Matt Henry MBE.

Olivier Award nominee Claire has been a leading lady on the West End stage for the past forty years. She also works regularly in cabaret with the brilliant pianist, Jamie Safir, and is married to the multi-award-winning orchestrator, Simon Hale.

Until very recently, David acted as the Resident Choreographer of multi-Olivier Award-winning The Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, as well as performing as Swing and second cover Elder McKinley. Prior to this, David performed...

Stage and screen actress appearing in the West End productions of In the Heights, Heathers: The Musical and Les Misérables, as well as playing Evita on its international tour.

Faith Prince has been dazzling Broadway audiences since winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as “Ms. Adelaide” in Guys and Dolls. She also starred as “Miss Hannigan” in the Broadway revival of ...

Hal Cazalet divides his time between the USA and Europe performing in opera, musical theatre and cabaret. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music in London, and at the Juilliard Opera Centre in New York, where he won the Shoshanna Foundation A...

Actress and singer (Evita, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Sound of Music)

Julian Bird became Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre in November 2010 and is the Executive Producer for The Olivier Awards and UK Theatre Awards. Prior to his time at SOLT, Julian was the Chief Operating Officer at th...

Senior Curator of Theatre and Performance at the V&A Museum, London. Kate has curated recent V&A exhibition blockbusters DIVA (2023), Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser (2021) and Opera: Passion, Power and Politics (2017).

Lara started her career in Oxford’s Shakespeare festival playing Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and then landed the lead role in the musical On 42nd Street at the Edinburgh Festival. She has gone on to work in numerous theatre p...

Award-winning actor and singer, best known for playing Effie White in the first UK tour of Dreamgirls. On TV, Nicole starred in Musicals: The Greatest Show on BBC One and was a semi-finalist on The Voice, during which they sang a duet with Jennife...

Rachel Tucker is an Olivier-nominated actress, best known for her inspiring interpretation of ‘Elphaba’ in London’s West End production of Wicked at the Apollo Theatre; after playing the role for three years and over one thousand performances she ...

Singer and actor, widely popular as a musical performer. His theatre credits include Alfie Boe & Friends, Sondheim's Old Friends, South Pacific, and Les Misérables. On TV, Rob starred as 'Tony’ in West Side Stories, The Making of a C...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) was founded by Peter Hall in 1961, and has built a global reputation with performances of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the UK and around the world.

Ruthie Henshall’s multi-award winning career has seen her star in the most popular musicals of the past thirty years including Cats, Miss Saigon, Crazy for You, She Loves Me, Marguerite, Oliver!, A Chorus Line, Les Misérables, Billy Elliot ...

Sharon D. Clarke MBE is a three-time Olivier award winner; her first award being in 2014 for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner.

Susie has been working as an actor, writer, and director for over 35 years working in theatres, nationally and in the West End, Television and film.

Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She serves on the MFA faculty at...

Tom’s theatre credits include the UK tours of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Hi-de-Hi (as Musical Director), Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Scrooge and Cabaret (as Assistant Musical Director) and The Sound of Music (Children’s Mu...