Oh What a Lovely War

Director

Upcoming: Sunset Boulevard (Broadway).

Credits include: Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse), Global Majority (Attenborough), Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion), Blackbird (The Other Room), The Secret Garden (Ambassadors), Oh What a Lovely War!, Candide (Mountview), Carrie, Edward II, All That I Am, Spring Awakening, Company, Between Riverside and Crazy (all Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Sweet Charity (Italia Conti), Pericles (LAMDA).

Director: Sunset Boulevard (Savoy), Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse/Pinter), King Lear (Duke of York’s).

Musical Director

Matthew works as a musical director, conductor, arranger and pianist.

Recently: Musical Director for Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre).

Credits: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Evita, The Commitments, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Concert They Never Gave, Rent, Edges.

Associate Conductor/MD: Old Friends: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim, Les Misérables, Sister Act - the Musical, Jekyll & Hyde, Whistle Down the Wind and Cabaret.

He was involved in the workshop of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new production of Cinderella

Choreographer

Choreography/movement credits: West End: The Effect (National Theatre), Cruise (Apollo), Say Something (NDCWales), Little Women (Park Theatre), Kalena (Pheonix Dance Theatre) The Intro (Balletboyz), Blood and Belief (U.Mi-1 London Fashion week 21), STATE (mapdance 21), Candide (Mountview), Primetime (Royal Court), SAY:AF (Dance Umbrella),

Other: Nominated for Black British Theatre award for Cruise (Duchess). Co-founder of SAY dance company. Performer credits: West End: STOMP (Ambassadors Theatre). Film: The Marvels (Dancer). Other: the album (SAY) STOMP world tour (Glynis Henderson Productions), Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony 2022, The Deluge (Lîla Dance), Us (Cathy Waller Company), Shame (bangbangbang group), The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court).

Set and 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.

Urinetown - Costume Designer

Emily is a designer based across London and Cardiff.

A graduate from RWCMD, credits include Oh What a Lovely War (Mountview), Mr Kolpert (LAMDA), Crazy for You (WAVDA), and Tristan and Yseult (Warminster Athenaeum), as well as various film shorts, including a commission for UnBoxed’s Tour de Moon.

Recent associate work includes Project Dictator (Rhum & Clay’s UK and Norway tour), Murmurations (Tangled Feet), as well as assisting Edie Morris on National Theatre Wales’ Galwad.

Lighting Designer

Adam is a Mountview alum.

Since graduating, he has gone on to be Assistant Lighting Designer on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Bend it Like Beckham in the West End.

His own design credits include: Flowers For Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios), Then Now & Next (Southwark Playhouse), We Need New Names (UK tour),Gone Too Far (Theatre Royal Stratford East), From Here to Eternity (Charing Cross Theatre), Flashdance (European tour), Snowflake/Tornado (UK tour/BBC), Robin Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin (Harlow Playhouse), The Nutcracker,Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast (New Theatre Royal Portsmouth), Mephisto Waltz and Swingle Stepping (Royal Opera House, Main Stage).

Sound Designer

Bruce has a MA in visual art from Camberwell College of Art, London.

His output crosses over several media including drawing, installation, film and sound.

He has composed sound scores for contemporary dance and sound design for drama and immersive work in a variety of locations from traditional theatre to site-specific locations in the UK and abroad. He also writes on theoretical aspects of performance studies.

Oh What a Lovely War Creatives

Voice Coach
Andrea Lewis

Assistant Director
George Marlin* (he/him)

Assistant Musical Director
Alex Cawley** (he/him)

Ptaszynski Producer
Jac O'Kody (she/her)

* MA Theatre Directing Student
** MA Musical Direction Student

Oh What a Lovely War Crew

Production Manager
Davin Patrick (he/him)

Deputy Production Manager Laura Mann (she/her)

Costume Supervisor
Alice Basaral (she/her)

Stage Manager
Melanie Oglesby † (she/her)

Deputy Stage Manager
Elysia Beaumont † (they/she)

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Managers
Alex Plaistow † (he/him)
Elisabeth Moss † (she/her)

Assistant Stage Managers
Bethany Jefferies † (she/her)
Nathan Brown † (he/him)

Production Electrician
Jonathan Wing † (he/him)

Production Video Engineer
Yann Rigotti † (he/him)

Production Sound Engineer
Wayne Harris

Lighting Programmer
Jasper Anderson † (he/him)

LX 1
Chloe Palmer † (she/her)

Lead Carpenter
William Mannings

Scenic Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Artists / Prop Makers
Alex Holl ‡ (she/her)
Megan Elliot ‡ (she/her)
Leonie Elliott ‡ (she/her) † FdA/BA/PG Dip Theatre Production Arts Student
‡ FdA/BA Scenic Art and Prop Making Student

MD/Conductor/Keys 2
Matthew Loughran

Assistant MD/Conductor/Keys 1
Alex Cawley

Trumpet
Oliver Carey

Percussion
Oliver Pooley