ELTON JOHN’s theatre work includes: The Lion King (Broadway/West End/ Worldwide, Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score and Olivier Award nomination for Best New Musical), Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (Broadway/US tour, Tony Award for Best Original Score and Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album), Billy Elliot the Musical (Broadway/West End/Worldwide, Olivier Award for Best New Musical and Tony Award for Best Musical), Lestat (Broadway), and The Devil Wears Prada. Elton John is one of the most highly acclaimed and successful solo artists of all time. He has achieved one diamond, 32 platinum or multi-platinum, and 21 gold albums, over 70 Top 40 hits, and he has sold more than 300 million records worldwide. He holds the record for the biggest selling single of all time, “Candle in The Wind 1997”, which sold over 33 million copies. Since launching his first tour in 1970, Elton has performed over 4,000 times in more than 80 countries.

JAKE SHEARS is a founding member of the platinum selling band Scissor Sisters. He has created six albums with the band and as a solo artist. His first musical, Tales of the City, went into production at the American Conservatory Theater in 2010, and he starred as Charlie Price in Kinky Boots on Broadway and at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2018, he authored his first book, Boys Keeps Swinging: A Memoir. He’s been nominated for two Grammys and received three Brit Awards, as well as an Ivor Novello Award. He lives between London and New Orleans. He recently made his West End acting debut as the Emcee in the acclaimed revival of Cabaret.

JAMES GRAHAM’s theater work includes Dear England (National Theatre/West End, nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play),  Ink (Almeida/West End/Broadway, nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play and Tony Award for Best Play), Best of Enemies (Young Vic/West End), Boys from the Blackstuff (Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool), Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), Labour of Love (West End, Olivier Award for Best New Comedy), This House (National Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre/West End/UK Tour), Privacy (Donmar Warehouse/Public Theatre New York), Monster Raving Loony (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Soho Theatre), the book for Finding Neverland (American Rep/Broadway), The Whisky Taster (Bush Theatre), Bassett (National Theatre/

Bristol Old Vic), The Man, Sons of York, Little Madam, Eden’s Empire, Albert’s Boy (all for Finborough Theatre), A History of Failing Things (Theatr Clywd), Tory Boyz (Soho Theatre), Coal Not Dole, The Tour Guide (Edinburgh Fringe). TV credits include Sherwood, Quiz, Brexit; The Uncivil War, Coalition.

RUPERT GOOLD (Director). Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, founding Artistic Director of Headlong (2005 to 2013), former Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres (2002 to 2005). Broadway: Ink, King Charles III (Tony nominated for both), Macbeth (also BAM), American Psycho, Enron. This year he also has two new Almeida productions on Broadway, in the spring, Patriots by Peter Morgan, and in the fall, Tammy Faye, a new musical by James Graham, Jake Shears and Elton John. For the Almeida: Cold War, Women, Beware the Devil, Tammy Faye, Patriots, Spring Awakening , Albion, The Hunt, Shipwreck, Richard III, Medea, The Merchant of Venice, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, American Psycho; King Charles III, Ink. Theatre includes: Dear England (National Theatre/West End); The 47th (The Old Vic); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong/National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); Enron (Headlong/West End/Broadway); Made in Dagenham; Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; No Man’s Land (West End); King Lear (Headlong/Liverpool Everyman/Young Vic); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong/ West End); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End). In 2025 he will direct Hamlet for the RSC. Film includes: Judy (with Renee Zellweger); True Story. Television includes: “Macbeth,” “King Charles III,” “Richard II.” Opera includes: Turandot (ENO), Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera). Rupert has received Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director twice and won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth. Rupert received a CBE in the 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to drama.

LYNNE PAGE (Choreographer). For the Almeida: Spring Awakening, Ink (also West End/Broadway), American Psycho (also Broadway), There Came a Gypsy Riding, The Late Henry Moss Almeida Theatre. Other theatre includes Stranger Things (West End), Standing at The Sky’s Edge (National Theatre and West End, Olivier Nomination for choreography); Company, Assassins (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Grinning Man, Funny Girl (West End); La Cage Aux Folles, A Little Night Music (West End/Broadway); American Psycho (Broadway); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End); St George and the Dragon, The Cherry Orchard, Never So Good, The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre); Volpone, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); My Fair Lady (Theatre Du Chatelet, Paris); Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour). Opera includes Death in Venice (Royal Opera House), Marnie (Met/ENO), Medea (ENO), Les Troyens (La Scala, Milan/San Francisco), Andrea Chenier (Bregenz Festival), Carmen (OHP). Film credits include Judy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Fred Claus, Hippie Hippie Shake. Television: “The Crown”, “So You Think You Can Dance”. Lynne created her first work for The Royal Ballet main stage in May 2021. She won a WhatsOnStage Award and was nominated for an Olivier, as well as a Tony and Drama Desk award for her work on La Cage Aux Folles. She has choreographed all the Pet Shop Boys world tours since 2007 and directed Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum at the Royal Opera House in 2018. Her other music credits include working with Kanye West, Muse, Stormzy, Jess Glynne and GoGo Penguin.

As a Music Supervisor/Orchestrator/Conductor: Abomination: a DUP Opera (Belfast Ensemble); Carousel, On The Town (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Lyric Opera of Chicago; US tour); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic/Trafalgar Studios); wonder.land (National Theatre); In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre/Southwark Playhouse); The Boys in the Dress (RSC). As Composer: The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence on Whitehall’s Relationship with Kids Company (Donmar Warehouse); Pity (Royal Court); Little Red Riding Hood (National Youth Ballet).

BUNNY CHRISTIE (Scenic Designer). Credits include: Company (West End/Broadway – Tony and Oliver Award for Best Set Design); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (also National Theatre/West End/Broadway/International Tour – Oliver and Tony Award for best Set Design); Ink (Almeida/West End/Broadway, Evening Standard Award for Best Design); The Wild Duck (Almeida); Best of Enemies (Young Vic); Animal Farm (UK tour/ West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Guys and Dolls (Bridge theatre); After Life, The Welkin, The Red Barn (Easter Standard award for Best Design) (all for National Theatre); People, Places and Things (National Theatre/West End/St. Anns Warehouse, New York); Made in Dagenham (West End). Opera credits include: Medea (ENO); Tosca; Brief Encounter (Houston Grand Opera). Bunny is a member of Scene/Change, a collective of theatre designers. She initiated the NT Design Bursary for emerging designers and was awarded an OBE for services to the UK theater industry.

KATRINA LINDSAY (Costume Designer) is a set and costume designer working internationally in theatre, opera, ballet and film. Recent costume designs include: The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre and West End; Tammy Faye at the Almeida; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End, Broadway and worldwide; The Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway; 101 Dalmations at Regent’s Park; Burn (with Alan Cumming for the National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival; Hamlet (with Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet) at the Barbican and broadcast on National Theatre Live; American Psycho at the Almeida and on Broadway. As set and costume designer at the National Theatre work includes Hex, Small Island, Three Sisters, Mosquitoes, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Death and the King’s Horseman and London Road, plus production design on the film of London Road (Cuba Pictures). Costume designs for opera include Terry Gilliam’s Damnation of Faust and Benvenuto Cellini for the ENO and around the world. Katrina won the 2008 Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for Outstanding Costume for Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway and the 2017 Olivier Award and 2018 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Katrina is an associate of the National Theatre and a member of the theatre design collective Scene/Change.

NEIL AUSTIN (Lighting Designer). Neil is the recipient of three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, and two Drama Desk Awards. Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Leopoldstadt, Company, Hamlet, Red, Ink (all West End & Broadway); Travesties, Hughie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Evita, The Seafarer, Frost/Nixon (Broadway); Frozen, Rosmersholm, The Night of the Iguana,  Shakespeare in Love, The Goat, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Photograph 51, (West End);  Macbeth, The Night Alive, Julius Caesar (Off-Broadway). For the Almeida: Albion, The Hunt, Ink, The Treatment, Medea.

FINN ROSS (Video Designer). Theatre credits include Back to the Future: The Musical, Frozen, Les Misérables (West End/Broadway); Spring Awakening (Almeida); American Psycho (Almeida/Broadway); Chimerica (Almeida/West End); Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse); Mean Girls, Dancin’, Betrayal, All My Sons (Broadway); Bat Out of Hell (West End/International Tour); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End/Broadway); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Broadway/West End/UK tour); Jagged Little Pill, In the Body of the World (American Rep Theatre/Broadway); The Tempest (RSC/Barbican); The Master and Margarita, Shunkin (Complicite). Dance includes Anna Karenina (The Joffrey Ballet); The Nutcracker (Atlanta Ballet); The Feeling of Going (Skanes Dansteater/Malmo Opera). Finn has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award and three Drama Desk Awards.

NICK LIDSTER FOR AUTOGRAPH (Sound Design) is a senior member of the Autograph design team in the UK. His theatre includes Cabaret @ The Kit Kat Club/August Wilson NY; La Cage Aux Folles and Fiddler On The Roof (OAT RP); Yeomen of the Guard (ENO); Cabaret (@ The Kit Kat Club London); Jesus Christ Superstar (50th Anniversary US & UK Tour); Evita; Little Shop of Horrors; The Turn of the Screw (OAT RP); City of Angels (Garrick); Sweet Charity, Pacific Overtures, Parade, Passion, Spelling Bee, The Vote (also Channel 4), Committee… (Donmar Warehouse); Martin Guerre (UK Tour); Miss Saigon (UK Tour/Japan/Sweden); Les Misérables (UK Tour/Berlin/Belfast/Scandinavian Arena Concert Tour); Sweeney Todd (Royal Opera House/ENO); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour); Sinatra (Palladium/UK Tour); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival); On the Town (ENO); Mother Courage (National Theatre); Privates on Parade (Noel Coward); A Chorus Line (Palladium); Urinetown (Apollo); The Last Five Years (The Other Palace); Kiss Me, Kate (Opera North/UK & European Tour); Calendar Girls (UK Tour); The Band (UK Tour/Berlin). Awards include: 2022 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design, Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club. Olivier Award Nominations for Jesus Christ Superstar (OAT RP); Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse); Parade (Donmar Warehouse); Mother Courage (NT).

LUC VERSCHUEREN for CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES (Hair, Wig & Makeup Design). Broadway: Water for Elephants, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, The Shark is Broken, Funny Girl, The Music Man, Bad Cinderella, Almost Famous, Les Misérables, Hello, Dolly!.  Broadway/West End: Back to the Future, Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, Company, Girl from the North Country, A Christmas Carol, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Drama Desk Design Award), The Ferryman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Groundhog Day, Matilda, Ghost, Billy Elliot. West End: Get Up Stand Up!, The Prince of Egypt. Film/TV: “Only Murders in the Building,” “The Gilded Age,” “The Politician,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “The Leftovers,” “Smash,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Downton Abbey,” “Doctor Who,” “Will and Grace,” and Dirty Dancing. www.cyassocs.com

MARK DICKMAN (Orchestrations). As Music Supervisor/Orchestrator: Sylvia (Old Vic). As Co-Orchestrator: Tammy Faye (Almeida); Man Of La Mancha (Coliseum/ENO); Carousel (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). As Music Director/Arranger: Blues in The Night (Kiln), Pantomimes (Hackney Empire 2010-2021). As Associate MD: Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). As Associate Conductor: Motown (Shaftesbury); Funny Girl (Savoy); Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly); The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory). Recordings/Concerts: LSO Discovery (Barbican); It Takes A City (Armonico Consort, Royal Albert Hall); London Community Gospel Choir. Television (as Pianist): “A Celebration of Ivor Novello” (Hallé Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder/BBC Proms); “The Choir: Gareth Goes to Glyndebourne” (BBC). Music Preparation: Kiss Me Kate (Barbican); The Devil Wears Prada (Plymouth/Dominion); Cabaret (Gothenburg Opera); Jesus Christ Superstar (Chicago/US Tour). Mark is Musical Director/Arranger & Pianist for Sharon D. Clarke.