WHO’S WHO
running around the world, including seven in
London’s West End and three currently running
on Broadway. Cameron was knighted in 1996
and recently was the rst British producer to
be elected to the Theater Hall of Fame; and
the recipient of the 2017 Stephen Sondheim
Award. This year marks his 50th Anniversary
as a Producer.
CHARLES HART (Lyrics) was born in London
and educated in Maidenhead and Cambridge. He
has written words for musicals (The Phantom of
the Opera, Aspects of Love, The Kissing-Dance,
The Dreaming); opera (The Vampyr - BBC TV);
and miscellaneous songs; as well as both words
and music for television (Watching, Split Ends -
Granada TV) and radio (Love Songs - BBC
Radio). His Two Studies for String Quartet was
performed by the Sacconi Quartet in February
2005 at London’s Purcell Room. Charles Hart’s
photographs have appeared on posters and in
playbills, as well as publications ranging from
Attitude to the Daily Telegraph, and, in 2003, he
was one of three photographers to feature in an
exhibition organized by UNICEF to celebrate
the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
He lives and works in London.
RICHARD STILGOE (Additional Lyrics and
Book) has spent fifty years as a performer and
writer in all forms of the performing arts. He
wrote lyrics for Cats, Starlight Express, The
Phantom of the Opera, The Magistrate and
Road Rage, and music and lyrics for
Bodywork, Brilliant the Dinosaur and Orpheus –
the Mythical. His broadcasting work has earned
him the New York Radio Festival Gold Award,
three Monaco Festival Prizes and the Prix Italia.
In 1997, he founded the Orpheus Centre in
Surrey, where young disabled people prepare
for independent living through a series of
performing arts courses. He was High Sheriff
of Surrey in 1998, during which year he was
awarded the OBE. He owns and drives a JCB,
and has five children and eleven grandchildren.
In the Jubilee honours list of 2012, Richard
was knighted for charitable service through the
Alchemy Foundation.
LAURENCE CONNOR (Director).
Credits in clude: The new version of Miss
Saigon (Broadway, West End, UK Tour and
Worldwide), School of Rock (Broadway and
West End), Les Misérables (Broadway and
Australia), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and
Australian Arena Tour), the spectacular new
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production of The Phantom of the Opera (UK
Tour), Oliver! (UK Tour). Laurence is also the
Co-Director of the new version of Les Misérables
(Worldwide). He directed the 25th Anniversary
concert of The Phan tom of the Opera at the
Royal Albert Hall and the 25th Anniversary
concert of Les Misérables at the O2 in London
both of which were simultaneously broadcast in
cinemas worldwide and subsequently released
on DVD. DVD credits include: Jesus Christ
Superstar (World Arena Tour), The Phantom
of the Opera 25th Anniversary Concert (Royal
Albert Hall), Les Misérables (O2 Arena).
Awards include: Miss Saigon - UK/ Manchester
Evening News Award for Best Touring Musical,
Korea/Best New Foreign Production and Best
Ensemble in a Musical, Australia/The Green
Room Award for Best Director of a Musical; Les
Misérables - UK/Best Musical at the Manchester
Evening News Awards.
SCOTT AMBLER (Choreographer). As a
member of Matthew Bourne’s company since
1991, Scott created many roles including The
Prince in Swan Lake. Choreography includes The
Hostage (RSC); Mrs Hartley and the Growth
Centre (BBC); I Giganti della Montagne and
La Calisto (Musica nel Chiostro - Batignano);
Die Stein der Weisen (Garsington); Time and the
Conways (National Theatre); Enron (Chichester/
RoyalCourt/West End/Broadway); Sondheim’s
Passion (Donmar Warehouse); Earthquakes
in London (National Theatre/UK Tour); Lord
of the Flies (New Adventures - Theatre Royal
Glasgow); The Merchant of Venice (RSC);
Decade (Headlong); The Phantom of the Opera
(UK Tour); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead/
Gielgud - Olivier Nominee); Richard II (BBC);
Der Zigeunerbaron (Stadttheater Klagenfurt);
This House (National Theatre); #AIWW
(Hampstead); Candide (RSC); Wonderland
(Hampstead); Oppenheimer (RSC/Vaudeville);
The Wasp (Hampstead Downstairs/Trafalgar
Studios); King John (Royal and Derngate/
Shakespeare’s Globe); Pride and Prejudice
(Sheffield Crucible); Medea (Almeida);
Hapgood (Hampstead). Scott is an Associate
Artist with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.
PAUL BROWN, 1960-2017 (Set Design). Born
in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, Paul trained
under Percy Harris, Motley design course.
Theatre credits include: As You Desire Me, The
Country Wife, The Sea, Marguerite (West End);
The Tempest, Naked, Richard II, Coriolanus,
King Lear, Platonov (Almeida); Emperor and