As Creative Director of Reveal Theatre Robert has produced and/or directed over 13 productions in the Midlands, London and touring including Am I Not a Man and a Brother? (National Tour and re-launch in association with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse), Voices of Arran (Scotland); Silent Anger (Tour); They Called It Passchendaele (Belgium), The Savonarola Debate (Florence, Italy) Singin’ in the Rain, Sticks and Stones, (Tour) Hitting Town, Trench Kiss, Two, the documentary play On The Home Front, Charley’s Aunt and Teechers.
In repertory, he has worked at the Yvonne Arnaud Guildford, Stephen Joseph Scarborough, Bolton Octagon, Southwark Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse and Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Robert also spent 5 years at the local New Vic Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme as an assistant then associate working on over 25 productions for mainstage, studio and Borderlines outreach. Productions ranged from working with Alan Ayckbourn on his play Sugar Daddies (National No 1 Tour) and productions such as Harvest (devised), Some Enchanted Evening, A Broadway Songbook, Carmen, Cabaret, Outside Edge, Sweeney Todd and Romeo and Juliet.
Commercially, he has been Staff and Associate Director on The Extra Factor with Kevin Kennedy and Antony Costa, The Naked Truth with Lisa Riley and Julie Buckfield and Over the Rainbow (all National Touring) as well as productions for Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
Since 1999, Robert has been heavily involved in pantomime, and has written and directed several productions in Stoke on Trent, Crewe Lyceum, Wrexham, Ickenham (London), Porthcawl, Loughborough and Belfast, Northern Ireland and for producer Stephen Boden at Wish Theatre Ltd. Since 2007 he has directed for Stephen Boden at WISH and then Imagine Theatre Ltd
Robert combines his professional directing work with lecturing and guest directing at Universities and Drama Schools such as The Arden, Manchester Metropolitan, Keele University, Staffordshire University and Aberystwyth University.
Writing has included A Sense of (re)Direction and The Story of Mrs M (New Vic) as well as numerous pantomimes. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and has had articles published in Direct magazine and The Stage and has worked for BBC Radio 4 Drama and Television.

Mila trained at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Wimbledon School of Art.

Her designs include: The Door Never Closes and All the Little Things We Crushed (Almeida), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NT Education), Double Dutch Expresso (Theatre Waah), Pub Quiz (New Writing North), Joined up Thinking (Young Vic), Jelly Bean Jack (Little Angel), The Juniper Tree (Goat and Monkey),A Day at the Racists (Finborough), The Play of Daniel (The Clerks Group), Ruckus in the Garden, Who You calling a Superhero?, I’d Like to Thank the Judges (Hampstead Theatre), This to This (Union Theatre), 10 Suitcases (Kazzum).

As costume designer: Twelfth Night, Macbeth (NT Discover), Tombstone Tales and Boothill Ballads, St George and The Dragon and Jason and the Argonauts (Beggarsbelief), Unfolding Anderson (Theatre-rites), Pinocchio, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Little Mermaid (Kazzum).

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Writer and actor Deborah McAndrew studied Drama at Manchester University.

Her writing credits include: OLIVER TWIST (2009) Octagon Theatre, Bolton; FLAMINGOLAND (2008) New Vic Theatre; ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST (2008), VACUUM (2006) THE BELLS (2004) Northern Broadsides.

Current commissions: In addition to KING MACBETH for Reveal Theatre Company, Deborah is currently adapting DAVID COPPERFIELD for the Octagon Theatre, Bolton. This will be produced in November 2010, directed by Elizabeth Newman.

Attachments: National Theatre Studio; Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Julia Barton has worked in the creative industries for many years and is Director of Productions at Reveal Theatre.

From event and gig management during the dark years of the AIDS crisis when Julia worked with the Terence Higgins Trust managing awareness raising gigs with bands and performers such as Pet Shop Boys, Sam Brown, George Michael, Azwad, Erasure, Bob Geldof and Elton John.

Theatre work has included producing the National Tour of ‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’ and Project Manger of both New Vic Theatre Borderlines (Newcastle under Lyme) and Planet Sound Community Arts. 2010 also saw Julia produce 'Silent Anger' for Reveal Theatre also.

Through her work in the film and video industry and lately in theatre Julia has brought her skills to work within the Community in Stoke-on-Trent developing groups specifically within the BME communities. Julia is now working with Reveal Theatre Co. as Co-Ordinator for a major initiative entitled “Game On” which marries theatre and sport as a vehicle for working with young people in High Schools.

Game On is presently active in seven High Schools in Stoke-on-Trent working alongside Port Vale F.C. and Stoke City F.C. using theatre as a means of challenging extreme beliefs and attitudes. This programme of work is funded by Staffordshire Police and The Department of Communities and Local Government.

Jo trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama and has been lighting shows since 1994.

Jo joins Reveal from Theatre by the Lake, Keswick where she has recently designed the lighting for Shining City, Silence, The Glass Menagerie.

Theatre work includes: Good Golly Miss Molly (Royal Court, Liverpool); Blame (York Theatre Royal); Forget Me Not Lane, My Own Show, Absolutely Frank, I Ought to be in Pictures, Bedtime Stories (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); The Knotty, The Wizard of Oz, Cider with Rosie, Oleanna, Abigail’s Party, Four Knights in Knaresborough, The Snow Queen, Sweeney Todd, From a Jack to a King (New Vic, Stoke); Proof (Arts Theatre); Journey’s End (New Ambassadors); The Return (Old Red Lion Theatre); Cinderella, A Passionate Woman (Chester Gateway); Of Mice & Men, Macbeth (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham); The Libertine (Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham); Hussan & Harry, Three Minute Heroes (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Tonic, Stand ‘n’ Tan, A Twist of Lemon (Open Clasp Theatre Co tours).

Jo has designed the lighting for Theatre by the Lake, Keswick’s Studio Summer Seasons 2002 – 2005 & 2008, the Main House Season 2006, the Christmas shows Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Easter shows On Golden Pond, April in Paris and Neville’s Island

James Earls-Davis
Sound Designer

For the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme: All main house Sound Designs since 1987 including Bleak House, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, And A Nightingale Sang, The Wicked Lady, Don Giovanni, Flamingoland, Jamaica Inn, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Carmen, The Marriage Of Figaro and Sizwe Banzi is Dead.

Original Music for New Vic Theatre includes: Copenhagen, Blue/orange, Misery, Dealer’s Choice, All That Trouble That We Had, Broken Glass , Once We Were Mothers, Smoke and Kes.

Sound Design/Original Music includes: A Number (Library Theatre, Manchester), These Four Streets (Birmingham Rep), Frozen, Rebecca (Theatre By The Lake, Keswick) Twelfth Night (Belgrade, Coventry) Silent Anger, Homefront, Sticks and Stones (Reveal Theatre Co) Pravda (Leeds Playhouse)

James has also worked as Sound Designer/Technician at Bristol Old Vic, Redgrave Theatre Farnham and The Victoria Theatre, Stoke-On-Trent.

Peter trained as a pianist, conductor and composer at the Guildhall School of Music, London. Whilst there he worked with many distinguished musicians, including extensive work with Leonard Bernstein, who became his mentor and sewed the first theatrical seeds in him. On leaving the Guildhall, Peter began the first of several concert tours throughout Britain, which were followed by offers from around the world.

Over the last twenty years, Peter has decreased his schedule as a concert pianist as his ever-increasing involvement in the theatre takes over, as Musical Director for shows such as Sweeney Todd, The Sound of Music, Oh! What a Lovely War, Me and My Girl, The King & I, Annie, Into The Woods and Cabaret. He has worked with many stars, including Bradley Walsh, Liza Minnelli, Robin Askwith, Michael Crawford, Gary Wilmot, Michael Elphick, Gorden Kaye, Shane Lynch, Stephen Gately, Vicki Michelle, Shaun Williamson, Elton John, Colin Baker and Sheila Ferguson. In 1996, Peter was Musical Director for the record-breaking run of Cinderella at the Crewe Lyceum, starring Wayne Sleep, Peggy Mount, John Challis and Sonia; since then he has been involved in countless pantomimes around the country.

In 2002, Peter was Musical Director for the hugely successful production of The Wizard of Oz at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. He was invited back a year later to M.D. Peter Pan, with Brian Blessed. In 2004 Peter wrote the score and conducted the Mystery Plays in Canterbury Cathedral. This starred Edward Woodward and Daniel MacPherson. In the same year as the Mysteries, he conducted Oliver! starring the legendary Ron Moody as Fagin. He has subsequently become Mr. Moody’s personal Musical Director and has done many shows with him, including a successful London run of his one-man show. In 2005 Peter worked on Mary Poppins, which opened at the Bristol Hippodrome to tremendous acclaim, and subsequently transferred to the Prince Edward Theatre in London’s West End.

In November 2009, Peter was honored to be asked to MD the Memorial Concert at the Palace Theatre, London, in memory of Stephen Gately, a wonderful friend and colleague. Appearing with him on that star-studded night were Sir Ian McKellen, Tony Hadley, Shayne Ward, Maria Friedman, Beverley Knight, Christopher Biggins and Lee Ryan, to name but a few.

Peter is currently a guest lecturer at the University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, and has also lectured at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (schedule permitting). His work with the students there has included Edward Bond’s Restoration, Stiles and Luckham’s Moll Flanders and Brecht’s Mother Courage.

At present, Peter divides his time between conducting engagements, vocal coaching at theatre academies in the UK, doing arrangements and compositions for various companies, and running musical theatre workshops in Geneva and the UK for students.

Kate is one of only two women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors and works regularly in regional theatre all over the country as well as The National Theatre and West End. She has just finished fight directing on King Lear for the RSC and Welcome to Thebes for the National Theatre.

Recent work includes: Othello (The Rose and West End), Women Beware Women, WarHorse & Mrs Affleck (National Theatre), Spring Awakening, The Musical (Lyric and West end), Entertaining Mr Sloane, (West End), Widowers Houses (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Count of Monte Cristo & Bedroom Farce (West Yorkshire Playhouse),The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), The Applecart (Bath, Theatre Royal; Sir Peter Hall season), Oleanna, (Bolton Octagon), The Pride (Royal Court), Romeo & Juliet (Theatre of Memory), How the Other Half Loves (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Amongst Friends & Turandot (Hampstead), Forty (Hackney Empire), As You Like It (Watford Palace) Hamlet (Shakespeare @ the Tobacco Factory, Bristol) directed by Jonathan Miller.