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Strictly Gershwin, Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake
(English National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall).
For Chichester Festival Theatre: Damsel in Distress,
Mack and Mabel, An Ideal Husband, Neville’s Island,
The Music Man, The Circle, Twelfth Night, Love
Story, Macbeth, The Pajama Game and The Way of
the World.
For the Old Vic: The Playboy of the Western World,
Inherit the Wind and Complicit.
Other theatre includes: Dinner with Sadam, Abigail’s
Party (Menier Chocolate Factory), Earthquakes in
London (NT), The Bomb (Tricycle Theatre), Oliver!
and Me and My Girl (Sheffield Crucible), King Lear
(Liverpool and Young Vic), In a Dark Dark House and
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida).
Howard has been nominated nine times and has been
twice awarded the Olivier Award for Best Lighting
Designer in 2008 and again in 2015. In 2012 he
received the Knight of Illumination Award for his
work on Anna Christie at the Donmar. He has been
nominated twice for Broadway’s Tony Awards.
ANDREW BRUCE
SOUND DESIGNER
Andrew Bruce began
his theatre career at
Glyndebourne Festival
Opera in 1968 and was
appointed Head of Sound
at the Royal Opera House
in 1971. A year later he
co-founded Autograph
Sound Recording, a
leading British sound
design and equipment rental company, now
responsible for numerous productions worldwide.
He was Associate Designer on several landmarks
of British musical theatre such as Evita, Cats and
Starlight Express. Original design credits include:
Song & Dance, Abbacadabra, Little Me, Les
Misérables, Chess, Follies, Into the Woods, The Card,
Miss Saigon, Children of Eden, City of Angels, Martin
Guerre, The Fix, The Witches of Eastwick, The Secret
Garden, Alice in Wonderland, MAMMA MIA!, Sweeney
Todd, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins.
His latest work includes Seven Deadly Sins, Isadora
and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for the Royal
Ballet and Mother Courage and her Children for the NT.
BOBBY AITKEN
SOUND DESIGNER
Bobby has been involved
with Theatre Sound for
over 30 years.
Theatre includes:
Notable/recent work
includes: Mackie Messer
– Salzburg Festival,
VIVA FOREVER!
(London), Ghost
(London, Broadway and
worldwide), Dirty Dancing (London and worldwide),
MAMMA MIA! (London, Broadway and worldwide),
We Will Rock You (London and worldwide), Grease
(London and worldwide), Lennon (Broadway),
Return to the Forbidden Planet (London, USA,
Japan and Australia) and Five Guys Named Moe
(London and tours).
Regional work in the UK: Includes productions at The
Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Derby Playhouse, Sheffield
Crucible, Manchester Royal Exchange, Palace Theatre,
Watford Leicester Haymarket and The New Wolsey.
Olympic Ceremonies: Bobby was the Sound Designer
for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games.
He has also served as a Consultant for the Sochi 2014
Winter Olympics and 2016 Opening Ceremony in Rio.
Opera includes: For the past few years, Bobby has
been working to create techniques to deliver credible
sound reinforcement for large scale, in-the-round
opera production. Credits include: Carmen, Madame
Butterfly, Aida, Tosca, La Bohème, Cavalleria Rusticana
and Pagliacci.
MARTIN KOCH
MUSICAL SUPERVISOR, ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
& ARRANGEMENTS
Martin runs a successful
music production
company and recording
studio with colleague
Nick Gilpin which
undertakes television,
film, CD and DVD
projects. Currently
working on the film
Consider Yourself
for Mob Films and PTL, a musical written by Sir
Elton John.
Training: Royal College of Music (Scholar).
Theatre includes: London (Musical Director): Chicago
(Cambridge Theatre), Pirates of Penzance (Theatre
Royal, Drury Lane), The Boy Friend (Albery), Blondel
(Aldwych) and Follies (Shaftesbury). International
(Musical Supervisor): Les Misérables, Miss Saigon,
Oliver!, MAMMA MIA! and Billy Elliot.
Orchestrations include: Just So, Moby Dick, Which
Witch, Tutankhamen, MAMMA MIA!, Jerry Springer
the Opera, Billy Elliot, Bad Girls, Kombat Opera,
Shoes and VIVA FOREVER! Also, for Shirley Bassey,
Charles Aznavour, Jennifer Rush, Michael Ball, Sir
Elton John, Anastasia, Denise Van Outen, Jamelia,
John Barrowman, Emeli Sandé, Lesley Garrett,
Vanessa Mae, Will Young, Beverley Knight, Birdy
and John Newman.
Recordings include: Over 30 albums including:
Les Misérables (original cast and symphonic),
Miss Saigon, Oliver!, Hey, Mr Producer!, MAMMA
MIA!, Jerry Springer the Opera, Billy Elliot, Bad Girls,
John Barrowman – The Album and Shoes.
Film includes: Sam written and directed by
Nick Brooks.
Television includes: The Olivier Awards 1993-2001
(composer, arranger, musical supervisor), The Royal
Variety Show 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 (composer,
arranger and musical supervisor), BAFTAs 1995-2003
(composer, arranger and musical supervisor),
Sports Personality of the Year 2006-2014 (composer,
arranger and musical supervisor), Kombat Opera
(5 mini operas for BBC TV – orchestrator) and Music
Live (composer, arranger and musical supervisor).
Conducting includes: London Philharmonic, Atlantic
Symphony Orchestra, Metropole Orchestra, SWF
German Radio Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra,
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and The London
Symphony Orchestra.
Other work includes: Music Supervisor for Cameron
Mackintosh Ltd 1988-1999, Eurovision Song Contest
1998 (wrote the opening and closing titles, and music
supervisor), Commonwealth Games Handover in Delhi
2010 (composer, orchestrator and music supervisor),
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies
(music supervisor to all four ceremonies and
composer to the Paralympic Opening).
Awards and nominations: Grammy and Tony
nomination 2002 for MAMMA MIA!, Tony and Drama
Desk winner 2009 for Billy Elliot.
DAVID GRINDROD ASSOCIATES
CASTING CONSULTANT
Theatre includes:
MAMMA MIA!
(worldwide), Groundhog
Day, Jekyll & Hyde (
Old Vic), Matilda, Mrs
Henderson Presents,
The Commitments (UK
tour), Sunset Boulevard,
Sweeney Todd (English
National Opera), 42nd