Robyn Grant & Daniel Foxx

Book & Lyrics

Robyn Grant

Robyn is a theatre director and writer from Leeds.
Productions include: The Hunger Games on Stage (Troubadour Canary Wharf, As Creative Assistant Director), Dealer’s Choice (Donmar, as Associate Director), The Jingleclaw (Birmingham Hippodrome, as Writer), 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End and UK tour, as Associate Director), The Lightning Thief (Chichester Conservatoire, As Director), Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch (UK tour, Östgötateatern, as Director/Writer), Waiter there’s a Murder in my Soup(Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, as Director/Writer), Beauty and the Beast (Kings Head Theatre, As Writer/Director), Vulvarine (Kings Head Theatre, As Writer/Director), BUZZ: A New Musical(The Pleasance, As Writer).
Workshops include:Thespians (Mischief Theatre for HOME Manchester, As Director); It’s a Fair Cop (Out of the Attic, As Director); Come Dine With Me: The Musical (The Turbine Theatre, As Director).

Robyn was nominated for a Writers Guild of Great Britain Award in Best Musical Theatre Book Writing for Unfortunate.

Daniel Foxx

Daniel Foxx is an award-winning comedian, writer and podcaster described by Rolling Stone as ‘utterly hilarious and effortlessly charismatic’.

Online, Daniel’s sketch videos have amassed millions of views and a following of over 900,000. His book Bedtime Stories for Privileged Children (2024), based on his viral sketch series, was praised by The Times as ‘if Succession was turned into a series of Ladybird books’. Meanwhile his writing on Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch earned him and co-writer Robyn Grant a Writers’ Guild Award nomination.

Daniel has appeared on BBC One, BBC Three, ITV and Comedy Central, and has written for the BAFTA-winning series Late Night Lycett. He wrote and starred in two series of BBC Radio 4’s POV, and co-hosts the smash-hit podcast Welcome to Hell with Dane Buckley which debuted in both the Apple and Spotify Top 10 comedy charts.

Tim Gilvin

Music

Tim Gilvin is a multi-award-winning composer and lyricist. Tim’s other musicals include the sell-out hit Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse, 2024; Marylebone Theatre 2026), The Jingleclaw, Birmingham Hippodrome’s first commission as part of their new musicals department (2024); Help! We Are Still Alive (Seven Dials Playhouse, 2022), and Stay Awake, Jake (Vault Festival and Southwark Playhouse, 2016, 2020). Projects in development include Music and Freedom with Grace Taylor and Shipton, which was presented at BEAM 2023, and The Great Moon Hoax which was workshopped with NYMT in 2025.

Outside of musical theatre, Tim works as an orchestrator – having worked on various films, concerts and pop arrangements – and educator with various schools and companies including ArtsEd, Central, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Tim’s song “Together” was performed by over 7,000 children in schools across Wiltshire in 2021, and Tim is composing his first opera for a premiere in summer 2026.

Robyn Grant

Director

Robyn is a theatre director and writer from Leeds.
Productions include: The Hunger Games on Stage (Troubadour Canary Wharf, As Creative Assistant Director), Dealer’s Choice (Donmar, as Associate Director), The Jingleclaw (Birmingham Hippodrome, as Writer), 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End and UK tour, as Associate Director), The Lightning Thief (Chichester Conservatoire, As Director), Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch (UK tour, Östgötateatern, as Director/Writer), Waiter there’s a Murder in my Soup(Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, as Director/Writer), Beauty and the Beast (Kings Head Theatre, As Writer/Director), Vulvarine (Kings Head Theatre, As Writer/Director), BUZZ: A New Musical(The Pleasance, As Writer).
Workshops include:Thespians (Mischief Theatre for HOME Manchester, As Director); It’s a Fair Cop (Out of the Attic, As Director); Come Dine With Me: The Musical (The Turbine Theatre, As Director).

Robyn was nominated for a Writers Guild of Great Britain Award in Best Musical Theatre Book Writing for Unfortunate.

Jasmine Swan

Set & Costume Designer & Puppet Co-Designer

Jasmine is an award-winning Set & Costume Designer working across theatre, opera, dance, live events and immersive experiences. Jasmine won Best Costume Design at the UK Pantomime Awards 2023 for Beauty & the Beast (Mercury Theatre), and has since been nominated the following two years for Best Set Design and Best Costume Design. She was a Stage Debut Award Nominee in 2018 for Best Designer for her debut season of work. She was a Linbury Prize for Stage Design Finalist in 2017 and has been nominated for multiple Off West End awards. Jasmine was a resident designer at New Diorama Broadgate design studio 2021/22 and was Laboratory Associate Designer at Nuffield Southampton Theatres in 2017/18. Jasmine trained at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. She is interested in creating surreal, abstract and expressionistic spaces, with sustainability and a greener practice in mind. She is a member of Scene Change.

Recent credits include: Coven (Kiln Theatre); Animal Farm (Theater Trier); Mother Goose (Mercury Theatre); The Baddies (Edinburgh Lyceum & UK Tour); Coming To England (UK Tour); Babies (The Other Palace); The Big Life (Stratford East); Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Garrick Theatre); The Full Monty (UK Tour); House of Flamenka (Peacock Theatre); The House with Chicken Legs (Les Enfants Terribles UK Tour & Southbank Centre); We Are As Gods (National Theatre River Stage & Battersea Arts Centre); The New Adventures of Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast (Mercury Theatre); The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Forest (Hampstead Theatre); The Misfortune of the English (Orange Tree); The Jungle Book (Watermill); Lava (The Bush); Here and Shook (Papatango at Southwark Playhouse); Eden (Hampstead Downstairs); Scoring A Century (British Youth Opera at Peacock Theatre), The Bleeding Tree (Southwark Playhouse). Her FOH immersive set design for the UK’s first 4D virtual reality experience, In a Box, is permanently situated in Digbeth.

Agent: https://www.casarotto.co.uk/clients/jasmine-swan – Instagram: @jasmineswandesign – www.jasmineswan.com

Melody Sinclair-Marsh

Choreographer

Melody Sinclair-Marsh studied Dance at the University of East London (UEL). Alongside her studies, she became a member of ZooNation Dance Company and trained with Boy Blue Entertainment. Current work: Associate Choreographer on SIX the Musical (London, UK & International Tour, Norwegian Cruise Lines and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). Melody’s choreographer credits include: Choreographer of #50Days: A State Of The Nation Grime Musical (Birmingham Hippodrome/BYMT), Choreographer of Treasure Island (Hall for Cornwall), Associate Choreographer on To The Streets (Birmingham Hippodrome/China Plate Productions) and Co-Founder of Marshon Dance Company (Birmingham). Melody’s performer credits include: ‘Messy Love’ NAO, London Fashion Week London, Ellesse Partner Conference, ZooNation: Unplugged (Sadler’s Wells Theatre), The International Olympic Committee Head of State Performance (Royal Opera House), Breakin’ Convention (Sadler’s Wells Theatre), ZooNation: Groove on Down the Road (Royal Festival Hall), BBC Dance Proms (Royal Albert Hall), Pioneer DJ: International Music Summit.

Laura Cubitt

Puppetry & Movement Director

Laura is a UK Theatre Maker working as both a Director/ Puppetry & Movement Director and a Performer. Laura recently won an Olivier Award for Best Family Show (Co-Director) for Dinosaur World Live.

Movement & Puppetry Director: Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch, Beegu (Unicorn Theatre), The Jingleclaw (Birmingham Hippodrome), Pinocchio (Unicorn Theatre), The Lion Inside (Unicorn Theatre), Puppetry Director: Coven (The Kiln), The Lightening Thief (The Other Palace), Wishmas (Secret Cinema), A Monster’s Calls (The Old Vic), The Boy in the Dress (RSC), Don Quixote (RSC), Hamlet (Red Rose Chain), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Red Rose Chain), Rudolph (Birmingham Mac), Common (National Theatre)

Movement Director: The Enfield Haunting (Ambassadors Theatre), Run Sister Run (Sheffield Crucible) Puppetry Consultant: Cirque Alice (TML Enterprises), Odd and the Frost Giants (Unicorn Theatre), The Secret Garden (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse), Romeo and Julie (National Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (National Theatre), Small Island (National Theatre)

Director: Dinosaur World Live (Nicoll Ent) winner of Olivier Awards 2024 Best Family Show), Dragons and Mythical Beasts (Nicoll Ent), Madame Badobedah (Sophie Dahl)

Nikki Davison & Joe Davison for Auburn Jam

Orchestration, Music Production & Music Supervision

Nikki & Joe have helped develop various musicals from workshops through concept albums and onto stage, with their arrangements, orchestration, music production and supervision. Credits include Footballers’ Wives (Twickenham Exchange & Assembly Music Hall, Edinburgh), Unfortunate(Southwark Playhouse & UK Tour), The Jingleclaw (Birmingham Hippodrome), Rumi (London Coliseum), Public Domain (Vaudeville Theatre), Millennials (The Other Palace), Broken Wings(Theatre Royal Haymarket, Beiteddine Lebanon, Qatar Opera House, Dubai Opera House).

At their studio in SW London, they have produced & arranged records for West End stars including Kerry Ellis, Alice Fearn, Denise Van Outen & Janie Dee, and artists such as Caroline Kay, Michael Auger and Felix Hagan & The Family. They have produced cast recordings including: Rags OLC(Stephen Schwartz & Charles Miller), Queen of the Mist (Michael John LaChiusa), Unfortunate: The Untold Story Ursula The Sea Witch (Tim Gilvin, Robyn Grant & Daniel Foxx), Clockmaker’s Daughter (Webborn & Finn).

As musicians & vocalists, they have toured and recorded with the likes of Bear’s Den, Frank Turner, and Arkells and have performed, arranged, and conducted shows at world-famous venues from The Royal Albert Hall and the O2 Arena to the Elbphilharmonie and Al Wasl Dome Dubai.

Their original composition work includes: TV & Film: Paw Patrol (Nickelodeon), Hey You What If (CBBC), Delete Delete Delete (BBC Ireland), The Girl Who Built a Rocket (WaterAid), Bungee(Organised Chaos Films). Commercials: Samsung, Sky, Peroni, BMW, England Rugby, Amazon, McDonald’s. Podcasts: Welcome to Hell with Daniel Foxx & Dane Buckley (Off the Kerb), God Only Knows (Dot Dot Dot Productions), DNA& (Genomics Society).

Sinéad Rodger

Musical Director

Sinéad Rodger is a London-based musical director and vocal coach from Dublin. She holds a BA in Music Education from Trinity College Dublin and is pursuing her Master’s in Vocal Pedagogy with the Voice Study Centre. She has spent the past year as the AMD on the West End production of the musical SIX and was previously the cover musical director for To Kill a Mockingbird (Gielgud Theatre, West End). She has also taught at various leading drama schools including Laine Theatre Arts, Arts Educational, Urdang and MPAA.

Ian Dickinson for Autograph

Sound Designer

Ian has extensive sound design credits to his name both domestically in the U.K. and internationally. He was the recipient of both Olivier and Drama Desk awards for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time (National Theatre, Worldwide Tour). He has also received numerous Olivier and Tony nominations for his work in London and on Broadway, most notably for Company, Angels In America, Rock & Roll, 2:22 (A Ghost Story) and Jerusalem.

Recent work includes, The Hunger Games (Troubador Canary Wharf), Hedda (Ustinov Studio, Bath), The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Chichester Festival Theatre), Ballet Shoes (National Theatre), Fear of 13 (Donmar), Waiting For Godot (Haymarket Theatre Royal), The Witches(National Theatre), Boys On The Verge Of Tears (Soho Theatre), 42nd Street (UK Tour), The Pillowman (Duke of York’s), 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End, Los Angeles & UK Tour), Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Shirley Valentine (Duke of York’s), The Ocean At The End Of The Lane(UK Tour & Duke of York’s), COCK (Ambassador’s), Uncle Vanya (Pinter Theatre), Angels in America (Broadway and West End), Translations, Small Island (National Theatre), Company(Broadway and West End), Hangmen (Broadway and West End).

Adam King

Lighting Designer

Adam Originally trained at Mountview before going on to be Assistant Lighting Designer on Harry Potter & The Cursed Child and Bend it like Beckham in the West End.

His own designs include, Lovestuck (Stratford East), Pop off Michelangelo (Underbelly Boulevard),  Duran Duran / Xerjoff (Lost City), Murder She Didn’t Write (UK Tour), Amy & Carlos Reborn (UK Tour), Scissorhandz: A Musical Reinvented (Southwark Elephant), Stewart Lee The Wulf-Man (UK tour),  The Mountaintop (Leicester Curve & UK Tour),  G (Royal Court), Pop off Michelangelo(Gilded Balloon Big Yin), Diva Live From Hell (Underbelly Belly Button), Fun at the Beach, Then, Now & Next (Southwark Playhouse), Sappho (Southwark Elephant), Legends The Divas (UK Tour), Unfortunate The Untold Story Of Ursula The Sea Witch (Southwark Elephant & UK Tour), Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios), Annie Get Your Gun (Lavender Theatre), We Need New Names(UK tour), Gone Too Far (Theatre Royal Stratford East), From Here to Eternity, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Charing Cross), Flashdance (European Tour), Snowflake/Tornado (UK Tour & BBC), Dare You Say Please (Kings Head), We’re Few And Far Between (White Bear), How to Survive an Apocalypse (Finborough Theatre), Robin Hood, Jack & the Beanstalk, Aladdin (Harlow Playhouse), The Nutcracker, Peter Pan, Beauty & The Beast (New Theatre Royal Portsmouth), The Clockmakers Daughter (Cadogan Hall), Beyond Therapy (UK tour), Original Death Rabbit, The Wasp(Jermyn Street), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Lysistrata Jones (Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre), Charlie and The Chocolate Factory  A Streetcar Named Desire, Sunday in the Park with George, Caucasian Chalk Circle, 9 to 5, Urinetown, Oh What A Lovely War, The Little Mermaid, Enron, Legally Blonde, Coram Boy, Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, Macbeth, Guys & Dolls (The Mack), and many more.

Ballet Includes: Gridlock, Culmination, Track Uniting,  Fieldworks, Assemblage, Mephisto Waltz, Swingle Stepping, Fast Blue (Royal Opera House Main Stage)

Previous TV and film credits include: Basic Lee, Snowflake/Tornado.

Adam is also A lighting Designer for Culture Creative Christmas & Halloween light trails.  Previous sites include Kew Gardens, Wimpole Estate, Moors Valley Country Park, Leeds Castle, Hillsborough, Benrath (Germany).

Mikayla Teodoro

Puppet Co-Designer & Maker

Mikayla is a puppet designer, maker, and director from the Philippines, currently based in London. She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of puppet company Puppet Theater Manila where she and her team aim to develop puppetry to the country. Recently, she and Puppet Theater Manila  were given a special citation for their work in puppetry at the 15th Gawad Buhay Awards.

Theatre credits include: As Puppet Designer: Our Cosmic Dust (Puppet Designer/Director, The Park Theatre), The Jingleclaw (Birmingham Hippodrome), A Christmas Carol (Northern Stage), Garden of Words (Puppet Designer/Director, Park Theatre, London & Stellar Ball, Tokyo), 101 Dalmatians (Associate Puppet Designer, UK Tour) Little Shop of Horrors (Maybank Theatre, Manila), Snow White and the Prince (Puppet Designer/Director, OnStage Theatre, Manila), Jepoy and the Magic Circle (REP Eastwood Theatre, Manila). As Puppet Maker: My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican), Spirited Away (Imperial Theatre, Japan), Songblazers (Cirque du Soleil, US Tour), Roberto Devereux (Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, Italy), Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image the Musical (Phoenix Theatre, London), The Lion King (International Tour)
Workshops Include: Nanny McPhee (London)
Television includes: Doctor Who Specials (BBC One); His Dark Materials S3 (BBC One/HBO); Big Cook, Little Cook (CBeebies); Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity (Roald Dahl Charity)
Other work includes: For Stop-Motion: Two Black Boys in Paradise (One6th); Night of the Living Dread (NFTS). For Editorial: Vogue Philippines, October 2024 Cover (Condé Nast)

Will Burton CDG

Casting Director

West End Theatre includes: Evita (Palladium), Cake (Lyric), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe(Gillian Lynne), Be More Chill (Shaftesbury), Heathers (Haymarket), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo), Matilda (Cambridge), Ghost (Piccadilly)

London Theatre includes: Quadrophenia (Sadlers Wells), Brigadoon, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar(Regents Park), Ground Hog Day, Jekyll & Hyde, High Society (Old Vic), Nutcracker (Southbank Centre), Origin (Almeida), Lovestuck, The Etienne Sisters (Stratford East), Leave To Remain, Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), The View Upstairs (Soho), In the Heights (Kings Cross)

UK Tours include: Matilda,  Here and Now, Jesus Christ Superstar, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Bugsy Malone, The Cher Show, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, RENT 20th Anniversary

Regional Theatre includes: Singin’ in the Rain (Manchester Royal Exchange), 13 Going On 30(Manchester Opera House), Here and Now (Birmingham Alexandra), The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth | McOnie Company), Starter for Ten, The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic), Oscar at the Crown (Palais du Variety), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), Piaf, Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse)

International Theatre includes: Cabaret (Lido, Paris), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles), Matilda (International Tour), Ghost (International Tour)

TV & Film includes: Better Man (Paramount), Matilda (Netflix), Disenchanted, Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty & the Beast (Disney), Greatest Days (Elysian), I Have a  Dream (Talkback), The Voice, So You Think You Can Dance, Over The Rainbow (BBC) and Superstar (ITV)

James Anderton

Production Manager

James trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama before beginning his career in Stage Management and then moving into Production Management. Since then he has worked on more than 150 productions.

His credits include: Lovestuck (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Midnight Dancer (UK Tour), Kenrex(Sheffield Theatres & London), Nine (The Lowry), Scissorhandz: A Musical Reinvented (Southwark Playhouse), Christmas Carol the Musical (The Lowry), House of Jojo (UK Tour), Police Cops the Musical (Southwark Playhouse), Bronco Billy – The Musical (Charing Cross Theatre), Lizzie (UK Tour), The Way Old Friends Do (UK Tour & West End), A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre), From Here to Eternity (Charing Cross Theatre), Walking with Ghosts (West End), Blippi! (West End), Cages (Hammersmith Riverside Studios), Ride (Leicester Curve, Southwark Playhouse & Charing Cross Theatre), Zorro (Charing Cross Theatre), Last Five Years (West End), Death Drop (West End & UK Tour), Cruise (West End & Home: Manchester), Fame (West End, UK and International Tour), Loot (Park Theatre and The Watermill Theatre), MAMMA MIA! (International Tour), Disney’s High School Musical (UK Tour), 42nd Street (UK Tour), Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (UK Tour), Billy Elliot (West End), Anything Goes (West End).

He has also worked on numerous productions for Scottish Opera, English National Opera, English Touring Opera and Buxton Opera Festival.

Eliza Beth Stevens

Associate Director

Eliza is a director of theatre and comedy from Yorkshire, now based in South East London. She is the Associate Director for Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch and her debut play Fair Cop is currently in development. She is also the Artistic Director of Out The Attic and host of the Grafters Podcast.

Credits as Assistant Director; Ballad Lines (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), Mary and the Hyenas(Hull Truck/Wilton’s Music Hall), A Song for Ella Grey (UK Tour), Handbagged Workshop (National Theatre/Queens Theatre Hornchurch), Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), Henrietta (NYMT).

As Director; Anna Hale; Control Freak (Pleasance/Edinburgh Fringe), Curly; C U Later Simulator (Edinburgh Fringe), Twelfth Night (Fleshment Theatre), …that’s what she said (Unity Theatre Liverpool).
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Beth Qualter Buncall

Costume Supervisor

Beth Qualter-Buncall is a costume supervisor, designer, maker, and textile artist whose work spans film, television, theatre, and opera. With a background in both costume construction and design, she specialises in creating bespoke garments, drapes, and sculptural works that bring stories to life through fabric, texture, and silhouette.

Her screen credits include working on large-scale productions such as The Witcher, Top Boy (BAFTA winner), The Enfield Poltergeist (BAFTA nominated), Call the Midwife, Trigger Point, and Lockwood & Co (National Film Awards UK nominated). In film, she has designed costumes for Ode to Seventeen, My Mother’s Spices, Remember Me, and London’s Forgotten.

In theatre and opera, Beth has collaborated with companies including The Arcola Theatre, The Park Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Wilton’s Music Hall, Unicorn Theatre, JW3, The Grange Festival, and Waterperry Opera Festival. Her roles have ranged from Costume Supervisor to Maker and Designer, supporting both traditional productions and new writing.

Alongside her industry practice, Beth continues to develop her work as a textile artist, creating custom and one-off pieces that merge craftsmanship with artistic expression. She thrives on projects that explore storytelling through costume, design, and material innovation.

Nicola Thorp

Wigs & Make-Up Supervisor

Nicola Holds a BA in Media Hair and Makeup and has over 30 years of experience in the hair and beauty industry. 

She has worked at Come Fall in Love (Opera House Manchester), Sing Street (Lyric Theatre), Inside No. 9 (UK Tour), Neville Holt Opera (Neville Holt Hall), Peaky Blinder Immersive Theatre (Covent Garden), Hairspray (Kilworth House), Too Wong Foo the Musical (Hopemill Theatre Manchester), Unfortunate the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch (UK Tour) and Hairspray (UK and Ireland Tour)

Allie Dart

Creative Associate

Training: East 15 Acting School (Winner of the Tom Bennet Comedy Award)

Theatre Credits: The Comedy About Spies (Noel Coward Theatre, West End),  Homo Alone (The Other Palace), Unfortunate; The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch (UK Tour 2022 & 2024 – for which she won an Off West End Award for Best Supporting Female), 2:22 A Ghost Story (Apollo Theatre, West End), Cinderella (The Hounslow Arts Centre – for which she was nominated for ‘Best Sisters’ at the Pantomime Awards 2022),Jack Frost (Norwich Playhouse), Waiter! There’s a Murder in my Soup! (Troubadour Wembley Park), Vulvarine: A New Musical (King’s Head Theatre and UK Tour), Tom and Bunny Save the World (UK Tour), and Beauty and The Beast; A Musical Parody(King’s Head Theatre and UK Tour – for which she received an Off West End Award Nomination for Best Supporting Female), The Case of the Missing Monsters (Dorich House), Buzz: A New Musical (Pleasance Theatre), Always Easier for the Others (The Yard Theatre)

TV Credits: The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV), Derren Brown: Fear & Faith (Channel 4) Keep up to date with Allie on Instagram – @alliedartmunro

Chris Cox

Theatrical Magic Consultant

Chris Cox is the only mind-reader in history to have starred on Broadway, Sydney Opera House and London’s West End; the latter an incredible four times. He’s been seen on stage by over one million people worldwide. He stars in Chris Cox’s Mind Boggling Magic (CBBC) and the award winning Killer Magic (BBC Three), he’s multi-award winning and according to The Guardian is “one of the most exciting entertainers in Britain”. He stars in the World’s biggest magic show The Illusionists (Broadway, West End, 3x US Tour, Reno Residency, South Africa, Mexico & Australia tours including Sydney Opera House).

As a creative Chris has designed and directed magic & illusions for The Burnt City (Punchdrunk, London), Uncanny – Fear Of The Dark (UK Tour), Tambo & Bones (UK Tour), A Christmas Carol (Bristol Hippodrome) and Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory). Chris was the magic & illusions associate for the UK tour of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and the Magic & Illusions Assistant for Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts 1 And 2 (Palace Theatre, London.)

As a creative consultant for magic & theatrical creative experiences Chris has developed material for Park Row Restaurant in collaboration with DC Comics and Warner Brothers in London and for Heston Blumenthal and the three-Michelin-starred Fat Duck Restaurant. He was the writer and producer of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine The Musical, The Matt Edmondson Show, Dan & Phil’s Guide To Happiness and The Story Of Tim Minchin all for BBC Radio 1.

Joshua Bayles

Company Stage Manager

Theatre Credits Include: Penned Up (UK Tour), Pop Off Michelangelo (Edinburgh Fringe), The Impresario (Buxton Opera House), Stiletto (Charing Cross), Sleeping Beauty (Broadway Theatre), Incarnation (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Marie Curie (Charing Cross Theatre), Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre), Jack and the Beanstalk (Broadway Theatre), My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican Theatre), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre), Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] and The American Wife (Park Theatre), Miss Saigon (International Tour), The Last Ship (UK Tour), Tango Moderno (UK Tour), Robin Hood (New Victoria Theatre), Our House The Musical (UK Tour), Die Walküre, Jenùfa & Tosca (Grange Park Opera), The Hypocrite (RSC, Hull Truck Theatre), Beauty & the Beast, Peter Pan and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Alexandra Theatre, Bognor Regis), Rigoletto and Don Giovanni (Heritage Opera, UK Tours), Annie JR. (Seaford College), The Secret Garden (Assembly Theatre), The Mikado, The Gondoliers & HMS Pinafore (National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, UK Tour, South Downs Folk Festival (Bognor Regis) and Circus of Dreams (Regional Tour).

Katy Ross

Deputy Stage Manager

Katy trained at the London Academy for Dramatic Art.

Theatre Credits Include: The Nutcracker (NEBT Touring), Maiden Voyage (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), Alice By Heart (Bridewell Theatre), KENREX (The Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, Sheffield and Southwark Playhouse Borough), Into the Woods (Edinburgh Fringe), Sappho (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol, Meetings, As You Like It, Duet For One (Orange Tree Theatre), The Human Voice (Charing Cross Theatre), From Here to Eternity (Charing Cross Theatre), Cruise (Apollo Theatre), Gypsy (Buxton Opera House), Viva La Diva (Buxton Opera House), Zorro the Musical (Charing Cross Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre), Little Women (Park Theatre), Pauline (Camden People’s Theatre), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), The Cherry Orchard (Theatre Royal), A Bright New Boise (Old Laundry Theatre), Robin Hood (UK Tour), Be My Baby (UK Tour), Beauty and the Beast (UK Tour).

Prop Making/Supervising Credits Include: Starry Messenger (Wyndhams), Day in the Death of Joe Egg(Trafalgar Studios), Aladdin (Prince Edward), Two Ladies (The Bridge), Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (The Palladium), Jesus Christ Superstar (The Barbican), Noises Off (The Garrick), A Very Expensive Poison (The Old Vic).

Film and Television Credits Include: Never Back Down: Revolt and The Great.

Elysia Beaumont

Assistant Stage Manager

Elysia trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and University of Bristol.

Theatre Credits Include: Da Vinci’s Laundry (Riverside Studios), The Impresario (Buxton Opera House), Stiletto (Charing Cross Theatre), Hold On To Your Butts (Leicester Curve,  Swan Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Broadway Theatre), Into The Woods (The Mack), The Fabulist (Charing Cross Theatre), Rock DJ and three other songs that saved the world (New Diorama Theatre), The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth), H.M.S Pinafore (Opera della Luna), Nutcracker (Southbank Centre).

El Theodorou

Sound No. 1

El Theodorou is a freelance sound engineer and mixer who has worked across the West End, UK and internationally. Selected credits include: Born With Teeth (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Kiln Theatre), Hothouse (Irish Arts Center, NYC & Irish National Tour), Otherland (Almeida Theatre), Robin/Red/Breast (Factory International), The Human Body (Donmar Warehouse), Chriskirkpatrickmas (Edinburgh Fringe & Seven Dials Playhouse), Tao of Glass (Carolina Performing Arts, NC, Skirball Center, NYC & Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong), Free Your Mind (Factory International), Betty! A Sort’ve Musical (Royal Exchange Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter Theatre, Theatre Royal Glasgow & Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC), Death Drop (UK & Ireland Tour), ANNA X (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Seagull (Playhouse Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac(Playhouse Theatre), An American In Paris (International Tour), SIX The Musical (UK Tour, Edinburgh Fringe & Arts Theatre), Three Sisters by RashDash (UK Tour), Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe), Jane Eyre (UK Tour & National Theatre), Funny Girl(UK Tour), Sweet Charity (Royal Exchange Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), King Lear (Old Vic Theatre) and The Skriker (Royal Exchange Theatre). El has been a fan of ‘Unfortunate’ since they saw it at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019 so they are delighted to be joining the company for this run.

Christopher Davenport

Head of Wardrobe

Christopher Davenport trained at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, completing an MA in Design for Performance with a focus on Costume Design and Construction.

Theatre Credits Include:

As Head of Wardrobe: Top Hat (Chichester Festival Theatre), Nine (Royal Academy of Music), The Girl on the Train (UK Tour), Becoming Nancy (Birmingham Rep), Oliver!(Chichester Festival Theatre), 2:22 A Ghost Story (UK Tour), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK & Ireland Tour).

As Deputy Head of Wardrobe: Disney’s Newsies: The Musical (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre).

Additional Credits Include: His Dark Materials Series 3 (BBC One/HBO) and Casualty(BBC One).

Christopher is delighted to be joining the team of Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch as Head of Wardrobe.