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Director

Lily’s theatre credits include Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Guys and Dolls, The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (The Bridge), The Baker’s Wife (Menier Chocolate Factory), Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes (Opera Holland Park/UK tour), With All Our Hearts – NHS at 75 (Adelphi Theatre), The Water Diviner’s Tale (Opera North), Sweeney Todd (The Egg Theatre, Bath), Like Dolls or Angels (Kings Head Theatre), Forbidden Touch and Opera to Die For (Welsh National Opera/National Opera Studio), Hansel & Gretel (education tour, Royal Opera House/ Nevill Holt Opera), The Language of Flowers and Folk Tales (The Cockpit), Le Petit Prince (Royal College of Music), The Fairy Queen (Waterperry Opera Festival), Gone (Theatre 503).

Forthcoming projects include Richard II (The Bridge).

Musical Director

Inga is a musical director, audition pianist and rep/vocal coach. Previously she was an RAF pilot, captaining C130 transport aircraft.

Recent MD credits include Mrs Beeton and Little Women (Mountview), Drowsy Chaperone (LSMT), Cry Baby (The University of Chichester), Starting Here, Starting Now (Waterloo East Theatre), You Won’t Succeed On Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews (Tel Aviv, Israel and The Other Palace).

Every year she publishes a list of audition songs presented at MT college auditions which seems to go viral!

Choreographer

James is an Olivier Award-winning choreographer and artistic director of his eponymous dance company, James Cousins Company, which has toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim since 2013 and in 2019 was nominated for Best Independent Company at the National Dance Awards.

Recent career highlights include Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre), Abigail’s Party (Stratford East), Sandman (Netflix), We Are As Gods (BAC/National Theatre).

James has also worked with brands including Vogue and Bulgari and with artists MUSE and Anne-Marie.

Set & Costume Designer

Gregor is an internationally recognised, award nominated theatre designer, who trained in Set and Costume design at Motley.

Designs include: Women on the Verge of HRT (Gaeity Theatre, Dublin, Grand Opera House, Belfast/tour), I Loved Lucy (Arts Theatre/US tour), Rumi (London Coliseum/ D’reesha, Qatar), Umm Kulthum and the Golden Era (London Palladium/UAE tour), Stones in his Pockets (Barn Theatre/Belfast Lyric/tour), Broken Wings (Charing Cross Theatre), Rags (Park Theatre), Dirty Dating (Stockport Plaza/Epstein Theatre, Liverpool), Cat-the Play! (Ambassadors Theatre).

Off West End Award nominations include, Best Set and Best Costume Design for Benighted (Old Red Lion), Best Costume Design for The Autumn Garden (Jermyn Street), Best Set Design for Peter Pan (Park Theatre) and for Rags (Park Theatre).

Lighting Designer

Mark’s credits include: Once (first national tour), Tony! Tony Blair the Rock Opera (Harry Hill and Stephen Brown), Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Mast Mayflower Made), The Standard Short Long Drop (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design – The Vanguard, Camden), Ken (Terry Johnson and Hampstead), House and Garden (Watermill Theatre), Clybourne Park (first national tour), Return to the Forbidden Planet (25th Anniversary tour), Don’t Look Now (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design – Queen’s Theatre): Betty Blue Eyes (first national tour), Michael Morpurgo’s Butterfly Lion (Kenwright), Dell Computers Gala (Buenos Aires), The Full Monty, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oliver!, (Bermuda City Hall), working with Willy Russell on Educating Rita, Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse) and Shirley Valentine (Royal Court Liverpool), Farm Boy, The Hired Man, Kissing Sid James (New York E59).

Sound Designer

Sound Design/Composition credits include: Frank and Percy, Alone Together, The Chalk Garden, The Shawshank Redemption, Dial M For Murder, Twelve Angry Men, Sleuth (Theatre Royal, Windsor), Grenfell: Value Engineering & Grenfell, System Failure (London/Birmingham), An Hour and a Half Late (Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour), The Upstart Crow (Apollo/Gielgud), The Book Thief, Beryl, One Man Two Guvnors, Seagulls, Treasure Island, Spring and Port Wine (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson (Park Theatre/UK tour), Jess and Joe Forever, Alice in Wonderland (Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Greatest Wealth, One Hand Tied Behind Us, Monstrous Tales (Old Vic), The Hound of the Baskervilles (English Theatre/Frankfurt/Jermyn Street Theatre/UK tour), Little Mermaid (UK tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith), Fup (Kneehigh Asylum, UK tour), The Buskers Opera (Park Theatre), The Wizard of Oz, The Drowsy Chaperone (Earl Cameron, Bermuda), and Mouthfull (Trafalgar Studios).

Director
Lily Dyble

Musical Director 
Inga Davis-Rutter

Choreographer
James Cousisn

Set Designer & Costume Designer
Gregor Donnelly

Lighting Designer
Mark Dymock

Associate Lighting Designer
Ben Spreckley †

Sound Designer
Andy Graham

Voice Coach
Lottie Williams-Burrell

Intimacy Coordinator
Sachi Kimura

Assistant Musical Director
Rachel Mapp *

Production Manager
Naomi Wildridge

Deputy Production Manager
Connie Yip

Production Assistant
Chloe Bacon **

Costume Supervisor
Kate Page

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

Stage Manager
Elisabeth Moss †

Deputy Stage Manager
Immi Dunn †

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager
Bex Waters †

Assistant Stage Managers
Callum Mack †
Mikaela Mondlane †

Production Electrician
Nicolas Petersen-Gyongyosi

Production Sound Engineers
Wayne Harris
Ollie Brennan

Lighting Programmer
Ryan Littler †

LX Operator
Ben Spreckley †

Follow Spots
Carlos Quitumbo †
Irene Saviozzi †

Sound Operator
Merlin O'Brien

Sound 2
Nick Searle

Sound 3
Beth Thompson

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Lead Scenic Artist
Steven Peters

Scenic Artists
Scarlett Fraser
Alex Holl
Amy Kennington
Hannah Sutherond

Fit Up Crew
Irene Saviozzi †
Carlos Quitumbo †
Bex Waters †
Freddie Outhwaite †

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

MD / Conductor / Keys
Inga Davis-Rutter

Reeds
Becky Hughes

Violin
Julia Hart

Cello
Pippa Mason

Guitars
Lewis Dunsmore

Bass
Jeremy Longley

Drums / Percussion
Isis Dunthorne