PICTURE YOU DEAD – UK TOUR 2025

PETER JAMES – NOVELIST

Peter James, one of the world’s most successful thriller authors, is the creator of Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective, Roy Grace.

He has achieved, to date, 20 The Sunday Times No 1 bestsellers and his Roy Grace novels have sold over 23 million copies worldwide and been translated into 38 languages. Famed for the detail and accuracy of his research, both into the inner workings of the police and into all the subjects he writes about, his work is much loved by crime and thriller fans around the world. Sixteen of these novels have been turned into the hit ITV drama series GRACE, starring John Simm as the troubled Brighton copper, with a further four currently in production for Season 6.

His fast-paced page-turners full of unexpected plot twists, sinister characters, and truly original and compelling stories, have won him over 40 awards for his work including the WH Smith Best Crime Author of All Time Award and the Crime Writers’ Association lifetime achievement Diamond Dagger.

Born and raised in Brighton, Peter began his career working in film and television in North America, with his best-known film being the BAFTA nominated The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons, before deciding to make writing full time his
career. He lives in Jersey with his wife, Lara, and a menagerie of around 200 animals, and also keeps a base in Sussex.

Picture You Dead is Peter James’s seventh novel to be adapted for the stage, earning his work the reputation of being the most successful stage franchise since Agatha Christie.

Peter has been given honorary doctorates from both Brighton University and the Open University. He supports a wide range of charities, including the Sussex Police Charitable Trust of which he is co-patron with the Chief Constable.

In his early days as a student, he once worked as Orson Welles’s house cleaner!

DAVID HENTY – ART

David Henty is now recognised as the number one copyist artist in the world today. His work is meticulously and lovingly recreated to the finest detail, having honed his craft over 25 years to now master the techniques and nuances of some of history’s most iconic artists, from Amedeo Modigliani to Pablo Picasso, L.S. Lowry, Caravaggio, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Norman Rockwell, Chaim Soutine, George Braque, Carel Fabritius, Claude Monet, Edwin Landseer, Walter Sickert, René Magritte, John Singer Sargent and Dante Gabriel Rossetti… the list goes on!

Each piece of artwork involves rigorous preparation through David’s immersive research process: studying the original painting, developing an understanding of how the artist worked and, wherever possible, sourcing materials true to the period. David’s expert knowledge and skill has been sourced by film and TV including BBC’s Click, Mrs. Lowry and Son, and Sky Arts, and with a documentary about David on Vice media, podcasts, a selling on The Greatest Auction on Channel 4 and a character in two books by global best-selling author Peter James’ book Picture You Dead and David Forrest’s book Art World Underworld, David is fast becoming one of the best known art forgers alive today!

David’s work, and art copying, has become its own genre, and its own legitimate art form, much sought after and collected by art lovers and galleries. Master copies have now become commonplace, and as the tides of the art world shifts and record-breaking prices increase, it is of the upmost importance for copy artists to produce works of the greatest artists that have ever lived. As an artist, David Henty is committed to this endeavour.

www.davidhentyart.co.uk

SHAUN McKENNA – STAGE ADAPTOR

Shaun McKenna is an award-winning British playwright, dramatist and lyricist. Picture You Dead is his seventh Peter James adaptation, following Wish You Were Dead, Looking Good Dead, The House on Cold Hill, Not Dead Enough, Dead Simple and The Perfect Murder.

In late 2024 his adaptation (with Lin Coghlan) of The Forsyte Saga had an acclaimed run at the Park Theatre, London. Its future life will be announced in the spring. His original comedy Exhibitionists (with Andrew van Sickle) opened at the New Kings Head Theatre, London in January 2024. The award winning 2023 Watermill Theatre production of Shaun’s 2005 stage version of The Lord of the Rings (with Matthew Warchus) is currently on a World Tour until 2026. His 1997 musical Maddie will be revived Off Broadway
in May 2025 after winning Best Score award at the 2023 New York Theatre Festival. His latest musical with Stephen Keeling, The Return of Peter Pan, played a sellout run in Germany in spring 2024. Nutcracker Prince is in development for Christmas 2025.

Shaun is currently working with composer Pippa Cleary on The Looking Glass Wars, a new musical based on Frank Beddor’s iconic Alice in Wonderland origin-story novels. He will adapt Gone With The Wind for BBC Radio 4 for broadcast in early 2026 and he has recently become a regular writer on The Archers.

Other theatre credits include: Rocky Road Ladies in Lavender; Only You Can Save Mankind; Lautrec; La Cava; Murder Mystery Musical; Last Dance; Heidi; Johanna and
Heidi; Ruling Passions; How Green Was My Valley; To Serve Them All My Days; Ben Hur Live and the forthcoming Anurakti; Trouser Bar and The Paradine Case.

He has written and produced the short film Guess Who’s Coming To Lunch?. Another screenplay, Draugr, is in pre-production. Previous film and TV work includes The Crooked Man; Like Father Like Son; Great West End Theatres; Heartbeat and Doctors. Agent 160, Oscar’s Boys and Eleanor Rising are in various stages of development.

Thirty years of audio credits, including both original and adapted work, include Eleanor Rising; China Towns; The Forsytes; The Complete Smiley; East of Eden; The Cry Of The Owl; Marnie; Meeting Jack and Me and Little Boots, and he was a core writer on the award winning Home Front from 2014-2018.

JONATHAN O’BOYLE – DIRECTOR

Jonathan is an award-winning theatre director. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Birkbeck, University of London where he graduated with an MFA in Theatre Directing. He was previously Trainee Associate Director at Chichester Festival Theatre and Associate Director at Theatre503.

Jonathan won Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical Production at the 2021 Off-West End Awards for his production of The Last Five Years. His production of Hair won the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End production. His productions of Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert, The View Upstairs and The Last Five Years were also nominated for WhatsOnStage Awards.

Directing credits include: White Christmas (The Mill at Sonning); Barnum (Watermill Theatre); The Singing Revolution (Savoy Theatre); Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical (The Other Palace); Calendar Girls The Musical (Bill Kenwright Ltd, UK Tour); The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre, West End, International Tour, Southwark Playhouse); Wish You Were Dead
and Looking Good Dead (Josh Andrews Productions, UK Tour); Hair (Hope Mill Theatre, The Vaults, UK and International Tours, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production); Top Hat (The Mill at Sonning); A Guide for the Homesick, Rasheeda
Speaking and Bash Latterday Plays (Trafalgar Studios); Proud (Turbine Theatre); The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre); Rain Man (Bill Kenwright Ltd, UK Tour); Aspects of Love and Pippin (Hope Mill Theatre, Southwark Playhouse); Cruel Intentions (Bill Kenwright Ltd); This House (Headlong and National Theatre, UK Tour, co-directed with Jeremy Herrin); Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse); The Astonishing Times of Timothy
Cratchit (Hope Mill Theatre); Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cadogan Hall); Peter Pan (Park Theatre); Four Play, Sense of an Ending (Theatre503); The Surplus, All The Ways To Say Goodbye (Young Vic); The Wedding Singer, Nice Work If You Can Get It and Season’s Greetings (ArtsEd).

Upcoming theatre includes: Jekyll & Hyde and Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical (UK Tour 2025).

Associate Director credits include: An American In Paris (Dominion Theatre); The Judas Kiss (Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York and Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto); Amadeus (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic); Bull (Sheffield Theatres, Young Vic and New York).

Alongside his directing work, Jonathan is the Director of the School of Musical Theatre at Arts Educational Schools, London.

ADRIAN LINFORD – DESIGNER

Adrian was born in Cambridgeshire, trained at the Wimbledon School of Art, and lives in London.

Credits in the UK and Europe include: L’Etoile (Royal Northen College of Music, Manchester); The Mirror Crack’d (UK Tour); Filibuster, a premiere of a new physical performance piece (touring Devon and the South of England); Manon Lescaut (Grange Festival Opera); Hansel and Gretel, the UK premiere of Jake Hegge’s opera Dead Man Walking, Street Scene, Agrippina, and Judith Weir’s The Vanishing Bridgegroom (all for
the Royal Conservatoire in Scotland). He designed costumes for Eugene Onegin and L’elisir d’amore (West Green Opera). Further designs include: The Tempest, Henry V (Shakespeare’s Rose, York), King Lear starring Michael Pennington (UK Tour) and The Winter’s Tale. He designed the current production of The Marriage of Figaro in Lübeck, Germany, Il turco in Italia (Nantes/Luxembourg Opera), and Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris).

His designs for Bluebeard’s Castle, originally in London (winning the Royal Philharmonic Award for Opera), have gone on to Atlanta, Toronto – nominated there for Best Opera Design-the Dora Awards, New Zealand, and were part of the Edinburgh International Festival 2023, the Beijing Music Festival and is revived in Edmonton, Canada this year with further productions in 2026 including the production going to Finland in the Spring.

In the United States, productions include: Rigoletto and La Grande Duchesse du Gerolstein (Santa Fe Opera); Falstaff (LA Opera, Dallas Opera, and Houston Grand Opera) which revives in Los Angeles in 2026; Orfeo ed Eurydice (Minnesota Opera); The Bald Soprano and The Maids (New York); The Barber of Seville (Opera San Jose) which is revived with Omaha Opera, and Palm Beach Opera in 2026 and his British production of The Habit of Art received The New York Times Critic’s Pick 2023 in New York (Brits-off-Broadway season).

JASON TAYLOR – LIGHTING DESIGNER

Jason was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for Journey’s End at the Belasco Theatre, Broadway.

West End/London credits include: Journey’s End (Harold Pinter, Playhouse, Duke of York’s); Some Girls (Apollo); Fifteen seasons at Regents Park Open Air Theatre; The Rivals, Daytona (Haymarket); The Letter, Honour (Wyndham’s); Twelfth Night (Noël Coward Theatre); Rain Man (Lyric); Glorious, Our Boys (Duchess); What the Butler Saw (Criterion); Treason (Palladium); And Then There Where None (Duke of York’s); Gangsta Granny (Garrick); High Society (Shaftesbury); Pygmalion (Old Vic); Great Balls of Fire (Cambridge); The End of the Night (Park Theatre); The Big Fellah (Lyric Hammersmith); The American Plan (St James); Six Degrees of Separation, National Anthems (Old Vic); Connections season (National Theatre); The Empire (Royal Court); Abigail’s Party (Whitehall); Top Girls (Trafalgar); The Lyons (Menier) and Di, Viv and Rose (Hampstead).

UK regional design credits include: Six seasons at Kilworth House Theatre including,
Cats, Joseph, Hairspray, Guys and Dolls and West Side Story; Copenhagen (Sheffield Theatres); over 20 productions for Alan Ayckbourn (Scarborough); 25 pantomimes and 55 other productions (Nottingham Playhouse as resident); Fallen Angles (Chichester); All My Sons (Plymouth); Tell Me on A Sunday (Old Laundry, Bowness); Mrs Pat (Chichester); Hysteria (Birmingham Rep); Madness of George III (West
Yorkshire Playhouse); Dead Funny (Edinburgh); Kafka’s Dick (Bath); Hansel and Gretel (Grange Park Opera).

UK national tours design credits include: Birdsong; Looking Good Dead; Horrible
Histories; The Syndicate; Treason; Band of Gold; The House on Cold Hill; How the Other Half Loves; The Commitments; Waiting For God; Henceforward; Not Dead Enough; Tom the Musical; Hero’s Welcome; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Single Spies; Stepping Out and Annie Get Your Gun.

International design credits include: Journeys End (Broadway); Pygmalion (Broadway); Mamma Mia! (Antwerp and Brussels, Belgium); Waitress, Evita,
Love Never Dies, Billy Elliot, Anything Goes (Copenhagen, Denmark); Assassins (Bergen, Norway); 100 Year OId Man (Karlstad, Sweden); Matilda (Helsinki, Finland); Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Wolf (Gate, Dublin); Merry Wives of Windsor (New York/Los Angeles); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Antwerp, Belgium); Peter Black (Budapest, Hungary); Rent
(Antwerp, Belgium); Taming of the Shrew (Middle East Tour); The Yalta Game/Dumb Waiter (Gate, Dublin); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Larnaca, Cyprus); Blood Brothers (New Zealand /Australia Tour) and A Doll’s House (Galway, Ireland).

MAX PAPPENHEIM – COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER

Recent theatre includes: The Night of the Iguana, Cruise (West End); The School for Scandal, Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); Coram Boy, Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Headlong); Shed: Exploded View (Royal Exchange); A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse); The Divine Mrs S, Nineteen Gardens, Blackout Songs, Linck and Mülhahn, Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); Village Idiot, One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe, Headlong); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); The Children (also Broadway), Ophelias Zimmer (Royal Court); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, Old Bridge (Bush Theatre); The Homecoming, My Cousin Rachel (Theatre Royal Bath); The Syndicate, Murder in the Dark, The Mirror Crack’d, Wish You Were Dead, The Circle, Looking Good Dead (National Tours); Humble Boy, Blue/Heart, The Distance (Orange Tree Theatre).

Opera and Ballet includes: The Limit (Royal Ballet); The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburg Festival); Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Hansel and Gretel (BYO/Opera Holland
Park) and Scraww (Trebah Gardens).

Online includes: The System, Barnes’ People, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (Original
Theatre); 15 Heroines (Digital Theatre).
Associate Artist of Orange Tree Theatre, The Faction and Silent Opera.
Awards include Off West End Award for Sound Design for Old Bridge.

JOSHUA ANDREWS – PRODUCER

Josh Andrews is a Tony Award-winning and three-time Olivier-nominated theatre producer. He has extensive experience of commercial theatre production and general management with musicals and plays in the West End, on Broadway and with major UK tours.

After ten years in the film business, Josh began his theatre career at Bill Kenwright Ltd. During his six-year tenure there as Associate Producer, and subsequently Producer, Josh worked on over 25 productions, including West End and national touring productions of plays and musicals such as: Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie directed by Rupert Goold and starring Jessica Lange (Apollo Theatre); Christopher Hampton’s Treats starring Billie Piper (Garrick Theatre); Noël Coward’s Hay
Fever, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, Peter Shaffer’s Sleuth, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind (UK Tours); Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular (Garrick Theatre); Clifford Odets’s The Country Girl directed by Rufus Norris (Apollo Theatre); Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre and UK Tour); the Olivier Award-nominated Tina Turner musical Soul Sister (Savoy Theatre) and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new production of The Wizard of Oz starring Michael Crawford (London Palladium). In terms of original productions at BKL, he was Producer on the newly-rediscovered play by Noël Coward, Volcano (Vaudeville Theatre and UK Tour); The Haunting, an adaptation by Hugh Janes of the ghost stories of Charles Dickens; Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s Olivier Award-nominated musical Dreamboats and Petticoats (Savoy and Playhouse Theatres and UK Tour) and Ben Brown’s acclaimed play Three Days in May which won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play in 2012 (Trafalgar Studios).

Josh then set up his own production company to produce and general-manage plays and musicals. Under his own banner, he is the Producer of the hugely successful crime-
thriller stage franchise, based on the best-selling books from the UK’s number one crime author, Peter James. The first six stage adaptations, The Perfect Murder, Dead Simple, Not Dead Enough, The House on Cold Hill, Looking Good Dead and Wish You Were Dead, have toured throughout the UK to great acclaim and sell-out audiences and the seventh, Picture You Dead, tours across the UK in 2025.

Together with the Young Vic, Josh co-produced the critically acclaimed, award-winning production of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Benedict Andrews and starring Gillian Anderson, the production was screened live to cinemas around the world by NT Live and enjoyed another critically acclaimed run in New York.

In 2017 Josh produced and executive-produced the West End transfer of the Broadway musical, An American in Paris. The show’s Olivier Award-winning London transfer received a record-setting 28 five-star reviews at the Dominion Theatre and a film of the stage show was released in cinemas around the world in 2018.

2018 also saw Josh produce the huge hit new musical of Kay Mellor’s Fat Friends and in 2019 Josh, alongside Simon Friend, produced the world premiere stage adaptations of The Girl on the Train in the West End and UK tour, and Kay Mellor’s hit television series, Band of Gold. 2019 also saw Josh form a new production partnership, JAS Theatricals, which has gone on to produce or co-produce productions including 9 to 5 the Musical,
Noises Off, Life of Pi and Pretty Woman: The Musical in the West End, the Tony Award-winning new musical Hadestown on Broadway, the British stage premiere of Cluedo and the world premiere of What’s New Pussycat? featuring the iconic songs of Tom Jones. Recent productions also include Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d and Cluedo 2, and current productions include The Girl on the Train and Birdsong on tour, whilst the Olivier Award-nominated production of Hadestown continues to perform to great acclaim in the West End at the Lyric Theatre.