The Phantom of the Opera - US Tour Creative Team

... read more ... read more ... read more Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as "Memory" from Cats, "The Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita, and "Any Dream Will Do" from ... read more Director: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (The London Palladium); Chess (English National Opera); Unmasked (The Other Palace); Miss Saigon (Broadway, West End); School of Rock (Broadway, West End, US Tour, Australia, China and Korea); Les Misérables (London, Broadway, US Tours, UK Tours, Australia, Japan, Korea and Spain); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and Australian arena tour); The Phantom of the Opera (UK and US tours); Oliver! (UK tour). He directed the 25th anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall and the 25th anniversary concert of Les Misérables at the O2 in London, both of which ... read more Maria Björnson (1949-2002) designed extensively for theatre, opera and ballet. She received numerous awards for her The Phantom of the Opera designs, among them two Tony Awards, two Outer Critics' Circle Awards and two Drama Critics' Awards, all for Best Set and Costume. Other theatre credits include Aspects of Love, Follies, The Cherry Orchard, Measure for Measure, The Blue Angel, Camille, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Way of the World, Plenty, Ph�¿��¿�¿�dre, Britannicus, The Lulu Plays, Creditors, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lonely Road and The Cherry Orchard. Opera work includes productions at The Royal Opera ... read more Widely hailed as the UK's most popular and successful choreographer/director, Matthew is the creator of the world's longest-running ballet production, a five-time Olivier Award winner and the only British director to have won the Tony® Award for both choreographer and director of a musical. He is artistic director of New Adventures, which has created an enormous new audience for dance with its groundbreaking dance/theatre productions Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Car Manand Play Without Words. Musical theatre includes Oliver!, My Fair Lady (Olivier Award), South Pacific and Mary Poppins (Olivier Award). Matthew's latest production, Edward Scissorhands, based on ... read more Nick Cartell currently portrays prisoner 24601, Jean Valjean, on the National Tour of Les Misérables, delivering a performance that reviews have called "nothing short of consummate" (Louis Hobson, Calgary Herald) and "outstanding in the pivotal role of Jean Valjean" (Amy Stempfl, The Tennessean). Other credits include Broadway: Cirque du Soleil's Paramour (standby AJ/Joey/Robbie); Scandalous: The Musical; Jesus Christ Superstar (2012 revival, u/s Jesus, Judas, Annas). National Tour: The Phantom of the Opera. Off-Broadway: Frankenstein. Regional: The Light in the Piazza (AriZoni Award-Best Actor, Musical), My Fair Lady, Les Misérables and many more! Concerts: South Coast Symphony, Phoenix Symphony and The ... read more Broadway: Jersey Boys; Spamalot; ...Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Nat’l tour: Disney’s On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America. ... read more National Theatre credits include Pinocchio, Follies, Mosquitoes, Common, Angels in America, The Red Barn, The Suicide, Wonder.land, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Table, This House (also West End and Chichester), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End and Broadway, Olivier Award for Best Lighting 2013, Tony Award for Best Lighting), The Comedy of Errors, Danton, The Power of Yes, Phedre, Death and the King's Horseman, War Horse (also West End and Broadway, 2011 Tony Award for Best Lighting), Some Trace of Her, Women of Troy, Triple Bill, Saint Joan, Attempts on Her Life, The Caucasian ... read more Studied composition with Howard Ferguson and Richard Rodney Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music in the 1960s. He is best known as an orchestrator of musicals, particularly those of Andrew Lloyd Webber — Cats, Starlight Express, Song and Dance, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, By Jeeves, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game, The Phantom of the Opera, The Woman in White, Love Never Dies and most recently The Wizard of Oz. ... read more Nina Dunn is an award-winning video and projection designer who has created work for a wide range of shows internationally and is the Creative Director at PixelLux. Work for theatre includes: Spitting Image Live (The Rep); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse); The Shark is Broken, Bonnie & Clyde, City of Angels, No Man’s Land, Cookies (West End); 9 to 5 The Musical (West End, UK and Australian Tour); Othello, Manor, Emperor & Galilean (NT); Don Quixote, Lazuli Sky (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Seven Deadly Sins, Bluebeard’s Castle (Teatro Colón Buenos Aires); A Museum in Baghdad, Venice Preserved, Miss Littlewood, The Seven Acts of ... read more Sound design credits include: Billy Elliott The Muscial (Curve); The Last Five Years (Garrick & Southwark Playhouse); The Show Must Go On! (Palace); Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Nottingham Playhouse); the European premiere of The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre) and world premieres of What I Go To School For – The Busted Musical (Brighton Theatre Royal) and Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre). Other credits include: Carrie (Mountview Academy); Jesus Christ Superstar (LAMDA); Bandstand, Spongebob The Musical, Cats, The Wedding Singer, Ragtime, Kipps, The Wild Party, Freaky Friday, Legally Blonde and Nice Work If You Can Get ... 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 Cameron’s Original productions include LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and CATS - the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4th decades - MISS SAIGON, MARY POPPINS (currently back in the West End and co-produced with Disney), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, SONG AND DANCE, TOMFOOLERY, MARTIN GUERRE, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. He also reinvented modern versions of OLIVER!, FOLLIES, HALF A SIXPENCE, BARNUM and MY FAIR LADY. His new versions of LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON and OLIVER! are now proving ... read more Dance/Theater: The Phantom of the Opera Broadway Tour, Flashdance Natl. Tour, The Metropolitan Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Bad Boys of Dance Int. Natl. Tour, Whim W’him, River North Dance Company. Commercial: Law & Order SVU, Warby Parker, “David Letterman,” Dos Equis, GQ, Armani Exchange. ... read more LILY ROSE PECK (Swing, Dance Captain) is proud and very excited to be joining this new cast of The Phantom of the Opera! After closing the last US National tour of Phantom, she is glad to be back doing a show she loves so much. Lily graduated from the Kirov Academy of Ballet, studied on scholarship with The Alvin Ailey School and American Ballet Theater where she won the Coca-Cola National Training Scholarship. Her other credits include Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet and The Santa Fe Opera. ... read more Mick has designed the sound for numerous world premiere productions including: Saturday Night Fever (London, New York and worldwide), Bombay Dreams (London, New York), The Woman In White (London, New York), the largest ever production of Phantom Of The Opera (Las Vegas), the critically acclaimed West End production of Evita (London, Broadway, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour), Zorro The Musical (London, Paris and worldwide), Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit productions of The Sound Of Music (London, Toronto, UK Tour, Asia, Australia) and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London), Sister Act (London, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Berlin),the world premiere of Love ... read more MAX QUINLAN is a Broadway Resident Director, Director, Broadway Performer, Jeff Award-Winning Actor, and Audition Coach based in New York City. Currently, Max is serving as the Resident Director for the North American U.S. National Tour of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Previously, Max served as the Resident Director for the 2014 Broadway Revival of LES MISERABLES. Max has an extensive background working as a director, performer, instructor, and in casting, spanning much of North America. Max recently made his film Directorial debut with the short SAMMY'S FEDORA. Other favorite Directing credits include: COMPANY (BC/EFA Benefit), SHOW BOAT (Gulf Coast Symphony), ... read more Dr John Rigby is a conductor, musical supervisor and musicologist who initially studied orchestral conducting at the University of Huddersfield and the Royal Northern College of Music. He gained his PhD from Kings College London having researched the cultural resonances of Franz Lehár’s ‘Berlin’ operettas during the Weimar Republic. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Arts from Edge Hill University in recognition of his work in musical theatre and conducting. West End credits include: An American in Paris (Dominion); Beautiful and Damned (Lyric); The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello); The King and I (Palladium); The Last Empress (Apollo, Hammersmith); Marguerite (Theatre Royal, ... read more Christine Rowland has worked in both subsidised and commercial theatre. She was resident Costume Supervisor at the National Theatre for several years and Head of Costume at the RSC. Work for Cameron Mackintosh includes: Carousel (London, New York and Japan), Oliver! (London, UK tour, Toronto and Sydney), The Witches of Eastwick (London and Melbourne), My Fair Lady (London and USA tour), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Mary Poppins (London, UK tour, New York, USA tour, Holland, Australia, Vienna and Stuttgart), Les Misérables 25th anniversary production (USA and UK tours, O2 concert, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, New York, Dubai, Brazil ... read more Broadway: Evita, A Little Night Music (Associate Director), Finian’s Rainbow (Associate Director), Mary Stuart (Assistant Director), Rock’n’Roll (Assistant Director), Frost/Nixon (Assistant Director), The Coast of Utopia (Assistant to the Director), Good Vibrations (Associate Director). U.S. Tour: Billy Elliot (Resident Director). Seth directed the U.S. Tour of Frost/Nixon. Graduate of Vassar College. ... read more TARA SWEENEY (Corps de Ballet), a Kansas City native, is classically trained in both ballet and voice, having studied with The Kansas City Ballet, Ballet School of Chicago, American Ballet Theatre, Milwaukee Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts with Melissa Hayden and the Music Arts Institute. Favorite credits include: Spamalot (2nd National Tour), The Phantom of the Opera (European Tour), Hello, Dolly! (Dance Captain), Guys & Dolls (Havana Specialty), Steel Pier (Precious McGuire), Children of Eden (Yonah) and Cats (Rumpleteazer). ... read more