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Bob Gale
Bob Gale is an Oscar®-nominated Screenwriter-Producer-Director, best known as co-creator, co-writer and co-producer of Back to the Future and its sequels. Gale was born and raised in St Louis, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Cinema from the University of Southern California in 1973, where he met and began his association with his longtime collaborator, Robert Zemeckis.
Gale has written or co-written over 30 screenplays and his other film credits include 1941, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Used Cars, Trespass and Interstate 60, the last of which he also directed. In addition to his film and television work, and being the ‘Gatekeeper’ for the BTTF franchise, Gale has written comic books including Spider-Man, Batman and IDW’s Back to the Future title, thus proving to his father that he did not waste hours and hours reading comics in his youth. He has given talks on screenwriting in colleges across the USA, and enjoys meeting fans at comic conventions and Back to the Future events. He has also served as an expert witness in over 25 plagiarism lawsuits, even though this has occasionally required him to wear a suit and tie. When he’s not in production, writing, or wasting time on the internet, he actually does take out the trash, even when his wife doesn’t ask (well, sometimes he does). Gale lives in California with his wife and dog. Back to the Future the Musical is his first foray into writing for the stage.
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis won an Academy Award©, a Golden Globe and a Director’s Guild of America Award for Best Director for the hugely successful and popular motion picture Forrest Gump. The film’s numerous honors also included a Best Picture Oscar and, for Tom Hanks, a Best Actor Oscar.
Early in his career, he co-wrote with Bob Gale and directed Back to the Future, which was the top-grossing release of 1985 and for which Zemeckis shared Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Screenplay. He then went on to helm the sequels Back to the Future Part II and Part III, completing one of the most successful film franchises in motion picture history.
Zemeckis has continued to bring an impressive number of popular films to the screen including the comedies Used Cars and I Wanna Hold Your Hand, the romantic adventure Romancing the Stone starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner and the macabre comedy hit Death Becomes Her starring Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn.
He also directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit, cleverly blending live action and animation in a feature film, resulting in a worldwide box office smash hit. Zemeckis then re-teamed with Hanks directing and producing the unique contemporary drama Cast Away, which opened to critical and audience acclaim.
He directed and produced Contact, starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey, based on the best-selling novel by Carl Sagan. He also co-wrote and directed the motion-capture film The Polar Express starring Tom Hanks as a charming train conductor taking children on a magical adventure to the North Pole.
Zemeckis produced and directed his second motion-caption film, Beowulf which starred Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie, based on one of the oldest surviving pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature, written before the 10th Century A.D. he released another advanced motion-capture film, A Christmas Carol, based on the celebrated and beloved classic Charles Dickens story which he both wrote and directed for The Disney Studios.
Zemeckis returned to live action direct with the critically-acclaimed dramatic feature Flight, for Paramount Pictures starring Denzel Washington. Under the direction of Zemeckis, Washington received an Academy Award© nomination for his role.
For The Walk, he directed Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ben Kingsley in the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s historic 1974 attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
He directed the romantic thriller Allied, starring Brad Pitt and Marion Coillard, telling the compelling story of the relationship between a Canadian Intelligence Officer and a French Resistance Fighter against the backdrop of WWII in 1942 North Africa.
Along with Caroline Thompson, Zemeckis wrote the screenplay for Welcome to Marwen, which he directed for Universal Pictures. The film starred Steve Carell as real life artist Mark Hogancamp who created a miniature WWI-era village as a way to recover from a violent assault. He then directed The Witches for Warner Bros. Studios.
Zemeckis produced such films as The Frighteners, Monster House, Last Holiday and as a producer brought the true life story of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio starring Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson to the big screen. Along with Bob Gale, he wrote Trespass. He and Gale also wrote 1941, which began a long-time association with Steven Spielberg.
Zemeckis helmed Pinocchio which he co-wrote for The Disney Studios. He was nominated for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures by the Producer’s Guild of America.
In 1988 Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey partnered to form ImageMovers a production company dedicated to telling character-driven stories across many genres for film and television incorporating both cutting-edge and innovative digital technology
For the small screen, his directing credits include episodes of Spielberg’s Amazing Stories and HBO’s Tales from the Crypt. He served as EP on Medal of Honor for Netflix, Blue Book for The History Channel and Manifest for NBC and Warner Bros.
In March, 2001 the USC School of Cinema-Television celebrated the opening of the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts. This state-of-the-art center is the country’s first and only fully digital training center and houses the latest in non-linear production and post-production equipment as well as stages, a 50-seat screening room and USC student-run television station Trojan Vision.
Most recently Zemeckis his latest directorial effort was , Here for Sony Pictures Studios and Miramax. The film reunites Zemeckis with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright and is an intimate story taking place in one location over the span of generations. The film premiered at the 2024 AFI Festival and closed out the 2024 60th Anniversary of the Chicago Film Festival where Zemeckis received the Festival’s Founder’s Award.
Alan Silvestri
In his ongoing, decades-long career as a composer, Alan Silvestri has blazed an innovative trail with his exciting and melodic scores, winning the applause of Hollywood and movie audiences the world over. With a credit list of over 100 films, Silvestri has composed some of the most recognisable and beloved themes in movie history. His efforts have been recognised with two Oscar® nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, four Grammy® awards, two Emmy® awards, and numerous International Film Music Critics Awards, Saturn Awards, and Hollywood Music in Media Awards.
Born in New York City and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Silvestri first dreamed of becoming a jazz guitar player. After attending the Berklee School of Music in Boston, he hit the road as a performer and arranger. Landing in Hollywood at the age of 22, he found himself successfully composing the music for 1972's The Doberman Gang which established his place in the world of film composing.
The 1970s witnessed the rise of energetic synth-pop scores, establishing Silvestri as the action rhythmatist for TV’s highway patrol hit CHiPs. This action-driven score caught the ear of a young filmmaker named Robert Zemeckis, whose 1984 hit film, Romancing the Stone, was the perfect first date for the composer and director. Its success became the basis of a decades-long relationship that continues to this day. Their numerous collaborations have taken them through fascinating landscapes and stylistic variations, from the Back to the Future trilogy to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, to the tension of What Lies Beneath and Death Becomes Her, to the cosmic wonder of Contact, the emotional isolation of Castaway, to the magic of The Polar Express, to Zemeckis’ 1994 Best Picture winner, Forrest Gump, for which Silvestri’s gift for melodically beautiful themes earned him an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination. This 38-year, 21-film collaboration includes such recent films as Flight, Allied and The Witches based on Roald Dahl’s 1973 classic book. Zemeckis and Silvestri are currently working on Walt Disney’s Pinocchio starring Tom Hanks which is scheduled for release in September of 2022.
Though the Zemeckis/Silvestri collaboration is legendary, Silvestri has scored films of every imaginable style and genre. His energy has brought excitement and emotion to the hard-hitting martial arts scenes for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, James Cameron’s The Abyss as well as Predator 1 and 2 and The Mummy Returns. Alan’s diversity is on full display in family entertainment films such as Lilo and Stitch 1 and 2, The Parent Trap, Stuart Little 1 and 2, Disney’s A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, as well as Night at the Museum 1, 2 and 3 while his passion for melody fuels the romantic emotion of films like The Bodyguard and What Women Want.
In 2018-19 Alan composed the music for Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. These films are the culmination of a partnership with Marvel that began in 2011 with his dynamic and heroic score for Captain America: The First Avenger followed by The Avengers in 2012. Alan’s collaboration with Marvel helped propel The Avengers: Infinity Saga to spectacular worldwide success.
Alan’s success is not only visible in the world of songwriting. His partnership with six-time Grammy Award winner Glen Ballard has produced hit such as the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated ‘Believe’ (Josh Groban for The Polar Express), ‘Butterfly Fly Away’ (Miley Cyrus) for Hannah Montana the Movie, ‘God Bless Us Everyone’ (Andrea Bocelli) for A Christmas Carol and ‘A Hero Comes Home’ (Idina Menzel) for Beowulf. In addition to Back to the Future the Musical, Alan and Glen have also collaborated on new songs and score for the upcoming production of Disney’s Pinocchio. Alan is set to compose the score for the upcoming Avengers: Doomslay in 2026. Alan was the composer on Robert Zemeckis’ latest release, “Here” starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. ( Nov 2024) and The Russo Brothers Netflix film “ The Electric State” starring Millie Bobbi Brown and Chris Pratt” (March 2025). He has begun work on the next two Marvel Avenger Films with the Russo Brothers.( release dates 2026 and 2027
Six-time Grammy Award®–winner Glen Ballard is one of popular music’s most accomplished producers and songwriters, whose records have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. Through his Los Angeles–based production company, Augury, Ballard is developing a diverse slate of projects in which music plays a central role. His most recent project is the Netflix Original series The Eddy: a musical and multicultural drama about a jazz band trying to survive in modern-day Paris, which debuted in May 2020. Ballard wrote and composed original songs and music for the limited series and served as an executive producer alongside Oscar®–winning director Damien Chazelle, BAFTA and Tony Award®–winning writer Jack Thorne, and Emmy®–winning producer/director Alan Poul.
Ballard wrote original lyrics and music for Ghost the Musical, which debuted in 2011 and has since been touring worldwide. Ballard's company, Augury, is also developing several other projects, including Decade, an original TV series based on the 1995 music scene in Los Angeles.
Ballard produced and co-wrote Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill (33 million worldwide, four Grammys, and named Best Album of the Decade by Billboard magazine), and in 2019 a musical called Jagged Little Pill featuring all the songs from the album debuted on Broadway. Directed by Diane Paulus with a book by Diablo Cody, the musical Jagged Little Pill was nominated for 15 Tony Awards in 2020.
He has written and produced songs for Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Dave Matthews, Shakira, Katy Perry, Michael Bublé, Ringo Starr, George Strait, Wilson Phillips, Van Halen, Chaka Khan, Patti Austin, J1.Ar, Andrea Bocelli and many others. His productions include incidental and dialog music recordings for Renae Lemmon, No Doubt and Michael Jackson. Ballard arranged ‘Man in the Mirror’ for Michael Jackson and co-wrote and produced the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated ‘Believe’ (Josh Groban) for the feature film The Polar Express.
His work in film includes writing original songs for Charlotte’s Web, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, The Croods, The Mummy’s Return, Valentine’s Day and Disney’s upcoming live-action retelling of Pinocchio.
Glen Ballard
Six-time Grammy Award®–winner Glen Ballard is one of popular music’s most accomplished producers and songwriters, whose records have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. Through his Los Angeles–based production company, Augury, Ballard is developing a diverse slate of projects in which music plays a central role. His most recent project is the Netflix Original series The Eddy: a musical and multicultural drama about a jazz band trying to survive in modern-day Paris, which debuted in May 2020. Ballard wrote and composed original songs and music for the limited series and served as an executive producer alongside Oscar®–winning director Damien Chazelle, BAFTA and Tony Award®–winning writer Jack Thorne, and Emmy®–winning producer/director Alan Poul.
Ballard wrote original lyrics and music for Ghost the Musical, which debuted in 2011 and has since been touring worldwide. Ballard's company, Augury, is also developing several other projects, including Decade, an original TV series based on the 1995 music scene in Los Angeles.
Ballard produced and co-wrote Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill (33 million worldwide, four Grammys, and named Best Album of the Decade by Billboard magazine), and in 2019 a musical called Jagged Little Pill featuring all the songs from the album debuted on Broadway. Directed by Diane Paulus with a book by Diablo Cody, the musical Jagged Little Pill was nominated for 15 Tony Awards in 2020.
He has written and produced songs for Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Dave Matthews, Shakira, Katy Perry, Michael Bublé, Ringo Starr, George Strait, Wilson Phillips, Van Halen, Chaka Khan, Patti Austin, J1.Ar, Andrea Bocelli and many others. His productions include incidental and dialog music recordings for Renae Lemmon, No Doubt and Michael Jackson. Ballard arranged ‘Man in the Mirror’ for Michael Jackson and co-wrote and produced the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated ‘Believe’ (Josh Groban) for the feature film The Polar Express.
His work in film includes writing original songs for Charlotte’s Web, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, The Croods, The Mummy’s Return, Valentine’s Day and Disney’s upcoming live-action retelling of Pinocchio.
COLIN INGRAM
Olivier Award-winning producer Colin Ingram has worked in the theatre industry for 31 years with some of the world's leading producers, directors, designers and writers. He currently produces Back to the Future – The Musical at the Adelphi Theatre, London and Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift on a UK Tour. Back To The Future The Musical is also playing in Japan, on a US Tour, onboard Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas, and in Australia. BTTF is also set to open in Germany in 2026 along with a UK Tour. The show had a successful 18 month run at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. Back to the Future won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards (after seven nominations), What'sOnStage Award and BroadwayWorld.com and the London Lifestyle Award for Best Theatre Show. Colin recently produced Time Traveller's Wife with music written by Joss Stone and Dave Stewart in the West End and there will be a forthcoming Japanese and American production. Colin also produced Ghost the Musical, which has been staged in 22 countries in 14 languages in over 30 productions, including West End and Broadway. It was nominated for five Olivier Awards and three Tony® Awards and won Best Musical at the Manchester Theatre Awards. Ghost The Musical is set to open in China in 2026 for a third Tour.
He was Executive Producer of the multi Tony and Olivier-Award winning Billy Elliot the Musical in the West End and consulted on the Broadway and Australian productions. He also lead-produced Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway and twice in the West End and on the UK tour with these productions starring Emilia Clarke, Anna Friel and Pixie Lott. It won a Broadway.com award for Best Play.
Prior to becoming an independent producer, Colin worked for Cameron Mackintosh for six years, general-managing Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma! (starring Hugh Jackman), The Witches of Eastwick and the Les Misérables 10th anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall. He then joined Disney Theatrical Productions to be UK Managing Director running the London office and the productions of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and others in global development. He then joined the Old Vic as Executive Producer and produced Hamlet starring Ben Whishaw, Aladdin starring Ian McKellen, The Philadelphia Story and National Anthems.
He then produced the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp musical Movin' Out in the West End, and co-produced Gone with the Wind directed by Trevor Nunn.
In 2016, Colin joined Madison Square Garden Entertainment as Executive Vice President of Productions. At MSG, he produced the New York Spectacular starring the Rockettes – a major undertaking involving over 350 cast, crew and musicians – and produced the 2016 Christmas Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes, achieving the highest revenue in its 85-year history. Colin was also an Executive Director of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and is the proud founder of the Edinburgh University Footlights now in its 36th year.
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John Rando
John Rando Directed the world premiere of Back To The Future The Musical in 2020 at Manchester Opera House. His production transferred to the Adelphi Theater in 2021, winning the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Musical. In the summer of 2023 he opened another production of BTTF on Broadway. In 2024 John directed the first US National Tour of BTTF now in it’s second year delighting audiences across the US. John opened the Japanese language production of BTTF in April of 2025. BTTF Australia will open in October of 2025 and Germany in the spring of 2026. In 2001 Mr. Rando won the Best Director Tony Award® and Outer Critics Circle Award for Urinetown, The Musical. His other Broadway credits include Mr. Saturday Night (Tony nomination Best Musical), On the Town (Tony nomination for Direction), A Christmas Story (Tony nomination Best Musical), The Wedding Singer (Tony nomination Best Musical), Penn & Teller, A Thousand Clowns, Getting The Band Back Together, The Dance of The Vampires and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. For New York City Center Encores! he directed The New Yorkers, High Button Shoes, It’s a Bird It’s a Plane It’s Superman, Annie Get Your Gun, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Damn Yankees, Face the Music, Of Thee I Sing, The Pajama Game, Do Re Mi, and Strike Up the Band. At the New York Philharmonic, his highly praised concert production of Carousel was also filmed for Lincoln Center Live. Mr. Rando’s long time collaboration with the playwright David Ives’s includes directing the Off Broadway productions: The Heir Apparent (SDCF Callaway Award for Directing), All in the Timing (Obie Award for Directing) Lives of The Saints, Polish Joke, Mere Mortals and Ancient History/English Made Simple. Other Off Broadway productions include Jerry Springer the Opera at the New Group; Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, A Comedy Of Errors among many others. John’s work can also be seen in China with three original Chinese musicals: Jay Chou’s The Secret, The Spirit of Life –The Jonathan Lee Musical and Huang Bo’s, The Island.
Tim Hatley
Tim has designed extensively for the National Theatre, West End and Broadway. Winner of three Olivier Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and three Tony® Awards, most recently for Set Design for Life of Pi.
Recent work includes: Starlight Express (London 2024), The Devil Wears Prada (Plymouth), Life of Pi (West End and Broadway), Back to the Future (West End), Dreamgirls (West End and UK tour), The Bodyguard (West End/UK tour/US tour/Cologne/Korea), Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End/Broadway), Ghosts (Almeida/West End/BAM), Little Eyolf (Almeida), Temple (Donmar Warehouse), Enemy of the People and The Pajama Game (Chichester Festival Theatre), Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre/West End), Shrek (West End/Broadway/UK tour/US), Spamalot(West End/Broadway/US tour/Vegas), Singin’ in the Rain and My Fair Lady (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Carmen and Don Quixote (Royal Ballet).
Film includes: Closer, Notes on a Scandal and Stage Beauty.
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Chris Bailey
Recent credits include: Gettin’ the Band Back Together (Broadway), Jerry Springer the Opera (The New Group, Chita Rivera Award nominee), The New Yorkers (NY City Center Encores!), 1776 (NY City Center Encores!), The Entertainer with Kenneth Branagh (West End), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), Cyrano de Bergerac (Broadway), A Little Night Music (Stratford) and Because of Winn Dixie (Goodspeed).
Chris choreographed the historic opening number of the 2013 Tony Awards® and served as Associate Choreographer numerous times for the Academy Awards®.
Nick Finlow
Nick is currently the UK Musical Supervisor for The Book of Mormon London, Musical Supervisor, Vocal and Music Arranger for Back to The Future London, Broadway, US Tour & Japan and the Associate Musical Supervisor for Mamma Mia! London.
Previous work includes;
Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) – Musical Supervisor, The Time Traveller’s Wife – Additional Music/Arranger/Musical Supervisor, Dreamgirls UK Tour & The Book of Mormon UK Tour (2019) - Musical Supervisor, Dreamgirls London - Musical Supervisor/Conductor, Memphis – London, Avenue Q UK Tour, Les Misérables UK Tour (2009)- Musical Supervisor, Jersey Boys London - Associate Musical Supervisor
Musical Director: The Book Of Mormon – London, Jersey Boys - London, Avenue Q - Noel Coward Theatre, Victoria Wood’s musical Acorn Antiques - Theatre Royal Haymarket, Mamma Mia! – London, Tonight’s The Night - Victoria Palace, Tell Me on a Sunday - Gielgud Theatre, Rent - Shaftesbury Theatre, Stairway to Heaven - Kings Head, Kiss Me Kate - Norwich Playhouse
Cast Album Recordings: Co-Producer & Musical Supervisor: A Time Traveller’s Wife, Back To The Future Original London. Musical Supervisor: Dreamgirls London, Memphis London. Musical Director: Acorn Antiques and Tell Me on a Sunday London.
He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and has a postgraduate diploma in Advanced Instrumental Studies (Piano).
Tim Lutkin
Tony® and two-time Olivier Award winner.
Broadway includes: Back to the Future and Life of Pi.
West End includes: The Crucible, Back to the Future, Fiddler on the Roof, Noises Off, Strangers on a Train, Close to You, The Full Monty, Present Laughter, Chimerica, Quiz, Lungs, A Number, Elf and Big.
NT credits include: Under Milk Wood, Antony and Cleopatra, Les Blancs and Jack Absolute Flies Again.
Hugh Vanstone
Hugh has worked extensively in the West End and on Broadway, lighting over 200 productions worldwide and receiving many accolades for his work including three Olivier Awards, two TONY awards and a Molière.
Hugh is an associate artist at The Old Vic.
Finn Ross
Finn Ross He has won two Olivier’s, a Tony and three Drama Desk’s & four What’s on Stage Awards. He is an Honouree Fellow of The Royal School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre: BOOP! (Broadway); Hello Dolly (West End); Tammy Fey, Spring Awakening (Alemdia); My Neighbour Totoro (RSC); Back to the Future (West End, Broadway); Frozen (International) Les Miserables (International); Mean Girls (Broadway), Cursed Child (Westend & Broadway), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway/West End/Tour); Jagged Little Pill (ART); American Psycho (Broadway & Almedia; Chimerica (Almeida & West End); The Tempest (The RSC & Barbican); Master and Margarita, All My Sons, Shunkin (Complicite)
Opera: The Hours (The Met); Mahagonny (Royal Opera House); Missa Solemnis (LA Phil); Benvenuto Cellini, Death of Klinghoffer, Damnation of Faust (ENO); Hänsel und Gretel, Zäuberflote, Dog’s Heart (DNO, Amsterdam); La clemenza di Tito, Mr Brouček (Opera North); Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Turn of the Screw(Theatre an der Wien); Rinaldo, (Glyndebourne);
Dance: Cinderella (The Royal Ballet), Anna Karenina (The Joffrey Ballet); The Nutcracker (Atlanta Ballet); The Feeling of Going (Skånes Dansteater)
Music: Glass Animals (Tour); Sodagreen (Tour); Declan Mckena (Reading & Leads 2023); Lewis Capaldi (2022 Tour); Azimuth (Al Ula); Cold Play (Music of the Spheres); Sam Fender (17 Going Under); Foals (Life is Yours); Mark Ronson (Midnight Feeling), J Balvin Fornightmares (Fortnight), W Hotel Instillation (Guangzhou, China): Rolling Stones Exhibitionism (International)
Gareth Owen
Broadway design highlights include: Hell’s Kitchen (Tony® nomination), The Who’s Tommy, Back to the Future, & Juliet (Tony nomination), MJ: The Musical (Tony Award), Bad Cinderella, Diana, Summer, Come From Away, A Bronx Tale, Spring Awakening, End of the Rainbow (Tony nomination), Bat Out of Hell, The Secret Garden and A Little Night Music (Tony nomination).
West End design highlights include: Starlight Express, Just For One Day, Back to the Future (Olivier nomination), Cinderella, The Prince of Egypt, & Juliet, Come From Away (Olivier Award), Bat Out of Hell (Olivier nomination), 42nd Street, Memphis (Olivier Award), I Can’t Sing!, In the Heights, La Cage aux Folles, Elf, Top Hat (Olivier nomination) and Merrily We Roll Along (Olivier Award).
International design highlights include: Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany), Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (worldwide) and Disney’s The Little Mermaid (wworldwide). Honorary doctorate from Salford University. Husband to an awesome wife, father to three excellent kids.
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CHRIS FISHER
Chris Fisher is a member of The Magic Circle. He works worldwide as International Illusions and Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Theatre credits as Illusion Consultant include: Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse), Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix), Back to the Future The Musical (Broadway and Adelphi Theatre), The Ghost and the Lady (Tokyo), The Witches (NT), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse and UK tour), The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo), The Prince of Egypt (Dominion), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne and UK tour), 2:22 A Ghost Story (Noël Coward, Melbourne and LA), Peter Gynt, Here We Go, Treasure Island, Julie and Angels in America (also Broadway) (NT), Big the Musical (Dominion), Wicked Das Musical (Neue Flora Theater, Hamburg), Company (Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, NY and Gielgud Theatre), Merlin (Northern Ballet), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour), Superhero (Tony Kiser Theater, New York), Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Hypocrite (RSC at the Swan and Hull Truck), Into the Woods and The Skriker (Manchester Royal Exchange).
Ethan Popp
Ethan is a Grammy Award nominated music producer as well as an Olivier Award and two-time Tony Award nominated orchestrator. His work as a music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator and music producer has been seen and heard worldwide.
Theatre: Back To The Future (2022 Olivier Award Nomination – Best Original Score Or Orchestrations), Mrs. Doubtfire, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (2021 Tony Award Nomination – Best Orchestrations), School of Rock (2016 Tony Award Nomination – Best New Musical), Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2015 Tony Award Winner – Best Revival of a Musical), Motown The Musical (2013 Tony Award Nomination – Best Orchestrations & 2014 Grammy Award Nomination – Best Musical Theatre Album), Rock of Ages (2008 Tony Award Nomination – Best New Musical), Disney’s Tarzan, We Will Rock You, Disney’s Aida, Disney’s The Lion King, Mamma Mia! and more. Upcoming: The Broadway World Premiere of The Lost Boys (as music supervisor, arranger and orchestrator).
Television: Ethan has served as a composer, music producer, arranger and orchestrator on works from NBC/Universal’s “Smash” and HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”
Film: His work on the big screen can be heard most notably as Music Director and Music Production Supervisor for 20th Century Fox’s “The Greatest Showman” starring Hugh Jackman, and as vocal and piano coach to Academy Award winner Rami Malek in his starring role in Bohemian Rhapsody. www.ethanpopp.com
Bryan Crook
Bryan Crook is an award-winning orchestrator, songwriter, producer and world-class multi-instrumentalist. With Tony® and Olivier Award nominations, his career spans Broadway, film, TV, ads and more. As a founder of Mana Music and Media, he creates and produces music worldwide. See more and say hello at www.bryancrook.com
David Chase
David Chase has been Music Director, Supervisor, and/or Arranger for over 40 Broadway productions.
UK theatre includes: dance music for Anything Goes (Olivier nomination), Hercules, Beauty and the Beast, the Donmar Warehouse’s Guys & Dolls and Evita, and Chichester’s Damsel in Distress.
Television includes: Schmigadoon!, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Étoile, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, and American Classic. Two Emmy® nominations (The Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live!) and a Grammy® nomination.
Film includes: The Last Showgirl, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Beyond the Sea. Also, many arrangements for the Boston Pops, The Kennedy Center Honors, and Radio City Music Hall. Choral works published by Hal Leonard.
David lives in NYC with his wife, Drama Desk nominee Paula Leggett Chase, and their sons, Kyler and Dashiell.
Maurice Chan
Maurice is co-founder of the French stuntmen team, Cascade, which was created in 1997. He has been a stunt performer for more than 20 years and a fight choreographer/stunt co-ordinator specialising in live shows for more than 10 years.
Stunt work includes: Jack Ryan (season 4), John Wick 4 by Chad Stahelski, Astérix et Obelix: l’Empire du Milieu by Guillaume Canet, 355 by Simon Kinberg, Fox Hunt by Leo Zhang, City Hunter by Philippe Lacheau, Spectre – Bond 24 by Sam Mendes, Lucy by Luc Besson, From Paris with Love by Pierre Morel, District 13 Ultimatum by Patrick Alessandrin, Unleashed by Louis Leterrier and more.
Fight choreographer/stunt co-ordinator work includes: Back to the Future the Musical on Broadway, Marvel Super-Heroes United at Disneyland Paris, Stark Expo at Disneyland Paris, The Pirates Live Show at Aquarium de Paris, Cascade Shows for Canadian National Exhibition/France’s Got Talent/Britain’s Got Talent/Arab’s Got Talent and more. Currently working on the new Marvel Land: The Avengers Campus at Disneyland Paris as Stunt Co-ordinator and Fight Director. Fight Choreography Coach at the French Stunt School Campus Univers Cascades since 2015.
Work as stunt performer includes: The Killer by John Woo and Largo Winch 3.
Work as Stunt Co-ordinator and Fight Director includes: Avengers Campus at Disneyland Paris.
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Theatre credits include: Back to the Future The Musical, Grease, Elf, Time Traveller’s Wife, Into the Woods, Waitress, Only Fools & Horses, Magic Mike Live, Matilda, 42nd Street, Bat Out of Hell, 5 Guys Named Moe, Ghost, Hairspray, Our House, Urinetown (West End); Mamma Mia! (Worldwide); Mamma Mia! The Party; Pride The Musical (National Theatre); Sweet Charity (Donmar); Come Fall in Love (Palace Theatre Manchester); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, Jekyll & Hyde (Old Vic); Sinatra, Bhangra Nation (Birmingham Rep); Chicago, Shrek, Grease, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mrs Henderson Presents, Fat Friends, The Commitments (UK Tour); Man of La Mancha, Chess, Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, On the Town, Kismet (English National Opera); Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hello Dolly, Crazy for You (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Kiss Me Kate, West Side Story, On the Town (BBC Proms/John Wilson); Guys & Dolls, My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Oliver, Sweet Charity (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); My Fair Lady, Candide, 42nd Street, Singing in the Rain. Kiss Me Kate (Chatelet, Paris); The Beggars Opera (Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris); Guys and Dolls (Theatre Marigny, Paris); A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Hello, Dolly! (Theatre de Lido, Paris).
For Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Tell Me on a Sunday, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game, Bombay Dreams, The Woman in White, The Sound of Music, Love Never Dies, The Wizard of Oz, Stephen Ward, School of Rock, Unmasked, Cinderella.
Film credits include: Musical Ensemble Casting: Matilda, Greatest Days, Mamma Mia! Here we Go Again, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Mamma Mia!, UK Dancer Casting: Mary Poppins Returns, Nine; Casting Director: The Phantom of the Opera.
Television credits include: Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert,MAMMA MIA! I HAVE A DREAM (ITV), Sound of Music Live (2016 BAFTA Award), Superstar, Over the Rainbow, I’d Do Anything, Any Dream Will Do, How To Solve A Problem Like Maria (2007 Emmy Award), Kombat Opera presents… (2008 Golden Rose Montreux Award) Hollyoaks, West End Star (TV3 Sweden).
Awards include: Casting Society of America: Creative Collaboration Award. Casting Directors Guild Award for Best Musical Casting 2022 (Back to the Future The Musical).
David is proud to be Associate Artist at the Old Vic, Trustee of Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Trustee of Council of Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre, and Vice President of Arts Educational School.
GBC Casting Directors: Will Burton, Stephen Crockett.
GBC Casting Associate: Amy Beadel.
GBC Casting Coordinator: Will Burry.
CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES
Credits include: West End/UK – Mrs Warrens’ Profession, A Knight’s Tale, Muriel’s Wedding, Kinky Boots, Calamity Jane, The Fear Of 13, Juno and the Paycock, The Devil Wears Prada, Hello, Dolly!, Starlight Express, Stranger Things, Groundhog Day, 42nd Street, Aspects of Love, Guys & Dolls, The King & I, As You Like It, Good, Eureka Day, Anything Goes, Get Up Stand Up, The Drifters Girl, Rosmersholm, All About Eve, St. Joan, One Night in Miami, City of Angels, The Young Chekhov Trilogy, Gypsy, The Bodyguard. (Broadway)– A Beautiful Noise, The Music Man, Carousel, Head Over Heels, Three Tall Women, Hello, Dolly!, The Crucible, Misery, Sylvia, A Delicate Balance, Les Misérables. (Broadway/West End) – The Hills of California, Back to the Future, Funny Girl, Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, Company, A Christmas Carol, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (Drama Desk Award – Outstanding Wigs and Hair), The Ferryman, Girl from the North Country, Farinelli and the King, Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Matilda, Ghost, Billy Elliot. Opera – Un Ballo in Maschera, La Bohème (Bregenz), Anna Nicole (BAM). Film and TV – The Gilded Age, Downton Abbey, Deadpool & Wolverine
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JIM HENSON
Theatre includes: Back to the Future (Musical Director), The American Clock (Musical Director, Old Vic), Kinky Boots (UK Musical Director, Adelphi), Romantics Anonymous (Musical Director, Shakespeare’s Globe), Once (Associate Musical Supervisor, Phoenix), Loserville (Musical Director, Garrick), Blood Brothers (Associate Musical Director, Phoenix), We Will Rock You (Associate Conductor, Dominion) and Big (Assistant Musical Director, Dominion). Touring: Kinky Boots (UK Musical Supervisor, UK tour), Once (Associate Musical Supervisor, US tour and Canadian productions), We Will Rock You, Blood Brothers, This is Elvis and Twelfth Night the Musical (all as Musical Director), Scrooge, Dr Dolittle and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (all as Assistant Musical Director) and Steptoe & Son (Musical Director and Recording). Arrangements include: Dr Dolittle and The Concert They Never Gave.
JORDAN MURPHY
Jordan is a theatre director from Petersfield, England. He currently looks after the West End, Broadway, and U.S. National Tour of Back to the Future The Musical as Associate Director.
Most recently, he was Co-Director of Your Lie in April at the Harold Pinter, Resident Director for Back to the Future The Musical (London), and Children’s Director for Broadway’s international tour of The Sound of Music.
Previously, Jordan was Resident Director & Children’s Director on Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre) and was Assistant Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre).
Additional directing credits include: After You (London Coliseum), Dr Zhivago (London Palladium & Cadogan Hall), Living A Little (Udderbelly, The Vaults/New Wee Theatre, Edinburgh), F U Future Alice (Arts Depot), The Railway Children, South Pacific in Concert (Cadogan Hall), Fiver: A New Musical, The Dysfunctional Guide to Being a Third Wheel (Crazy Coqs), After You (Cunard), Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Something Like A Fairytale: A New Musical (Off-Broadway workshop, NYC), The Dreaming (Chain Theatre, NYC), and Edges (London Theatre Workshop).
Assistant/Associate Director credits include: Treason (UK National Tour), Flashdance (South Korea), Side Show (Southwark Playhouse) for Hannah Chissick, Wonderland (UK Tour), The Busker’s Opera (Park Theatre) for Lotte Wakeham, and Eugenius (London Palladium) for Ian Talbot & Mike Jibson.
Training: University of Exeter, National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT), and the Young Vic Directors Programme.
DARREN CARNALL
Training: Allesley School of Dance, Coventry and Laine Theatre Arts.
After performing in numerous West End productions, he now works as a choreographer.
Theatre includes: Currently Associate Choreographer on The Devil Wears Prada (Dominion Theatre), choreographer for Friendsical (UK tour), The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios), The End of Longing (Playhouse Theatre), Associate Choreographer on Kinky Boots (UK and Norwegian Cruise Lines), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy) and The Christmasaurus Live (Eventim Apollo) and Resident Choreographer on Ghost the Musical (Piccadilly Theatre).
Ross Edwards
Ross trained at Kent University.
Associate Design credits include: Life of Pi (Sheffield/ West End), Dreamgirls (West End/ UK Tour), Travesties (Menier/ West End/ Broadway), The Bodyguard (UK & International Tours), Shrek (UK Tour), Singin’ in the Rain (Chatelet Paris), Carmen & Don Quixote (Royal Ballet), Mr Footes Other Leg(West End), Soldiers of Solitude (Hampstead), Little Eyolf (Almeida),Temple (Donmar) and Fiddler on the Roof (Menier /West End)
THE TWINS FX
The Twins FX are leaders of theatrical visual special effects, illusions and animatronics. They make the impossible possible for theatre productions, film and television worldwide.
The Twins FX were recognised as part of the creative team who helped Crossroad Pantomimes achieve its Olivier award. It’s the first time that a pantomime has won such a prestigious award. The Twins FX have established themselves as the market leaders in large-scale theatrical effects, working on shows such as Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, Doctor Who Live, the UK tour of Barnum and Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. They have also created stunning effects for TV’s Strictly Come Dancing, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, The Next Great Magician, Britain’s Got Talent, Tonight at The London Palladium, The One Show and ITV’s Grace. The Twins FX have also supplied effects for Hollywood blockbuster movies including Now You See Me 2 and The Mummy. It’s great to be part of the Back to the Future team, being lifelong fans of the films.
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Holly Henshaw
Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Costume Supervisor credits include: Back to the Future (Manchester Opera House, West End, Broadway and North American tour), Wicked (West End and UK tour) and Waitress (West End and UK tour).
Associate Costume Supervisor credits include: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (UK tour and Australian tour), The Bodyguard (UK tour), Teddy (London and UK tour), Toast (London, UK tour and Broadway), Peter Pan (NT), Roundabout (London and Broadway) and Handbagged (UK tour).
MARCUS HALL PROPS LIMITED
Recent projects include: Frozen, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, WaldenandTheGrinchWhoStoleChristmas (NBC/Universal)
Other notable work includes: Mary Poppins (Worldwide Productions), & Juliet, Come from Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Tina (Worldwide Productions), Kinky Boots, 42nd Street, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bat Out of Hell, Mamma Mia! The Party, The Witches of Eastwick, Dreamgirls, Motown, Memphis, Half a Sixpence, Groundhog Day, Calendar Girls the Musical, I Can’t Sing, Viva Forever!, The Commitments, Bend It Like Beckham, Top Hat, The Band, Caroline or Change, Young Marx, Rosmersholm, The Night of the Iguana, My Name is Lucy Barton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Birthday Party, Apologia, Art, Young Chekhov, Hamlet, Macbeth, American Buffalo and many more.
SIMON MARLOW
Having graduated from the University of Durham a long time ago Simon began working in stage management at English National Opera and then Scottish Opera. He moved into production management over thirty years ago and has gone on to oversee all technical aspects of many international shows such as Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the Opera, & Juliet, Back to The Future and numerous other West End / Broadway musicals and plays.
Beyond the Dawn (Kate Bush at the Hammersmith Apollo) was a happy and different process to add to the list.
A chronicle of achievements is not interesting to most programme readers – his best, however, are Harry, Freddy, Martha and Wilf – his four children.
www.marlowproductionmanagement.com
DONOVAN MANNATO
Donovan is an American producer active in theatre, film and music. Frequently collaborating with Colin Ingram, their production of Back To The Future-The Musical at the Adelphi Theatre won Best New Musical at the 2022 Olivier Awards, the 2022 What’sOnStage Awards and the 2022 BroadwayWorld UK Awards. Donovan also produced the 2022 production of Grease at the Dominion Theatre and the musical's 2019 and 2021 UK tours. Donovan’s first foray into theatre was the Broadway and West End productions of Ghost-The Musical which received three Tony nominations and five Olivier nominations. In 2013, Donovan produced Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Broadway starring Emilia Clarke; it won Best New Play at the BroadwayWorld.com Awards. Donovan produced the film Prey for Rock & Roll starring Gina Gershon which premiered at 2003 Sundance Film Festival and the record Punk Standards by Deborah Dutcher, his wife. He also acted in the Oscar winning film Philadelphia.
Donovan is eternally grateful to the brilliant creative team and cast that have brought this show to life and pinches himself every day that he is a part of it. Most of all, he wishes to thank his good friend and co-producer Colin Ingram, his wife Debby, his son Donny and all of the people who have ever inspired or supported him in his life, of which there are too many to mention.
FRANKEL / VIERTEL / BARUCH / ROUTH GROUP
The Frankel Viertel Baruch Routh Group (Producers) has produced and general managed plays and musicals for the past 37 years including the original Broadway productions of The Producers; Hairspray; Young Frankenstein; Smokey Joe’s Café; Angels in America; Penn & Teller; Love Letters, Swing!; The Weir; The Encounter and The Parisian Woman starring Uma Thurman. Their revivals on Broadway include Gypsy with Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti, the Old Vic’s The Norman Conquests, A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury and later Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch, John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd with Patti LuPone and Company with Raul Esparza; A Funny Thing… Forum with Nathan Lane and later Whoopi Goldberg, and the first-ever Broadway revivals of The Sound of Music and Little Shop of Horrors. Notable Off-Broadway premieres include Driving Miss Daisy; Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune; The Cocktail Hour;Oleanna; Jeffrey; Marvin’s Room; and Stomp. They've mounted tours and productions in London, Australia, Canada, Europe and throughout Asia. Their awards include two Pulitzer Prizes, three Olivier Awards for Best Musical and four Grammy’s. Their nine Tony Awards include all four Best categories: Play, Musical, Revival of a Play and Revival of a Musical. They own and operate the acclaimed Broadway-themed nightclub/cabaret 54 Below, which presents over 650 performances each year and was the recipient of the 2022 Tony Awards Honor for Excellence in the Theatre.
HUNTER ARNOLD
Select West End and London: Cabaret (Olivier Award), Back To The Future (Olivier Award), Moulin Rouge! (Olivier Nomination), Dear Evan Hansen (Olivier Award), The Inheritance (Olivier Award), Kinky Boots (Olivier Award), Get Up! Stand Up! (Olivier Nomination), 2:22 (Olivier Nomination), Pretty Woman: The Musical, Tina: The Musical.
Select Broadway: Hadestown (Tony Award), The Inheritance (Tony Award), Moulin Rouge! (Tony Award), A Strange Loop (Tony Award), Company(Tony Award), Mr. Saturday Night (Tony Nomination), Funny Girl, Caroline, or Change (Tony Nomination), Once On This Island (Tony Award), Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award), Kinky Boots (Tony Award).
Select Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors.
@huntercarnold
GAVIN KALIN PRODUCTIONS
Gavin Kalin Productions is an award-winning theatrical production company that specialise in producing theatre in the West End, on Broadway and internationally.
Recent West End credits include Cabaret, Back to the Future The Musical, Cyrano, Betrayal, 9 to 5 The Musical, Pretty Woman The Musical, Come From Away, Pinter at the Pinter, Sweat, King Lear, Oslo and The Ferryman.
UK Tour credits include Shrek The Musical, An Officer and Gentleman The Musical and Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Recent Broadway credits include Plaza Suite, Caroline or Change, Funny Girl, Betrayal, Sea Wall/ A Life, Hadestown and The Ferryman.
Other entertainment titles include Monopoly Lifesized, Doctor Who: Time Fracture and Peaky Blinders: The Rise.
Gavin is also the founder of Totally Theatre Productions Ltd, a TV/Video production company that specialize in producing Broadcast and online content for theatre and live entertainment. Clients are worldwide with many in the West End and on Broadway.
PLAYING FIELD
Combining our knowledge of theatre and capital, Playing Field is dedicated to accelerating the creation of world class theatre. We are involved in the early-stage development, late-stage investment, and production of a wide variety of projects in London, nationally and internationally. Work includes Mrs Warren’s Profession, A Comedy About Spies, The Fifth Step, War Horse (UK Tour), A Knights Tale, Oedipus, Just for One Day, Macbeth, People Places and Things, Waiting for Godot, Why Am I So Single?, Player Kings, Slave Play, The Hills of California, Starlight Express, MJ The Musical, Hello Dolly!, Dear England, Stranger Things, The Motive and the Cue, Dr Strangelove, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Life of Pi (London, UK Tour, NY, US Tour), Lyonesse, Merrily We Roll Along (NY), Dr Semmelweis, A Strange Loop, The Crucible, Crazy for You, Groundhog Day (London, Australia), A Little Life, Patriots, 2.22, The Wizard of Oz, New Adventure’s Sleeping Beauty, New York, New York, Oklahoma!, The Piano Lesson (NY), Death of a Salesman (NY), Moulin Rouge (London, World Tour), The Lehman Trilogy (London, NY), Jerusalem, Funny Girl (NY), Good, Girl from the North Country, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Bodyguard, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. playingfield.co.uk
CRUSH MUSIC
Crush Music is a management company founded by Bob McLynn and Jonathan Daniel representing Green Day, Sia, Fall Out Boy, Lorde, Panic! At the Disco, Miley Cyrus, Train and Weezer, among others.
CJ ENM
CJ ENM is Korea's leading entertainment and media company based in Seoul, LA and New York.
Broadway, West End and Korean theatre includes:MJ The Musical, Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Tony Award), Kinky Boots (Tony Award, Olivier Award), Big Fish, The Bodyguard, Beetlejuice, 42nd Street and Maybe Happy Ending.
Film includes: Parasite (Academy Award, Cannes Palme d'Or), Snowpiercer, Broker, Decision To Leave and The Handmaiden
CJ ENM is a member of the Broadway League.
TERESA TSAI
Teresa Tsai is a long-time supporter of the arts. Teresa serves on the Board of Trustees of The Public Theater in New York City and is a member of the Production Circle of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Broadway theatre credits include Sea Wall/A Life, which received four nominations for the upcoming 2020 Tony Awards®, including for Best Play, and The Girl from the North Country.
IVY HERMAN / HALLEE ADELMAN
Ivy Herman and Hallee Adelman co-founded of World of HA Productions to develop and support film & theatre productions. Projects include Emmy award-winning The Social Dilemma, Oscar nominated documentary, Writing with Fire, Oscar shortlisted film, The Truffle Hunters, and festival award-winning documentaries, Us Kids, Art & Krimes by Krimes, and Our American Family. This “avid story lover” and “filmmaker / children’s book author” producing duo is honored to be a part of this special, theatrical production of their childhood favorite movie, Back to the Future.
Robert L. Hutt
Bob is an American entrepreneur with a financial consulting company; and, managing a large thoroughbred racing & breeding operation. Bob's currently active in theatre as a producer in the award winning, Back To The Future The Musical, the 2022 "Best New Musical" WhatsOnStage award winner. He's extremely proud and honored that Back To The Future The Musical, has garnered seven prestigious 2022 Olivier Nominations. Bob's first venture into producing was Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Broadway starring Emilia Clarke, which won Best New Play at the Broadwayworld.com awards. Bob's investment group, Green Energy Solutions, LLC takes great pride in supporting theatre and the arts.
RICARDO MARQUES
Ricardo Marques, founder of 4Act Entertainment, member of the Broadway League, started his career as a singer and actor, later becoming an artistic director and producer, working in the entertainment industry for 15 years. Recent productions include: Back to the Future (Broadway and West End – Olivier Award-winner),
Grease (West End and UK tour), The Wiz (Broadway and US tour), Othello (Broadway), Burlesque (West End) and The Time Traveller’s Wife (West End).
In Brazil, he was lead producer and artistic director of Broadway and West End shows including Grease, The Bodyguard, Ghost, In the Heights, Rock of Ages, Fame and others, also developing Brazilian shows based on famous characters and series in the country. Ricardo is developing new shows in the US and UK with major lead producers.
He also founded the first specialised musical theatre school in Brazil and Latin America – the 4Act Performing Arts.
@ricardomarques4act
AUGURY
SAM RAYNER
Sam is a director and movement director - working across opera, theatre and comedy. He
is currently Resident Director of Back to the Future (West End) and Co-Artistic Director of
international physical theatre company Voloz Collective.
Recent credits as Director include: Serse (Opera Holland Park); The Man Who Thought He
Knew Too Much (UK & International Tour - Playbill Critic’s Pick); The Life Sporadic of Jess
Wildgoose (UK & International Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Holland Park);
Five Years with the White Man (King’s Head Theatre); Man of One Hundred Faces (King’s
Head Theatre - featured in The Guardian’s “Readers’ Best Plays of 2022”); Hurry Up
Father Christmas (Oxford Playhouse).
Recent credits as Movement Director include: Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! (HBO/
EartH/Soho Theatre/Greenwich House - New York Times Critic’s Pick); Jack Whitehall: At
Large (International Arena Tour/Netflix); Animal Farm (UK Tour); Mrs President (Charing
Cross Theatre); Sheeps: Live and Loud (Soho Theatre/Pleasance Courtyard); Jordan
Brookes: BLEED (Soho Theatre/Pleasance Courtyard); Ricky Whittington and his Cat (New
Diorama Theatre); Adam Riches is the Lone Dueller (Soho Theatre/Pleasance Courtyard).
Recent credits as Associate Director include: Broken Wings (Theatre Royal Haymarket/
Dubai Opera House/Katara Opera House), Umm Kulthum and the Golden Era (London
Palladium & International Tour), The Adventures of Pinocchio (Ambassadors Theatre), and
Rumi (D’Reesha Festival) for Bronagh Lagan; Boatmantown (UK Site-Specific Tour), and
Dear Father Christmas (Oxford Playhouse) for Helen Eastman.
Sam trained at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.
LAURA MULLOWNEY
Training: Elmhurst School of Dance and Performing Arts.
Theatre includes: Back to the Future (Manchester Opera House), Dick Whittington (Hackney Empire), Legally Blonde the Musical (UK/Ireland tour), UK/European premiere of Big the Musical (Plymouth Theatre Royal/Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin), Cathy/1st cover Gemma in the UK premiere of Jackie the Musical (UK tour), Singin’ in the Rain (Kilworth House), The Merry Widow (London City Opera, US tour) and Fait Accompli (directed by Baz Luhrmann and Rob Ashford).
Workshops include: the first choreography workshop for Back to the Future the Musical.
Choreography includes: Made in Dagenham (Waterside Theatre, Manchester), Aladdin (Harlington Theatre, Fleet) and various productions aboard Crystal Cruises (Worldwide Entertainment).
Recordings include: Big the Musical (Original UK Cast) and Back to the Future the Musical (Original Cast).
Laura was part of the original cast for the world premiere of Back to the Future at Manchester Opera House, as well as an original West End cast member. She is delighted to be staying with the show as Resident Choreographer.
INTHEATRE PRODUCTIONS
InTheatre Productions was founded in 2018 by Colin Ingram and Peter Kane.
An independent and innovative theatre company with its offices in Soho, London, it general-manages Back to the Future the Musical at the Adelphi Theatre and produced Grease twice in the West End (Dominion) and has produced various National Tours. InTheatre has also co-produced On Your Feet (London Coliseum/UK tour) and White Christmas(Dominion). InTheatre Productions will also be general managing the UK Tour of Midsomer Murders later this year. Following a successful run at the Storehouse in Chester, InTheatre recently produced The Time Traveller’s Wife Musical directed by Bill Buckhurst with music by Brit Award-winner Joss Stone and Grammy® and Golden Globe-winner Dave Stewart from The Eurythmics, at the Apollo Theatre, London.
intheatreproductions.com
