WHO’S WHO
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supervising the UK production of Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock. He holds an
Honorary Doctorate in Arts from Edge Hill
University. JohnRigbyMusic.com
Production Overseen by MATTHEW
BOURNE. Matthew Bourne is widely hailed
as the UK’s most popular and successful
Choreographer/ Director. He is the creator of
the world’s longest running ballet production
(Swan Lake), a five-time Olivier Award winner
and the only British director to have won the
Tony® Award for both Best Choreographer
and Best Director of a Musical. He has been
Artistic Director of New Adventures (formally
Adventures in Motion Pictures) since 1987.
During this time, Bourne has created new
audiences for dance with groundbreaking work
both at home and internationally, including
Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Swan Lake,
Cinderella, The Car Man, Play Without Words,
Edward Scissorhands, Dorian Gray and
Sleeping Beauty. Bourne choreographed several
major revivals of classic musicals including
Cameron Mackintosh’s productions of Oliver!
(1994 and 2009), My Fair Lady (2002). In 2004,
Bourne co-directed (with Richard Eyre) and
choreographed (with Stephen Mear) the West
End and Broadway musical, Mary Poppins.
THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP (Producer)
was founded in 1977 by Andrew Lloyd Webber
and is wholly owned by him. At the heart of
RUG’s business are the musicals of Andrew
Lloyd Webber, including Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ
Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations, Tell
Me on a Sunday, Cats, Starlight Express, The
Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset
Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Boys
in the Photograph, The Woman in White, Love
Never Dies and Stephen Ward. In addition
to his own musicals, Andrew’s productions
include A. R. Rahman’s Bombay Dreams, the
Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The Sound of
Music and The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium
and Toronto). The Really Useful Group is an
international entertainment company, with
offices in London and Sydney that produce and
coordinate Lloyd Webber’s works throughout
the world. The company’s theatre and concert
production, recording, merchandising, music
publishing and licensing divisions provide
specialized services for Lloyd Webber’s works
and also to other producers and authors.
SETH SKLAR-HEYN (Associate Director).
Broadway: Miss Saigon (Exec. Producer), Les
Misérables (Exec. Producer), The Phantom
of the Opera (Production Supervisor), Evita
(Assoc. Director), A Little Night Music (Assoc.
Director), Finian’s Rainbow (Assoc. Director),
Good Vibrations (Assoc. Director), Mary
Stuart (Asst. Director), Rock’n’Roll (Asst.
Director), Frost/Nixon (Asst. Director), The
Coast of Utopia (Asst. to the Director). U.S.
Tour: Billy Elliot (Resident Director). Seth
directed the U.S. Tours of Frost/Nixon and
Evita. Seth serves as Executive Producer for
Cameron Mackintosh Inc. in N.Y. Graduate of
Vassar College.
NINA GOLDMAN (Associate
Choreographer). Broadway: Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels, Contact, Swan Lake, The Red
Shoes, The Phantom of the Opera. Off-
Broadway: Belle Epoque, The Dybbuk,
Bloomergirl. Regional: The Little Dancer
(Kennedy Center), The Shape She Makes
(ART), The Great Lakes Theater Festival. UK:
Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands, The
Car Man, Garsington Opera’s Death in Venice,
Arthur Pita’s The Metamorphosis. Dance:
National Ballet of Canada, Feld Ballets, Les
Ballets Jazz de Montréal. Film/TV: Swan Lake
3D, The Metamorphosis, Fame. Hunter College
Faculty. M.A. Hunter College.
JAMIE JOHNS (Musical Director) Composer/
conductor/pianist, Jamie’s new set of piano
pieces, “Calendar,” is available on iTunes.
Previously: Resident Music Director - Skylight
Opera Theatre; Director of Opera and Musical
Theatre - University of Wisconsin; Education
Director – Orlando Opera. Regional Opera:
Romeo and Juliette; Carmen; The Marriage of
Figaro; La Traviata. Regional musical theater:
Avenue Q; No, No, Nanette; Rent; Cabaret; The
Last Five Years. jamiejohnsmusic.com.
MAX QUINLAN (Resident Director). Les
Misérables (Broadway). Director: Detroit
(Guild Hall, East Hampton), Ragtime (Brooklyn
Players Theatre). Max serves as a Musical
Theatre audition coach in New York City. As a
performer, he has been seen on Broadway (Les
Misérables), National Tours (Evita, Ragtime),
and Regional (The Marriott Theatre, Drury
Lane Oakbrook, MSMT, TATC, Ravinia and
The MUNY). Proud member of AEA and
graduate of CCM. Love and thanks to his wife,
dog, family and friends. maxquinlan.net
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