cliff Richard, who he worked closely with for several years. Since 2017, Blacklist has focussed
on developing Rehab the Musical - whilst still working in management, music publishing, and running the Blacklist label – and there are now plans for two more musical productions in 2024 – Feather Boy, and The Wombles.
Don Black received two Tony Awards for Best Book and Lyrics of a Musical for ‘Sunset Boulevard’, marking his third collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber. They first joined forces to write the song cycle Tell Me On A Sunday and were reunited again for Aspects of Love. Additional awards include an Oscar for his song Born Free, five Academy Award nominations, three Tony nominations, six Ivor Novello Awards and a Golden Globe. Songwriter of many James Bond songs (including Diamonds Are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun), Don was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008 and honoured with a BMI Icon award. He received the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Honours List and was awarded an Olivier Award for his outstanding services to theatre. Recently, Don’s critically acclaimed memoir The Sanest Guy In The Room featured in The Sunday Times best sellers list.
Nichola Martin started her career as a backing singer for Des O’Connor. Throughout the seventies she sang in different groups and was signed at various times to every major record company in the UK, and achieved hit records in Japan. She put together Bucks Fizz, set up her own music publishing company and record production company and did a lease tape deal with RCA Records. The following year she put together the duo Bardo who represented the UK in Eurovision and did a lease tape deal with Epic/CBS. She then signed a young studio engineer and managed his career. Within two years he was co-producing The Bee Gees. He also engineered and mixed the Kate Bush recording Running Up That Hill, which became a huge success following its inclusion in the Netflix series Stranger Things in 2022, reaching Number 1 in the UK charts 37 years after its release.
As co-founder and head of legendary PR company Savage & Best, Jane Savidge is widely credited as being one of the main instigators of the Britpop movement that swept the UK in the mid 1990s. During this time, Jane and her company represented Suede, Pulp, The Verve, and Elastica, whilst representing many other artists of the era including The Cranberries, The Fall and Jesus and Mary Chain. She is the author of Lunch With The Wild Frontiers (2019) and Here They Come With Their Make Up On: Suede, Coming Up and More Adventures Beyond The Wild Frontiers (2022), and her new book, Pulp’s This Is Hardcore, will be published by Bloomsbury on March 7, 2024. Jane has received four Music Week Awards for her PR work in music, and has been involved with Rehab The Musical since 2017.
Jayne’s career began in the music industry managing successful record producers. She then went on to work at EMI Records and Warner Records in A & R where the long term working relationship with Clive Black begun. She has successful worked with a long line of artists and has been part of the team for Rehab since 2017.
Led by Gary Beestone and Zoe Snow, the GBA team works alongside their clients to create and deliver outstanding projects. Based in both London and New York, GBA offer project consultancy and also produce and deliver live experiences, special projects, theatrical productions and creative events.
From initial consultancy to the final de-brief, GBA offer a complete creative and strategic project management service, ensuring seamless delivery and focussed on the highest quality production values.
GBA’s recent projects include: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Wicked Brazil; Eurovision 2023; Harry Potter and The Cursed Child and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.