Hot on the heels of the latest instalment of the acclaimed ITV Series GRACE, Superintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation and world premiere of the bestselling Picture You Dead, which has opened to rave reviews from audiences and critics alike.

Starring 2024’s multiple award-winning actor Peter Ash* (Coronation Street, War Horse), Strictly Come Dancing winner, presenter and stage actor Ore Oduba** (Pretty Woman, The Rocky Horror Show), Fiona Wade, who starred this year in 2:22 A Ghost Story following 12 years in Emmerdale, Jodie Steele (Wicked, Bonnie and Clyde, Heathers) and with Casualty’s George Rainsford (Call the Midwife, 2:22 A Ghost Story) returning as DSI Roy Grace.

With a total of 20 Sunday Times bestsellers to his name and the television series GRACE now a huge hit on ITV, Picture You Dead, the seventh and brand-new thrilling stage adaptation, cements Peter James’ Grace series as the most successful modern-day crime stage franchise since Agatha Christie.

Back home in Brighton, DSI Grace investigates a cold case that leads him to the secretive world of fine art, but beneath the respectable veneer lurks a dark underworld of deception and murder.

When one unsuspecting couple unearth a potentially priceless masterpiece, they discover that their dream find is about to turn into their worst nightmare, and only Grace can stop them from paying the ultimate price.

*Peter Ash will be playing all venues from 6 Feb – 17 May 25
**Ore Oduba will be playing all venues 20 May – 26 Jul 25

Reviews for Picture You Dead:

‘The best of the Peter James stage adaptations I’ve seen’
Southern Daily Echo

★★★★★
‘The best of the Peter James stage adaptations I’ve seen’

Southern Daily Echo

’It’s dead good. So do go!’
Born Again Swindonian

★★★★
‘A unique crime thriller and a show guaranteed to delight and entertain’
The Argus

★★★★
‘A gripping mystery that keeps the audience guessing until the very end’
Broadway World

‘Brilliant…a fiendishly enjoyable night out’
Sussex World

‘A detective crime triumph’
Swindon Advertiser

‘Enormous fun…A very entertaining night out’
In Common Southampton

‘An evening of thrilling suspense with lots of twists and turns along the way’
Radio Woking

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Cast

Peter Ash – Dave Hegarty

Peter started his acting career at 17 on the hit ITV show, Footballers’ Wives (Shed Productions), playing new signing to the Earl’s Park team, Darius Fry.

Following four seasons on Footballers’ Wives, Peter had roles in other TV shows such as Casualty (BBC); Blue Murder (Granada); The Royal (Yorkshire Television); The Street (ITV); White Van Man (Granada); So Awkward (Channel X) and Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures).

In between TV appearances, Peter continued to appear in many theatre shows such as Street Trilogy (Theatre Absolute); Ways To Look At Fish (Echt Theatre); 5:30 (Cheap Seats Theatre) and numerous short plays for JB Shorts including Sit. Stay. Roll Over., No Comment, Toil and Trouble and Playmates (Real Life Theatre).

In 2013, Peter joined the cast (and puppets) of the National Theatre’s War Horse for the Olivier Award-winning play’s first ever tour.

Peter is perhaps most known for his portrayal of the much-beloved character Paul Foreman in Coronation Street. Appearing on the Cobbles in 2018, Peter racked up 600 episodes of the show and won numerous awards (including two National Television Awards). His exit from the show involved a storyline about Motor Neurone Disease (MND), which was highly praised.

From working on the Coronation Street storyline, Peter became involved in raising money and awareness for MND and is now a proud patron of the Mel Evans MBE Foundation.

*Peter Ash will be playing all venues from 6 Feb – 17 May 25

Ore Oduba – Stuart Piper

Ore Oduba is an actor and broadcaster whose stage credits include Brad Majors in the 50th anniversary production of The Rocky Horror Show (West End/UK Tour) and Aaron Fox in the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains (West End/UK Tour). Ore has also played Teen Angel in Grease, Happy Man/Mr Thompson in Pretty Woman: The Musical, and is set to play lead role Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in early 2025.

Ore made his screen acting debut in BBC One primetime drama Noughts + Crosses. As an experienced and versatile presenter, familiar to audiences of This MorningThe One Show, and BBC Radio 2, he has fronted some of the biggest national events live to millions. Ore won the 14th season of Strictly Come Dancing in 2016.

 

**Ore Oduba will be playing all venues 20 May – 26 Jul 25

Fiona Wade – Freya Kipling

Fiona Wade is an accomplished actress, widely recognized for her role as Priya Sharma in ITV’s beloved long-running drama, Emmerdale. Her captivating performances have earned her multiple nominations at the British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards. Recently, Fiona completed a successful tour with the hit play 2:22 A Ghost Story, and she will soon be seen in the highly anticipated Fox comedy series, Going Dutch.

Television includes: roles in popular series such as Grange Hill (BBC); 24Seven (CITV); Where The Heart Is (ITV); Doctors (BBC); Silent Witness (BBC); Lewis (ITV); Tracy Beaker Returns (CBBC); Law & Order: UK (ITV) and Coronation Street (ITV).

Theatre includes: the title role of Kim in Miss Saigon (Sweden and London’s Drury Lane Theatre); Anjuli in The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury Theatre, London); Preethi in Strictly Dandia (Lyric Hammersmith) and Mamta in Alaska (Royal Court Theatre, London).

George Rainsford – Roy Grace

Trained at LAMDA.
George Rainsford is most known for playing series regular Ethan Hardy in Casualty for BBC One, for which he won the Inside Soap Award Best Drama Star 2017. He has also been nominated for both National Television Awards and TV Choice Awards for Best Actor on several occasions.

Other television credits include: Holby City (BBC); Jimmy in two series of Call the Midwife (BBC); Law & Order: UK (ITV); Secret Diary of a Call Girl (ITV); Luke Boyd in Waking the Dead (BBC) and JJ Bell in Doctors (BBC).

Film credits include: Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger; The Monkey’s Paw; Waiting for Dawn; Wild Target and Souvenirs.

Theatre includes: 2:22 A Ghost Story (UK Tour); Wish You Were Dead (UK Tour); Love, Love, Love and The Changing Room (Royal Court); All’s Well That Ends Well (*Ian Charleson Award Commendation) and Chatroom/Citizenship (National Theatre); Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales (Lyric Hammersmith, Liverpool Playhouse); Days of Significance (RSC); The Man and Men Without Shadows (Finborough Theatre); Carrot/Playlist, Miles to Go (Latitude Festival); Polar Bear (Birmingham Rep); The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); The 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic) and Murder in the Cathedral (National Youth Theatre).

Jodie Steele – Roberta Kilgore

Theatre includes: Diana in Filumena (UK Tour); Shelley in Bat Boy (London Palladium); Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (Garrick Theatre); Heather Chandler in Heathers (West End and The Other Palace); Sheila in Hair (The London Palladium): Katherine Howard in SIX (UK Tour); Myth (The Other Palace); Elphaba in Wicked (UK and International Tour); Betty Belle in Billie The Kid (Vaudeville Theatre); Beth Boscombe in Rehab (West End and Playground Theatre); Daisy Buchanan in Gatsby (Southwark Playhouse); War of the Worlds (Dominion Theatre); Margot/Cover Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (Kilworth House); Soul Girl/Cover Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour) and Carmen in Fame (UK Tour).

Television includes: Lily Vernon in Malory Towers (BBC); Katerina Kaminska in Professor T (ITV); Eastenders (BBC) and Emmerdale (ITV).

Films include: Wilhelmina in A Merry Royal Christmas (Amazon Prime); Livia/Anne Marie in Two Wolves and Evie in It’s All About Casey (Amazon Prime).

Workshops include: If/Then; Pin; Lovestuck; Myth; Zelda; Midnight Cowboy; Sammy Davis Jr. and Tonia.

Ben Cutler – Harry Kipling

For the National Theatre: Captain Nicholls in War Horse (West End, UK and International Tour); Jane Eyre (UK Tour).

London’s West End credits include: Giles Ralston in The Mousetrap (St Martins Theatre); Ben (limited run) in 2:22 A Ghost Story (Criterion Theatre); Diego in We’re Rearranging the Furniture (Young Vic).

UK theatre includes: Passepartout in Around the World in 80 Days (Eastbourne Theatres); Hood (Nottingham Theatre Royal, New Perspectives); Ruins (The Lowry); Macbeth, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, Animal Farm (Harrogate Theatre); Gideon in Playland (Derby Theatre); The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming for Tall Stories (UK Tour).

International theatre includes: HOTEL for Wild Rice, Singapore – winner of five Life! Theatre Awards (Victoria Theatre and Singapore Airlines Theatre); The Double Bass (Mundolinga Theatre, Paris); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Honey Tongued International Tour).

Television includes: Warren in Eastenders (BBC); The Sandman season two (Netflix); Toby in Grace season five (ITV).

Feature films include: 7 Days in Entebbe (José Padilha); Trois Femme (Tatia Shaburishvili); Charlie (short – Clementina Lugo).

Awards: Winner – Best Ensemble Cast at Life! Theatre Awards for HOTEL (2016).

Ben is a staff teacher at École Philippe Gaulier.

Nicholas Maude – Stuart Piper

Nicholas trained at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Plays: Most recently Nicholas covered and played the role of Victor in Noël Coward’s Private Lives at the Ambassador’s Theatre, London (Bath Theatre Company). Other roles include Major Metcalfe in The Mousetrap (Adam Spiegel, St Martin’s Theatre and UK Tour); Elyot/Victor understudy in Private Lives (Bath Theatre Company, UK Tour); Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days (Eastbourne Theatres, Devonshire Park); Captain Albert Lennox in The Secret Garden (Eastbourne Theatres, The Byre Theatre) and Tristram in Taking Steps (Eastbourne Theatres, Devonshire Park).

Musicals: Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (David Ian Productions, International Tour); Erick Charelle in The Snow Gorilla (BOR, Rose Theatre Kingston); Frank Farmer/Ray Court understudy in The Bodyguard (David Ian Productions, Adelphi); Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music (Really Useful Group, UK Tour); The Sound of Music (Really Useful Group, London Palladium); Al Wheeler understudy in The Stripper (Ambassadors Theatre Group, UK Tour); Raoul understudy in The Phantom of the Opera (Cameron Mackintosh, Her Majesty’s Theatre) and Alec D’Urberville understudy in Tess of the d’Urbervilles (JFK, UK Tour and London).

Film/TV: British Officer in War Machine (Netflix); News Anchor in The Royals (E!); Jon Berry in Doctors (BBC); CIA Medic in 24: Live Another Day (FOX) and Policeman in The Knock (ITV).

Follow Nicholas at @maudeymaudster and www.thebikingactor.com. Art on Nick’s wall includes Simon Clarke, Matylda Konecka & Jessi Richards-Smith.

*Peter Ash will be playing all venues from 6 Feb – 17 May 25

Adam Morris – Oliver De Souza

Adam trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre includes: Hay Fever (London Touring Players): Drop the Dead Donkey, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Da Vinci Code, Dial M for Murder and The Messiah (UK Tours); Spiral (Park Theatre); The Perfect Murder (The Mill at Sonning); Hoard Festival (New Vic Theatre); Going to the Chapel, Habeus Corpus and Summer Lightening (Salisbury Playhouse); The Importance of Being Earnest, She Stoops to Conquer and Man of the Moment (Colchester Mercury); Relatively Speaking and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Cheltenham Everyman); Cabaret and Irma la Douce (Century Theatre); The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Catastrophe (Gate Theatre); Dick Barton and Flight of the Phoenix (Croydon Warehouse).

He also played the Sheriff in Hood: The Legend Continues for the Nottingham Theatre Royal’s 150th anniversary celebrations and took over for Richard Schiff for a week of the run of Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse Theatre, London, opposite Lindsay Lohan.

Films and television includes: Outnumbered; Nolly; Sister Boniface; I Dream; Growing Rich and Backup. Also, appearances in Men Behaving Badly; Heartburn Hotel; My Family; Black Books; and Babes in the Wood.

Adam is probably best known for playing dipsy Robin in Tony Robinson’s Maid Marian and Her Merry Men for CBBC and, for even younger viewers, the long-suffering Philip Norton in Nickelodeon’s Genie in the House.

Mark Oxtoby – Archie Goff

Most recently, Mark could be seen playing the role of DI Moore in
EastEnders (BBC).

Theatre includes: Silence! (Edinburgh Festival, Turbine Theatre and Norwich
Playhouse); Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Hex (National Theatre); Back
to the Future: The Musical (Adelphi); The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s);
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical (Drury Lane); Peter Pan (Savoy); A Model Girl (Greenwich); Alice in Wonderland (Birmingham Rep); Brighton Rock (Almeida); Starlight Express (Apollo Victoria); La Cava (Piccadilly); Oh! What a Lovely War (National Theatre/Roundhouse) and Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Queen’s).

Television includes: EastEnders (BBC); Harry Hill’s Tea Time (Sky TV); Love in the Supermarkets (BBC); Gigglebiz (CBeebies/BBC) and Gigglebiz Christmas Special (CBeebies/BBC).

Film includes: Death of England: Face to Face (Sky/NT); Muppets Most Wanted
(Disney); The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary (Universal); David’s Here
(Clever Little Films UK) and Moon Over Princess Street (Peppers Ghost).

Other includes: stand-up comedy at The Comedy Store (London), Leicester Square
Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East. Mark is also a multi-award-winning screenwriter. His last screenplay, My Week With Maisy, was produced by French Fancy
Productions, starring Dame Joanna Lumley. The film screened at festivals worldwide
and won many awards, including Best Comedy at HollyShorts (LA/London), Diversity Award at Short Shorts Film Festival (Japan) and Best Women’s Short at Cleveland International Film Festival (USA).

Gemma Stroyan – Bella Moy

Gemma is a Scottish actress with an extensive theatre and voice career. She has an MA in Acting from Arts Educational Schools, London. Her recent television credits include Lockerbie: A Search for Truth starring Colin Firth and, most notably, voicing Sciron in Scottish BAFTA-winning television series Last Commanders. Gemma has also provided voiceover for BAFTA Games-winning Divinity Original Sin II as well as several STV and radio commercials. Her performance as Emilia in Othello at Riverside Studios was nominated for an Off West End Award. This is her fifth UK tour with the hugely successful Peter James plays.

Gemma is delighted to be returning as DS Bella Moy, the character she originated on stage. Other stage credits include: Kaitlyn Carter in Wish You Were Dead, DC Bella Moy in Looking Good Dead and Not Dead Enough, understudy Ashley Harper in Dead Simple (Peter James UK tours); Scottish Soldier in Woven Bones (Cap-a-Pie Theatre Company); Emilia in Othello (Riverside Studios); the Wicked Queen in Snow White (Spillers Pantomimes) and Rosalind in As You Like It (St James Theatre).

Film/television credits include: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth starring Colin Firth (Sky Atlantic); Taggart (STV) and Yo! Diary (CBBC).

Voiceover credits include: Thirsty Animals (Rachelle Atalla, Audible); The Orphan With No Name (Shirley Dickson); Saskia in Keli (Martin Green, The Lyceum); Last Commanders – Scottish BAFTA (CBBC) and Divinity: Original Sin II – BAFTA Games Awards winner.

Valentina Arena – Understudy

Valentina trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City and has since built a diverse career both in New York and internationally.

New York stage credits include: Smile the Musical and Henry V (Off-Broadway).

Italy stage credits include: Processo a Pinocchio, L’ultima Strega (Sistina Theatre, Rome) and Gypsy (Italy National Tour).

She made her London theatre debut in the new musical It Happened in Key West at the Charing Cross Theatre, where she is also featured on the original cast recording.

On screen, Valentina has appeared in I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone; had a recurring role in the HBO series My Brilliant Friend; and has also been featured in Devils (Sky); His Dark Materials (BBC), FBI: International (CBS/Universal) and Archie (ITV).

Ross Telfer – Understudy

Ross is originally from Scotland and trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

He recently played the roles of Lewis/Caterpillar/Mock Turtle/Dormouse
in Alice in Wonderland (The Dukes, Lancaster) and Demetrius/Snout/Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cheltenham Everyman).

Other stage credits include: the title role in The Ugly Duckling, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (Cheltenham Everyman); Hubert/Young Barty in Tom’s Midnight Garden (Minack Theatre, Cornwall); Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Feste in Twelfth Night (UK Tour); Ross in Dear London (Italy Tour); soloist in Prelude (Arts Theatre, West End) and Michael in Twilight Robbery (Barn Theatre, Oxted).

Television credits include: The Piper in Mary and George (Sky) and Draig Bon Dhu in The Witcher (Netflix).

Instagram: @rfmtelfer

Creatives

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.