Bob Gale
Book / Co-Creator / Producer
Bob Gale is an Oscar®-nominated Screenwriter-Producer-Director, best known as co-creator, co-writer and co-producer of Back to the Future and its sequels. Gale was born and raised in St Louis, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Cinema from the University of Southern California in 1973, where he met and began his association with his longtime collaborator, Robert Zemeckis.
Gale has written or co-written over 30 screenplays and his other film credits include 1941, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Used Cars, Trespass and Interstate 60, the last of which he also directed. In addition to his film and television work, and being the ‘Gatekeeper’ for the BTTF franchise, Gale has written comic books including Spider-Man, Batman and IDW’s Back to the Future title, thus proving to his father that he did not waste hours and hours reading comics in his youth. He has given talks on screenwriting in colleges across the USA, and enjoys meeting fans at comic conventions and Back to the Future events. He has also served as an expert witness in over 25 plagiarism lawsuits, even though this has occasionally required him to wear a suit and tie. When he’s not in production, writing, or wasting time on the internet, he actually does take out the trash, even when his wife doesn’t ask (well, sometimes he does). Gale lives in California with his wife and dog. Back to the Future the Musical is his first foray into writing for the stage.
Robert Zemeckis
Co-Creator / Producer
ROBERT ZEMECKIS won an Academy Award©, a Golden Globe and a Director’s Guild of American Award for Best Director for the hugely successful and popular Forrest Gump. The film’s numerous honors also included a Best Picture Oscar and for Tom Hanks, a Best Actor Oscar.
Early in his career, he co-wrote with Bob Gale and directed Back to the Future, which was the top-grossing release of 1985, and for which Zemeckis shared Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Screenplay. He then went on to helm Back to the Future, Part II and Part III, completing one of the most successful film franchises in Motion Picture history.
Zemeckis has continued to bring an impressive number of popular films to the screen including the comedies Used Cars and I Wanna Hold Your Hand, the romantic adventure Romancing The Stone starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner and the macabre comedy hit Death Becomes Her starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis.
He also directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit, cleverly blending live action and animation in a feature film, resulting in a worldwide box office smash.
Zemeckis re-teamed with Hanks directing and producing the contemporary drama Cast Away which opened to critical and audience acclaim.
He directed and produced Contact, starring Jodie Foster, based on the best-selling novel by Carl Sagan. He also co-wrote and directed the motion capture film The Polar Express, starring Tom Hanks as a charming train conductor taking children on a magical adventure to the North Pole.
Zemeckis produced and directed his second motion capture film, Beowulf which starred Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie, based on one of the oldest surviving pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature, written before the 10th Century A.D. He released another advanced motion-capture film: A Christmas Carol, based on the celebrated and beloved classic story by Charles Dickens which he both wrote and directed for The Disney Studios.
Zemeckis returned to live action direction with the critically-acclaimed dramatic feature film Flight, for Paramount Pictures starring Denzel Washington. Under the direction of Zemeckis, Washington received an Academy Award nomination for the role.
For The Walk, he directed Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ben Kingsley in the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s 1974 attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
He then directed the romantic thriller Allied starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, telling the compelling story of the relationship between a Canadian Intelligence Officer and a French Resistance Fighter against the backdrop of WWII in North Africa in 1942.
Along with Caroline Thompson Zemeckis wrote the screenplay for Welcome to Marwen, which he directed for Universal Pictures. The film starred Steve Carell as artist Mark Hogancamp who created a miniature WWII-era village as a way to recover from a violent assault. He then directed The Witches for Warner Bros. Studios.
Zemeckis produced such films as The Frighteners, Monster House, Last Holiday, and as a producer brought the true life story of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio starring Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson to the big screen.
Along with Bob Gale, Zemeckis co-wrote Trespass. He and Gale previously wrote 1941, which began a long-time association with Steven Spielberg.
For his present directorial effort, Zemeckis has completed Pinocchio which he co-wrote for the Disney Studios. The film is currently on Disney+
In 1998 Zemeckis, Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke partnered to form the ImageMovers, a production company dedicated to telling character-driven stories across many genres for film and television incorporating into their both cutting-edge and innovative digital technology
For the small screen, his television directing credits include episodes of Spielberg’s Amazing Stores and HBO’s Tales From the Crypt. He serves as Executive Producer on Medal of Honor, for Netflix and also Executive Produces on Blue Book for the History Channel and Executive Produces on Manifest for NBC and Warner Bros. Studios.
In March 2001, the USC School of Cinema-Television celebrated the opening of the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts. This state-of-the-art center is the country’s first and only fully digital training center and houses the latest in non-linear production and post-production equipment as well as stages, a 50-seat screening room and USC student-run television station, Trojan Vision.
Presently Zemeckis is on location in England filming Here for Miramax and Sony Pictures Studios. The film will have a Fall 2023 release.
Alan Silvestri
Music and Lyrics
In his ongoing, decades-long career as a composer, Alan Silvestri has blazed an innovative trail with his exciting and melodic scores, winning the applause of Hollywood and movie audiences the world over. With a credit list of over 100 films, Silvestri has composed some of the most recognisable and beloved themes in movie history. His efforts have been recognised with two Oscar® nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, four Grammy® awards, two Emmy® awards, and numerous International Film Music Critics Awards, Saturn Awards, and Hollywood Music In Media Awards.
Born in New York City and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Silvestri first dreamed of becoming a jazz guitar player. After attending the Berklee School of Music in Boston, he hit the road as a performer and arranger. Landing in Hollywood at the age of 22, he found himself successfully composing the music for 1972’s The Doberman Gang which established his place in the world of film composing. The 1970s witnessed the rise of energetic synth-pop scores, establishing Silvestri as the action rhythmatist for TV’s highway patrol hit CHiPs. This action-driven score caught the ear of a young filmmaker named Robert Zemeckis, whose 1984 hit film, Romancing the Stone, was the perfect first date for the composer and director. Its success became the basis of a decades- long relationship that continues to this day. Their numerous collaborations have taken them through fascinating landscapes and stylistic variations, from the Back to the Future trilogy to Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the tension of What Lies Beneath and Death Becomes Her, to the cosmic wonder of Contact; the emotional isolation of Castaway, to the magic of The Polar Express, to Zemeckis’ 1994 Best Picture winner, Forrest Gump, for which Silvestri’s gift for melodically beautiful themes earned him an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination. This 38-year, 21-film collaboration includes such recent films as Flight, Allied and The Witches based on Roald Dahl’s 1973 classic book. Zemeckis and Silvestri are currently working on Walt Disney’s Pinocchio starring Tom Hanks, which is scheduled for release in September of 2022.
Though the Zemeckis/Silvestri collaboration is legendary, Silvestri has scored films of every imaginable style and genre. His energy has brought excitement and emotion to the hard-hitting orchestral scores for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, James Cameron’s The Abyss as well as Predator 1 and 2 and The Mummy Returns. Alan’s diversity is on full display in family entertainment films such as The Father of the Bride 1 and 2, The Parent Trap, Stuart Little 1 and 2, Disney’s Lilo and Stitch, The Croods as well as Night at the Museum 1, 2 and 3 while his passion for melody fuels the romantic emotion of films like The Bodyguard and What Women Want.
In 2018-19 Alan composed the music for Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. These films are the culmination of a partnership with Marvel that began in 2011 with his dynamically heroic score for Captain America: The First Avenger followed by The Avengers in 2012. Alan’s collaboration with Marvel helped propel The Avengers: Infinity Saga to spectacular worldwide success.
Silvestri’s success has also crossed into the world of song writing. His partnership with six-time Grammy Award-winner Glen Ballard has produced hits such as the Grammy-winning and Oscar- nominated song ‘Believe’ (Josh Groban) for The Polar Express, ‘Butterfly Fly Away’ (Miley Cyrus) for Hannah Montana The Movie, ‘God Bless Us Everyone’ (Andrea Bocelli) for A Christmas Carol and ‘A Hero Comes Home’ (Idina Menzel) for Beowulf. In addition to Back to the Future the Musical, Alan and Glen continue their long collaboration with new songs for the upcoming Robert Zemeckis production Pinocchio for Disney, scheduled for release in September 2022.
Glen Ballard
Music and Lyrics
Six-time Grammy Award®-winner Glen Ballard is one of popular music’s most accomplished producers and songwriters, whose records have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. In 2023 Ballard was selected to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Through his Los Angeles-based production company, Augury, Ballard is developing a diverse slate of projects in which music plays a central role. Ballard’s most recent project is Netflix’s The Eddy: a music-driven multicultural drama about a jazz band trying to survive in chaotic modern-day Paris, which debuted in May 2020. Ballard wrote and composed original songs and music for the limited series and served as an executive producer, alongside Damien Chazelle, Jack Thorne, and Alan Poul. Augury is a producer of the stage adaptation of 1985’s Back to the Future having worked on the project’s development for more than 14 years
Ballard wrote original lyrics and music for Ghost the Musical, which debuted in 2011 and has since been touring worldwide. Ballard is writing songs for the stage version of the 1979 movie The Rose, to be produced by Gail Berman, Michael Gorfaine and Sam Schwartz in association with Augury. Ballard produced and co-wrote Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill (33 million worldwide, four Grammys, and named Best Album of the Decade by Billboard magazine), and in 2019 a musical called Jagged Little Pill featuring all of the songs from the album debuted on Broadway. Directed by Diane Paulus with a book by Diablo Cody, the musical Jagged Little Pill was nominated for 15 Tony Awards in 2020.
Ballard has written and produced songs for Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Dave Matthews, Shakira, Katy Perry, Idina Menzel, George Benson, Ringo Starr, George Strait, Wilson Phillips, Van Halen, Chaka Khan, Patti Austin, Al Jarreau, Andrea Bocelli and many others.
His production credits include producing and arranging records for Annie Lennox, No Doubt and POD. Ballard co-wrote and arranged ‘Man in the Mirror’ for Michael Jackson and co-wrote and produced the Grammy winning and Oscar-nominated song ‘Believe’ (Josh Groban) for the feature film The Polar Express. His work in film includes writing original songs for Charlotte’s Web, Beowulf, The Croods, The Mummy’s Return, and Disney’s live-action Pinocchio.
John Rando
Director
John Rando directed the world premiere of Back to the Future the Musical in 2020 at Manchester Opera House. His production transferred to the Adelphi Theatre in 2021, winning the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Musical. In the summer of 2023, he opened his production of Back to the Future on Broadway and it continues to delight audiences there. In the summer of 2024, John directed the first US tour of Back to the Future, now delighting audiences across the US. In 2001, Mr Rando won the Best Director Tony Award® and Outer Critics Circle Award for Urinetown the Musical.
Other Broadway credits include: Mr Saturday Night (Tony nomination for Best Musical), On the Town (Tony nomination for Direction), A Christmas Story (Tony nomination for Best Musical), The Wedding Singer (Tony nomination for Best Musical), Penn & Teller, A Thousand Clowns, Getting the Band Back Together, The Dance of The Vampires and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. For New York City Center Encores! he directed The New Yorkers, High Button Shoes, It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman, Annie Get Your Gun, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Damn Yankees, Face the Music, Of Thee I Sing, The Pajama Game, Do Re Mi and Strike Up the Band. At the New York Philharmonic, his highly praised concert production of Carousel was also filmed for Lincoln Center Live. Mr Rando’s longtime collaboration with the playwright David Ives includes directing the Off-Broadway productions The Heir Apparent (SDCF Callaway Award for Directing), All in the Timing (Obie Award for Directing), Lives of The Saints, Polish Joke, Mere Mortals and Ancient History/English Made Simple.
Other Off-Broadway productions include: Jerry Springer the Opera (The New Group), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Comedy of Errors, among many others.
John’s work can also be seen in China with three original Chinese musicals: Jay Chou’s The Secret, The Spirit of Life – The Jonathan Lee Musical and Huang Bo’s The Island.
Tim Hatley
Designer
Tim has designed extensively for the National Theatre, West End and Broadway. Winner of three Olivier Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and three Tony® Awards, most recently for Set and Costume Design for Life of Pi.
Recent work includes: Starlight Express (London 2024), The Devil Wears Prada (Plymouth), Life of Pi (West End and Broadway), Back to the Future (West End), Dreamgirls (West End and UK tour), The Bodyguard (West End/UK tour/US tour/ Cologne/Korea), Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End/Broadway), Ghosts (Almeida/West End/BAM), Little Eyolf (Almeida), Temple (Donmar Warehouse), Enemyof the People and The Pajama Game (Chichester Festival Theatre), Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre/West End), Shrek (West End/ Broadway/UK tour/US tour), Spamalot (West End/Broadway/ US tour/Vegas), Singin’ in the Rain and My Fair Lady (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Carmen and Don Quixote (Royal Ballet).
Film includes: Closer, Notes on a Scandal and Stage Beauty.
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Chris Bailey
Choreographer
Recent credits include: Gettin’ the Band Back Together (Broadway), Jerry Springer the Opera (The New Group, Chita Rivera Award nominee), The New Yorkers (NY City Center Encores!), 1776 (NY City Center Encores!), The Entertainer with Kenneth Branagh (West End), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), Cyrano de Bergerac (Broadway), A Little Night Music (Stratford) and Because of Winn Dixie (Goodspeed).
Chris choreographed the historic opening number of the 2013 Tony Awards® and served as Associate Choreographer numerous times for the Academy Awards®.
Nick Finlow
Musical Supervisor, Vocal And Music Arrangements
Theatre includes: Musical Supervisor: Back to the Future (worldwide), The Time Traveller’s Wife and Dreamgirls (London and UK tour), Memphis (London), Avenue Q (UK tour), Les Misérables (UK tour) and Dancing Shadows (Seoul, South Korea). Associate Musical Supervisor: The Book of Mormon (London and UK tour) and Jersey Boys (London). Musical Director: Dreamgirls and The Book of Mormon (London), Jersey Boys (London), Avenue Q (Noël Coward), Victoria Wood’s musical Acorn Antiques (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Mamma Mia! (London), Tonight’s the Night (Victoria Palace), Tell Me on a Sunday (Gielgud), Rent (Shaftesbury), Stairway to Heaven (King’s Head), Kiss Me, Kate (Norwich Playhouse) and the BAFTA-nominated film Tomorrow La Scala!
Recordings include: Co-Producer and Musical Supervisor on The Time Traveller’s Wife and Back to the Future original London cast albums, Musical Supervisor on Dreamgirls and Memphis London cast albums and Musical Director on Acorn Antiques and Tell Me on a Sunday London cast albums.
He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and has a postgraduate diploma in Advanced Instrumental Studies (Piano).
Tim Lutkin
Lighting Designer
Tony® and two-time Olivier Award winner.
Broadway includes: Back to the Future and Life of Pi.
West End includes: The Crucible, Back to the Future, Fiddler on the Roof, Noises Off, Strangers on a Train, Close to You, The Full Monty, Present Laughter, Chimerica, Quiz, Lungs, A Number, Elf and Big.
NT credits include: Under Milk Wood, Antony and Cleopatra, Les Blancs and Jack Absolute Flies Again.
Hugh Vanstone
Lighting Consultant
Hugh has worked extensively in the West End and on Broadway, lighting over 200 productions worldwide and receiving many accolades for his work including three Olivier Awards, two TONY awards and a Molière.
Hugh is an associate artist at The Old Vic.
Finn Ross
Video Designer
Finn Ross has won two Oliviers, a Tony®, three Drama Desk Awards and four WhatsOnStage Awards. He is an Honouree Fellow of The Royal School of Speech and Drama.
Recent theatre includes: Hello, Dolly! (West End), Tammy Fey and Spring Awakening (Almeida), Back to the Future (West End and Broadway), Frozen (West End and Broadway), Les Misérables (international), Mean Girls (Broadway), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End and Broadway), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Broadway/West End/ tour), Jagged Little Pill (ART), American Psycho (Broadway and Almeida), Chimerica (Almeida and West End), The Tempest (RSC and Barbican), Master and Margarita, All My Sons and Shunkin (Complicité).
Opera includes: The Hours (Met Opera), The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Royal Opera House), Missa Solemnis (LA Phil), Benvenuto Cellini, The Death of Klinghoffer and The Damnation of Faust (ENO), Hänsel und Gretel, Zäuberflote and A Dog’s Heart (DNO, Amsterdam), Laclemenza di Tito and Mr Brouček (Opera North), Les Pêcheurs de Perles and Turn of the Screw (Theatre an der Wien) and Rinaldo (Glyndebourne).
Dance includes: Cinderella (The Royal Ballet), Anna Karenina (The Joffrey Ballet), The Nutcracker (Atlanta Ballet) and The Feeling of Going (Skånes Dansteater).
Music includes: Glass Animals (touring 2024), Sodagreen (touring 2024), Declan McKenna (Reading and Leeds 2023), Lewis Capaldi (2022 tour), Azimuth (Al Ula),Coldplay (Music of the Spheres), Sam Fender (Seventeen Going Under), Foals (Life is Yours), Mark Ronson (‘Midnight Feeling’), J Balvin Fornightmares (Fortnight), W Hotel Installation (Guangzhou, China) and Rolling Stones: Exhibitionism (international).
Gareth Owen
Sound Designer
Broadway design highlights include: Hell’s Kitchen (Tony® nomination), The Who’s Tommy, Back to the Future, & Juliet (Tony nomination), MJ: The Musical (Tony Award), Bad Cinderella, Diana, Summer, Come From Away, A Bronx Tale, Spring Awakening, End of the Rainbow (Tony nomination), Bat Out of Hell, The Secret Garden and A Little Night Music (Tony nomination).
West End design highlights include: Starlight Express, Just For One Day, Back to the Future (Olivier nomination), Cinderella, The Prince of Egypt, & Juliet, Come From Away (Olivier Award), Bat Out of Hell (Olivier nomination), 42nd Street, Memphis (Olivier Award), I Can’t Sing!, In the Heights, La Cage aux Folles, Elf, Top Hat (Olivier nomination) and Merrily We Roll Along (Olivier Award).
International design highlights include: Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany), Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (worldwide) and Disney’s The Little Mermaid (wworldwide). Honorary doctorate from Salford University. Husband to an awesome wife, father to three excellent kids.
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Chris Fisher
Illusion Designer
Chris Fisher is a member of The Magic Circle. He works worldwide as International Illusions and Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Theatre credits as Illusion Consultant include: Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse), Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix), Back to the Future The Musical (Broadway and Adelphi Theatre), The Ghost and the Lady (Tokyo), The Witches (NT), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse and UK tour), The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo), The Prince of Egypt (Dominion), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne and UK tour), 2:22 A Ghost Story (Noël Coward, Melbourne and LA), Peter Gynt, Here We Go, Treasure Island, Julie and Angels in America (also Broadway) (NT), Big the Musical (Dominion), Wicked Das Musical (Neue Flora Theater, Hamburg), Company (Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, NY and Gielgud Theatre), Merlin (Northern Ballet), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour), Superhero (Tony Kiser Theater, New York), Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Hypocrite (RSC at the Swan and Hull Truck), Into the Woods and The Skriker (Manchester Royal Exchange).
Ethan Popp
Orchestrations
Ethan is a Grammy Award nominated music producer as well as an Olivier Award and two-time Tony Award nominated orchestrator. With a career spanning over the last two decades, his work as a music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator and music producer has been seen and heard worldwide. Theatre: Back To The Future (2022 Olivier Award Nomination – Best Original Score Or Orchestrations), Mrs. Doubtfire, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (2021 Tony Award Nomination – Best Orchestrations), School of Rock (2016 Tony Award Nomination – Best New Musical), Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2015 Tony Award Winner – Best Revival of a Musical), Motown The Musical (2013 Tony Award Nomination – Best Orchestrations & 2014 Grammy Award Nomination – Best Musical Theatre Album), Rock of Ages (2008 Tony Award Nomination – Best New Musical), Disney’s Tarzan, We Will Rock You, Disney’s Aida, Disney’s The Lion King, Mamma Mia! and more. Television: Ethan has served as a composer, music producer, arranger and orchestrator on works from NBC/Universal’s “Smash” and HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” Film: His work on the big screen can be heard most notably as Music Director and Music Production Supervisor for 20th Century Fox’s “The Greatest Showman” starring Hugh Jackman, and as vocal and piano coach to Academy Award winner Rami Malek in his starring role in Bohemian Rhapsody. www.ethanpopp.com
Bryan Crook
Orchestrations
Bryan Crook is an award-winning orchestrator, songwriter, producer and world-class multi-instrumentalist. With Tony® and Olivier Award nominations, his career spans Broadway, film, TV, ads and more. As a founder of Mana Music and Media, he creates and produces music worldwide. See more and say hello at www.bryancrook.com
David Chase
Dance Arrangements
David Chase has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for over 40 Broadway productions.
UK theatre includes: dance music for Anything Goes (Olivier nomination), Beauty and the Beast, the Donmar Warehouse’s Guys & Dolls, Evita, Chichester’s Damsel in Distress, and the upcoming Hercules.
Television includes: Schmigadoon!, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Étoile and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. Two Emmy® nominations (The Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live!) and a Grammy® nomination.
Film includes: the upcoming Joker: Folie à Deux and Beyond the Sea.
Also, many arrangements for the Boston Pops, The Kennedy Center Honors and Radio City Music Hall. Choral works published by Hal Leonard.
David lives in NYC with his wife, Drama Desk nominee Paula Leggett Chase, and their sons, Kyler and Dashiell.
Campbell Young Associates
Wigs, Hair and Make-up
Theatre includes: West End/UK – Hello, Dolly!, Starlight Express, The Devil Wears Prada, Stranger Things, Groundhog Day, 42nd Street, Aspects of Love, Guys & Dolls, The King and I, As You Like It, Good, Eureka Day, Into the Woods, Back to the Future, Cinderella, Anything Goes, Get Up, Stand Up!, The Drifters Girl, Rosmersholm, All About Eve, St Joan, One Night in Miami, City of Angels, The Young Chekhov Trilogy, High Society, Gypsy and The Bodyguard. Broadway – Bad Cinderella, A Beautiful Noise, The Music Man, Carousel, Head Over Heels, Three Tall Women, Hello, Dolly!, The Crucible, Misery, Sylvia, A Delicate Balance and Les Misérables. Broadway/West End – The Hills of California, Back to the Future, Funny Girl, Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, Company, A Christmas Carol, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, The Ferryman, The Girl from the North Country, Farinelli and the King, Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Matilda, Ghost the Musical and Billy Elliot.
Opera includes: Don Carlos and L’enfant et les sortilèges (Bolshoi Opera Moscow) and Anna Nicole (BAM).
Film includes: Downton Abbey and Deadpool & Wolverine.
Television includes: The Gilded Age and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Awards: Drama Desk Award 2020 – Outstanding Wig and Hair Design for Tina – The Tina Turner Musical.
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The Twins FX
VISUAL SPECIAL EFFECTS
The Twins FX are leaders of theatrical visual special effects, illusions and animatronics. They make the impossible possible for theatre productions, film and television worldwide.
The Twins FX were recognised as part of the creative team who helped Crossroad Pantomimes achieve its Olivier award. It’s the first time that a pantomime has won such a prestigious award. The Twins FX have established themselves as the market leaders in large-scale theatrical effects, working on shows such as Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, Doctor Who Live, the UK tour of Barnum and Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. They have also created stunning effects for TV’s Strictly Come Dancing, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, The Next Great Magician, Britain’s Got Talent, Tonight at The London Palladium, The One Show and ITV’s Grace. The Twins FX have also supplied effects for Hollywood blockbuster movies including Now You See Me 2 and The Mummy. It’s great to be part of the Back to the Future team, being lifelong fans of the films.
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Holly Henshaw
Costume Supervisor
Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Costume Supervisor credits include: Back to the Future (Manchester Opera House, West End, Broadway and North American tour), Wicked (West End and UK tour) and Waitress (West End and UK tour).
Associate Costume Supervisor credits include: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (UK tour and Australian tour), The Bodyguard (UK tour), Teddy (London and UK tour), Toast (London, UK tour and Broadway), Peter Pan (NT), Roundabout (London and Broadway) and Handbagged (UK tour).
Marcus Hall Props Limited
PROPS SUPERVISOR
Recent projects include: Frozen, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, WaldenandTheGrinchWhoStoleChristmas (NBC/Universal)
Other notable work includes: Mary Poppins (Worldwide Productions), & Juliet, Come from Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Tina (Worldwide Productions), Kinky Boots, 42nd Street, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bat Out of Hell, Mamma Mia! The Party, The Witches of Eastwick, Dreamgirls, Motown, Memphis, Half a Sixpence, Groundhog Day, Calendar Girls the Musical, I Can’t Sing, Viva Forever!, The Commitments, Bend It Like Beckham, Top Hat, The Band, Caroline or Change, Young Marx, Rosmersholm, The Night of the Iguana, My Name is Lucy Barton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Birthday Party, Apologia, Art, Young Chekhov, Hamlet, Macbeth, American Buffalo and many more.
Daniel Griffin
Musical Director
Training: Royal Holloway University of London (BMus), Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London (MMus)
Highlight credits Include:
As Musical Director: Back To The Future (Australian Tour), Sister Act (Australian Tour and Premiere), The Rocky Horror Show (Australian Tour), Annie (West End, UK Tour), Avenue Q (UK Tour).
As Assistant/Associate Musical Director: A Christmas Carol (Melbourne), Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Australian Tour), Jagged Little Pill (Australian Tour), Chicago: THE MUSICAL (International Tour), Xanadu (UK Premiere, Southwark Playhouse), Avenue Q (South Korea).
Leah Howard
Resident Director
Leah is a versatile director and choreographer and is currently the Directing Consultant on MJ The Musical for the Michael Cassel Group, following a two-year run as Resident Director on Tina – The Tina Turner Musical for TEG Dainty. She recently toured to China as Resident Director with the Australian company of Sunset Boulevard.
Further credits include Australia Associate Director for the Australian tour of Jagged Little Pill produced by Trafalgar Theatre Productions & GWB Entertainment and Creative Director for A Hot Night with Abbie Chatfield presented by Frontier Touring and most recently, Choreographer for Once on This Island at the Hayes Theatre. Leah was the Resident Director for the Australia tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock and staged Australia’s first live streamed musical Who’s Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War during the Covid-19 restrictions on live theatre. Leah was the Resident Director/Choreographer for The Rocky Horror Show Australian Tour. She toured to Korea as the Resident Director for the UK Production of Avenue Q and was the Resident of Xanadu The Musical at the Hayes Theatre. Leah worked on the production team of Amadeus at Sydney Opera House starring Michael Sheen.
Other creative credits include: Tik Tok Mardi Gras, Australia’s Got Talent, David Campbell’s Good Lovin and Swing Sessions 2. Leah has created for television for Hi-5, A Gurls Wurld, Blue Water High, and So You Think You Can Dance Australia.
Theatre and stage performance credits include: Gypsy in Disney’s Aladdin; Aretha Thomas in Legends! starring Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills; Mrs Corry in Mary Poppins; Avenue Q; Hair; Fame the Musical; Dein Perry’s Steel City (Australia and Radio City Music Hall NYC); UK tour of Tap Dogs Rebooted and Tap Dogs USA.
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Matt Lee
Resident Choreographer
Matt Lee is a renowned international dance and musical theatre personality and choreographer with a career spanning over 35 years. Starting at age 9, Matt has performed in numerous stage and TV productions, including RENT, Grease: The Arena Spectacular, Miss Saigon, Singin’ in the Rain, We Will Rock You and most recently Titanique as Victor Garber/Luigi.
Matt is best known for his Helpmann Award-winning portrayal of Bert in Mary Poppins (Disney & Cameron Macintosh) and his acclaimed portrayal of Olaf in Frozen the Musical (Australia, Singapore, 2021-2023).
Matt is often recognised in Australia for his role on the judging panel for Logie Award winning TV series So You Think You Can Dance Australia – a show on which he also served as a key choreographer. Matt’s choreographic work for screen has seen him take on the role of resident choreographer on multiple seasons of the Australian TV series The Voice AU, The Masked Singer and Australia’s Got Talent.
Matt has worked in a creative capacity with industry legends like Paula Abdul, Hugh Jackman and Ben Elton and choreographed for artists such as Hilary Duff, Marcia Hines and Jessica Mauboy.
Matt choreographed the world premiere performance of Ricky Martin’s single Come with Me and re-staged the American Billboard Awards performance of his smash hit VIDA for The Voice Australia. He also choreographed Martin’s Australian NRL Grand Final performance seen by over 2 million viewers around Australia. Matt cast dancers and choreographed Samantha Jade’s hit singles “Bounce” and “New Boy”. Matt has also created performances for major award shows including The Logies, AACTAs, and Helpmanns.