A Face in the Crowd - West End Creative Team

Phil was the original Music Supervisor/Arranger on the Olivier award-winning Our House (Cambridge) and was also the Original MD on the multi award winning Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace). Since then he has continued to specialise on new musicals and has worked with an eclectic array of composers and other artists. Theatre includes: Local Hero (Edinburgh Lyceum), The Man in the White Suit (Bath/Wyndhams), One Love (Birmingham Rep), The Lorax (Old Vic/Toronto), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), Made in Dagenham (Adelphi), I Can’t Sing! (Palladium), The Miser (Garrick), As You Like It, Hello Dolly!, Gigi (Regents Park Open Air), Human Comedy, My ... read more Anna is an award-winning set and costume designer. Theater: Once Upon a One More Time (Nederlander); The Collaboration, Hamlet, Death of a Salesman (Young Vic & West End); The Forrest (Hampstead); Hangmen (Royal Court/West End/Broadway, Olivier Award Winner for Best Set Design, Critic’s Circle Award for Best Designer, Evening Standard Award for Best Design); A Kind of People, Liberian Girl (Royal Court); The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court and Complicité); Two Ladies, A German Life, A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge); Home, I’m Darling (2019 Olivier Award Nominee for Best Set Design and Best Costume Design, Theatr ... read more Lizzi Gee is a Choreographer, Movement Director and Practitioner whose work spans across all aspects of theatre, opera, film and television. Lizzi is an Old Vic Associate Artist. Lizzi is an extremely versatile creative, having worked on large scale musicals, creating a movement language for plays and opera, working ‘one on one’ to find the physical language of a character, to personal movement coach. Lizzi is able to adapt and collaborate easily across many different genres. She has a particular ability to put any performer at ease with her self assurance, energy and excellent social skills. Lizzi’s credits include, The National Theatre, the Old ... read more Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright, essayist, and poet known for her unique and poetic style of writing. She was born on January 24, 1974, in Wilmette, Illinois, and grew up in a family of artists and writers. Ruhl attended Brown University, where she studied under Paula Vogel and earned her MFA in playwriting. Ruhl's plays often explore themes of love, loss, and the human experience. Her first play, "The Dog Play," was produced in 2001 at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre. Her breakthrough play, "The Clean House," premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 2004 and went on to receive ... read more