Mark SmithMusical Director and Keyboard 1

Mark has worked as musical director, keyboards and rehearsal pianist on productions including: Avenue Q (Gielgud/Wyndham’s); Shrek (Drury Lane); Lend Me a Tenor (Gielgud); Matilda (West End rehearsal); Friends - the Opera (Comedy Central, the Box Soho); The Thing About Tom (workshop); Nobody’s Perfect (Royal Academy of Music and Jermyn Street); Goodbye Barcelona (Arcola Theatre); So Close: Daniel Boys in Cabaret (Wilton’s Music Hall); Re-Present Showcase (Actors Centre); celebrity charity concert (Leicester Square Theatre); A Man of No Importance (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); Waiting... (Trinity College of Music); graduate revue 2010, Hairspray, Side by Side by Sondheim, Once on This Island (all Urdang Academy).TV includes: The X Factor, Blue Peter.

Tom Gearing Assistant Musical Director and Keyboard 2

Tom graduated in 2001 with a MusB (hons) from the University of Manchester. He studied composition and performance with instrumental lessons at the Royal Northern College of Music. Theatre and touring credits include: Jersey Boys (dep Prince Edward Theatre 2011); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (MD); Spend Spend Spend! (show MD, Watermill UK tour 2010); Gotta Sing Gotta Dance (assistant MD 2010); Singin’ in the Rain UK tour (second assistant MD 2009); The Adventures of Mr Toad (MD), Peter Pan, Simon Webbe (Blue) 2007; Journey South (The X Factor) 2006; Guys and Dolls, The Fix, Maggie May, Have a Nice Life, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (at LAMDA 2003–2009); Rock and Roll Rollercoaster (2001/2); Old Harrovian Players (composer); and musical director for Extravaganza (Aladdin 2007); Evolution (Jack and the Beanstalk 2008 and Aladdin 2009); and Jordan Productions (Snow White 2010 and Beauty and the Beast 2011) pantomime companies. He is also a regular audition and rehearsal pianist for the National Theatre (The Cherry Orchard, London Road, Earthquakes in London), as well as for West End and regional theatre companies.

Robbie Gibson Drums / Percussion

Robbie studied timpani and percussion at the Royal Academy of Music and has since worked with some of Britain’s leading orchestras. They include the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom Robbie toured the USA playing drum kit and percussion, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, where he has played timpani and percussion on many occasions. He toured the UK with Round the Horne…Revisited and played drum kit for Sweet Charity at the Royal Academy of Music. Alongside playing percussion for the Shuffle Collective, Robbie has just returned from a successful festival season with the 11-piece soul/reggae band Sashi and the Wild Beans, who performed at several festivals across the UK including Glastonbury.

Matt Leaver Alto Saxophone / Flute / Clarinet

Theatre credits include: reed 1(alto sax, soprano sax, flute, clarinet), 42nd Street, Curve, Leicester; tenor sax, alto sax, flute, Grease, Piccadilly Theatre; tenor sax, The Rocky Horror Show, UK tour; alto, tenor, baritone saxophone and flute, Saturday Night Fever, UK tour; tenor sax, Hot Stuff, Leicester Haymarket; reed 2 (alto sax, flute, clarinet), Singin’ in the Rain (Sadler’s Wells and Leicester Haymarket Theatre); lead alto, flute, clarinet, The Rat Pack, European tour; reed 1 (alto sax, clarinet, flute, piccolo), West Side Story, Leicester Haymarket; reed 3 (alto sax, flute, clarinet), On Your Toes, Leicester Haymarket; soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, flute, Fame, UK tour.

Ken RobersonChoreographer

Broadway and New York City theatre include: the Tony Award-winning Avenue Q, All Shook Up, Purlie (Encores! series), Harlem Song and Jelly’s Last Jam (Assistant Choreographer). Also, Guys and Dolls, Caroline, or Change, The Color Purple (world premiere), Blues in the Night and Ray Charles Live. Director/Choreographer: Crowns, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Spunk, Once on this

Island and Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill. Film and television include: Preaching to the Choir, Lackawanna Blues and House of Buggin (Emmy Award nomination).

Stephen OremusMusic Arrangements and Orchestrations

Broadway and West End: music Supervisor/Arranger of Wicked, Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/Orchestrator of Avenue Q. Also on Broadway: Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/Co-orchestrator of All Shook Up, Vocal Arranger of High Fidelity. Off-Broadway: Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/Orchestrator of tick, tick...Boom!, Music Director of Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party at Manhattan

Theater Club and Rent (national tour); Music Director/ Conductor for Rufus Wainwright (singing Judy Garland’s famous 1961 concert) at Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium and the Olympia, Paris; Music Director and Arranger of Broadway Meets Country in New York and Nashville; Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger of Signed Sealed Delivered - the Music of Stevie Wonder starring Chaka Kahn (Las Vegas). Graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston.