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production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which ran for over three and a half years at the London Palladium. The show also transferred to Broadway and continued with three highly successful national tours of the UK. Chris was the musical director for the London production of Ragtime and has worked with its Olivier Award-winning star, Maria Friedman, on her one-woman shows at festivals throughout Europe, at the Carlyle Café in New York and the Menier Chocolate Factory in London before she turned her attentions to directing and they collaborated again on her production of High Society at the Old Vic, and now Stepping Out. Chris provided the orchestrations and
dance arrangements of the first ever stage adaptation of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat which toured the UK in the summer of 2011 before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in London. The show also ran in Sweden and Japan in 2015 following its 2nd UK national tour.
He often works for the Regent’s Park Open
Air Theatre where he was responsible for orchestrating their productions of Into the Woods, Ragtime and, in 2013, The Sound
of Music which received glowing reviews.
Chris also provided the orchestrations for
the musical That Day We Sang (written by Victoria Wood) for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. He then re-orchestrated the score for the BBC2 Christmas drama adaptation in 2014 starring Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball. More recently, he re-orchestrated the Cole Porter score for the Crucible Theatre’s production of Anything Goes and the subsequent UK tour for Stage Entertainment in 2015. In the same year he re-orchestrated the score for Adam Spiegel’s UK production of The Producers – based on Mel Brooks’s much-loved Academy Award-winning movie.
Other recent productions include working with Maria Friedman on a new production of High Society at the Old Vic and re-orchestrating ‘The Gumbie Cat’ for Cats at the London Palladium, Paris opening and the current UK tour.
Chris’s most recent work includes the orchestrations for the highly acclaimed production of Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith which premiered at The Menier Chocolate Factory before transferring to the Savoy Theatre in the West End in April 2016. He
is currently working with the producers of the 2016 Christmas production of Sweet Charity at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
ELLIE JONES
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Training: Mountview Theatre School.
Theatre includes: Invincible (St James Theatre), The New World Order (Barbican Bite/ Brighton Festival), Macbeth (RSC), Elephant Man (UK tour), How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found (Sheffield Theatres/ Southwark Playhouse), The BFG (Derby Theatre), Once We Were Mothers, Strange Orchestra, Man of Letters and Invincible (Orange Tree), A Christmas Carol and Tanzi Libre (Southwark Playhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet (New Wolsey Ipswich), Erpingham Camp (Brighton Festival), Daisy Pulls it Off (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Miss Interpreted and Fight Like a Girl (Youth Music Theatre UK). As Associate Director: God of Carnage (UK tour) and Art (Old Vic).
Film includes: Vanishing Point.
Ellie was Artistic Director of Southwark Playhouse 2007-10 and Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres 2005-7. She also runs the Looping The Loop Theatre Festival in Margate.
CLAIRA VAUGHAN
ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER
Claira is a choreographer for stage, screen and large-scale events.
Choreographer credits include: FA Cup Final (Wembley Stadium), Ghost (GSA), See What
I Wanna See (Jermyn Street Theatre) and
The Goodbye Girl (Upstairs at the Gatehouse). Mass movement assistant choreographic credits include: London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies and Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, including audition tour. Associate choreographer credits include: Crazy for You (Watermill Theatre), resident choreographer and swing in High Society (Old Vic), The Tailor Made Man (Arts Theatre) and
Sweet Smell of Success (Arcola Theatre). Assistant choreographer credits include: The Rocky Horror Show Live (Playhouse Theatre), The Rocky Horror Show (Ambassadors Theatre Group, UK tour) and A Man of No Importance (Royal Academy of Music).
Television credits as associate choreographer include: Strictly Come Dancing and Breathless. Claira is creative producer for Proud Cabaret and co-artistic director of the Post Olympic Dance Company.
GINNY SCHILLER CDG
CASTING DIRECTOR
Ginny has been Casting Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre, and is the current casting director for the Ustinov Theatre, Bath under the Artistic Directorship of Laurence Boswell. She has worked on many shows for the West End and No 1 touring circuit as well as for the Almeida, Arcola, Bath Theatre Royal, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, Clwyd Theatr Cyrmu, Frantic Assembly, Greenwich Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, Ipswich New Wolsey, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Menier Chocolate Factory, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Northampton Royal & Derngate, Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Drum, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible, Young Vic, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Wilton’s Music Hall. She has also worked on many television, film and radio productions.
Recent theatre includes: 1984 adapted and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan for Headlong (West End), Bad Jews directed by Michael Longhurst (at the Ustinov, St James, Arts and the Haymarket), the revival of The Merchant of Venice directed by Rupert Goold (Almeida), The Father by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by James Macdonald (Ustinov, Tricycle and
in the West End), The Mother, also by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton (Ustinov and the Tricycle), Arthur Miller’s Playing for Time (Sheffield Crucible), Great