Philip Godfrey (Composer/Writer)

Philip Godfrey studied music at Cambridge University, where he was an organ scholar and musical director/composer for the Footlights. His first musical, Play On, was performed at Cambridge and was a prize-winner in the 1990 Vivian Ellis Awards. National Youth Music Theatre performed his musical Hearts of Oak in London in 1990. Philip’s choral music is widely performed and published; other works include children's cantatas, chamber and orchestral music, with recent performances at St Paul’s Cathedral, Symphony Hall, Birmingham and on BBC Radio and Classic FM. Philip has worked as a keyboard player in numerous West End musicals, and has musically directed many shows around England.

www.philipgodfrey.co.uk

Tim McArthur (Director/Musical Staging)

Tim McArthur’s versatility is demonstrated by his track record as a director, actor, TV and radio presenter and singer.  He first directed an extract of Casanova at the Tristan Bates Theatre as part of New Musicals Maternity Ward.
Other directing credits include Hello Jerry (Newport Theatre) and Merman at the Jermyn, Jack the Ripper, Silver Heaven, Sex, Love & Retro-Femininity, Euro-magic-Vision (all at Jermyn Street Theatre), the European Premiere of Jack Heifner’s Seduction (Baron’s Court Theatre & New York International Festival), Waterloo Angel (Theatre Museum) and Coloured Lights (Greenwich Playhouse and Jermyn Street Theatre).  He created the Footprints of the Giants season at Lauderdale House with Stephen Hose. Future projects include The Hound Of the Baskervilles, Great Expectations and Merrily We Roll Along

 
www.timmcarthur.com  www.sistermarymcarthur.co.uk

Michael Steel (Musical Director)

Mike trained in music at Kingston University and Trinity College of Music. Recent credits as MD include Nine (Albany Theatre for Mountview Theatre Arts), Rough Crossings (Lyric Theatre & UK tour), Experience (3rd year Urdang Academy showcase, Bloomsbury Theatre) and Song in the City (Bridewell Theatre). Credits as Assistant MD include Charles Miller’s musical When Midnight Strikes (Finborough Theatre).  Recent Keyboard credits include The Black and White Ball (Kings Head Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Mayflower Theatre, Southampton), Moby Dick and The Witches of Eastwick (Albany Theatre for Mountview Theatre Arts), and Thursford Christmas Spectacular.

Sally Ferguson (Set & Costume Design)

Sally Ferguson graduated from Wimbledon School of Art in 2004 and has since worked as a freelance set and lighting designer. Recent work includes The Wonder (BAC), Fiddler on the Roof (NYMT at The Bridewell), The Maids (The Other Theatre Company at Camden Etcetera Theatre), Rafftery’s Hill (The Rosemary Branch), and Reza de Wet's acclaimed African Gothic at The White Bear, Kennington. She is a director of Blank Designs Ltd and The Other Theatre Company and is currently working on the co-design and lighting of Unexpected Opera's re-working of The Barber of Seville for Greenwich Playhouse.

Howard Hudson (Lighting Design)

Recent theatre credits include A Tale of Two Cities (directed by Paul Nicholas, Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Romeo and Juliet (Jermyn Street Theatre), Twelfth Night (Cochrane and French Tour), Forever Plaid (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The Importance of Being Earnest (Jermyn St. Theatre), The Shakespeare Revue (UK Tour, French Tour and New End Theatre), Romeo andJuliet (Cochrane Theatre and French Tour), Richard III (St. Stephens), A Midsummer Night'sDream (Cochrane and French Tour), Into the Woods(Upstairs at the Gatehouse), A ChristmasCarol (St. Stephens), Histrionics(Underbelly, Edinburgh),  Talent (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The Bohemian Girl (with Roger Frith | Opera South), The Young Ones(Upstairs at the Gatehouse), From the Pit of My Stomach (Crazy Mother Truckers, Etcetera Theatre), Hamlet (Richmond Shakespeare Society). Assisting and associate credits include, Hair (English Theatre Frankfurt), All Bobs Women (Arts),  Deathrap (English Theatre Frankfurt), Five GuysNamed Moe (English Theatre Frankfurt), Havana Rakatan (Peacock), What's On StageAwards 2008 (Lyric) and  Lone Star and PVT Wars (Kings Head). Howard will soon start work on The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe which will be performed in the newly reopened St. Stephens in Belsize park.
For more information about Howard, please visit www.howardhudson.co.uk.

Heather Rose (Production Stage Manager)

A graduate of stage management from McGill University Drama and Theatre in Montreal, Canada, Heather Rose moved to London in December 2006.  She has managed to keep herself busy since then with productions of Henry V and Playboy of the Western World (Riverside Studios, UK Tour), Murder in the Cathedral (St Paul's Church, Covent Garden) A Public Kind of Privacy (World Premiere, White Bear and small tour), The Boatswain's Mate (Finborough Theatre), Limbo (Arcola Theatre), Frankenstein and The Tempest (Greenwich Theatre, Sheffield Crucible, Scarborough SJT and UK tour), Casanova (Greenwich Playhouse), Frinton Summer Repertory Theatre, Crooked Wood (Jermyn Street Theatre), Obama the Musical (Baron's Court Theatre), Our Ellen (St Paul's Church, Covent Garden) and Into the Woods (Upstairs at the Gatehouse).  Heather is thrilled at the opportunity to renew her acquaintance with 18th-century sexual escapades, and also to write about herself in the third person! Many, many thanks to the wonderful cast and crew of Casanova. Hopefully you know who you are.  If not then you probably missed the half…

Claire Nicolas (Costume Assistant/Assistant Stage Manager)

Claire Nicolas is a French costume designer. She is really enjoying to work for the second time on CASANOVA. Before to come in London, she worked as costume assistant in Paris on two French movies Demandez la Permission aux Enfants (Eric Civayan) et La Jeune Fille et les Loups (Gilles Legrand). She is working as costume designer on differents musical project in London. She has also worked as a costume maker in different workshops in London and Paris.

Katherine Ives of Trilby Productions (General Management)

In addition to running Trilby Productions Katherine is General Manager at Lauderdale House Arts and Education Centre.  Previously she was Administrative Director of Proteus and Panjandrum Theatre Companies, and Arts Development Officer for Brent Arts Council.  This followed 8 years as a solicitor in the City and West End.  She is on the boards of Pursued by a Bear Theatre Company and Musical Theatre Matters.

Katherine established Trilby Productions in 2000 with Tim McArthur, since when the company has been producing, managing and marketing a wide range of musicals, cabaret, parties and festivals.  Trilby’s own productions are diverse with an emphasis on new work and musical theatre, and include the premieres of new musical When Harry Met Barry by Paul Emelion and topical play Blowing Whistles by Matthew Todd (subsequently published by Josef Weinberger, produced twice in London and in Australia).  Other work has included Jack the Ripper at Jermyn Street Theatre and, last August at Jermyn Street Theatre, Coloured Lights: A Celebration of Kander & Ebb. Trilby also created New Musicals: Maternity Ward to support new musical theatre writing.

Trilby has also been creating special cabaret shows and programming regular seasons since 2001, having created Cabaret in the House at Lauderdale House which is London’s longest running musical theatre cabaret season featuring major West End stars. 

Cult musical comedy character Sister Mary McArthur has had Trilby’s support since her debut at Jermyn Street Theatre, through subsequent appearances at the New End Theatre, the Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh Fringe), and again last Summer at Jermyn Street Theatre  alongside celebrity guests.