Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Director

James trained as an actor at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

He is currently Associate Director for the upcoming production of The Hunger Games on Stage.

Directing credits include: Greatest Days: The Official Take That Musical (P&O), Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast (Swansea Grand Theatre, won Best Panto at the UK Pantomime Awards 2023), AMDRAM: A Musical Comedy (Leicester Curve), Billy the Kid (NYMT), Little Women (Trinity Laban), Anything Goes and Our House (Urdang).

Associate Director credits include: Principles of Deception (Northampton Theatre Royal), Disney’s Remember (Disney Cruises), 2:22: A Ghost Story (Apollo Theatre), Shirley Valentine (Duke of York’s Theatre), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Charing Cross Theatre), Titanic The Musical (International tour).

Assistant Director credits include: Calendar Girls The Musical (Phoenix Theatre), The Full Monty (two UK & Ireland tours), Jerry’s Girls (The Other Palace).

James’ debut novel Not Good Enough is being published by Muswell Press in July 2025.

Musical Director

Richard has been Music Director on over sixty shows, including: Pacific Overtures (Broadway World Award nominated), Aspects of Love (30th anniversary revival), See What I Wanna See and Ordinary Days (UK premieres) and The Remains of the Day musical (world premieres).

He has conducted Victor/Victoria, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Taxi Driver as cinema with live orchestra.

He also led his own big band between 2010 and 2019.

Richard is Head of MA Music Direction at Mountview, and studied music at Cambridge University.

Choreographer

Simon trained at Performers College in Essex.

Credits as Director: Closer to Heaven (The Turbine Theatre), Annie Get Your Gun (The Lavender Theatre), The Lightning Thief, Spring Awakening (LCOM), Legally Blonde, Side Show, 9 to 5 and SpongeBob (Bird College); Choreographer: Groundhog Day (Helsinki City Theatre), Made in Dagenham and Into the Woods (ArtsEd), Cry-Baby (GSA), Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street (The Courtyard), Beauty and the Beast (Mercury, Colchester), Guys and Dolls, Brass (Mountview), Peter Pan (Hawth, Crawley); Associate: My Fair Lady (Coliseum), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents Park OAT), Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly), Jekyll and Hyde (Old Vic); Performance: Miss Saigon, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Wicked, Grease, High School Musical, Footloose and Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida.

Set & Costume Designer

Rhyannon has been working in professional theatre for over 20 years, both as a set and costume designer and as a maker.

Much of her work has been with community groups, theatre in education and drama schools, but she has also designed for a wide range of both small and large scale productions and tours, including the Chester Mystery Plays.

She designs for events, festivals and theme parks, and works as a mural artist and illustrator.

She is also design facilitator here at Mountview.

Lighting Designer

Adam is a Mountview alumni.

Since graduating he has gone on to light: Scissorhandz (Southwark Elephant), Stewart Lee vs The Wulf-Man (UK tour), The Mountaintop (Leicester Curve/UK tour), G (Royal Court), Pop off Michelangelo (Gilded Balloon Big Yin), Diva Live From Hell (Underbelly Belly Button), Fun at the Beach, Then, Now and Next (Southwark Playhouse), Sappho (Southwark Elephant), Legends: The Divas (UK tour), Unfortunate: The Untold Story Of Ursula The Sea Witch (Southwark Elephant/UK tour), Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios), Annie Get Your Gun (Lavender Theatre), We Need New Names (UK tour), Gone Too Far (Theatre Royal Stratford East), From Here to Eternity (Charing Cross Theatre) and Flashdance (European Tour).

Sound Designer

Russell is a composer and sound designer from Lancashire.

His credits include: Last Quiz Night on Earth (New Vic), Sleeping Beauty (Storyhouse), The History Boys (UK tour), Brassed Off (Theatre by the Lake), Brief Encounter, No Pay? No Way! and Beginning (Royal Exchange), Nuclear Children (Pleasance Edinburgh), Faustus: That Damned Woman (Storyhouse), Under Milk Wood (Sherman Theatre), Sorter (Swansea Grand), Edith (The Lowry), Lysistrata (Lyric Hammersmith), Groan Ups (Vaudeville West End/UK tour).

Russell’s compositions have also been played on BBC Radio 1, 2and 6 Music.

Fight Director 
Marcello Marascalchi

Voice Coach
Maddy Joyce

Assistant Director
Nepheli Velissariou * (she/her)

Assistant Musical Director
Oli Ashley **

Production Manager
Cory Duffill

Deputy Production Manager
Connie Yip

Deputy Production Manager
Amauri Crepaldi

Production Assistant 
Vicky Lee ° 

Costume Supervisor
Kat Stone

Wardrobe Assistant / Dresser
Joe Doyle † (he/him)

* MA Theatre Directing student
** MA Musical Direction student
° MA Creative Producing student
† Dip/FdA/BA Stage Management/Technical Production student

Stage Manager
Owen Spencer † (he/him)

Deputy Stage Manager
Callum Mack † (he/him)

Assistant Stage Managers
Janelle Benjamin † (she/her)
Irene Saviozzi † (she/her)
Leo Watson † (he/him)

Production LX
Kian Reeves † 

Lighting Programmer
Ryan Littler † 

Lighting Operator
Lyra Winter † 

LX Crew
Joeseph Lofthouse †

Followspot Operator
Terry Steventon † 
Mimi Storey † 

Production Sound Engineers
Ollie Brennan
Wayne Harris

Sound No.1
Phil Michael

Sound No.2
Nick Searle

Sound No.3
Ruby Orrin † (they/them)
Kayla Warham † 

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith (she/her)

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Prop Supervisor
Alex Holl (she/her)

Scenic Painters
Grace Ho † 
Olivia Parsons † (she/her)
Bex Watters † 

Fit Up Crew
Mae Pugsley Birch † (she/her)
Bex Watters † 
Elisabeth Moss † 

* MA Theatre Directing student
** MA Musical Direction student
° MA Creative Producing student
† Dip/FdA/BA Stage Management/Technical Production student

MD/Conductor
Richard Bates (he/him)

Reeds 1
Joe Atkin-Reeves

Reeds 2
Becky Hughes

Trumpet
Mia Plummer

Trombone
Nic Jones

Drums
Calie Hough

Keys 1
Sara De Sanctis **

Assistant MD/Keys 2
Oli Ashley **

Keys 3
Isabella Guilar ** (she/her)

Bass
Paul Moylan

** MA Musical Direction student