Cast & Creative

Jean-Pierre van der Spuy

Director

Jean-Pierre was born in South Africa and settled in the UK to train at the Guildford School of Acting.

Directing Credits: Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre/Gielgud Theatre – co-director with Sir Matthew Bourne), Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular (World Tour), Les Misérables – The Staged Concert (Gielgud and Sondheim Theatres/DVD & Digital Release), Oliver! (Orb Theatre, Tokyo/Osaka), Porgy and Bess (Grange Park Opera), The Dreamers (Abbey Road Studios), Oliver! (Grange Park Opera), Barnum (UK Tour).

Associate Director Credits: Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre/UK & International Tour/Australia and Asia Tours/Japan/Austria), Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre & Japan), Half A Sixpence (Noel Coward Theatre), The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre & Royal Albert Hall 25th Anniversary).

Chrissie Cartwright

Co-Choreographer

Chrissie appeared in the original West End casts of Billy, Irene, Evita, Barnum, and Blondel and performed in variety at the London Palladium and Victoria Palace.

Television Includes: The One and Only Phyllis Dixey, There’s Something Wrong in Paradise, The Stanley Baxter Show, The Morecambe and Wise Show, The Good Old Days.

Film Includes: The Great Muppet Caper, Lassiter, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Chrissie staged and choreographed the original West End productions of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sherlock Holmes the Musical, and the London premiere of Mack and Mabel.

Choreography Credits Include: The Entertainer, Devil’s Virtuoso, Annie, The Card, On the Twentieth Century, Witches of Eastwick, and the musical staging for the Showbizpops Orchestra’s concert tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Television Choreography Includes: Kiss Me Kate, Alas Smith and Jones, Hit Dancing.

Associate Director and Choreographer Credits Include: the London, New York, and Australian productions of Five Guys Named Moe, worldwide productions of CATS, and as associate choreographer, the London and Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera.

She was associate to Gillian Lynne on The Likes of Us, Brick by Bricusse, and Dear World, was children’s director on Mary Poppins, and the resident director on CATS, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Sister Act, and The Wizard of Oz.

Chrissie directed To Gillie with Love at the Gillian Lynne Theatre and was movement director on The Private Ear and The Public Eye and Birdsong for the Original Theatre Company.

Carrie-Anne Ingrouille

Co-Choreographer

Carrie-Anne Ingrouille is currently represented in the West End and on Broadway with her critically acclaimed choreography for SIX the Musical, playing at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, and the Lena Horne Theatre, New York. For her work on the show, Carrie has received a Tony and Olivier Award Nomination for Best Theatre Choreographer, as well as WhatsOnStage, OFFIE, and The Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nominations for Best Choreography.

Notable Choreography and Movement Direction Credits Include: The Parent Agency (Chester Storyhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre), Dear Evan Hansen (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour), Sisters of Mersey (Liverpool’s Royal Court), The Merry Widow (Glyndebourne Opera), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Lido2, Paris), Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Village Idiot (Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nottingham Playhouse & Ramps on the Moon), The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible, Lyric Hammersmith & ETT), Monsoon Wedding – The Musical (St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York), Antigone (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Our Generation (National Theatre & Chichester Festival Theatre), Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park), This is My Family (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Catherine Tate Show Live (UK Tour), Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Suicide (National Theatre), The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House, The Roundhouse).

Carrie is the U.K. Associate Choreographer for the West End and touring productions of Hamilton.

Andrew D. Edwards

Set and Costume Designer

Bruno Poet

Lighting Designer

Bruno Poet is a highly acclaimed lighting designer with an extensive career spanning opera, theatre, dance, and live music. He has received three Knight of Illumination Awards for his work on Sigur Rós’ 2013 World Tour, Björk’s Cornucopia, and Frankenstein at the National Theatre, where he also won the Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design.

Theatre Includes: The Seagull (Barbican), Richard II (Bridge Theatre), The Devil Wears Prada (West End/Plymouth), Macbeth (West End/Donmar Warehouse), Waiting for Godot (West End), Miss Saigon (West End/Broadway/Japan/European Tour/US Tour/Australia Tour), TINA: The Tina Turner Musical (Tony Award Nomination, West End/Broadway/International Tours), The Witches, Frankenstein, London Road, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre), 42 Balloons (Lowry), Uncle Vanya (West End), From Here to Eternity (West End), Bad Cinderella (Broadway), The Convert (Young Vic).

Opera Includes: The Hours (Met Opera), Amadeus (Royal Danish Opera), Salome (Houston Grand Opera), Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House/LA Opera/Houston Opera), Akhnaten (ENO/LA Opera/Met Opera), Trovatore (Monte Carlo/Madrid/Copenhagen/LA Opera), Oklahoma (Grange Park Opera), Otello (Royal Opera House), Carmen (Bregenz), Alcina (Glyndebourne).

Other Work Includes: Alicia Keys: Keys to the Summer (US Arena Tour), Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld Tour, Sigur Rós (all world tours since 2012), Gary Barlow: A Different Stage (West End/UK Tour), Björk Cornucopia (International Tour), Billie Eilish Live (Steve Jobs Theatre), 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, and 53rd UAE National Day celebrations.

Adam Fisher

Sound Designer

Olivier Award Winning Sound Designer

Selected Designs Include: Kinky Boots (UK Tour); Oliver! (Gielgud & Chichester Festival Theatre); Sunset Boulevard (Savoy & Broadway); Here & Now (Birmingham Alex); My Fair Lady (Curve Leicester); The Lord of the Rings (International); Your Lie In April (Harold Pinter); Kiss Me Kate (Barbican); Bhangra Nation (TheREP); Evita (Curve Leicester); The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium, Curve Leicester & UK Tour); Billy Elliot (Curve Leicester); Lizzie The Musical (Hope Mill & UK Tour); The Last Five Years (Garrick & Southwark Playhouse); The Phantom of the Opera (International); Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre); Into the Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); Cinderella (Hope Mill); The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre); Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre).

Adam produced and mixed the cast recordings of After You, Henrietta the Musical, and Sunset Blvd: The Album.

George Reeve

Video Designer

George is a UK-based video and projection designer whose work can be seen across the UK and internationally.

Video Design Credits Include: Maybe Happy Ending (Broadway), Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Hercules, Tarzan (Hamburg/Disney), Stephen Sondheim Old Friends (West End, LA, Broadway), Sunset Boulevard (Opera Australia), In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse/Toronto), The Lord Of The Rings (Chicago Shakespeare, Watermill, Auckland), Hey Duggee – The Live Theatre Show (Royal Festival Hall and UK Tour), My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Turbine Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, West End), The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre), Notes From a Small Island (Watermill Theatre), Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Rent, The Wiz, and Hushabye Mountain (Hope Mill Theatre), Hairspray, Dawn French Is A Huge Tw*t!, Sandi Toksvig – Next Slide Please, The Sound of Music, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun & WANNABE (UK Tours), SIX (London & Broadway), Gypsy (Alexandra Palace), A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre), But I’m A Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre), The Pleasure Garden, Dick Whittington, and Tommy On Top (Above The Stag), Avalanche (Bloom Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (UK and UAE Tour), Cinderella in Concert (Cadogan Hall), Welcome Aboard (Viking Cruises), Musicals In Concert (Palladium, Stuttgart).

Graham Hurman

Musical Supervisor

Graham is a Musical Supervisor for Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.

He is currently the Musical Supervisor for Oliver! in London, Starlight Express (30th Anniversary Production) in Bochum, Germany, and CATS (East Asia tour).

Previous Musical Supervisor Credits Include: Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre, also conductor), Mary Poppins (London (also conductor) and Tokyo, Japan), Les Misérables (South Korea, Holland and Belgian Tour, UK Tour, and Mexico), Oliver! (Tokyo, Japan), Half A Sixpence (Chichester Festival and Noel Coward Theatre, London (also conductor), Stephen Ward (Sydmonton Festival and Aldwych Theatre, London (also conductor), The Wizard Of Oz (also vocal and dance arrangements, Toronto and North American Tour), CATS (South Korea, UK & International Tour, Vienna, London Palladium (also conductor), Paris (also conductor), and UK Tour).

Graham is also the orchestral arranger for all aforementioned CATS productions, the recent Broadway revival, Japanese & Australian productions, and the North American touring production.

Musical Director & Conductor Credits Include: Les Misérables (UK Tour), The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium), Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Les Misérables (Queens Theatre, London), Starlight Express (Germany & 1st National UK Tour), CATS (25th Anniversary UK Tour and Hamburg, Germany (Assistant Musical Director).

Other Theatre Credits Include: Starlight Express (North American Tour (Music Associate), Saturday Night Fever (North American Tour and Las Vegas (Music Associate), Wayward Women – Honor Blackman’s One-Woman Show (Musical Director & Pianist), Starlight Express (2nd National UK Tour and the 2002 and 2008 German productions (Music Associate).

Recordings: I Am Me (from Starlight Express) – Original 2023 Recording (Musical Supervisor), CATS – Original 2021 Vienna Cast Recording (Musical Supervisor & Orchestral Arranger), Mary Poppins – Original 2020 London Cast Recording (Musical Supervisor & Conductor), Memory (from CATS) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack performed by Jennifer Hudson (Conductor), CATS – Original 2019 Japanese Cast Recording (Orchestral Arranger), Half A Sixpence – Original 2016 London Cast Recording (Musical Supervisor & Conductor), Memory (from CATS) – performed by Nicole Scherzinger (Musical Supervisor & Conductor), Stephen Ward – Original 2013 London Cast Recording (Musical Supervisor & Conductor), The Wizard Of Oz – Original 2011 London Cast Recording (Musical Director & Conductor), Oliver! – Original 2009 London Cast Recording (Musical Director & Conductor), Starlight Express – 2002 German Cast Recording (Musical Director & Conductor), Love Never Dies – DVD additional orchestral sessions (Conductor).

TV and Radio Credits Include: Cameron Mackintosh: The First 50 Years (Sky Arts), Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV), Kipps (Sky Arts), The Royal Variety Show (BBC & ITV), The Olivier Awards (BBC & ITV), Children In Need (BBC), The One Show (BBC), I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Story (ITV), This Morning (ITV), The Alan Titchmarsh Show (ITV), The Passions of Girls Aloud (ITV), The Graham Norton Show, Elaine Paige on Sunday, and Wogan (BBC Radio 2).

Awards: BritishTheatre.com Best Musical Director (2014).

Sarah Leung CDG

Casting Director

Sarah is a full member of BAFTA and the CDG, Jury for BAFTA best casting award 2024.

Born in Manchester, coming from a mixed British/Chinese background, Sarah started her career in film assisting producer Larry Franco on Batman Begins. She later was asked to return on post-production as assistant to Emma Thomas, wife of director Christopher Nolan. From here, Sarah moved into casting, assisting in Film (Children Of Men; Universal), TV (Luther, Law & Order UK, Red Dwarf, Waterloo Road, Hope Springs, BBC, ITV, C4), Theatre (Much Ado About Nothing, The Hypochondriac (Regents Park), Winslow Boy (Rose Theatre Kingston), Private Lives, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Manchester Library Theatre).

Sarah’s first job in Musical Theatre was assisting the legendary casting director, Pippa Ailion, with many West End shows, alongside the brilliant casting director Natalie Gallacher.

Sarah is well known for her passion in casting a wide range of diverse, multi-talented actors and performers whether it be for stage or screen. Most recently, Sarah was Casting Director on the film Iteration (Dir Joe Johnston, Captain America), Past Life with Pixie Lott and Jeremy Piven, Bjorn of The Dead (Dir Sara Sugarman), The Boleyns (BBC), Trueman and the Arsonists (Dir Simon Stephens), The Jingleclaw (Birmingham Hippodrome, Dir Robyn Grant), Zayla (Dir Courteney Tan, East/SKY), Too Good To Be True (Dir Asia Mackay, East/SKY), Unfortunate (Dir Robyn Grant; six nominations, Off West End Awards, 2023), To Wong Foo the Musical (Dir Douglas Carter Beane; What’s On Stage Awards, Best Regional Show nominee, 2024), George Takei’s Allegiance (Dir Tara Overfield Wilkinson; What’s On Stage Awards, Best Off West End Show nominee, 2024), and Cable Street (Dir Adam Lenson, Stage Debut Awards, Southwark Playhouse, London).

Sarah feels very honoured to have cast her all-time favourite show, Miss Saigon.