Theatre includes: The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); The Distance You Have Come (Cockpit Theatre); One Love (Birmingham Rep); Sleeping Beauty, Dick Whittington and Cinderella (Hackney Empire); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales); Les Misérables (Queen’s); Ordinary Days (Trafalgar Studios); Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); The Lion King (Lyceum); Whistle Down the Wind (UK tour) and Leader of the Pack (UK tour).

Television includes: Trying; Wanderlust; Splatalot 2; Cleopatra Comin’ Atcha; The Queen’s Nose; The Bill; Grange Hill; MacGyver; Class Action; The Sculptress and Dream Team.

Film includes: Rocketman; London Road; Les Misérables and the short film Separate Truths.

Grammy nominated for The Prince of Egypt ‘Best Musical Theatre Album’, WhatsOnStage Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Musical’, Broadway World Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Musical’ and West End Wilma Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Musical’.

Theatre includes: ‘Christine Daaé’ in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s); ‘Guinevere’ in Camelot (London Palladium); The Show Must Go On! (Palace); ‘Antonia’ and understudy ‘Aldonza’ and ‘Dulcinea’ in Man of La Mancha (ENO, London Coliseum); ‘Diana Ross’ in Motown The Musical (Original Cast, Shaftesbury); ‘Little Eva’ in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Original Cast, Aldwych); understudy ‘Nabulungi’ in The Book of Mormon (Original Cast, Prince of Wales); understudy ‘Sarah’ in Ragtime (Regent’s Park) and Ultimate Broadway (Shanghai).

Television includes: The Jonathan Ross Show and Britain’s Got Talent (ITV); Spongers (pilot) and All Star Musicals (ITV).

Film includes: principal soloist in My Favourite Things: Rogers and Hammerstein 80^th Anniversary Concert (Cinema Live); ‘Debutante’ in Beauty and the Beast (Disney) and ‘Lavvie’ in Cosmic Rhapsody (animated film).

Other work includes: principal soloist for ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ single and digital remix, soloist for Bliss – The Silent Twins movie soundtrack and soloist on ‘If We Only Have Love’ single for Childline. Live events include The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (Buckingham Palace) and Magic at the Musicals (Royal Albert Hall). Awards include ‘Best Actress in a Musical’ for ‘Christine Daaé’ – The Phantom of the Opera at the Black British Theatre Awards and ‘Best Actress in a Musical’ for ‘Diana Ross’ – Motown The Musical at the International Achievement Recognition Awards. WhatsOnStage Best Takeover Performance Nomination: ‘Glinda’ – Wicked.

Training: Arts Educational Schools London – BA (Hons) Degree in Musical Theatre.

Theatre includes: ‘Angel City Four’ in City of Angels (Garrick); Sweet Charity (Donmar); ‘Curtis Taylor Junior’ in Dreamgirls (Savoy); swing and understudy ‘Benny’ in In the Heights (King’s Cross Theatre); understudy ‘Donkey’ in Shrek The Musical (UK tour); Puss in Boots and Blues in the Night (Hackney Empire).

Film includes: ‘Ricky’ in Land of Dreams.

Workshops include: Abyssinia and Martin Smith’s King (Hackney Empire).

Other work includes: television commercials for Nintendo Switch 2021 and Teacher Training Agency “Use Your Head, Teach.”; the Olivier Awards; Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2) and WhatsOnStage Awards.

Training: Arts Educational Schools London.

Theatre includes: ‘Fergie’ in The Windsors: Endgame (Prince of Wales); ‘Celia’ in The Girls (Olivier nomination, Phoenix) ‘Paula Paxton’ in Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix); ‘Barbara Castle’ in Made in Dagenham (Adelphi); ‘Diana Divane’ in Lend Me a Tenor! (Olivier nomination, Gielgud); ‘Mrs Lovett’ in Sweeney Todd (Mercury Theatre); Forbidden Broadway! and Spamilton! (Menier Chocolate Factory); ‘Dot’ in Sunday in the Park with George (Théâtre du Chatelet); ‘Velma Von Tussle’ in Hairspray (Leicester Curve); ‘Gay Daventry’ in Gay’s the Word (Jermyn Street Theatre) and ‘Madame Thénardier’ in Les Misérables.

Television includes: Trapped; Doctors (BBC) and Mr. Bean (ITV).

Film includes: The Phantom of the Opera (Warner Bros) and Sunday in the Park with George (Mezzo TV).

Other work includes: Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2); Sondheim at 80 (BBC Proms) and May I have a moment? (Crazy Coqs).

Theatre includes: Queen Anne (Haymarket); Yes, Prime Minister (Gielgud and Apollo); Scissor Happy (Duchess); Forbidden Broadway (Fortune); The Bed Before Yesterday (Almeida); The Fields of Ambrosia (Aldwych); Amadeus (UK tour) and Love For Love (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Television includes: Death in Paradise (BBC); The Sixth Commandment (BBC); Slow Horses (Apple TV); Avenue 5 (HBO); Ghosts (BBC); Benidorm (ITV); My Family (BBC); Only Fools and Horses (BBC); The Crown (Netflix); Spitting Image (ITV); New Tricks (BBC); Ballot Monkeys (Channel 4); Nighty Night (BBC); One Foot in the Grave (BBC); Not Going Out (BBC); Outnumbered (BBC); Mr. Bean (BBC); Eastenders (BBC); Footballers’ Wives (ITV) and Coronation Street (ITV).

Film includes: Rogue Agent (Netflix).

Other work includes: Michael sang the lead vocals on the Spitting Image UK Number 1 hit ‘The Chicken Song’.

Training: The MGA Academy of Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: ‘Carol Blitztein’ in Blitz! (Union Theatre); ‘Clara Stahlbaum’ in The Nutcracker: A Christmas Spectacular (New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth); ‘Marty’ and understudy ‘Sandy’ in Grease (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line) and ‘Jesiva’ in WeCameToDance (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

Other work includes: featured soloist in An Evening with Jonathan Reid Gealt (Concert).

Caitlin is delighted to be making her West End Debut in Wicked and would like to thank her loved ones for their endless support.

 Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country (UK tour); Kinky Boots (Adelphi); Made in Dagenham (UK tour); Spend, Spend, Spend and Moll Flanders (Watermill Theatre); Tin Tin (Barbican); Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stafford Shakespeare Festival); Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kent Rep); A Word From Our Sponsor (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Animal Farm (Theatr Clywd); A View from the Bridge (Greenwich Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Manchester Library); Man of La Mancha and The Wizard of Oz (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Aladdin (Bristol Hippodrome); Happy End (Nottingham Playhouse); Strindberg Chamber Plays (The Gate) and Something Wicked This Way Comes (National Theatre of Scotland).

Television includes: Belgravia (ITV); Call the Midwife, Doctors, EastEnders, Grange Hill, Bramwell, In the Red and Bugs (BBC); Thief Takers, Trial & Retribution, The Knock and The Bill (ITV).

Film includes: From Hell (20^th Century Fox).

Training: Royal Academy of Music.

Theatre includes: ensemble and understudy ‘Boq’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (New Victoria Theatre, Woking); ‘Warren’ in Ordinary Days (The Theatre Café); ‘Aladdin’ in Aladdin (Theatre Royal Windsor); Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); and Fantastic Mr. Fox (Regent’s Park).

Television includes: The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV) and Oliver! (BBC Children in Need).

Other work includes: Footballers’ Wives the Musical (Studio Cast Recording); Downhill and Prom Fever! (Mirrorball Films); Roles We’ll Never Play, Zorro The Musical and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cadogan Hall).

Theatre includes: understudy ‘Norma Desmond’ in Sunset Boulevard (Savoy); ensemble and understudy ‘Elphaba’ and ‘Nessarose’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); The Rocky Horror Show (UK & Ireland tour); Legally Blonde (UK & Ireland tour); Blood Brothers (UK & Ireland tour); Parade (Hope Mill Theatre); Peter Pan (UK tour) and Little Shop of Horrors (The Kings Arms, Salford).

Television includes: ‘Liz’ in Liver Bird’s Ident (ITV).

Workshops include: Twelfth Night (National Theatre); The Social; Country Roads; Bloody Nora: A Musical and Closure.

Other work includes: Carousel – John Wilson Orchestra (recording); The Spark of Creation – with Stephen Schwartz (Park Theatre); An Evening with Stephen Schwartz (Hope Mill Theatre); Jason Manford’s Christmas Carol Concert (Bridgewater Hall, Manchester); Church of Now (BBC Comedy) and BBC Proms 2010 – Prom 19: Stephen Sondheim at 80 (Royal Albert Hall).

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre includes: ‘Susan’ in Company (Arts Centre Theatre, Aberdeen); vocalist in Three Phantoms (Asian tour); alternate ‘Christine Daaé’ in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s); ‘Precious McGuire’ in Steel Pier (Union Theatre) and ‘Cosette’ in Les Misérables (Queen’s).

Television includes: Humans (Channel 4).

Workshops include: ‘Portia’ in The Wind in the Willows; ‘Rebecca’ in My Land’s Shore and ‘Claire Clairmont’ in Lord Byron’s Mistress.

Other work includes: ‘Cosette’ in Les Misérables at The Classic BRIT Awards 2011 (Royal Albert Hall) and ‘Johanna’ in Sondheim’s Songs from Sweeney Todd.

Training: Bird College.

Theatre includes: ensemble and understudy ‘Bill Sikes’ and ‘Dr. Grimwig’ in Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); swing and understudy ‘Pepper’ in Mamma Mia! (Novello); ensemble and understudy ‘Pierce’ and ‘Carshot’/‘Maxwell’ in Half a Sixpence (Kilworth House Theatre); Dance Captain, swing and understudy ‘Boatswain’ in Sasha Regan’s All-Male H.M.S Pinafore (Wilton’s Music Hall); ensemble/‘Busboy’ in She Loves Me (Sheffield Crucible); ensemble in Cinderella (Theatre Royal Nottingham); ensemble in Grease (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line); ensemble in Aladdin (Cambridge Arts Theatre); ‘Jack in the Box’ in Toys the Musical (Dubai); ensemble and Dance Captain in Peter Pan (White Rock Theatre, Hastings) and ensemble in The Golden Age of Dance (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).

Training: Reynolds Performing Arts and Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ensemble in Oklahoma! (Gordon Craig Theatre) and ‘Pouncival’ and ‘Coricopat’ in Cats (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line).

Conor is thrilled to be making their West End debut as ‘Chistery’.

Training: Bird College, graduating with a first-class BA (Hons) in Dance and Theatre Performance.

Theatre includes: swing in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Rumpleteazer’ in Cats (international tour); ‘Anybody’s’ in West Side Story (Kilworth House); ensemble and swing in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); ‘Handmaiden’ and understudy ‘Narrator’ in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour) and ensemble in Cinderella (Milton Keynes Theatre).

Meg would like to thank her family and friends for their continued love and support.

Training: Royal Academy of Music – Musical Theatre (MA) and University of Warwick – Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BSc).

Theatre includes: ‘Megan’ in But I’m A Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre); swing and understudy ‘Eglantine Price’ in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour) and ‘Sandy’ in Grease (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line).

Television includes: dancer in The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV).

Jess is delighted to stay a second year in Wicked and would like to thank her friends and family for their endless love and support.

Training: Urdang Academy and The Susan Nash School of Dance and Drama.

Theatre includes: swing in A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); swing and understudy ‘Olaf’ and ‘Duke of Weselton’ in Frozen (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); City of Angels (Garrick); ‘Munkustrap’ in Cats (Cyprus); Zombies (The Other Palace); Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); ‘Young Theodore’ in Follies (National Theatre); ‘Will Parker’ in Oklahoma! (Gordon Craig Theatre); Chess (English National Opera); A Theory of Justice: The Musical! (Arts); Mary Poppins (international tour); Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory); Kinky Boots (Adelphi); Les Misérables (Sondheim); Top Hat (Aldwych) and Godspell (Union Theatre).

Training: Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ‘Mogi’ in Death Note: The Musical (London Palladium); ‘Rudolpho’ in Matilda The Musical (Cambridge); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Evita (Regent’s Park); ‘Benny Southstreet’ in Guys and Dolls (The Mill at Sonning); ‘Niko’ and ‘Sundeep’ in Legally Blonde (UK tour); Mamma Mia! (Novello); Peter Pan (Wimbledon Theatre) and Snow White (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre).

Television includes: McDonald and Dodds (ITV); It’s a Sin (Channel 4) and The Liberator (Netflix).

Film includes: Snow White (Disney), Bohemian Rhapsody (GK Films) and Wicked: Part Two (Universal Pictures).

Training: Urdang Academy and the BRIT School.

Theatre includes: understudy ‘Anna’ in Frozen (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); understudy ‘Elphaba’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Lucy’ in Godiva Rocks (Belgrade Theatre) and swing in Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour).

Television includes: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC) and Britain’s Got Talent (ITV).

Other work includes: soloist in Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2).

Training: Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Runway House and The Brit School of Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: Cabaret (The Kit Kat Club); The Lion King (UK & Ireland tour); ACE Dance & Music and Phoenix Dance Theatre: Windrush ‘The Movement of the People’.

Other work includes: The 1975; BBC; Hyundai; Burberry; London Fashion Week; Starbucks; Google; Netflix and JD Sports.

Training: Arts Educational Schools London.

Theatre includes: Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs Panto (New Wimbledon); The Color Purple (UK tour); Back to the Future: The Musical (Adelphi); BBC Proms: West Side Story (Royal Albert Hall) and BBC Proms: On the Town (Royal Albert Hall).

Workshops include: Lovestuck (Churchill Theatre) and Soapdish (Turbine Theatre).

Other work includes: Back to the Future: The Musical (Original Cast Soundtrack).

Training: Urdang Academy.

Theatre includes: Mrs. Doubtfire (Original Cast, Manchester Opera House); Sleeping Beauty (Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury); Cinderella (Hawth Theatre, Crawley); Aladdin (Hawth Theatre, Crawley); Dick Whittington (Evolution) and The Greatest Show (Clapham Grand).

Film includes: PRAGMA (short film). Effie Rae has also appeared in numerous TV commercials including Monopoly, Frijj, Barclays Bank and Groupon.

Training: GSA Conservatoire

Theatre includes: ensemble, swing and understudy ‘Carlotta’ in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); ensemble and understudy ‘Madame Morrible’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ensemble, swing, Dance Captain and understudy ‘Madame Thenardier’ in Les Misérables (Queens Theatre); understudy ‘Mary Magdalene’ in Love Beyond (Brighton Centre); ensemble in The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Concert (The Royal Albert Hall); choir member in Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert (O2 Arena) and ensemble and understudy ‘Johanna’ in Sweeney Todd (Royal Festival Hall).

Television includes: ‘Eve’ in Love Beyond Concept Album; Laudibus – Song of Songs (Delphian records); The Susan Boyle story (ITV); Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert (DVD) and Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Concert (DVD).

Training: Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: The Cher Show (UK tour); Mame (Hope Mill Theatre & UK tour); Flashdance the Musical (Asian tour); Bat Out of Hell (Dominion and Original Cast, Coliseum and international tour); West Side Story (Salzburg Festival); Let’s Dance Again (Royal Festival Hall); Sinatra: The Man & His Music (London Palladium); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pavillion Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Theatre Royal Brighton) and Cinderella, Peter Pan and Robin Hood (Qdos).

Television includes: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC) and Britain’s Got Talent, This Morning, The Paul O’Grady Show and Sunday Night at the Palladium (ITV).

Film includes: Mary Poppins Returns (Disney).

Other works includes: WhatsOnStage Awards 2015 and 2020.

Training: Arts Educational Schools London.

Theatre includes: 42^nd Street (Sadler’s Wells and UK tour); Cats (international tour); Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Far From Heaven (Turbine Theatre); White Christmas (Dominion); Follies (National Theatre); An Officer and a Gentleman (UK tour); She Loves Me (Menier Chocolate Factory); Miracle on 34^th Street (Dubai); The Producers (UK tour) and Singin’ in the Rain (UK & international tour).

Television includes: The Crown (Netflix) and Jack Whitehall: Christmas with My Father (Netflix).

Aimee is delighted to be joining the company of Wicked and would like to thank her husband, friends and family for their continued support. This one’s for you Marv.

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ensemble and understudy ‘Meat’ and ‘Killer Queen’ in We Will Rock You (UK tour); ‘Lorraine’ in Jersey Boys (international tour); ensemble in Evita (UK and European tour); ‘Hua’ and Dance Captain in Marco Polo: An Untold Love Story (Shaw Theatre) and ‘Leia Dawkins’ in Loserville (Union Theatre).

Workshops include: ‘Sally’ in You Can’t Get There From Here – The Twiggy Story (Menier Chocolate
Factory) and We Will Rock You II – The Show Must Go On.

Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour); Aladdin (New Victoria Theatre); 9 to 5: The Musical (UK tour); Snow White (London Palladium); The Bodyguard (Toronto); Dick Whittington (London Palladium); The Last Tango (UK tour and Phoenix) and Dance till Dawn (UK tour).

Film includes: Walking on Sunshine (Feature Film).

Workshops include: Associate Choreographer in You Can’t Get There From Here – The Twiggy Story by Ben Elton (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Other work includes: music video for Old Shoes by Lydia Evangeline.

Training: Arts Educational Schools London.

Theatre includes: swing in Singin’ in the Rain (London, Japan and UK tour); ensemble and understudy ‘Bob Wallace’ in White Christmas (UK tour); ensemble in Funny Girl (Paris); ‘Referee Angel’ in Kinky Boots (Original UK tour); ensemble and understudy ‘Rooster’ in Annie (Toronto); swing and Assistant Dance Captain in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales); ensemble and understudy ‘Frank’ in Mack & Mabel (Chichester Festival and UK tour); ensemble in Follies in Concert (Royal Albert Hall); ‘George’ in Pipe Dream (Union Theatre); ‘Zebulun’ and understudy ‘Joseph’ in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Dubai); ensemble in White Christmas (Manchester) and swing and Assistant Dance Captain in Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre).

Workshops include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Last Maharajah.

Training: The Brighton Academy.

Theatre includes: ‘Hollander’ and understudy ‘Tink/Ledoux’ in Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (UK & international tour and Peacock); ‘Gerard’ and understudy ‘Tunny’ and ‘Johnny’ in American Idiot (UK tour & New Zealand); ‘Cyril’ in Summer Holiday – The Musical (UK tour); Mamma Mia! (UK tour); ‘Peter’ in Peter Pan (Greenwich Theatre & Watersmeet, Rickmansworth); ‘Jimmy Smith’ in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Canada); ‘George’ in George’s Marvellous Medicine (88 London Road, Brighton); ‘Doody’ in Grease (BKL); ‘Ben’ in Ushers (Arts & Edinburgh Festival); ‘Rik’ in Aladdin (Brighton Emporium); ‘Dandini’ in Cinderella (Watersmeet, Rickmansworth); ‘Peter Pan’ in Shrek The Musical (UK tour) and The Rockafellas (international tour).

Training: The Brighton Academy.

Theatre includes: ‘Hashamoto’ and understudy ‘Hopper’ 1, 2 and 3 in Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); swing in Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire); swing and understudy ‘Engines’ and ‘Components’ in Starlight Express (30th Anniversary, Bochum, Germany); Dance Captain in Sleeping Beauty (Bournemouth, UK Productions) and swing in Aladdin (New Victoria, Woking).

Training: Urdang Academy.

Theatre includes: understudy ‘David Ruffin’, swing and Assistant Dance Captain in Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (Prince Edward); ensemble in Cabaret (Lido de Paris) and ‘Eugene’ in Grease (Dominion).

Other work includes: dancer in West End Does: Christmas (Cadogan Hall) and Durex (Commercial).

Training: Bird College.

Theatre includes: The Snowman (Birmingham Rep, international tour); Tarzan (Stage Entertainment, Germany) and dancer for the Olympia London International Horse Show (BBC).

Millie is delighted to be making her West End debut and would like to thank her family and friends for their endless support.

Training: Urdang Academy.

Theatre includes: swing and understudy ‘Tito’ in Dirty Dancing (Dominion and UK tour); ensemble, Assistant Dance Captain and Acro Coach in Bring It On: The Musical (UK tour); ensemble in The Lion King (Lyceum) and ensemble and understudy ‘Captain Hook’ and ‘Mr. Darling’ in Peter Pan (Victoria Theatre, Halifax).

Television includes: dancer in Bridgerton (Netflix) and dancer in Saturday Night Fever 40^th Anniversary (BBC).

Film includes: dancer in Greatest Days (Elysian Film).

Other work includes: ensemble in The Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Gala; dancer in Songs and Solidarity (West End Grenfell Tower benefit concert) and dancer in Sonia Stein (music video).

Ayden is delighted to be joining the cast of Wicked and hopes everyone enjoys the show.

Training: The BRIT School and Bird College.

Theatre includes: La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park); Cabaret (Lido de Paris); Grease (Dominion); Dirty Dancing (Dominion and UK & Ireland tour); Thriller – Live (Lyric and international tour); Frame[d] (UK tour)  and Dick Whittington (Towngate Theatre, Basildon).

Television includes: The BRIT Awards, Levi’s (commercial) and The Sandman and Swimmers (Netflix).

Rishard is thrilled to be joining the cast of Wicked and would like to thank his family and friends for their continued love and support.

Training: Urdang Academy.

Theatre includes: Mrs. Doubtfire (Manchester Opera House); Gypsy (Buxton Opera House); SIX (UK tour); The Regulars (Hope Mill Theatre); Aladdin (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK and Ireland tour); Hair (UK tour and Cologne Kölner Sommerfest); Hadestown (National Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate (Opera North, tour and London Coliseum); Sister Act (Leicester Curve, international and UK tour); Hairspray (UK and Ireland tour); World Goes Round (Finsbury Studios); Ragtime (Pleasance Theatre); The Witches of Eastwick (Bloomsbury Theatre) and lead vocalist in Todrick Hall’s Twerk Du Soleil (Leicester Square Theatre). Aiesha is excited to be doing her second year in this magical show.

Training: Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Flashdance the Musical (UK tour) and ‘Mrs Pumpernickel’ in Coppelia (The Cockpit, KVN Dance Company).

Television includes: Horrible Histories (BBC).

Film includes: IF (Paramount Pictures); standby ‘Bashful’, ‘Happy’ and ‘Sleepy’ in Disney’s Live-Action Snow White (Disney, Marc Platt Productions) and Horrible Histories The Movie (BBC Films).

Jeanie is delighted to be making her West End debut.

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ‘Miss Flannery’, ‘Muzzy Van Hossmere’ and understudy ‘Mrs. Meers’ in Thoroughly Modern Millie (UK tour); ‘Sharon’ in Girl’s Night (UK tour) and ‘Queen Lucretia’ and ‘Deadly Nightshade’ in Beauty and the Beast and Snow White (Qdos Entertainment).

Film includes: In Love with Alma Cogan (BBC).

Other work includes: lead vocalist in An Evening with Sir Tim Rice (Belinda King Productions); lead vocalist in Rock Around the Clock (UK & international tour); lead vocalist at The London Cabaret Club and mainstage performer for Disney.

Natalie would like to thank her family; particularly her Mother Magee, and her partner for their ongoing support.

Training: Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Greatest Days (UK tour); Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show (European tour); Bat Out of Hell (Dominion); 42^nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Rock of Ages (UK tour); We Will Rock You (arena tour); Kiss Me, Kate (Théâtre du Châtelet and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg); I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical (King’s Head Theatre and Edinburgh Festival); Eurobeat Moldova (Pleasance Grand Theatre); Legally Blonde (Kilworth House Theatre) and Rent (Tabard Theatre).

Television includes: The Generation Game (BBC); The Royal Variety Performance (ITV); The One Show (BBC) and Tonight at the Palladium (ITV).

Other work includes: 42^nd Street (London Cast Recording) and Eurobeat Moldova (Original Cast Recording).

Training: Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ensemble and Assistant Dance Captain in Wicked (15th Anniversary London Company); ensemble in Wicked (UK & Ireland Tour); ensemble in Carousel (English National Opera, London Coliseum); ‘Coricopat’, Assistant Dance Captain and understudy ‘Mr. Mistoffelees’ and ‘Mungojerrie’ in Cats (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, London Palladium and UK/International tour); ensemble and Dance Captain in Dick Whittington (Birmingham Hippodrome); ensemble in Dick McWhittington and Jack and the Beanstalk (Glasgow SECC) and dancer in Sunday Night at the Birmingham Hippodrome (Qdos Entertainment).

Television includes: All Star Musicals (ITV); ensemble in Singin’ in the Rain for The Royal Variety Performance (ITV) and dancer for Hard-Fi at the FA Cup Final (Wembley Stadium).

Film includes: dancer in Avengers: Age of Ultron (Marvel).

Training: Urdang Academy. Micaela is originally from South Africa and came to the UK in 2017 to train.

Micaela is so proud to be making her West End debut in Wicked and would like to thank her family, particularly her mum and dad for their continued love and support throughout her journey.

Training: Bird College.

Theatre includes: ensemble in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward); ensemble in The Lion King (Lyceum) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Richmond Theatre).

Television includes: The Royal Variety Performance (ITV).

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ‘Haydn Parry’ in For Tonight (Adelphi); understudy ‘Sky’ in Mamma Mia! (Novello); ‘Preppy Stud/Officer’ and understudy ‘Ram’ in Heathers (The Other Palace); alternate ‘Johnny Casino’ in Grease (UK tour) and The Pirate Queen (London Coliseum).

Stephen Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics for The Prince of Egypt, recently at the Dominion Theatre. Other shows to which he has contributed music and/or lyrics and which have been seen in the UK include Godspell, Pippin, Working, Rags, Children of Eden and The Baker’s Wife. For film, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Enchanted and its sequel Disenchanted. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards and the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. In the US, Mr. Schwartz has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, inducted into The Theater Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. A book about his career, Defying Gravity, has been published by Applause Books.

For more information, those interested are invited to visit: www.stephenschwartz.com

Winnie received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Wicked. She got her start in writing for the acclaimed television drama thirtysomething, and went on to create another memorable series: My So-Called Life, which starred Claire Danes. Other television credits include: Once and Again, Huge (with her daughter, Savannah Dooley) and Roadies (with Cameron Crowe). Theatre work includes: the musical Birds of Paradise, written with composer David Evans, and a ten-minute, oft-performed play called Post-its: (Notes on a Marriage), written with her husband, actor Paul Dooley. Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and as Larry David’s wife’s therapist on Curb Your Enthusiasm. She recently completed both screenplays for the film adaptation of Wicked, and her play Choice, which will be produced at the McCarter Theatre in Spring 2024. She is a graduate of Princeton University, the NYU Musical Theatre Program, and a proud member of the Writers Guild of America.

A two-time Tony Award-winning director, recent credits include: Here We Are; Grey House; The Boys in the Band (Netflix and Broadway); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Hillary and Clinton; Three Tall Women (Tony nomination); The Humans (Tony nomination); Blackbird; An Act of God; The Last Ship; Casa Valentina; I’ll Eat You Last…; Dogfight; Other Desert Cities; The Pride; Pal Joey; 9 To 5: The Musical; Three Days of Rain; Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination); Laugh Whore; Assassins (Tony Award); Take Me Out (Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; A Man of No Importance; The Vagina Monologues and Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination). Acting credits include: Feud: Capote’s Women; American Horror Story; The Watcher (Netflix), Hollywood (Netflix) and the Broadway productions of The Glass Menagerie, The Normal Heart (Tony nomination) and Angels in America (Tony nomination). Mantello was nominated for Emmy and Critics’ Choice Awards for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart. He has received Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and The SDC “Mr. Abbott” Awards and is a member of The Theatre Hall of Fame.

Nominated for seven Tony Awards, Cilento won his first for his choreography on the historic Broadway production of The Who’s Tommy (Drama Desk Award, Fred Astaire Award, Olivier nomination).

Broadway: six Tony Award nominations for his choreographic work on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (starring Matthew Broderick), the Broadway production Holler If Ya Hear Me featuring the music of Tupac Shakur, Director of Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical, the 2004 revival of Sweet Charity, Baby, Wicked and Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (Best Featured Actor in a Musical). Mr. Cilento also choreographed Elton John’s Aida on Broadway, on tour and the European productions in Germany and Amsterdam, as well as the iconic Broadway production of Jerry Herman’s Jerry’s Girls. Cilento was a member of the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line (‘Mike’).

He has also directed and choreographed major commercials and concerts for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer, Pete Townsend, Alicia Keys and the Jonas Brothers. Cilento recently directed the critically acclaimed hit Broadway revival of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ in Spring 2023.

Eugene Lee was Resident Designer at Trinity Rep in Providence, RI. He was the Production Designer of Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Other Broadway credits include: Bright Star; Ragtime; Show Boat and Sweeney Todd.

Film includes: Coppola’s Hammett; Huston’s Mr. North; Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street and Demme’s A Master Builder.

BFA: The Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon.

MFA: Yale School of Drama and three honorary PhDs.

Awards: Tony; Drama Desk; Lucille Lortel; Emmy; Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence; Pell Award and DESIGNxRI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Eugene is an inductee into The Theater Hall of Fame, New York.

Hilferty has designed over 350 productions worldwide. London/UK – Scenery/Costumes: Salomé (National Theatre); Hamlet (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Athol Fugard’s Sorrows and Rejoicings (Tricycle) and The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (European tour). Costumes: Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Buried Child and The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios); Spring Awakening (Novello); Flying Karamazov Brothers’ 4Play (Vaudeville) and August Wilson’s Jitney (National). Scenery/Costumes/Associate Director: Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! and A Place with the Pigs (National); Valley Song (Royal Court) and Playland (Donmar). Directorial collaborators include: Yaël Farber, James Macdonald, Tony Kushner, Garry Hynes, Michael Longhurst, Michael Mayer, James Lapine, Jonathan Butterell, Robert Falls, Richard Nelson, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Selina Cartmell, Des McAnuff, Bartlett Sher, Doug Wright, Laurie Anderson, and Athol Fugard. Recent designs include: Funny Girl (Broadway and national tour); Parade (Broadway TONY Nomination) and Waiting for Godot (TFNA). Other: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now! World Tour; Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Upcoming: Avett Brothers’ Swept Away (Broadway) and Aida (Metropolitan Opera). Hilferty is on faculty of Graduate Design NYU/Tisch, having served as chair for 25 years. Her many awards include three Lifetime Achievement Awards plus TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards and Olivier nomination for Wicked.

West End: MEAN GIRLS, Pretty Woman: The Musical; Kinky Boots; Legally Blonde; Hairspray and Wicked (Olivier nominations) and Side Man.

On Broadway over 50 plays and musicals including: Beetlejuice; Pretty Woman: The Musical; Mean Girls; War Paint; On Your Feet!; Disgraced; If/Then; Kinky Boots; Pippin; Cinderella; Other Desert Cities; Coast of Utopia – Shipwreck (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award); Hairspray, The Merchant of Venice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tony nominations); Harvey; The Best Man; The Royal Family; Catch Me If You Can; 9 to 5: The Musical; Legally Blonde; The Pirate Queen; Lestat; The Odd Couple; Glengarry Glen Ross; Little Women; The Frogs; Imaginary Friends; Swing!; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Uncle Vanya; Side Man; The Lion in Winter; Little Me; A View from the Bridge; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo.

Opera credits include designs for the New York City Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Recipient of the Obie Award for sustained excellence in lighting design.

West End theatre includes: Come From Away (Associate Producer); Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café and Anything Goes. 

Broadway includes: First Date (Associate Producer); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Drama Desk Award); Lysistrata Jones (Producer and Sound Designer); Wicked; Pal Joey; The Ritz and Laugh Whore (all with Joe Mantello); Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; Juan Darien; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Café; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes and Anything Goes.

National and international include: The Lion King; Les Misérables; Mozart and Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame.

Off-Broadway includes: Here Lies Jenny and The Normal Heart.

Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts.

Elaine’s international career spans over 25 years in nearly every area of live performance. Her Broadway credits include: Spamalot; Impressionism; The People in the Picture; Assassins; Man of La Mancha; Into the Woods; Thurgood and Judgment at Nuremberg. Additional career highlights include: Great Scott; Everest; Iolanta; Tristan und Isolde and Moby Dick (Dallas Opera); Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera); Dead Man Walking (NYC Opera); War and Peace (Metropolitan Opera and Kirov Opera); Tan Dun and Peter Sellars’ The Peony Pavilion at the Wiener Festwochen (Opera); Frequency Hopping (set and projections); Distracted (set and projections); Embedded; Fran’s Bed; Speaking in Tongues; The Stendhal Syndrome and The Thing About Men (Off-Broadway); Tan Dun’s The Gate (NHK Symphony); Don Byron’s Tunes and ’Toons at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (Concert); Peter Buffett’s Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song and Chen Shi-Zheng’s Forgiveness at Asia Society/New York (Dance); Adidas; Sony/Epic Records; Kenneth Cole; Calvin Klein Cosmetics and the 1996 and 1997 CFDA Awards (Fashion/Industrial) and the 2008 documentary film, Secrecy.

Tom Watson headed the Wig and Make Up department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 80 Broadway productions including Wicked; Rock of Ages; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; The Addams Family; Annie; Act One; You Can’t Take It With You; The King and I (LCT and tour); The Sound of Music (national tour); Dames at Sea; Thérèse Raquin; Fiddler on the Roof; Bright Star (Broadway and tour); Oslo (LCT); Long Day’s Journey into Night; Falsettos; The Little Foxes; Junk (LCT) and The Parisian Woman.

Broadway and West End: MJ; Wicked and Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Broadway: KPOP; Beetlejuice; Torch Song Trilogy; SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical; Summer: The Donna Summer Musical; Sunday in the Park with George; Anastasia; Allegiance; If/Then; Follies; Jekyll & Hyde; The Normal Heart and Grease. Off Broadway: KPOP; Fly; Sweet Charity; Into the Woods; The Wild Party and Show Boat. Television: The Perfect Couple; Annie Live!; Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (Emmy nomination); The Gilded Age; Julia and Castle Rock Season 2. Film: Good Burger 2; Hocus Pocus 2; The Holdovers; Thug; Don’t Look Up; About Fate; Godmothered; The Discovery and Ghostbusters. www.joedulude2.com

Broadway: Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and 2013 Grammy Award); The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Orchestrations and 2012 Grammy Award) and Disney’s Frozen: The Broadway Musical. Worldwide Music Supervisor/Arranger of Wicked; Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/Orchestrator of Broadway productions/tours of The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, All Shook Up and 9 to 5: The Musical; Grammy nominee as Co-Producer with Dolly Parton of 9 to 5: The Musical Broadway cast recording. Other credits: Music Supervisor, Vocal Arranger and Orchestrator: tick, tick… BOOM!; Music Director: Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party; Conductor and contributing Orchestrator for the Oscar-winning Disney film Frozen; Music Director of the 87th Academy Awards telecast and The Wiz Live! on NBC TV.

William received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. Other Broadway and West End credits include: Half a Sixpence (Noël Coward); the revival of Miss Saigon (Prince Edward); Curtains; Mary Poppins; The Secret Garden; Show Boat; Crazy for You; Carousel; Sweet Smell of Success; Oklahoma!; Oliver!; The Witches of Eastwick; My Fair Lady; South Pacific; Betty Blue Eyes and Barnum (Chichester). He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

Alex Lacamoire is a four-time Grammy, three-time Tony, three-time Olivier, and Emmy Award winner for his work on Hamilton; Dear Evan Hansen; In the Heights and FX’s mini-series Fosse/Verdon. Alex was also the recipient of a first-of-its-kind Kennedy Center Honors for his contribution to Hamilton. Other credits as Music Director, Arranger, and/or Orchestrator include: Sweeney Todd (2023 Broadway Revival); Bring It On: The Musical; Wicked; Bat Boy and Godspell. He served as the Executive Music Producer for the films: The Greatest Showman; In the Heights; VIVO; Dear Evan Hansen and tick, tick… Boom!

Broadway: Aida; Tarzan; Bombay Dreams; Rent; Footloose; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Cats; Sunset Boulevard and Miss Saigon. National tours include: Starlight Express; Kiss of the Spider Woman; The Who’s Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar among others. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Vanessa Williams and with Elton John in Greatest Hits Live at Madison Square Garden. Clients include Dr Pepper, Frito Lay, American Airlines and General Electric.

Select Broadway/Tours: Angels in America (Tony nomination); Wicked (all worldwide productions); The Phantom of the Opera (world tour); Love Never Dies (international tour); Bright Star; Amazing Grace; Holler If Ya Hear Me; The Other Place; A Streetcar Named Desire; Shatner’s World; Billy Elliot the Musical; Pippin; 9 to 5: The Musical; The Pirate Queen; Aida; Ragtime; Cabaret and Noise/Funk. Television: NBC’s Maya & Marty and Universal Kids Sprout House.

Edward represents designers as President of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829. www.edwardpierce.com

Broadway Associate: Dear Evan Hansen; The Cher Show; My Fair Lady; SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical; War Paint and If/Then. West End Associate: My Fair Lady; Dear Evan Hansen and Wicked. International Supervisor: Wicked. Film/TV Associate: Isn’t It Romantic? and Schmigadoon. Other includes: Assassins (Associate, NYC Encores!); In Your Arms (Associate, The Old Globe); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Choreographer, Casa Mañana) and Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (Choreographer, Tour).

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West End leading roles: Annie; West Side Story; On Your Toes and A Chorus Line. Repertory theatre roles: Chicago; Lulu; Bells Are Ringing; Stepping Out and Blithe Spirit. Television and Films: The Music Lovers; The Boyfriend; Fiddler on the Roof; The Slipper and the Rose; Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels and Billy Elliot. Choreographer: Jesus Christ Superstar; Hair; Poppy; Annie; The King and I; Guys and Dolls; Iolanthe; Dreams of Leaving (TV) and The Peter Hall Company’s Twelfth Night. Recently played ‘Mother’ in Paul Harnett’s Alice: A New Musical (St. James Theatre) and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in The Oliviers in Concert (BBC 3). Director: The Sound of Music; Sweet Charity; West Side Story and The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala. West End musicals as Associate Director: Always; Annie; Kiss Me, Kate; Ragtime and The Producers. UK national tours as Associate Director: Annie; Kiss Me, Kate and The Producers following their West End productions. Recently appeared in the Wicked film as ‘Autograph Hunter’. Assistant to: Joe Mantello, Susan Stroman, Michael Blakemore, Martin Charnin, Kathleen Marshall, Tommy Tune, Larry Fuller, John Doyle and Stafford Arima. Associate Director for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour.

Training: Stage Door School of Dancing, Bournemouth and London Studio Centre. Theatre includes: UK Dance Supervisor for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour and UK/International Tour; the title role in Alice: A New Musical (St. James Theatre); flying workshop for Peter Pan (The O2); The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala; Dancing in The Dark (Clapham Grand); Spirit of the Dance (UK tour); Journey of Jazz (Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells); Dance Captain and understudy ‘Peter’ in Peter Pan (The Anvil, Basingstoke); The Jazz Dance Company (Peacock Theatre, London) and West End Bares (Café de Paris). Television and Film includes: Infatuation for Kate Alexa; American Boy/New Generation video for PaM’s People, Killa Kela MTV music video and Children in Need. Hannah has taught at leading vocational colleges including The BRIT School, Arts Educational Schools London and London Studio Centre, and is a qualified Body Control Pilates teacher.

UK Music Supervisor for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour. Music Supervisor: Viking Ocean Cruises (Blackburn International); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Children of Eden (Prince of Wales); Search for a Twitter Star Live (Piccadilly); She’s the One (Savoy) and The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala. Other credits include: Fame (West End and UK tour); Saturday Night Fever (West End and UK tour); Sinatra (West End); Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); The Light Princess (National Theatre workshop) and Louise Dearman in Concert. Other freelance work includes: The Ratpack (West End); Taboo (West End); Regent’s Park; Chichester Festival Theatre; The Drifters (UK and international tour dates) and live radio broadcasts for Katherine Jenkins and Friday Night is Music Night.

Ron studied at The Royal Academy of Music and King’s College London. As Musical Director credits include: The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales). As Assistant Musical Director: Jersey Boys (Prince Edward); Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales). As Associate Conductor/Children’s MD: Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace). Workshop MD credits include: Nativity! The Musical and Miss Atomic Bomb. Ron has also coached and consulted as a children’s vocal specialist on major West End and touring musicals. He is proud to have been made an Associate of The Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) where he coaches on the Postgraduate Musical Theatre course.

Training: Arts Educational Schools, London.

Theatre includes: Swing and understudy ‘Olaf’ and ‘Weselton’ in Frozen (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Resident Director at Pretty Woman (The Savoy); ‘Alfredo’ and ‘Carlos’  in Pretty Woman (Piccadilly and Savoy); Dance Captain, Swing and understudy ‘Grantaire’ in Les Misérables All Star Concert (Gielgud); Dance Captain, Swing and understudy ‘Jean Val Jean’ and ‘Foreman’ in Les Misérables (Queens), Swing and understudy ‘Doctor Dillamond’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Scarecrow’ in The Wizard of Oz (Louder than Words, Cyprus); ‘Billy Lawlor’ in 42nd Street (Chichester Festival Theatre); ‘Ethan’ in The Full Monty (English Theatre of Frankfurt); ‘Barnaby’ in Hello Dolly! (Regent’s Park Open Air); Imagine This (New London); ensemble and understudy ‘Lt. Cable’ in South Pacific (UK tour) and Follies (London Palladium).

Workshops include: Much; ‘The Miller’s Son’ in Twang; ‘Simon’ in Some Sunny Day and RiZen.

Recordings include: Les Misérables Concert; Imagine This and Spitting Distance (original cast recording).

Films include: Frozen (Disney); ‘Noble Man’ in The King (Netflix) and Les Misérables Concert.

Jim is a freelance Casting Director of musicals and plays for West End and regional theatres, and for UK and international tours. He established Jim Arnold Casting in 2018, having previously worked as Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012-2018. He is a full member of the Casting Director’s Guild of Great Britain & Ireland. Theatre includes: Wicked (Apollo Victoria and UK & Ireland Tour); Spend, Spend, Spend (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Christmas Carol:The Musical (Quays Theatre – The Lowry, Salford); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Savoy and UK & Ireland tour); Shrek The Musical (UK tour and Eventim Apollo); Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick and UK tour); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical (Leeds Playhouse and UK & Ireland tour); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noël Coward and Everyman Cheltenham); When Darkness Falls (UK tour); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour); Rock of Ages (UK tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre); Curtains (Wyndham’s and UK tour); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Mirror Crack’d (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative); Eugenius! (The Other Palace); The Wedding Singer (Troubadour Theatre and UK tour) and Matilda The Musical (Original Casting Associate for the RSC).

Lloyd trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before starting his career at the National Theatre and the Young Vic. Productions include: The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); 9 to 5: The Musical (UK tour); A Little Life (Harold Pinter); Bridgerton and Guardians of the Galaxy (Secret Cinema); Betrayal, Cyrano de Bergerac and Pinter Season (Harold Pinter and Broadway); The Time Traveller’s Wife (UK tour); Rusalka (English National Opera); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Wild Duck (Almeida); Summer and Smoke (Duke of York’s); The Jungle (Playhouse and Broadway); Nightfall (Bridge Theatre); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych, Associate PM); The Christmasaurus Live (Hammersmith Apollo); Project Polunin (London Coliseum); The Lady from the Sea (Donmar); Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar and Broadway); Oslo (National Theatre and Harold Pinter); Buried Child and The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios); Blue/Orange and Macbeth (Young Vic); Lela & Co (Royal Court); Fleabag and The Mentalists (Wyndham’s); A View from the Bridge (Wyndham’s, Associate PM); Constellations (Donmar and UK tour); Neville’s Island (Duke of York’s) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Assistant PM).

Playful Productions is one of the most eminent independent theatre producers and full-service general management companies in the West End. As Producer and General Manager productions include: Macbeth (Harold Pinter, October 2024); Dr. Strangelove (Noël Coward, October 2024) The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Opening Night (as Producer – Gielgud); The Unfriend (Criterion, and Wyndham’s); The House of Bernarda Alba (as Producer – National Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sheffield, Lyric Hammersmith and Theatre Royal Haymarket); A Little Life (as Producer – Richmond, Harold Pinter and Savoy); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical (UK & Ireland Tour); Good (Harold Pinter) and Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric). As General Manager productions include Wicked (Apollo Victoria, UK & Ireland Tours and International Tour); Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Piccadilly); MJ (Prince Edward); Next to Normal (Wyndham’s, June 2024) and Come From Away (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Phoenix). As Executive Producer productions include Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Piccadilly); MJ (Prince Edward) and Wild Rose (in development).  

Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Goldberg’s past and present Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tour management credits include: Wicked (worldwide); SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical; War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; Fun Home; If/Then; Peter and the Starcatcher; Bring It On: The Musical; Sister Act; Traces; Next to Normal; The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Vagina Monologues; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Fully Committed and Bat Boy. Individual productions include: The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café; The Santaland Diaries; Full Gallop; Smoke on the Mountain; Rent; Guys and Dolls and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Broadway: Wicked; Topdog/Underdog (Tony Award); Fat Ham (Tony nomination); A Strange Loop (Tony Award); The Band’s Visit (Tony Award); War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; If/Then; Pal Joey and Three Days of Rain. Off-Broadway and UK: Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures production of Edward Scissorhands (Drama Desk Award). Films: Wicked (2024); The Little Mermaid; Babylon; Cruella; Dear Evan Hansen; The Trial of the Chicago 7 (BAFTA and Oscar nominations); Thunder Force; Mary Poppins Returns; La La Land (BAFTA Best Film Award, Oscar nomination); The Girl on the Train; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Bridge of Spies (Oscar nomination); Into the Woods; Drive (BAFTA nomination); Ricki and the Flash; Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; Legally Blonde; Rachel Getting Married; Wanted; Nine; Hotel Artemis; 2 Guns; Lost River; Legally Blonde 2; The Other Woman; Winter’s Tale; Charlie St. Cloud; Cop Out; The Seeker; The Perfect Man; Honey and Josie and The Pussycats. Television: Better Nate Than Ever (Disney+, Emmy nomination); Oslo (HBO, Emmy nomination); Rent (FOX); Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC, Emmy Award); A Christmas Story Live! (FOX); Grease Live! (FOX, Emmy Award); Empire Falls (HBO); Taking The Stage (MTV); Once Upon A Mattress (ABC) and The Path To 9/11 (ABC). Mr. Platt has served as president for three movie studios (Orion, TriStar and Universal).

David Stone is currently represented by Wicked; Topdog/Underdog and Kimberly Akimbo. He has also produced The Boys in the Band; War Paint; If/Then; Next to Normal; The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Three Days of Rain; Man of La Mancha; The Vagina Monologues; Fully Committed; Lifegame; The Diary of Anne Frank; Full Gallop; The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. He also serves on the advisory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theater. David has lectured on theatre at Yale, Princeton, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

Universal Stage Productions, a division of Universal Theatrical Group, is the live theatre division of the world-famous motion picture studio. Universal’s musical phenomenon Wicked is now in its 17th year in the West End. With multiple international productions, including the original Broadway production which premiered in 2003, Wicked has been seen by over 60 million people worldwide making it one of the most successful theatrical ventures of all time. Universal’s critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, which won four Olivier Awards and ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, concluded its 11 year run in the West End and has toured globally. Additional credits under UTG’s DreamWorks Theatricals banner include Shrek The Musical and the hit West End production of The Prince of Egypt.

Mr. Platt’s many honours include The Laurence Olivier Award, 14 Tony Awards, The Robert Whitehead Award for Distinguished Producing on Broadway and a Lifetime Membership in The Broadway League. His award-winning productions include: Angels in America; Company; Hangmen; Copenhagen; God of Carnage; The Humans; The Book of Mormon; Death of a Salesman; Clybourne Park; A Raisin in the Sun; A View From the Bridge; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Skylight; Venus in Fur; Blackbird; No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot; The Audience; The Crucible; King Charles III; The Heiress and The Children’s Hour.

Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, The Araca Group LLC produces and merchandises live entertainment and theatrical events on Broadway and around the world.

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A four-time Olivier Award-winning producer in the UK and Tony Award-nominated on Broadway, Michael’s credits include the London premieres of Wicked, which is already the 10^th longest running West End show in British history, The Prince of Egypt; An American in Paris; Million Dollar Quartet; Spring Awakening and the 2012 revival of Sweeney Todd. Tours: three UK & Ireland Tours of Wicked, international tour of Wicked. Broadway includes How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Promises, Promises. From 1998-2004, Michael served as the original Marketing Director of Mamma Mia!, overseeing the first 14 premieres around the world.