Cast
Jason Donovan
Frank N Furter
Jason Donovan’s over 30 year international career has made him one of Australia’s most successful performers. He was catapulted into homes in Australia and the UK in 1986 when he first appeared on Neighbours starring opposite Kylie Minogue and recently made a much-anticipated return to the iconic Australian series with Kylie seeing millions of viewers across the world tuning in for the heart-warming final episode. Jason’s debut album was a platinum selling record in Australia and was the highest selling album in the UK in 1989. Since then he has sold over 13 million albums worldwide and continues to tour with his live shows to adoring audiences. The multi award winner made his defining musical theatre debut in the lead role of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on the West End in 1991 which also earned him an Olivier Award nomination. He has since starred in many West End musical theatre productions including Priscilla Queen of The Desert, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Rocky Horror Show, Annie Get Your Gun and The Sound of Music as well in the Australian production of Chicago in Melbourne in 2019. Jason is currently starring as the Pharaoh in the UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and on the West End as Teen Angel in Grease.
Please note than Jason Donovan will not be performing on the following dates:
Newcastle – Tue 16th January and Thu 25th January to Sun 4th February.
Melbourne – Tue 13th, Tue 20th, 1pm Wed 28th February, Tue 5th, Tue 12th, Tue 19th and Fri 22nd March.
Sydney – Tue 2nd, Tue 9th, Tue 16th, Tue 23rd, Tue 30th April, Tue 7th and Fri 10th May.
Gretel Killeen
The Narrator
Gretel Killeen is a best-selling author, host of award-winning TV and an award-winning comedy writer. A true Renaissance woman Gretel is a practitioner of many art forms. She also began painting in 2019, and writing poetry in 2023, but is yet to be hailed as a genius at either.
Gretel began performing comedy by accident in the early eighties while delivering a serious poem and has since performed in venues across the world from The Sydney Opera House to underground Berlin bars and war zones. Her most recent sold-out, self–written show, Regretel, is a hilarious theatrical monologue about the most dangerous type of human on earth, the idiot who thinks they’re smart.
Gretel was the first host of Big Brother in Australia and over the past decades has appeared on hundreds of TV shows including The Masked Singer, Go Back To Where You Came From, Celebrity Come Dine With Me and The Project. She’s been a voice over queen and has also appeared as a social and political commentator on TV and radio, and as a journalist in print across the nation. In an extraordinarily vast career, she’s also written and directed a documentary on HIV/AIDS orphans in Zambia.
Gretel first appeared as the Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show in 2008 and is excited to reprise the role and celebrate the musical’s 50th birthday with the glorious cast of 2024.
Gretel Killeen will play the role of the Narrator from Sat 4th May to Sun 12th May.
Blake Bowden
Brad & Frank N Furter Alternate
Most recently Blake starred as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera for Opera Australia. Other Theatre credits include Elder Price in the Australian production of The Book of Mormon, Dr Mark Bruckner in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd, Edward Lyons in Blood Brothers, Anthony Pemberton in Beyond Desire, Lt. Joseph Cable in South Pacific, Tony in Masterclass, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pat Matthews in Moonshadow, Snowboy in West Side Story, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jekyll and Hyde, Dirty Dancing and The Boy From Oz Arena Spectacular with Hugh Jackman.
Please note Jason Donovan will play the role of Frank N Furter except for Tue 13th, Tue 20th, 1pm Wed 28th February, Tue 5th March and Tue 12th March.
Blake Bowden will play the role of Frank N Furter for these performances.
Deirdre Khoo
Janet
Deirdre Khoo (she/her) is a versatile multilingual actor who was born and raised in Singapore. She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts’ (WAAPA) Bachelor of Music Theatre, having trained in music theatre, film & television.
Deirdre made her professional debut in Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s production of ONCE as Ex-Girlfriend, Swing and Dance Captain, in which she performed the lead role of ‘Girl’ on several occasions to great acclaim. Deirdre was also cast as Jess (u/s Belle & Little Fan) in the Old Vic’s production of A Christmas Carol, showing in Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre.
Deirdre’s other performing credits include Allison Vernon-Williams in Cry-Baby (dir. Chris Parker), Maggie Winslow in A Chorus Line (dir. Crispin Taylor), Rosie in Mamma Mia! (dir. Shaun Rennie), Pepper in Maki Morita’s Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise (dir. Amelia Burke), Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (dir. Nicola Bowman), Scotty in Merrily We Roll Along (dir. Brent Hill), Julia O’Brien in a new Australian musical 2084 (dir. Sarah Courtis & Ellin Sears) and recorded an audio-experience album of a new musical RUTH (dir. Hayden Tee).
Deirdre is loud & proud as an Asian Janet in the 50th Anniversary Tour of Rocky Horror Show in Australia, and would like to thank her family, friends, and agents at Working Management for their continuous love & support. She would also like to pay respects to the Traditional Owners of the lands on which she lives and performs on.
Henry Rollo
Riff Raff
Henry graduated from The Victorian College Of The Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre) for which he was the very fortunate recipient of the Outstanding Creative Scholarship
He was most recently seen in the Ensemble of the Australian tour of Jagged Little Pill, covering the roles of Andrew, Phoenix and Nick Healy. Some other stage credits include: RENT at The Sydney Opera House, the lead role of Wes in the Australasian premiere of The View Upstairs, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear), Spring Awakening (Hanschen) and The Songs Of Cy Coleman.
Henry can be can be seen as a featured songwriter in the documentary Finding Creativity (SBS On Demand) and in the official music video for Guy Sebastian’s track Candle.
2022 will see the release of his original alternative pop music under the name Henry Rollo.
Instagram: Henryrollogram
Daniel Erbacher
Rocky
Originally from Toowoomba, Daniel is a versatile performer and choreographer. He graduated from The Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University with a Bachelor of Musical Theatre in 2021. During his studies, his performance highlights included Emmett in Legally Blonde, John Bucchino’s It’s Only Life, Eugene and then Kenickie in QCGU and QPAC’s production of Grease.
Daniel was most recently seen in the Australian premiere of Cruel Intentions The 90s Musical (David Venn Enterprises), where he made his professional debut and worked as Dance Captain. He then performed in the 2022 production of A Very Naughty Christmas (Woodward Productions), playing to sold out audiences at La Boite in Brisbane. As well as a performer, Daniel also works as choreographer and educator in dance throughout Southeast Queensland. He enjoys sharing his skills and knowledge with the students he has the privilege of teaching. Daniel is thrilled to be joining the cast of The Rocky Horror Show and would like to thank everyone who supported him in making the next step in his career.
Stellar Perry
Magenta / The Usherette
Stellar Perry started performing at a young age, penning her own songs at 8, learning piano by 12, touring Germany, England, Austria, and Japan at 14, and starting her first band in High School at 15.
At 16 she successfully entered the national TV singing competition ‘Start Struck’, and then in 2008 Stellar auditioned for ‘Australian Idol’ and made it to the top 14, which she subsequently bettered with ‘X Factor’ making it to the Top 9,
For the following decade Stellar grew, reinvented herself, performed, cowrote, top lined and collaborated with producers around the world including vocalising on ‘One day at a time’ feat Jus Jack and Black Dogs which reached #2 on the New York Dance Charts and on other tracks with Jolyon Petch and ’Dj Sunshine.
In 2020, Stellar decided it was time to really put herself out there once more. She auditioned for The Voice and true to form, brought her honesty, heart and individuality and formed a very obvious bond with her coach Delta Goodrem. Stellar made it to the Grand Finale and won a new legion of fans.
2022 marked a change in direction with Stella successfully auditioning for the role of Oberon in The Lovers, directed by Shaun Rennie and produced by Bell Shakespeare at The Sydney Opera House. This new direction has culminated with Stellar being cast as Magenta in the 50th anniversary Rocky Horror Show touring nationally in 2023.
Darcey Eagle
Columbia
Darcey is a Melbourne based performer whose stage credits include Sally Simpson in Victorian Opera’s ‘Tommy’ (dir Roger Hodgman), Dance Captain of ‘Cruel Intentions the 90’s Musical’ (dir Alister Smith), The Production Company’s ‘Lazarus’ film (dir. Natasha Pincus) and ‘Billy Elliot, the Musical’ (dir. Stephen Daldry).
They graduated from The Victorian College of the Arts with a BFA in Music Theatre in 2019, and were the proud recipient of the Ron and Margaret Dobell Foundation Award that year. Darcey is excited to share The Rocky Horror Show with audiences for its 50th anniversary Australian tour!
Ellis Dolan
Eddie / Dr Scott
Ellis Dolan (he/him) is an actor/writer originally from Scotland. He toured as Dewey Finn (1st cover) with the Australasian tour of ‘School of Rock’ (GWB, 2018-2020). Other roles include Professor Al in ‘Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody’ (Salty Theatre, 2021-2022), The General in ‘Top Gun: the Musical!’ (Salty Theatre, 2022), and Sir Hugh Evans in ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ (Melbourne Shakespeare Company, 2022).
He has written and produced several one-man cabaret shows, including ‘Ellis Dolan Sings Sondheim’ and ‘Toxic Masculinity’, and worked as a dramaturg for artists around Adelaide and Melbourne. Ellis has a Diploma of Musical Theatre from NIDA, and Bachelor of Creative Writing (with Honours) from Flinders University.
Along with cabaret artist Millicent Sarre, Ellis was the co-host and editor of the feminist film-analysis podcast ‘Feminism “Ruins” Everything’. He is a passionate advocate for social change and aspires to be the best ally he possibly can. He is represented by Focus Talent Management.
Ellis would like to dedicate every artistic endeavour to the memory of his dad, Kenn. Bring the funnies.
Josh Gates
Phantom
Originally from Hobart, Josh started their career understudying the role of young Peter Allen in the Boy From Oz, starring Hugh Jackman. They then performed the title role of Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot the musical in Melbourne and Sydney, which won them a Green Room Award for Best Actor in a Musical and an Australian Dance Award.
Josh’s other credits include, La Cage Aux Folles (The Production Company), Anything Goes (Opera Australia/GFO), Born Yesterday (MTC), My Fair Lady (Opera Australia/GFO, directed by Julie Andrews), Mamma Mia! the musical (Gannon/Fox), Lazarus the David Bowie musical (The Production Company), Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company) and most recently Andrew in the Original Australian Cast of JAGGED LITTLE PILL (GWB Entertainment).
Nicolas Van Litsenborgh
Phantom
Nicolas trained at the Griffith University Conservatorium in Queensland under the direction of Paul Sabey, graduating in 2022 with a Bachelor of Musical Theatre. Performance highlights at QCGU include the role of Pat Denning in 42nd Street, Robbie Hart in The Wedding Singer, J. Pierpont Finch in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and as Kenickie and Johnny Casino understudy for QCGU’s production of Grease at Queensland Performing Arts Centre in 2021.
Nicolas appeared in the 2022-2023 production of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne and the Capitol Theatre in Sydney in which he understudied the title role. He played the role of James Gribble for the workshop of Round The Twist the Musical written by Paul Hodge and directed by Simon Phillips for RGM Productions and Jones Theatrical Group, played the role Richard in Kinky Boots at Chapel Off Chapel and performed in Chess The Musical for Storeyboard Entertainment.
Hollie James
Phantom
Hollie is returning to Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show after originally performing in the 2018 Australian tour. A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, her additional credits include Mary Poppins (Michael Cassel), The Wedding Singer (DVE), Shrek the Musical (GFO), Bring It On: The Musical (DVE), and the 60th anniversary production of My Fair Lady, directed by Dame Julie Andrews (Opera Australia). Other performances include Carrie: The Musical, Pippin and Peppa Pig Live!
Hollie has improvised across Australia and internationally with the musical comedy troupe Impromptunes, and is a regular artist on Impromptunes: The Podcast.
Erica Wild
Phantom
Erica grew up in Burnie, Tasmania, with a background in classical voice. In 2016, Erica moved to Melbourne to pursue Music Theatre where they trained at Showfit before completing their BFA in Music Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts. Erica made their professional debut in Opera Australia’s Cinderella as part of the ensemble and understudying the roles of Ella and Charlotte in 2022. They are thrilled to now be doing something completely different and joining the Rocky Horror Show! As a queer performer they feel honoured to be part of LGBTQ+ history and celebrate Rocky Horror’s 50th Anniversary onstage. Erica is proudly represented by Ian White Management wishes to thank their agency, family, and friends for their immeasurable support. They also wish to pay their respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which they are performing.
Keane Fletcher
Swing
A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Keane was most recently seen as Anthony ‘Tick’ Belrose in Trevor Ashley’s brand new staging of Priscilla Queen of The Desert (MWE). He has also appeared in The Phantom of The Opera for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour (The Really Useful Group/OA), as the understudy to Galileo in We Will Rock You (GFO), in Merrily We Roll Along(Watch This), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (LTP), Altar Boyz (Precedent Productions), Hello Again (Gaiety Theatre/Darlinghurst Theatre Company), The 27 Club (The Butterfly Club/HOTA), and The Good Fight for the New York Music Theatre Festival.
Keane has also spent the last 10 years touring with acclaimed international singing group The Ten Tenors, appearing with them in theatres, stadiums and concert halls all over the world. Notable appearances include NBC’S The Today Show, and as a special guest on Oprah’s Ultimate Australian Adventure. Their album ‘Wish You Were Here’ peaked at number #3 on the U.S. Classical Billboard Charts and their most recent album ‘Love Is In The Air’ reached number #1 on the ARIA Classical/Crossover Charts.
Seryan Burke-Low
Swing
Born and raised in Taree, Seryan began her training at ARAD eventually moving to Sydney to attend Village Nation, where she completed a Cert. IV in Dance Teaching and Management and a Diploma of Musical Theatre.
Her most recent stage credits include Swing and Assistant Dance Captain in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (TML) and Dance Captain and Host in Harry Potter: A Yule Ball Celebration (Warner Bros). Seryan’s dance credits include the 2022 Australian Business Awards, various Sydney Mardi Gras performances and backup dancer for Australian indigenous artist Baker Boy at the 2021 AACTA Awards. She also had the pleasure of being the director’s assistant for the 2023 Gold Dinner Fundraising Gala at Sydney’s Town Hall.
Seryan would like to thank her family, friends and mentors for their continued support and is extremely excited to be joining the Rocky Horror family.
Creatives
RICHARD O’BRIEN
WRITER
Richard, who was born in 1942, began his life in the world of entertainment in 1965 when, at the age of 23, he rode horses in British-made movies. He had no desire to become a full-time stuntman and, wisely, took himself off to an evening drama school, which claimed to adhere to the teaching principles of Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and anyone else that had decided to embrace the more ‘naturalistic’ approach to acting, commonly known as the Method. In 1967, Richard became an ASM and understudy in a musical touring version of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, retitled as Robert and Elizabeth. He worked backstage in many West End theatres, most notably the Cambridge Theatre at Seven Dials, where, among other duties, he shone a limelight upon John Hanson who, at the age of 46, may well have been the oldest Student Prince that the world had ever laid eyes upon. In 1969, Richard joined an ensemble group in a joyous production of Gulliver’s Travels at the Mermaid Theatre. This show was designed and directed by Sean Kenny. The choreographer was a young Japanese Canadian called David Toguri and, the following year, Richard auditioned for him once again and joined the cast of the British touring production of the American ‘hippie’ musical Hair. After Hair came Jesus Christ Superstar, which was directed by Jim Sharman. The following year, 1973, Jim cast Richard in a Sam Shepard play at the Royal Court Theatre’s Theatre Upstairs. It was here that he met Richard Hartley, his music partner of 40 years. The Rocky Horror Show opened in July of the same year and, slowly but surely, became the biggest cult musical of all time. Other highlights of Richard’s career are, of course, The Crystal Maze, a game show that warmed the autumn nights for Channel 4; the Child Catcher in the first stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; performing for the Queen in the gardens of Buckingham Palace upon Her Majesty’s 80th birthday, and playing Fagin in a New Zealand production of Oliver!. In a career that has spanned nearly 50 years, Richard has acted with some of the biggest and best-known names in the industry and, lately, he has won over a new and younger crowd of fans as the voice of Lawrence Fletcher, the father of Phineas and Ferb, in the Disney cartoon series of the same name. He is 70 years of age and refuses to make eye contact with the Grim Reaper.
CHRISTOPHER LUSCOMBE
DIRECTOR
Christopher Luscombe read English at Cambridge University. He began his career as an actor, spending seven years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He went on to appear at the National Theatre, the Old Vic and in the West End. Whilst at Stratford-upon-Avon, he devised and directed The Shakespeare Revuewith Malcolm McKee, and this transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London. His subsequent productions at Stratford include Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, the last two transferring to Chichester Festival Theatre and then to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He is an Associate Artist of the RSC.
His other directing credits in London include Star Quality and The Madness of George III (Apollo); Home and Beauty (Lyric); Fascinating Aïda (Harold Pinter – Olivier Award nomination for Best Entertainment); The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe); Nell Gwynn (Shakespeare’s Globe and Apollo – Olivier Award for Best New Comedy); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park); Enjoy (Gielgud); Alphabetical Order (Hampstead); When We Are Married (Garrick – Olivier Award nomination for Best Revival); Travels With My Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory); Spamalot (Playhouse) and Private Lives (Ambassadors).
Regional and international credits include Masterpieces (Birmingham); Little Shop of Horrors and The History Boys (Leeds); Hobson’s Choice (Sheffield); Hay Fever (Minneapolis); Henry V (Chicago); While The Sun Shines and The Argument (Bath); The Winter’s Tale (Cincinnati); Gigi (West Green); Gypsy (Tokyo) and tours of The Importance of Being Earnest, Tell Me on a Sunday, The Lady in the Van, Candida, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, Single Spies, Admission: One Shilling, Dandy Dick, Blue/Orange and The Nightingales.
His production of The Rocky Horror Show has been running for the last eighteen years. It has completed five seasons in London’s West End and played all over the world. It is currently on tour in the UK, Europe and Australia.
His operatic work includes Candide, Falstaff (Broadway World nomination for Best New Opera Production) and The Yeomen of the Guard at the Grange Festival, Sweeney Todd for Bergen National Opera, Pagliacci for Opera Ensemble and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Garsington. This can be streamed until April 2024 at operavision.eu He returns to the Grange Festival in 2024 to direct Tosca.
HUGH DURRANT
DESIGN
HUGH DURRANT’s award-winning designs have been seen worldwide. An MA in Fine Art at Magdalene College, Cambridge, his West End credits include scenery and/or costumes for COPACABANA, SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, ANASTASIA, THE HOT SHOE SHOW, THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP, and the pantomimes CINDERELLA and BABES IN THE WOOD, both at the London Palladium. In the U.S.A he designed costumes for Cher’s show at Caesar’s Palace and her Farewell Tour (for which he won an Emmy award in 2003 for best costumes). Other U.S shows include Barry Manilow’s MUSIC & PASSION (Las Vegas Hilton and on tour), MIDNIGHT FANTASY (Las Vegas Luxor) and ANN-MARGRET HERE, NOW! In the UK his designs at Chichester include: LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS, LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN, MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, THE WIZARD OF OZ, NYMPH ERRANT, DIVORCE ME DARLING (TMA award) and BABES IN ARMS. Dance design work has been for the Royal Ballet, Nederland Dans Theater, Dutch National Ballet, and Rambert Dance Company. UK tours include British premiere productions of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, COMPANY as well as productions as various as AMADEUS, THE BOX FRIEND, FULL CIRCLE (with Joan Collins) and THE MERRY WIDOW. Hugh has been Head of Design for many regional theatres as well as being a noted fashion designer and has also directed and adapted for the stage.
SUE BLANE
COSTUME DESIGNER
After leaving Central School of Art and Design, London, with a diploma in 1972, Sue spent two years at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Since then, she has designed productions for most of the leading theatre, opera and ballet companies in the UK, and many abroad. She created the costumes for the original cult The Rocky Horror Show, stage and film. Other film credits include: Peter Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract and Julien Temple’s Absolute Beginners. Her production (set and costume) credits include: designs for The Barber of Seville (Scottish Opera); The Thieving Magpie, The Duenna (Opera North); Christmas Eve (ENO); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon; Stockholm and New National Theatre, Tokyo); Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse); The Relapse (Royal National Theatre); Alice in Wonderland and The Nutcracker (English National Ballet) and Sylvia (Birmingham Royal Ballet). Costume designs include: Guys and Dolls (Royal National Theatre); Porgy and Bess, Carmen (Glyndebourne); La fanciulla del West (La Scala, Milan); The Mikado, The Love for Three Oranges (ENO): The Canterville Ghost (ENB); Lohengrin (Bayreuth); Into the Woods (Old Vic); The Planets (Royal Ballet); Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Berlin) and Roman Polanski’s Dance of the Vampires (Vienna, Berlin). She is one of few theatre designers to be a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) and, in 2007, was awarded an MBE by Her Majesty The Queen for Services to Drama. Currently: costume designs for Kiss Me, Kate (Volksoper, Vienna); The Judas Kiss (Hampstead, Theatre Royal Bath and tour, and opens in the West End in January) and Aladdin, a three-act ballet with Birmingham Royal Ballet, to premiere in February 2013.
NATHAN M WRIGHT
CHOREOGRAPHER
Nathan M. Wright is a highly respected and much nominated Artistic Director & Choreographer, working extensively in Large Scale Events, Film & Television and Musical Theatre. In 2018 Nathan was Head of Choreography and Staging Director for the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony on the Gold Coast. Prior to that, Nathan was the Artistic Director for both Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. He was the Director of Mass Choreography for the 2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Sochi, leading a team of 20 internationals and over 10,000 performers. As a Mass Choreographer, he worked on the 2015 Opening Ceremony of The Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea; The 2015 Eleven Arches; The Opening and Closing Ceremonies of both the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games; The 2010 Commonwealth Games Delhi Handover Ceremony and Oman’s National Day. As Segment Director, Nathan directed The Finale Segment Closing Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics Vancouver, featuring Michael Buble; the Athlete’s Parade at the 2007 Special Olympics, Shanghai and the Athlete’s Parade at the 15th Asian Games in Doha. Nathan has also served as Director of Choreography for John Lewis’ 150th Anniversary event, which took place in Birmingham 2014. Film and television credits include: Nathan performed as “The Wicked Faced Boy” in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge, alongside Academy Award Winner Nicole Kidman, and acted as a Motion Capture Artist for George Miller on his Academy Award winning film Happy Feet. Most recently, Nathan worked as Associate Choreographer on Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire. His choreography for television includes ITV’s Breathless; So You Think You Can Dance Australia; The 2010 Helpmann Awards; The Sydney & Melbourne Comedy Festivals and the highest rating episode of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2013. London theatre credits include: Crazy For You (UK Tour 17/18 & Watermill Theatre),The Rocky Horror Show (The Playhouse) European and Australian tours, (Broadway World Nomination for Best Choreography in A Musical), High Society (The Old Vic, WhatsOnStage and Broadway World nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical), Xanadu (London Premiere at Southwark Playhouse), Fing’s Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be (Stratford East),The Tailor Made Man (The Arts Theatre, Broadway World Nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical), Sweet Smell of Success (Arcola, What’s Onstage Nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical), and the 40th Anniversary Production of The Rocky Horror Show. Australian credits include: Aspects of Love as producer and choreographer (Hayes Theatre, Sydney) Avenue Q (Arts Asia Pacific, Helpmann Award Nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical & Green Room Award Nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical). Gutenberg! The Musical (Neil Gooding Productions, Helpmann Award Nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical). Not Quite Out Of The Woods and Pennies’ from Kevin for the Sydney Theatre Company. David Campbell’s On Broadway Tour (Luckiest Productions); Sing on Through Tomorrow (Neil Gooding Productions). www.nathanmwright.com
NICK RICHINGS
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Recent work includes: Priscilla Queen of the Desert – UK Tour, Jesus Christ Superstar – UK Tour, The Sound Of Music – UK Tour, Forbidden Broadway – West End & The Menier Chocolate Factory, Blood Brothers – UK Tour, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – 2014 UK Tour, The Seagull, Educating Rita, Mother Courage – The Library Theatre at the Lowry, Manchester, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – UK Tour, Sleuth, The Witches of Eastwick – The Watermill, The Rocky Horror Show Australia & 2012 UK Tour, The Mystery Of Charles Dickens – The Playhouse Theatre London, Ben Hur – The Watermill Theatre, Starlight Express – U.K. Tour, Simply The Best – Hackney Empire & West End, A Round Heeled Woman – Riverside Studios and West End, La Cage Aux Folles – U.S. Tour, The Marriage of Figaro – The Watermill Theatre, Hard Times – The Library Theatre Manchester, Brother Loves Travelling Salvation Show – UK Tour, Spamalot – UK Tour and London, Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals, La Cage Aux Folles, West End & Broadway (Tony nomination best Lighting and Tony Award winner Best Musical 2010), Laughter In The Rain – The Neil Sedaka Story, Spend, Spend, Spend – The Watermill Theatre & UK Tour, Glengarry Glen Ross, Rock & Roll and Relatively Speaking – The Library Theatre Manchester, Monkey – Journey to the West, The Royal Opera House and O2 Arena; The Rocky Horror Show, The Playhouse Theatre and UK Tour; Whistle Down the Wind – The Palace Theatre; A Man For All Seasons – Theatre Royal Haymarket; Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – The New London Theatre; Beautiful & Damned – The Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue; Icons in London at The Venue; Wait Until Dark, The Garrick Theatre; Sleuth, The Apollo Theatre; The Mystery of Charles Dickens – The Albery Theatre; Fallen Angels, Jesus My Boy, The Apollo Theatre; Aspects of Love, What A Show, South Pacific, The Prince of Wales Theatre; Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol, and Scrooge starring Tommy Steele both at The London Palladium, Derren Brown – Something Wicked This Way Comes (winner 2006 Olivier Award best entertainment) at The Cambridge Theatre. International work includes: Monkey: Journey to the West – Lincoln Centre NY, Farewell To My Concubine – Reignwood Theatre Beijing, China. The Secret Life of Nora – Maylaysian National Theatre, A Sigh of Love – Shanghai Ballet Company, The Rocky Horror Show – Australia, Seoul, Copenhagen. Mary Poppins – Copenhagen, Monkey: Journey to the West in America and Paris, The Mystery of Charles Dickens Broadway, US tours of Scrooge and Whistle Down the Wind. High School Musical, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, Showboat, Copacabana, Chess – Copenhagen, Rent and Gaslight at the English Theatre, Frankfurt and I Do! I Do!, Romeo & Juliette, and, The Woman In Black for Vienna’s English Theatre. Grease – Germany – European Tour and Byblos Festival, Lebanon, Opera credits include Falstaff, which was named “Best Opera Production” by the Manchester Evening News; Menotti’s The Consul for Opera Holland Park in London; and Il Turco in Italia for Broomhill Opera. For further information go to: www.nickrichings.com
GARETH OWEN
SOUND DESIGNER
Upcoming highlights include: Michael Jackson’s MJ (World Premiere); and The Who’s Tommy revival on Broadway; Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Cinderella (World Premiere), and Steven Spielberg’s Back to the Future (World Premiere) in the West End. Sound Design Award highlights : Oliver Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Broadway World Award, Green Room Award, Dora Award, Craig Noel Award, and the WhatsOnStage Award for Come from Away; Olivier Award for Memphis, Olivier Award for Merrily We Roll Along, Tony nomination for A Little Night Music, Tony nomination for End of the Rainbow, Olivier nomination for Bat Out of Hell, Olivier nomination for Top Hat, Olivier nomination for End of the Rainbow, and the Pro Sound Award for Sound Engineer of the Year. West End Musical Design highlights: Prince of Egypt, & Juliet, Come from Away, Bat Out of Hell, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Strictly Ballroom, 42nd Street, Young Frankenstein, Wind in the Willows, Mrs Henderson Presents, Memphis, I Can’t Sing, In the Heights, Top Hat, Merrily We Roll Along, End of the Rainbow, Sweet Charity, A Little Night Music, Carousel, Little Shop of Horrors, and La Cage Aux Follies. International Design highlights: Diana (Broadway), Summer (Broadway), Come from Away (Broadway), Bronx Tale (Broadway), Disney’s Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Worldwide), Spring Awakening (Broadway), Disney’s Little Mermaid (Worldwide), End of the Rainbow (Broadway), Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (Worldwide), A Little Night Music (Broadway), Secret Garden (New York), Clueless (New York), Sister Act (Worldwide), and Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany).
RICHARD HARTLEY
ORIGINAL MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS
Emmy Award-winning composer Richard Hartley’s latest score is Great Expectations, Mike Newell’s new re-working of the Dickens classic, it boasts a stellar cast including Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irvine, Holliday Grainger and Robbie Coltrane. This is the sixth time he’s collaborated with Newell – the others being Dance With a Stranger starring Miranda Richardson; An Awfully Big Adventure starring Hugh Grant; The Good Father, starring Anthony Hopkins; Bad Blood and Soursweet. Other major credits include: Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty starring Liv Tyler and Jeremy Irons; The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, starring Geoffrey Rush; Rogue Trader starring Ewan McGregor; Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing); The Van directed by Stephen Frears; A Thousand Acres, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange and Rough Magic, starring Russell Crowe and Bridget Fonda. In total more than 50 features, including the cult The Rocky Horror Picture Show back in 1975, for which he wrote the incidental music and was music arranger, musical director and a member of the band. Originally recruited to help with auditions for the London production of Jesus Christ Superstar he struck up an immediate friendship with the director Jim Sharman and through him met Richard O’Brien. The three of them then went on to work together on Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror stage show at the Royal Court Theatre and its later sequel Shock Treatment (20th Century Fox) which was also developed into a film with songs composed by Richard O’Brien and Hartley. He won an Emmy for his score for Hallmark’s landmark television film Alice in Wonderland, with an historic cast including Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Ustinov, Gene Wilder, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Kingsley, Miranda Richardson and Ken Dodd. Other major television credits include: Murderland starring Robbie Coltrane; The Lion in Winter, starring Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart, and was nominated for another Emmy for his score to Don Quixote, starring John Lithgow and Bob Hoskins. Richard has provided the music for many prestigious stage productions at the National Theatre directed by Richard Eyre including: David Hare’s Amy’s View, Murmuring Judges, Absence of War, Christopher Hampton’s White Chameleon as well as Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana and Sweet Bird of Youth. He has also worked for the RSC, the Almeida, the Royal Court and the Theatre Royal Stratford East. It is 40 years since Richard met Richard O’Brien in a damp rehearsal room near Regent’s Park to work on The Unseen Hand by Sam Shepherd. How time flies…
CHRISTOPER PORTER
ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGNER
Sue Blane and Christopher Porter are happy to have been associates for 33 years with 30 years on ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ worldwide and including other West End musicals and operas.
DARREN WARE
Wig Design
After graduating from Wimbledon School of Art followed by two years working with ENO, Darren started his company, The Wig Room in 1993. Productions include: Ghost, Tanz der Vampire, Sister Act (Berlin), Le Bal des Vampires (Paris), Nutcracker, Hansel & Gretel & Highland Fling (Scottish Ballet), American Psycho, Measure for Measure, The Original Chinese Conjuror & Platonov (Almeida), Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, The Car Man, Swan Lake & Cinderella (Tours), Abigail’s Party (Wyndhams), School for Scandal (Barbican), Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Gielgud), Sister Act (World Premiere London, UK Tour, Germany, Vienna, Milan, Paris, Scheveningen, & Barcelona), Marguerite, The Sea, The Country Wife, Hay Fever and Acorn Antiques(Haymarket), Flashdance, High Society & Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury), Cabaret (Lyric), On Your Toes & Follies (Royal Festival Hall), Mack & Mabel (Criterion), West Side Story, Maskerade & Greek Passion (Bregenz Festspiele), Oliver! (Tivoli Gardens), Rocky Horror (UK Tours 1998-2021). The Wig Room Ltd is about to embark on its 15th season with Grange Park Opera. Future Projects include: Wicked (Hamburg), Bagdad Café (The Old Vic), The Midnight Bell (New Adventures).