Production Staff
Lyricist
Glen Ballard is an American songwriter, lyricist, and record producer. He is best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, which won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Album of the Year, and was ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. He is also well known for his collaborations with composer Alan Silvestri. He was involved in the recording and writing of Michael Jackson's albums Thriller, Bad and Dangerous. As a writer, he co-wrote songs including "Man in the Mirror" (1987) and "Hand in My Pocket" (1995). ... read more
... read more
Lyricist
Bobby has been involved with theatre sound for over 20 years, designing sound for productions in the UK and around the world.
Theatre: Work in Musical Theatre includes: My Fair Lady (Denmark), Dirty Dancing (The Aldwych Theatre), Showboat (Royal Albert Hall), Lennon (Broadway), Cyberjam (Queen’s Theatre), We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre, Las Vegas, Australia, Moscow and Madrid), MAMMA MIA! (London, Broadway and thirteen other productions around the world), Blast! (London, USA), Grease! (Dominion Theatre and UK tour), Five Guys Named Moe (Albery Theatre and tours), Return To the Forbidden Planet (Cambridge Theatre, USA, Japan and Australia), Which Witch? (Piccadilly Theatre), ... read more
Trained: National Film and Television School and Croydon College of Art.
Theatre: Wizard of Oz (The Palladium), Birdsong (Comedy), Love Never Dies (Adelphi), Enron (Noel Coward) - Olivier Nomination for Best Projection Design, The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Vaudeville), Earthquakes in London, Nation, The Power of Yes, All's Well that Ends Well, The Observer, Gethsemane, Her Naked Skin, Fram, A Matter of Life and Death, The Reporter (NT), Midnight's Children (RSC), Frost/Nixon (Donmar), Complicit (Old Vic), The Lightning Play, Whistling Psyche (Almeida), Darwin in Malibu (Hampstead), Some Girls are Bigger than Others, Lady Into Fox (Lyric Hammersmith), The Last Cigarette (Chichester), ... read more
JORDAN SCOTT GILBERT became one of the youngest Award Winning Broadway Producers and Performers in Broadway Theatrical history, being the first ever recipient of the BROADWAY PRODUCER OF THE YEAR AWARD. He has worked alongside some of the most successful actors, singers, writers, composers, directors, and producers in the world and has been the President of his own independent production and casting companies.
Jordan Co-Produced the 3-TIME TONY® AWARD nominated and DRAMA DESK AWARD winning Broadway production of GHOST THE MUSICAL, for which he was named the first ever BROADWAY PRODUCER OF THE YEAR by Broadway Global. GHOST was directed ... read more
Costume Designer
Rob Howell has designed sets and costumes extensively in the theatre and opera in the UK and abroad including at The Royal Court, The Donmar Warehouse, The Old Vic, The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Opera House and The Metropolitan Opera and on Broadway. He has received numerous Olivier and Tony nominations, including a current Olivier nomination for The Ferryman, and was awarded Oliviers for Best Set Designer in the years 2000, 2006 and 2012 and a Tony for Best Set Designer in 2013. ... read more
Colin Ingram has worked in the theatre industry for twenty-five years with some of the world's leading producers, directors, designers and writers.
Colin has produced: Ghost - The Musical in fifteen countries including the West End, Broadway and Australia; Breakfast At Tiffany's starring Pixie Lott, Anna Friel and Emilia Clarke in the West End, Broadway and UK Tour; Gone With The Wind and Movin' Out in the West End, as well as acting as Executive Producer on Billy Elliot in the West End. Prior to this, Colin worked for Cameron Mackintosh, Disney Theatrical and was Executive Producer for the Old Vic. ... read more
Broadway: Ghost The Musical (Drama Desk Award – the first illusionist to win in its 57 year history), Matilda The Musical, The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout), Pippin, An Act of God, Finding Neverland, Side Show, The Woman In White, Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth (Armory), The Phantom of the Opera (US tour). West End: Groundhog Day, The Lord of the Rings, Our House, The Invisible Man, The Witches. Film: Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hugo. Consultant to magicians including David Copperfield, Penn & Teller and David Blaine, and on the live shows of Kate Bush and Catherine Tate. He was awarded ... read more
A former entertainment lawyer, Donovan has run a successful financial advisory practice in New York City for more than 20 years. Together with Colin Ingram, Donovan's Broadway and West End productions of Ghost The Musical received three Tony Nominations and five Olivier nominations. Donovan also produced Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway starring Emilia Clarke which won Best New Play at the Broadwayworld.com awards. Donovan is currently producing the forthcoming production of Back To The Future, The Musical. Donovan also produced the film "Prey for Rock & Roll" starring Gina Gershon which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and the ... read more
Additional producing credits include:
WHITE NOISE
Associate Producer
Royal George Theatre, Chicago
BIG FISH
Producer
Oriental Theatre, Chicago
2013 ... read more
Music Arranger
Christopher is the musical supervisor, orchestrator and created additional music for Matilda the Musical for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestrations and a Grammy Award nomination for his work as co-producer on the Matilda album. He recently composed the score for the film Pride, which was BAFTA nominated. Theatre credits include: Composer – Future Conditional (Old Vic), Musical Supervisor, Arranger and Orchestrator for Ghost the Musical (London and Broadway), co-composer for The Lord of the Rings (London and Toronto, also musical supervisor, arranger and orchestrator). He was musical supervisor and arranger for Yusuf Islam's Moonshadow and ... read more
Producer
La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini (Broadway 2002) Executive Producer
The Woodsman by James Ortiz and Edward W. Hardy (Off-Broadway 2016, PBS, BroadwayHD) Executive Producer
Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark by Glen Berger, Julie Taymor, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Broadway 2011) Executive Producer
Ghost The Musical by Bruce Joel Rubin, Dave Stewart, Glen Ballard, Bruce Joel Rubin, Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard (Broadway 2012) Producer ... read more
Hugh has designed the lighting for more than 160 productions and worked for most of the UK's national companies and extensively on Broadway. He has received three Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Designer: in 2004 for Pacific Overtures (Donmar); in 2000 for The Graduate (West End) and The Cherry Orchard (National Theatre); and in 1998 for The Unexpected Man (RSC) and The Blue Room (Donmar). In New York he received TONY® award nominations for Mary Stuart and Spamalot.
His most recent work includes: Ghost the Musical (West End); The Wizard of Oz (West End); Matilda (RSC); Deathtrap (West End); La Bête ... read more
Ashley Wallen is an Australian choreographer and has worked with stars such as the Sugababes, Kylie Minogue, Will Young and Mariah Carey.
He was the resident dance captain on The X Factor and will appear as a panelist for Arlene Phillips on BBC One's DanceX. He also choreographed the 2011 UK version of Ghost the Musical.
He was most recently the choreographer for Minogue's Golden Tour, after previously choreographing her Kiss Me Once Tour. During Minogue's Golden era, Wallen also delivered a dance class for competition winners to learn the dance moves to Dancing, and dance with Minogue herself.
He also choreographed the ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2012 BroadwayWorld Awards
Best Lighting Design: Hugh Vanstone won.
2012 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Set Design: Jon Driscoll, Rob Howell and Paul Kieve won.
2012 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: Da'Vine Joy Randolph was nominated but did not win.
Distinguished Production of a Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.
2012 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical): Hugh Vanstone won.
2012 Tony Awards
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Hugh Vanstone was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Rob Howell was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Jon Driscoll was nominated but did not win.