Sweet Charity

Director

Emily is a Trinidadian theatre director.

She was shortlisted for RTST Peter Hall Award in 2023 and shortlisted for the JMK Award in 2022, and 2021.

She is a recipient of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award.

Recent credits include Tender and Pink Lemonade (Bush Theatre), Rock DJ and Three Other Songs That Saved the World (New Diorama Theatre), Haemosporidian (Lyric Hammersmith), Flip! (Regional tour/Soho Theatre), Lady Dealer (Paines Plough Roundabout, Bush Theatre), SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre Mainhouse, also writer), and BOGEYMAN (Edinburgh Fringe 2022, also writer).

Emily’s work draws inspiration from the political community theatre she grew up making in Trinidad – a combination of music, movement, direct audience address and theatricality.

Musical Director / Orchestrations / Additional Arrangements

Michael studied Music at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, and MA in Musical Direction at Mountview.

He also trained under the tuition of international concert pianist Richard Meyrick through the Pianoman Scholarships for seven years, achieving his LTCL diploma at the age of 18.

His most recent credits include Assistant MD for Hello Dolly (London Palladium), Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios) and Half a Sixpence (Kilworth House Theatre), Associate Conductor for Aspects of Love (Lyric Theatre) and Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse).

Musical Director credits include: Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin (Alive Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn).

Choreographer

Credits include: Jesus Christ Superstar and Miss Saigon (Folketeateret, Oslo), Sunday in the Park with George (Mountview), Titanic (UK/International tour), From Here to Eternity, Zorro and Violet (Charing Cross), SIX (Arts Theatre), Avenue Q (UK tour), The Wizard of Oz (Blackpool Winter Gardens), Promises, Promises (Southwark Playhouse), Sweeney Todd (Colchester Mercury/ Derby), Jersey Boys (International tour), A Chorus Line (Burke St Theatre, Brisbane), The Jungle Book (Citizen’s Glasgow), Pippi Longstocking (Royal & Derngate), The Star (Liverpool Playhouse), Britain’s Got Bhangra (Watford Palace/UK tour) and Lucky Stiff (Wimbledon Studio Theatre).

Set & Costume Designer

Bob is an interdisciplinary creative, specialising in storytelling, innovation & experiential design.

His theatrical credits include Avenue Q (Sondheim Theatre), Pan! (Theatre Peckham), Gay Pride & No Prejudice (Union Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Bridewell Theatre), She Loves Me, Pippin and Made in Dagenham (Mountview), The Hunt (Union Theatre/Brisbane Powerhouse), Then, Now & Next (Southwark Playhouse), The Hello Girls (St Peters Arts Centre, Preston), Cinderella (The Capitol, Horsham) and Ordinary Days (The Cockpit).

With over 15 years’ experience as a creative in the events industry, Bob has designed live and immersive experiences across the globe with clients including Facebook, Adidas and Sony.

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Costume Designer

Hazel is a performance designer and collaborator across theatre, live art and spatial design.

Recent credits include: The Glorious French Revolution (New Diorama Theatre), Blubber, Playfight and Roundabout (Summerhall), The Legend of Ned Ludd (Liverpool Everyman), succession theme is my ringtone (Rose Theatre), Tiger (Omnibus Theatre), Bonfire (Derby Theatre/Sheffield Theatre/ Nonsuch), As We Face the Sun and Pass It On and Paradise Now! (Bush Theatre), Who Killed My Father (Tron Theatre/Summerhall/Scottish tour), Splintered (Soho Theatre), Brilliant Jerks (Southwark Playhouse), I, Joan (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Bogeyman (Pleasance Queen Dome).

Lighting Designer

Alex designs lighting for theatre, musicals and opera across the UK and Internationally - notably Home (Chichester Festival Theatre) and The White Factory (Marylebone Theatre).

Both of which, and You Are Here (Southwark Playhouse) were nominated for Off West End Awards for Best Lighting Design.

Alex was also the Association of Lighting Production and Design Lumière 2019.

Upcoming work: Figaro: An Original Musical (London Palladium).

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
Emily Aboud (she/her)

Musical Director / Orchestrations / Additional Arrangements
Michael Cullen (he/him)

Choreographer
Cressida Carré (she/her)

Set Designer
Bob Sterrett (he/him)

Costume Designer
Hazel Low (they/them)

Lighting Designer
Alex Musgrave

Sound Designer
Andy Graham

Voice Coach
Megan Burns

Intimacy Coordinator
Ruth Naylor-Smith

Assistant Musical Director
Isabella Guilar * (she/her)

Associate Lighting Designer
Nicola Crawford

Production Manager
Naomi Wildridge

Deputy Production Manager
Connie Yip

Production Assistant
Saoirse McCarron ** (she/her)

Costume Supervisor
Naomi Wright

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

Stage Manager
Lyra Winter † (she/her)

Deputy Stage Manager
Owen Spencer † (he/him)

Assistant Production Manager / Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager
Finley Wilson † (he/him)

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager
Audrey Camberlin † (she/her)

Assistant Stage Managers
Leah Bainbridge † (she/her)
Ruby Orrin † (they/them)
Janelle Benjamin † (she/her)
Leo Watson † (he/him)

Production Electrician
Ben Spreckley † (he/him)

Lighting Programmer
Elliot Griggs

LX Operator
Mimi Storey † (she/her)

Sound No. 1 
Phil Michael

Sound No. 2
Amanda Davies

Sound No. 3
Caner Bozkurt
Callum Mack †
Terry Steventon †

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Painters
Kayla Warham † (she/her)
Joe Doyle † (he/him)

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

MD / Conductor / Keys 1
Michael Cullen

Assistant MD / Keys 2 
Isabella Guilar

Reeds
Lucía Breslin

Guitars
Curtis Volp

Bass
Danny J Grant

Drums / Percussion
Isis Dunthorne