Michael Howcroft ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

As Director: Elaine Page in Concert (2011, UK tour); Assassins,Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Cabaret (the Urdang Academy); MobyDick - the Musical (Guildford School of Acting); Sleeping Beauty(Place Theatre); Poor Ted (OnO Theatre Company).

As Associate Director: The Rocky Horror Show (ATG UKtour and international tour).

As Resident Director: South Pacific (Barbican and ATG tour2011/12); Spamalot (UK tour).

As performer: The Soldier’s Fortune (Young Vic); Amadeus(Wilton’s Music Hall); As You Like It (Wyndham’s, West End);Privates on Parade (New Victoria Theatre, Stoke).

Michael played the Beadle in the original Watermill Theatreproduction of Sweeney Todd (UK tour/West End). Also at theWatermill: Martin Guerre, Piaf, Cinderella and the EnchantedSlipper, Fiddler on the Roof and Carmen.

Scott Penrose SPECIAL EFFECTS

Scott is a member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Starand is a past recipient of the Magic Circle Stage Magician ofthe Year Award.

Apart from his skills as a performer, he is demand forcreating magic and illusions for theatre, film and television.Most notably, he was a co-creator for Cirque du Soleil’scurrent world touring show Kooza, designing magic andspecial effects. Scott also designed magic and illusion-basedeffects for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Love Never Dies.Other recent credits include: Derren Brown - Svengali, The TigerWho Came to Tea, Ghost Stories (West End and Toronto);TheWar of the Worlds arena tour; and Faust (New YorkMetropolitan Opera).

He has taught magic for film and television to the likes ofSir Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Catherine Zeta-Jones,Edward Norton, and Ant and Dec. Scott’s work has taken himaround the globe and he appeared in and worked onproductions in the USA, Canada, Japan, Egypt, Israel, France,Sweden, Holland and Spain.

Simon Gooding PRODUCTION MANAGER

With 30 years of professional experience, Simon is amongstthe UK’s busiest production managers. In 2007, he createdSimon Gooding Production Management Ltd(www.simongoodingltd.co.uk) and has since supplied theservices for High School Musical (in the UK and Spain); theworld premieres of Never Forget and Flashdance;The WeddingSinger, West Side Story, the award-winning Stones in His Pockets,Shout!, Footloose in South Africa; a new production of TheRocky Horror Show, Jus‘ Like That!, the international tour ofGrease; the UK tour of Spamalot; Flashdance in the West End;Midnight Tango; the UK tour of Grease; and, most recently,Legally Blonde.

Simon began his professional career at the BristolHippodrome Theatre as a technician, from where he movedon to become head of department at the Theatre Royal Bath.Following five years in Bath, he went on to work as mastercarpenter on many touring and West End productions whilstalso running his own scenery and furniture workshop. Afterbeing asked to production-manage Great Expectations forApollo Leisure UK in 1994, Simon production-managednumerous touring productions including: Summer Holiday,Tommy Steele’sWhat a Show, Buddy, The Rocky Horror Show,Smokey Joe’s Café and the Aldeburgh Opera Festival.

From 1998, Simon worked as senior production managerfor CoOrdination on many productions worldwide including:Smokey Joe’s Café, Sesame Street Live, Soul Train, Jim Davidson’sDick Whittington and Cinderella, Songs for a New World, Rosie andJim’s Music Party and three world premiere stage musicals ofCasper, The Mask and Spider-Man. Simon also production-managed:The Rocky Horror Show, My One and Only, White Folks,Sesame Street Live in Bahrain; Nixon’s Nixon, Vincent in Brixton,The Rat Pack: Live From Las Vegas, Sesame Strasse in Germany; ALittle Night Music, The Baker’s Wife, Money to Burn, The HolyTerror, Simply Heavenly, The Witches, Love Shack, The PostmanAlways Rings Twice, Footloose, The Rocky Horror Show (newproduction and tour);The New Statesman, the move of Chicagofrom the Adelphi to the Cambridge Theatre; Guys and Dolls inthe UK and Melbourne; Grease and Aspects of Love.

Simon’s various interests in the theatre industry haverecently found him advising on a panel which is endeavouringto improve the health and safety of the working environmentfor people at work within theatre.

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