Tomorrow marks the return of From Scratch, and we’re tacking new musicals. With that in mind, we have lined up a fabulous panel of industry representatives who will offer their professional insights as part of tomorrow’s feedback and discussion session.
So without delay… our panel:
Oliver Southgate is a London-based marketeer and producer working across the live entertainment sector. Since 2013 he has been a Ticketing Manager at the worldwide marketing agency AKA where he currently works on the West End campaigns for The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick), Stomp (Ambassadors), The 39 Steps (Criterion), La Soirée (Southbank Centre) and the Royal Opera House. Other recent West End shows he has managed ticketing campaigns for include Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s), The Importance of Being Earnest (Harold Pinter), The Woman in Black (Fortune), Uncle Vanya (St James), Putting It Together (St James) and Tell Me On A Sunday (St James & Duchess).
Beyond AKA, Oliver’s independent clients have included Danielle Tarento (for Taboo at the Brixton Clubhouse) and TheatreMAD (for West End Bares 2014). He was also the line producer of Lift (Soho), The Great British Musical in Concert (Hazlitt, Maidstone) and the original cast recording of From Up Here (all for Perfect Pitch), and the producer of three London editions of the award-winning Broadway concert series If It Only Even Runs a Minute (Hippodrome Casino) as well as regional productions of the musicals And Then You Blink and Avenue Q.
Emily Maltby is an New York City. based director and choreographer. Recent credits include The Lion (Manhattan Theatre Club), Under My Skin (Little Shubert), Ring of Fire (Milwaukee Rep), and Eastland (Lookingglass Theater Co.) as well as 42nd Street and Ragtime at Northwestern University. She has also worked with Stage Entertainment, Goodspeed Musicals, CAP21, and The Smithsonian Institute, where she created four musical pieces to commemorate the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She also directed a presentation of new musical The Gefilte Fish Chronicles which received a command performance at The White House. Proud Northwestern University graduate.
Stephen McGill formed his own production company in early 2012 after working as co-producer for Poppy Productions Ltd since 2010. He has previously worked on the worldwide productions of Mamma Mia! as well as the London productions of Billy Elliot and Jersey Boys.
He has recently co-produced the West End transfer of The Pajama Game at The Shaftesbury Theatre. Current production The Last of the De Mullins will be playing at the Jermyn Street Theatre Feb 2015.
Recent productions include: The Tailor Made Man, a new musical at the Arts Theatre, An Incident at the Border which transferred to Trafalgar Studios after a sold out run at the Finborough Theatre.
Other productions include: Pushing Up Poppies, (Theatre503 and Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh) The Lost Christmas, (Waterloo East Theatre) In The Act; (Theatre Royal Stratford East) The Last of the De Mullins (rehearsed reading, Jermyn Street Theatre) and Our Boys (rehearsed reading, Prince Of Wales Theatre).
Stephen attended the Stage One Workshop for new producers in October 2011. He is a recent recipient of the Stage One Start Up Fund.
Nigel Richards is an award-winning Actor and Singer, most known for his championing of new work both in the UK and in the States, having originated roles in the European premiers of Floyd Collins, Hello Again, Spend!Spend!Spend, Baby, Songs For A New World, LaLaLaChuisa, The GoBetween and Bernstein’s Mass. This emphasis on new work culminated in his critically acclaimed album, A Shining Truth, in 2009, described by The Independent as ‘not so much a cd as a manifesto. A love letter to new writing’. His second album, ‘Short Stories’, will be released in 2015, and is a collection of previously unrecorded songs by predominantly British writers.
In addition to his many West End credits, his eclectic career has found him singing with Marianne Faithful, Tom Waits, Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cocker, Cirque de Soleil, and Scott Walker.
Nigel lectures in Musical Theatre, and is Head of Acting through Song at Arts Ed. Nigel last appeared in the West End playing the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, and the lead in Kurt Weill’s Songs From A Hotel Bedroom (Royal Opera House).
Future projects include The Stationmaster by Tim Connor and Sue Pearce, and The Night Before My Wedding by Lance Horne and Neil Gaiman, both new works.
Nigelrichards.org
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