WHO’S WHO in the CAST
TIM SHEA (Doug, Mr. Spencer, Ensemble,
u/s Ned). Tour: Rock of Ages. Regional: White
Christmas, Best Little Whorehouse…, Evita.
Phillips Exeter Academy and NYU. Thanks to
TKO, Tara Rubin Casting and family for their
love and support. timshea.me.
THEODORA SILVERMAN (Katie).
“Theo” is thrilled to be playing her dream
role of Katie in the national tour of School
of Rock! Recent credits: Once national tour,
ABC’s “What Would You Do?” Thanks and
love to Mom, Dad, Hazie, Lisa, Barry, Tara
Rubin Casting, Ellyn, Jeff, Dan and Piper!
@theosilverman.
GABRIELLA UHL (Sophie, u/s Tomika). From
Cornwall, N.Y., and excited and thankful for this
national tour debut “in the band!” “Thanks to my
family, my voice coach Ilene Reid, and everyone
who’s supported this adventure.
HERNANDO UMANA (Theo, u/s Ned).
Pumped to join the band directly from the
Broadway company of Kinky Boots as the “In
This Corner” Angel. Love to family, chosen
family, teachers and everyone at CTG. Follow
@hernandoumana.
AIDEN NIKLAS VILLA (Swing, u/s Zack,
Freddy, Billy, Mason). Jersey shore native and
multi-instrumentalist, shredding the guitar since
age 8. Member of three rock bands and two
acoustic duos. Thrilled to make his acting debut!
Insta: aidenvillamusic.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Composer).
When Sunset Boulevard joined School of
Rock, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera on
Broadway in February 2017, Andrew Lloyd
Webber became the only person to equal the
record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein
with four Broadway shows running concurrently.
Other musicals he has composed include Aspects
of Love, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and
Love Never Dies. He has co-produced his own
shows including Cats and The Phantom of the
Opera, and as a solo producer he has presented
the groundbreaking Bombay Dreams which
introduced the double Oscar-winning Bollywood
composer AR Rahman to the Western stage. He
owns seven West End theaters, including the
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the Palladium and
most recently the St. James, which reopened this
year as The Other Palace to provide a unique
London home for new musicals in development.
He is passionate about the importance of music
in education, and the Andrew Lloyd Webber
Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading
charities supporting the arts and music. In 2016,
the foundation funded a major new national
initiative which endowed the American Theatre
Wing with a $1.3 million, three-year grant to
support theater education opportunities for
under-served young people and public schools
across the U.S. His awards, both as composer and
producer, include seven Tonys, seven Oliviers, a
Golden Globe, an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale,
the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in
Musical Theatre, a BASCA Fellowship, the
Kennedy Center Honor and a Grammy for
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
for Requiem, his setting of the Latin Requiem
mass which contains one of his best known
compositions, Pie Jesu. He was knighted by
Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created an
honorary member of the House of Lords in 1997.
GLENN SLATER (Lyricist) co-created Disney’s
worldwide smash Tangled (2011 Grammy winner,
2010 Oscar and Golden Globe nominee), as well
as the international hit musicals Sister Act (2011
Tony nominee) and The Little Mermaid (2008
Tony and Grammy nominee). With composer
Alan Menken, he wrote the songs for the
ABCTV series “Galavant” (2015–16), Disney’s
Home on the Range (2004) and Broadway’s Leap
of Faith (Tony nominee, Best Musical 2012). In
the West End, Glenn provided book and lyrics for
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies (2010
Olivier nominee, Best Musical). Other work
includes an Emmy-nominated song for ABCTV’s
“The Neighbors” (2013) and Newyorkers
at MTC (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer
Critics Circle nominations). Glenn lives in NYC
with composer/lyricist/wife Wendy Leigh Wilf
and future rock stars Benjamin and Daniel.
Twitter: @SlaterLyrics.
JULIAN FELLOWES (Book Writer) received
a Tony nomination for his work on School of
Rock—The Musical. He is the creator, sole writer
and executive producer of the worldwide hit series
“Downton Abbey,” which has received 69 Emmy
Award nominations, winning 15, including two
awards for Fellowes. Broadway: Mary Poppins
(Drama Desk nominee, Best Book). Film writing
credits: Gosford Park (Academy Award winner,
Original Screenplay), Vanity Fair, Piccadilly
Jim, Separate Lies (National Board of Review
Directorial Debut Award), From Time to Time
(directed), The Young Victoria, The Tourist,
Romeo & Juliet. Television writing credits:
“Little Lord Fauntleroy,” “The Prince and the
Pauper,” “Titanic,” “Doctor Thorne.” Books:
Belgravia, Snobs, Past Imperfect, The Curious
Adventures of the Abandoned Toys. Fellowes is
also a screen and stage actor. He and his wife,
Emma, live in London and Dorset, England.
They have a son, Peregrine.
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