Tina - The Tina Turner Musical - West End Creative Team

Pippa Ailion has cast over 180 productions internationally. She was Resident Associate Director for Jonathan Miller at The Old Vic between 1987 and 1991. Natalie has worked alongside Pippa for 13 years. West End: Tina The Musical, Dreamgirls, Motown, The Book Of Mormon, Wicked, The Lion King, On Your Feet!, Sunny Afternoon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Go-Between, Billy Elliot, Bend It Like Beckham, Memphis, We Will Rock You, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Legally Blonde and Spring Awakening. UK tour: Funny Girl, Motown and Wicked. Other selected credits: Twelfth Night, Rocketman, One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, ... read more Film: MAMMA MIA! (Universal Pictures/Playtone/Littlestar Productions), Gloriana a Film (TV) (Illuminations Films). London Theatre: Six Degrees of Separation, Hysteria, Wild East (Royal Court), The Threepenny Opera, Boston Marriage (Donmar Warehouse), Mary Stuart (Donmar Warehouse, Apollo and Broadway in 2009), The Way of the World, Pericles, What the Butler Saw, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Duchess of Malfi (Royal National Theatre), Artists and Admirers, The Virtuoso (Royal Shakespeare Company), MAMMA MIA! (London, Broadway and worldwide). European Opera: La Bohème, Medea, Carmen, L’Etoile, Gloriana, Albert Herring, Peter Grimes (Opera North), Macbeth (Paris and Royal Opera House, London), The Handmaid’s Tale (Copenhagen, English ... read more Bruno Poet works extensively in opera, theatre, dance, and live music. Bruno has designed for many of the world’s leading opera houses, with Rusalka (Sydney Opera House) winning the Australian Green Room Award. He has won three Knight of Illumination Awards, one for USA Awards 2019 for Festival/One-off lighting for Björk’s Cornucopia (with Richard White), one for the Sigur Rós 2013 world tour and one for Frankenstein at the National Theatre, for which he also won the Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design. Credits include: Bjork’s Cornucopia (The Shed, New York); Billie Eilish at Steve Jobs Theatre; Apollo 11 (US Tour); ... read more Ethan is a Grammy Award nominated music producer and Tony Award nominated orchestrator. With a career spanning over the last twenty years, his work as a music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator, and music producer has been seen and heard worldwide. Since 2013, Ethan has served as the music supervisor, arranger and orchestrator for Broadway’s Motown the Musical, which earned him a 2013 Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestration (along with co-orchestrator Bryan Crook) and can currently be seen on tour throughout the United Kingdom. Motown also earned Ethan a 2014 Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album (as music producer of ... read more Recent Broadway credits include: Dear Evan Hansen, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star, Hamilton, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway, Steinberg worked on Dear Evan Hansen (Second Stage), Hamilton (The Public Theater), The Landing (The Vineyard Theatre), Far From Heaven (Playwrights Horizons). Steinberg is the Audio Consultant for Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern Auditorium, and has worked on over thirty Broadway productions as a former founding principal of Acme Sound Partners and for that work received five additional Tony nominations for The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad ... read more Mr. Sugg is an award-winning designer and theater maker with over 20 years experience in the performing arts. Mr. Sugg has designed for a wide range of productions from Broadway to regional theater to international concert halls. Mr. Sugg has been a collaborator with music/theater artists including The Wooster Group, Julia Wolfe, Cynthia Hopkins, Jim Findlay, and Mikel Rouse. Select theater credits include: Broadway: Tina the Musical (fall 2019), All My Sons, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (broadway, Tour, Australia), Sweat, Bring It On, 33 Variations. West End: Tina the Musical. His off-broadway and regional credits include Second Stage, The ... read more After almost fifty years in the music business, Tina Turner has become one of the most commercially-successful international female rock stars to date. Her sultry, powerful voice, her incredible legs, her time-tested beauty and her unforgettable story all contribute to her legendary status. Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, in Haywood County, Tennessee, to Zelma Priscilla (Currie) and Floyd Richard Bullock. Her family were sharecroppers. Tina was raised in the segregated South. She and her elder sister were abandoned by their sparring parents early on, and were then raised by their grandparents. After her grandmother's death, she eventually ... read more Anthony Van Laast trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance, later joining the Company as both performer and choreographer. Theatre: Includes Bombay Dreams (London and Broadway – Tony award nomination); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (worldwide - Laurence Olivier award nomination, Dramalogue award); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and Broadway); Song & Dance (worldwide - Green Room award, Australia); He has made shows for many people including, Kate Bush, Sarah Brightman and Barry Humphries(Dame Edna) and in Las Vegas Michael Crawford and Siegfried and Roy. Anthony has recently choreographed the new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for London’s ... read more