Mary Poppins - West End Creative Team

... read more During his 23-year writing collaboration with composer George Stiles, Anthony has written the book and lyrics for Tutankhamun, Just So, Soho Cinders, the multi award-winning Honk! and the lyrics for Peter Pan - A Musical Adventure (book by Willis Hall). With composer Tony Hatch, he wrote lyrics for The Card and, with Singaporean composer Dick Lee, the lyrics for A Twist of Fate. Work as a director includes Snoopy, Honk! (South Africa, Chicago, Tokyo and Singapore) and Just So (North Shore Music Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre). As a performer, recent work includes Rogues to Riches, The Three Musketeers and ... read more Julian Fellowes is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, novelist and actor. He is the creator, sole writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning international television phenomenon, "Downton Abbey" for which he won two Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Movie or Miniseries and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special. He is also the writer of the upcoming "Downton Abbey" movie. In 2002, Fellowes won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Gosford Park." ... read more ... read more ... read more ... read more ... read more ... read more ... read more Stiles and Drewe’s musical Honk! won London’s Olivier Award for Best New Musical (2000) and has since been seen in more than 2,000 productions worldwide. Their other shows include Just So (North Shore Music Theatre), Peter Pan, Tutankhamun and Soho Cinders. George’s new musical The Three Musketeers, with lyrics by Paul Leigh and book by Peter Raby, played at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Other work includes the scores for Sam Mendes’ Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (BAM), musical adaptations of Tom Jones and Moll Flanders, songs for the RSC’s Shakespeare Revue and a blissful spell as Dame Edna’s pink pianist ... read more Training: Jazz Musical Department of the Amsterdam University of the Arts. Theatre includes: Mary Poppins (the Netherlands/Vienna/UK tour/ Germany), An American in Paris (Austria), Beauty and the Beast (Paris), Tanz der Vampire (Berlin), and Miss Saigon, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fame and Grease (the Netherlands). ... read more Widely hailed as the UK's most popular and successful choreographer/director, Matthew is the creator of the world's longest-running ballet production, a five-time Olivier Award winner and the only British director to have won the Tony® Award for both choreographer and director of a musical. He is artistic director of New Adventures, which has created an enormous new audience for dance with its groundbreaking dance/theatre productions Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Car Manand Play Without Words. Musical theatre includes Oliver!, My Fair Lady (Olivier Award), South Pacific and Mary Poppins (Olivier Award). Matthew's latest production, Edward Scissorhands, based on ... read more Broadway: Wicked, Mary Poppins, Ragtime (1998 Tony Award®), Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden (1991 Drama Desk Award), Crazy for You, Carousel, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Sweet Smell of Success. London: My Fair Lady, Oliver!, South Pacific. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Secret Garden. Lincoln Center: A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose. Ballet arrangements: for Christopher Wheeldon, Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovich. Recordings: for Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Joshua Bell's CD "West Side Story Suite." ... read more Stephen Brooker is currently musical supervisor for Betty Blue Eyes, Mary Poppins (Holland and Australia) and Les Misérables (London and Madrid). He was musical director of The Woman in White, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Lautrec, Cats, The Secret Garden (RSC) and South Pacific (NT). He supervised Oliver!, My Fair Lady (USA and UK), Les Misérables (New York revival), Cats, Hair, Miss Saigon, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, Carmen Jones, The Phantom of the Opera, Grease, Fame, Hair, Saturday Night Fever, Peter Pan and Chess. He was musical consultant for the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Production and recently conducted the ... read more Recent Productions: Don Carlos (MET, NY) Love Never Dies (Adelphi, London). Bob Crowley has designed over twenty productions for the National Theatre, including most recently: The Habit of Art, The Power of Yes, Phèdre, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Gethsemane, and Fram (which he also co-directed with Tony Harrison), The History Boys (Broadway - Tony Award), His Girl Friday and Mourning Becomes Electra, plus more than twenty-five productions for the RSC, including: Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier Award. For the Donmar Warehouse - Into the Woods and Orpheus Descending. Other credits include: Pavane ... read more During his 23-year writing collaboration with composer George Stiles, Anthony has written the book and lyrics for Tutankhamun, Just So, Soho Cinders, the multi award-winning Honk! and the lyrics for Peter Pan - A Musical Adventure (book by Willis Hall). With composer Tony Hatch, he wrote lyrics for The Card and, with Singaporean composer Dick Lee, the lyrics for A Twist of Fate. Work as a director includes Snoopy, Honk! (South Africa, Chicago, Tokyo and Singapore) and Just So (North Shore Music Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre). As a performer, recent work includes Rogues to Riches, The Three Musketeers and ... read more Richard Eyre was director of the Royal National Theatre (1988-1997). He has directed many classics and new plays by David Hare, Christopher Hampton, Tom Stoppard, Alan Bennett, Trevor Griffiths, Tony Harrison and Nicholas Wright. He directed Arthur Miller’s The Crucible on Broadway in 2001 and Hedda Gabler in the West End in 2006. He has won five Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, three Critics Circle Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild. He has directed many award-winning films for TV and four feature films: The Ploughman’s Lunch, the Oscar®-nominated Iris (which he co-wrote), Stage Beauty and ... read more Julian Fellowes is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, novelist and actor. He is the creator, sole writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning international television phenomenon, "Downton Abbey" for which he won two Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Movie or Miniseries and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special. He is also the writer of the upcoming "Downton Abbey" movie. In 2002, Fellowes won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Gosford Park." ... read more Geoffrey trained at the Bird College of Performing Arts. He has worked extensively in Musical Theatre both as a performer and as a choreographer. As a performer, Geoffrey has appeared in Cats, Fiddler on the Roof, Matador, Mr Cinders, Martin Guerre, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side Story, Oliver! and numerous appearances in West End Galas, Royal Variety Performances and the Laurence Olivier Awards. Geoff's most recent work includes Additional Choreography for the current West End hit revival of Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre) and Musical Staging for the current Broadway revival of Les Miserables (Imperial Theatre, New York) ... read more Oliver! (Japan); SIX (Broadway); Rent (Hope Mill Theatre); SIX (Australia); Mary Poppins (The Prince Edward Theatre); SIX (U.K. Tour); The Witches of Eastwick (Cirkus, Stockholm); SIX (US Tour); Amélie (Munich-Werk7); Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Theatres, Southampton); SIX (Arts Theatre London); Mary Poppins (Zurich/Dubai, Asian Première in Tokyo). Associate Designer: Hamilton; Half A Sixpence; Les Misérables;The Phantom of the Opera (London). Recordings: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein – Original London Cast Recording, (Producer/Mixer); Disney’s Newsies (Mixer); Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording (Recording Engineer & Mixer). ... read more Luke Halls is an Award Winning international Video Designer whose work crosses a range of disciplines including opera, theatre, dance, film, TV and worldwide sellout music tours. Luke received a Knight of Illumination Award for Don Giovanni at The Royal Opera House London and a BAFTA for his work on The Cube. Theatre includes Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre and Japan), Man and Superman (National Theatre), Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (London's Barbican Theatre), Mary Poppins (UK tour), Linda, The Nether and 2071 (Royal Court) and Master and Margarita (Complicite/ Barbican). Luke made his debut at The Metropolitan Opera in New York with Otello, ... read more Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. ... read more Broadway: Ghost The Musical (Drama Desk Award – the first illusionist to win in its 57 year history), Matilda The Musical, The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout), Pippin, An Act of God, Finding Neverland, Side Show, The Woman In White, Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth (Armory), The Phantom of the Opera (US tour). West End: Groundhog Day, The Lord of the Rings, Our House, The Invisible Man, The Witches. Film: Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hugo. Consultant to magicians including David Copperfield, Penn & Teller and David Blaine, and on the live shows of Kate Bush and Catherine Tate. He was awarded ... read more Matt began his career working extensively as a freelance costume and prop-maker for stage, film and video at Robert Allsopp Associates before returning to study and subsequently graduate from the Motley theatre design course in 1994. During the 90's he worked at the National Theatre, London, as designer, design associate and draughtsman on over 40 productions, including Jerry Springer – The Opera, The Coast of Utopia and My Fair Lady. Since leaving the National Theatre he has worked in commercial theatre as an associate designer on many shows including The Woman in White, My Fair Lady (UK and USA tours), ... read more Cameron’s Original productions include LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and CATS - the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4th decades - MISS SAIGON, MARY POPPINS (currently back in the West End and co-produced with Disney), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, SONG AND DANCE, TOMFOOLERY, MARTIN GUERRE, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. He also reinvented modern versions of OLIVER!, FOLLIES, HALF A SIXPENCE, BARNUM and MY FAIR LADY. His new versions of LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON and OLIVER! are now proving ... read more Stephen Mear is an English dancer, choreographer and director best known for his award-winning work in musical theatre. In the 1990s, Mear taught dance at the London Studio Centre. In 2005 he and co-choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Choreography, for their work on the new West End musical Mary Poppins, which they subsequently won once more for the revival of the same production in London at the 2020 Olivier Awards. This production later transferred to Broadway in 2006, being nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography in 2007. Mear choreographed the Broadway musical of ... read more James co-directed the 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables, first staged in 2009. He has subsequently directed the production worldwide – including, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Canada, Korea, Germany, Dubai, New York and the current UK and US tours. He directed the staged concert version of Les Misérables in Scandinavia in 2002 and the 25th Anniversary concert at London’s O2 Arena in 2010. James’ other directorial work includes Dirty Dancing in London, Australia, Toronto, Holland, Germany and both US tours. He was Associate Director on the original production of Mary Poppins in Bristol, West End and Broadway, and has since gone ... read more Christine Rowland has worked in both subsidised and commercial theatre. She was resident Costume Supervisor at the National Theatre for several years and Head of Costume at the RSC. Work for Cameron Mackintosh includes: Carousel (London, New York and Japan), Oliver! (London, UK tour, Toronto and Sydney), The Witches of Eastwick (London and Melbourne), My Fair Lady (London and USA tour), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Mary Poppins (London, UK tour, New York, USA tour, Holland, Australia, Vienna and Stuttgart), Les Misérables 25th anniversary production (USA and UK tours, O2 concert, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, New York, Dubai, Brazil ... read more Stiles and Drewe’s musical Honk! won London’s Olivier Award for Best New Musical (2000) and has since been seen in more than 2,000 productions worldwide. Their other shows include Just So (North Shore Music Theatre), Peter Pan, Tutankhamun and Soho Cinders. George’s new musical The Three Musketeers, with lyrics by Paul Leigh and book by Peter Raby, played at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Other work includes the scores for Sam Mendes’ Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (BAM), musical adaptations of Tom Jones and Moll Flanders, songs for the RSC’s Shakespeare Revue and a blissful spell as Dame Edna’s pink pianist ... read more Hugh has designed the lighting for more than 160 productions and worked for most of the UK's national companies and extensively on Broadway. He has received three Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Designer: in 2004 for Pacific Overtures (Donmar); in 2000 for The Graduate (West End) and The Cherry Orchard (National Theatre); and in 1998 for The Unexpected Man (RSC) and The Blue Room (Donmar). In New York he received TONY® award nominations for Mary Stuart and Spamalot. His most recent work includes: Ghost the Musical (West End); The Wizard of Oz (West End); Matilda (RSC); Deathtrap (West End); La Bête ... read more