Creatives

Jon Hare - Writer / Composer / Lyricist

Jon’s other shows include ‘80s jukebox musical Charming, First World War musical Never Again, and children’s show The First Chris Moose. Jon is a Governor member of the RNLI.

 

Charlotte Westenra - Director & Dramaturg

Olivier award-winning director & dramaturg. Credits include Agreement by Owen McCafferty (Gate Theatre Dublin, Lyric Theatre Belfast, IAC New York); The Wicker Husband by Darren Clark & Rhys Jennings (Watermill Theatre); and Indecent Proposal by Michael Conley & Dylan Schlosberg (Southwark Playhouse).

Mary Erskine - Musical Director

Mary is a classically trained pianist and cellist and acclaimed singer/songwriter, under the name Me For Queen. As Me For Queen she has toured the UK & Europe and has had her songs played on BBC 6Music, Radio 3, Amazing Radio, BBC Scotland & BBC Wales.

Anna Kelsey - Designer

Anna is a theatre designer based in North London. She is also an associate artist at The Watermill Theatre. Recent design credits include: Shakespeare’s R&J (Reading Rep), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse), The Wicker Husband (The Watermill Theatre), and Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse).

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Joe Dines - Sound Designer

Joe is has worked across Europe, collaborating with theatre companies such as Complicité, The Young Vic, the National Theatre, the Barn Theatre, and the Schaubühne in Berlin. He was recently nominated for an Offie Award for his sound design work with David Denyer for 'Surfacing' at the Omnibus Theatre. Additionally, he was nominated for Best Sound Design at the Wolverhampton Film Festival for his work on 'Our Charlie'. He was most recently Associate on Grapes of Wrath at the National Theatre. Joe has a background in writing, recording, and performing music, including playing keys, piano, bass, and drums. He graduated in Theatre Sound from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2018.

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Sam Bernstein - Lighting Designer

Sam graduated from Guildhall in 2024, and already has a strong of credits to his name including Much Ado About Nothing (Milton Court Theatre), Matilda, Little Shop of Horrors ( Kingswood Theatre) and Vocalworks (Bath Pavilion).

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Jane McMurtrie - Choreographer

Choreographer credits include Marella Cruises, Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse) Our Girls Our Game, The Good Life (Uk tour), Cinderella (Glasgow Kings Theatre, New Victoria Theatre), Spring Awakening (Edinburgh Fringe), Sweet Smell of Success (Guildford School of Acting). Associate Choreographer credits include Newsies (Wembley Troubadour), Identical (Nottingham Playhouse), Fiddler on the Roof (The Playhouse London),Oklahoma (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Producers (International Tour) Bodyguard (Germany, South Korea, Vienna) Groundhog Day (The Old Vic), Gypsy (Savoy Theatre), Legally Blonde (Sydney Lyric Theatre).

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​​Jake Alexander - Community Choir Facilitator

Jake is a Cornish musician who studied composition at Trinity College of Music. He directs several choirs, including Raised Voices, a political protest choir. He specialises in writing accessible, three-part, a cappella arrangements of folk songs, pop songs & sea shanties.

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Steph Weller for PlayWell Productions - Producer

PlayWell Productions works to elevate visibility and give equality of opportunity and voice to artists and their stories. These stories include (but are not limited to) the voices of: isolated communities; the queer lived experience; women and those who identify as non-binary; those who identify as disabled; and the lived experience of people of the global majority. Commissions and credits include Very Special Guest Star, Omnibus Theatre London; I Ain’t Dumb, Belgrade Theatre Coventry; Live To Tell: A Proposal for the Madonna Musical, Omnibus Theatre London, Camden People’s Theatre London; Black Power Desk, Brixton House London. Company founder Steph Weller is an Old Vic 12 and Stage One producer, who has previously produced the award-winning Reading Fringe Festival and the Fizzy Sherbet Podcast, promoting work by women playwrights. She has worked for companies including MAYK, Reading Rep and Inspector Sands. She is the Chair of the Board of Directors for IronClad Creative (Brighton), a disabled-led not-for-profit cultural organisation that provides training, networking and commissioning for writers and theatre-makers, especially those who are neurodivergent, and those with low incomes. Steph is supported by China Plate via their Dark Room scheme.

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Alasdair Buchan - Associate Director

Alasdair is an actor and director currently starring as Paravicini in The Mouse Trap.
As a director: Deeds Not Words (Batley & Spen), Sleeping Beauty (Guildford School of Acting).
Theatre includes: Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain (national tour); The Da Vinci Code (World Premiere, UK Tour); Stephen Daldry’s An Inspector Calls (UK Tour); Sherlock Holmes and the Crimson Cobbles (The Theatre, Chipping Norton & Tour); Night Must Fall (Salisbury Playhouse and UK Tour); A Little History of the World (World Premiere, Watermill Theatre and Tour); Urinetown: The Musical (Apollo Theatre & St. James’s Theatre); for The Jamie Lloyd Company: Richard III (Broadway World UK Award nomination) and The Pride (both Trafalgar Studios); The Lost World (Bristol Old Vic).
Screen credits include Ghostbusters: The Gates of Gozer (Secret Cinema); Casualty (BBC); and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Warner Bros.) 

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Robert Gathercole - Associate Musical Director

Writer / composer and performer. Writing credits include 'Faking Bad - The Unauthorised Breaking Bad Parody Methsical', 'Rishi Sunak's Doing A Musical!', and Rapunzel, Pinocchio, The Jungle Book, The Wizard Of Oz, Peter Pan, The Wind In The Willows, and Alice In Wonderland for Immersion Theatre. He was Assistant MD on Dreamboats and Petticoats (Bill Kenwright)

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Harry Armytage - Production Manager for TPO The Production Office

​Harry is a technical and production manager, working for venues including The Barn Theatre, Watermill Theatre​​ and Garsington Opera before joining TPO.

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Lexi Clare - Associate Producer

Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Lexi is a London-based theatre maker, performer and photographer.

Directing credits include Her (r)age, a scratch piece for Antic Productions (Southwark Playhouse, 2018). 

Assistant director credits include The Penelopiad (dir. Sherrill Gow, Mountview, 2022), The Winter's Tale (dir. Jeff James, Mountview, 2019), Antigone (dir. Justin Murray, Actors Of Dionysus R&D, 2017) and Oedipus (dir. James Wenley, Stage Two Productions, 2013). 

Past writing projects include gig-theatre show Game Face (UK, 2019; New Zealand, 2020) and one-act musical Much Ado About Hero (UK, 2017 & 2018).

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Elizabeth Peace - Assistant Producer

​Elizabeth Peace is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and producer from South London. With a degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and an Acting Diploma from the Oxford Drama, she pursues projects across stage and screen. As Creative Producer, she worked with independent artist, lydia luke, Contact Theatre, Royal Exchange Manchester, tiata fahodzi, Tramshed Arts, PlayWell Productions, and Slick Films. She’s currently Associate Artist at Bathway Theatre, Trustee at Angel Shed Theatre, and Admin Producer at London's newest NPO; HighRise Entertainment. She made her debut as an award-winning Director of the short film, The Golden Boy, executively produced by the Academy-Award winning Slick Films.

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Lara Aabar - Access Support Worker

​Lara is a freelance access specialist supporting companies and events including Spare Tyre, Attitude is Everything, Standon Calling, We Out Here, Otherlands, Silverworks Island, Brockwell Live, Warwick Castle Live, Love Supreme .

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The show is presented by PlayWell Productions

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