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Sasha Regan – Director
Sasha Regan founded The Union Theatre in 1998. Twelve years on she is proud to have established a London venue that is still thriving and attracting new visitors. The Union Theatre most recently won The Peter Brook 'Up and Coming Studio' Award, which was presented to her at The National Theatre Studio in November.
Regan’s directing credits include straight plays 'We're all doing Time' (Critics Choice), new musicals 'Chelinot' by Mike Crynne (The Sunday Times Critics Choice), and the reviving of old musicals 'Cabaret', 'Sweeney Todd' (Critics Choice).
Regan also enjoys producing new stagings of Gilbert and Sullivan works. Most recently she has produced the very successful all-male 'HMS
Pinafore' (Critics Choice Evening Standard) and the 'Mikado' (Critics Choice Time Out,Evening Standard and the Times).
Sasha was awarded The Stage One Bursary for New Producers by The
Society of London Theatres. Sasha is a mum of two.
Lizzi Gee - Choreographer
Lizzi has just choreographed the Childrens Baftas, and an episode of The Legend of Dic and Dom called The Land of the Luvvies for CBBC.
Previous to this she choreographed In Touch and Super Alice Smith at the Trafalgar 2 studio for Perfect Pitch and the critically acclaimed Pirates of Penzance at the Union Theatre.
Earlier in the year she worked for ITV as choreographer for the Billy Elliot piece on the show ‘The Feelgood Factor where she trained 6 school children to dance along with one of the current West End Billy Elliots.
Prior to this Lizzi was choreographer on Hair at the English Speaking Theatre in Frankfurt.
Also last year Lizzi choreographed the original production of Sunshine on Leith (based on the songs of The Proclaimers) for the Dundee Rep/Scottish Tour. It won the TMA Award for Best New Musical, and due to its huge success she has just helped restage it for a new national tour.
In 2007 she worked as Resident Choreographer on Billy Elliot in the West End, and also helped with the casting of the Australian production. She continues to work as a tap coach training potential Billy Elliots.
Last year she assisted on recreating the UK tour of ‘Our House – The Musical’ and also choreographed the summer ‘08 Arena production of ‘The Sound of Music’ in Cyprus.
Other credits include: Musical Stager for the West End production of ‘Daddy Cool’ (based on the songs of Boney-M) at the Shaftesbury Theatre. (Nominated for Best Choreography ‘What’s Onstage Theatregoer Awards 2006), ‘Snoopy the Musical’(choreographer for 21st anniversary production at New Players Theatre), ‘Crocodile Seeking Refuge’ (movement director for national tour), ‘Dick Whittington’ with Julian Clary (choreographer at Derngate, Northampton), ‘Puss in Boots’ Newbury Corner Exchange, Jermyn St Theatre 10th Birthday Gala (Criterion Theatre), ‘Musical Stages’ 10th Anniversary (Chor.&Dir.) &‘Grease’ (Arts Educational).
Lizzi also appeared as dance coach on Channel 4’s ‘The Fit Farm’.
and choreographed for London Studio Centre’s Jazz Company and a new short film ‘Natalja’.
Lizzi’s perfoming credits include: Mary Poppins (Prince Edward), Fame (Dance Captain UK tour), Scrooge (Dance Captain UK tour), Sunset Boulevard (UK tour).
Lizzi is the proud mother of her son Arthur Bateman, born earlier this year.
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Musical Director - Chris Mundy
Chris graduated from Girton College, Cambridge (2003-06), with an honours degree in music, and holds a performing diploma from the Royal Schools of Music (piano).
Whilst at university: Assistant Musical Director on HMS Pinafore, Little Shop of Horrors, The Threepenny Opera, Spartacus (Footlights), Aristophanes’ Peace, and Whistle Down The Wind; Musical Director on Merrily We Roll Along, Women of Trachis, Too Darn Hot! A Night At The Musicals; Composer/orchestrator/arranger on Cinderella and Too Darn Hot! A Night At The Musicals.
Pit-piano experience whilst in Cambridge (all keys1): Sweeney Todd, Marat/Sade, Whistle Down The Wind, Little Shop of Horrors, The Threepenny Opera, Women of Trachis, Spartacus, and for Impromime and Stories That Need To Be Told, a touring pantomime and fairy tale piece, respectively, completely improvised (musically and dramatically) from audience suggestions.
Since leaving university: orchestrations and MD/keys on the Edinburgh Fringe Sell-Out, 2007 Tony Blair: The Musical, (“an MD who knows how to do musical theatre” – The Stage), MD/keys for the UK Stephen Sondheim Society’s inaugural Student Performer of the Year Competition (The Venue, Leicester Square), keys 2 dep on Evita (Adelphi), rehearsal pianist for the Really Useful Group section of Concert for Diana (Wembley Stadium), keys 2/synth for Assassins (Landor), audition piano for Betwixt (The King’s Head), audition and rehearsal piano for The Black and White Ball (The King’s Head), supervised by Larry Blank, MD/keys 1 on Speed Dating: The Musical (Jermyn Street), and MD/keys for The News Revue at the Canal Café Theatre, for which he was invited back for their “Best Of 2008” Christmas Run.
The beginning of Chris’s association with The Union Theatre was as MD/keys 1 on Sweeney Todd (Time Out and Evening Standard Critics’ Choice) in late 2008. In 2009, he returned to The Union as Assistant Musical Director to Michael England on Company (Sunday Express 4*) before MD/keys 1 on the all-male Pirates of Penzance (Time Out Critics’ Choice, WHATSONSTAGE nominee for Best off-West End Production of 2009).
Other work in 2009 included the UK premiere of Austentatious at The Landor Theatre (“exactly the kind of London fringe musical that ought to get snapped up by the West End” – Time Out; “A three-strong band, under musical director Chris Mundy, make it sound terrific” – The Stage), MD for Snappy Title, a concert of new musical theatre writing hosted by Stiles and Drewe at the Pigalle Club, keys 2 depping on the UK Tour of Evita for Bill Kenwright Ltd., MD for a charity concert at Cadogan Hall, featuring Ruthie Henshall, and rehearsal piano for the BBC television series The Choir:Unsung Town (TwentyTwenty Television).
Regan De Wynter - Producer
Regan De Wynter is a new producing company established in 2008. Ben De Wynter and Sasha Regan are both director/ producers who have worked together and independently for over ten years. Their credits include: 'Annie get Your Gun’ (Critics Choice), 'The Pajama Game’ (Critics Choice) the all-male ‘Mikado’ (Critics Choice) and 'H.M.S Pinafore', 'Sweeney Todd' (Evening Standard and Time Out Critics Choice & Sunday Express Top 5), ‘Company’. Most recently they have produced ‘A Man of No Importance’ ,a new musical, that shall be transferring to The Arts Theatre in February 2010, after a sell out success at The Union.
Hilary A Williams - Associate Producer
Hilary Williams has been a co-producer on many West End productions including THE GOAT OR WHO IS SYLVIA starring Jonathan Pryce, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF starring Kathleen Turner: SHOOT THE CROW with James Nesbitt and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE with Val Kilmer and Charlotte Emmerson; PIAF starring Elena Roger; DUET FOR ONE with Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman, and most recently THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED with Rupert Friend and Tamsin Greig at the Garrick Theatre.
Hilary produced the musical TOMORROW MORNING by Laurence Mark Wythe at the New End, Hampstead and later in Chicago in 2008, which won the JEFF AWARD for Best Musical in 2009. She has worked with Neil Marcos on the series he devised called THE GREAT BRITISH SONGBOOK which has so far starred Maria Friedman and Kerry Ellis.
Hilary is a partner of Jorg Betts Associates and patron of the Donmar Warehouse, the Almeida, the Gate and the Unicorn Theatre.
Frances Jones - Costume
Robyn Wilson - Designer
John Rogerson - Assistant Producer |
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