Mark Evans

Sam Wheat

Mark Evans is a 26 year old actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, West End star and emerging TV talent.

A Welsh native, Mark has already achieved considerable theatrical success with roles that include the lead in the London production of High School Musical, Brad Majors in the UK national tour of the Rocky Horror Show, and one of musical theatre's most iconic leading male roles, Curly, in the recent UK national tour of OKLAHOMA!.

Since February 2011 he has been playing the role of Fiyero in the West End smash-hit, Wicked.

Mark also reached the final of BBC's Your Country Needs You with Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, helping him to launch an emerging career in television, particularly in Welsh speaking broadcast. He's become a regular on S4C and has appeared frequently as a presenter on whatsoninthetheatre.com.

In August 2006 Mark set up The West End in Wales scheme, an inspirational initiative that offers children in North Wales the chance to work alongside him and other current West End professionals in a week-long musical theatre summer school.

This year also saw Mark release his bilingual, debut solo album, The Journey Home, on Sain Records, featuring a selection of 6 English and 6 Welsh language songs.

Siobhan Dillon

Molly Jensen

Siobhan Dillon was a finalist in Andrew Lloyd Webber's first reality TV show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? She went on to make her West End debut as Patty in Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre and subsequently toured the UK in Can't Smile Without You and Cabaret, in which she played Mandy and Sally Bowles respectively.

Last year she played the role of Vivienne in Legally Blonde The Musical at the Savoy Theatre and last month she played Claire in Ex The Musical at the Soho Theatre. On the radio Dillon has performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra on Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night.

For the past few years Siobhan has been song writing and recording her solo album which has taken her all over the UK, Australia and America.

Sharon D Clarke

Oda Mae Brown

Sharon was born in London and her extensive experience covers major theatre, television, film and radio.

Television: Treetog in Tree Fu Tom, the new CBBC animated series to be screened later this year. Mrs Dixon in The Shadow Line (BBC1); Panel judge on prime time show Last Choir Standing (BBC) and also a judge for BBC Radio 2's Young Chorister of the Year 2010. Series regular Dr Lola Griffin in Holby City (BBC) for which she received a Screen Nation Award for Best Female Performance on TV.  The Bill (Talkback Thames); Grandma Flossie in The Crust (CBBC); Waking the Dead (BBC); Soldier Soldier (Carlton); Broken Glass (BBC); Between the Lines (BBC); Children's Ward (Granada); Stop, Look and Listen Mary Seacole (Channel 4); Past Caring (BBC); The Singing Detective (BBC); Here & Now (Central); Eastenders (BBC) and Narrator/Singer in Where's Boo (CBBC).

West End credits include: Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray (Shaftesbury); Mama Morton in Chicago (Adelphi); originating the role of Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (Dominion) for which she received an Olivier nomination and a WhatsOnStage.com Award; Rafiki in The Lion King (Lyceum); Joanne in Rent (Shaftesbury); Rose in Stepping Out (Albery); Asaka in Once on This Island (Royalty Theatre) for which she received an Olivier nomination; Mama I Want To Sing where she took over the role of Mama Winter during Doris Troy's absence (Cambridge); and Blues In The Night (Piccadilly).

Other theatre credits include: Asaka in Once On This Island (Hackney Empire, Birmingham Rep and Nottingham Playhouse); Fairy Godmother in Cinderella and Charity the Good Witch in Mother Goose for The Hackney Empire. Sharon has also voiced the roles of Davina the Diva Harp in Jack and the Beanstalk; Carmina the Camel in Aladdin; Bentalina the Theatre Cat in A Christmas Carol and Meyonce the Mouse in Cinderella for the Hackney Empire. The Vagina Monologues at The Grand Theatre (Wolverhampton), Hackney Empire, Churchill Bromley and New Theatre (Hull); Lost & Found - a one woman show (Bridewell Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith); Miss Sherman in Fame (Spektrum Oslo and Swedish tour); General Cartwright in Guys And Dolls (RNT); Rent Party, Party Girls, Zumbi and Running Dream (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and the voice of Audrey 2 in Little Shop of Horrors (Bubble Theatre/Leicester Haymarket).

Film: Secret Society, Dinner Date and Beautiful People.

Sharon has also achieved chart success including: The FPI Project's remake of Going Back To My Roots which reached no. 8 in the singles chart and a no. 1 club hit with Happiness. As Nomad, songs include: Just A Groove, Your Love Is Lifting Me, and (I Wanna Give You)...Devotion which reached no. 2 in the singles chart.

Andrew Langtree

Carl Bruner

Andrew graduated amongst the first alumni of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). He made his professional West End debut as Nick Piazza in the musical Fame.

Other West End credits include: Sky in the original cast of MAMMA MIA!, and Eddie in Blood Brothers.

Theatre includes: Oh, What A Lovely War! (Theatr Clwyd Cymru); Getting To The Foot Of The Mountain (Birmingham Rep); The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui (Glasgow Citizens); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Oldham Coliseum); Six Degrees of Separation; A Conversation; London Assurance; Come Blow Your Horn, The Glass Menagerie (Manchester Royal Exchange) and The Rose Tattoo (National Theatre).

Film and television credits include: DeLovely; Holby City; Cutting It; The Royal; Heartbeat; Doctors; Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Andrew also played Sawkins in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

Ashley Knight

Hospital Ghost

Ashley Knight started his career aged four in his parents' variety act. His father was a stand-up comedian and his mother a fire-eater!

As a child in the 60s he was seen in dozens of television commercials and played Terry Scott's 'Bruver' in a series of ads for Curlywurly.

Recent theatre includes: Frontiers of Farce (Old Vic); Bar Mitzvah Boy (Her Majesty's); George Strunk in Grand Hotel (Dominion); Whoop De Do (King's Head); cover Sipos in She Loves Me (Savoy); Cogsworth in Disney's Beauty and the Beast (UK Productions); Larry in Stephen Sondheim's Company (Barons Court Theatre) to celebrate the composer's 80th birthday; and Buddy Plummer in the London Fringe Revival of Follies (Pleasance Theatre). Most recently Ashley played Drake in the UK tour of Annie.

Other theatre credits include: Eugene in Grease; Brad in The Rocky Horror Show; Benjamin in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Noël Coward in Cowardy Custard; Michael in Matilda; Charlie Chaplin in Bertie; Cookie in Return to the Forbidden Planet and Godspell.

Television and film includes: Warlords of Atlantis; SWALK; Circus; Softly Softly; Chester Mystery Plays; Much Ado About Nothing; The Swish of the Curtain; Hale and Pace; Young Claudius in I; Claudius; Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island and Ken, the inventor of Metal Mickey, the three-year cult 80s series for LWT (just released on DVD).

Ashley taught himself piano by ear, and from 1997 to present he has worked as a jazz and cabaret pianist/vocalist worldwide on many luxury cruise lines and in most of London's prestigious hotels and nightspots.

In 2002 he played at Sir Elton John's Windsor home for his celebrity-packed White Tie and Tiara Ball.

Craig Stein

Subway Ghost

Craig trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School.

West End Theatre includes: Benny in Rent (Duke of York's); Wicked (Original London Cast, Apollo Victoria), Tyrone in Fame (Aldwych); and Oliver! (Palladium).

Other theatre includes: Flii in 5,6,7,8 (Co-writer and Choreographer, Royal Court); JK in FELA! (National); Pilu in Nation (National); Venus in Wig Out (Royal Court); Carousel (National); and Victim/Perpetrator (National Theatre workshop).

Television includes: Casualty; Down to Earth; Holby City; and The Biz! (all for the BBC).

Short film: The Prodigals (Public Pictures).

Craig toured with Take That on their Circus  Stadium Tour 2009 and Blue on their Guilty and One Love UK tours. He has also performed with various artists including: Michael Jackson; Kylie Minogue; Leona Lewis; JLS; Will Young; Girls Aloud; Charlotte Church and the Spice Girls.

Ivan de Freitas

Willie Lopez

Ivan trained at Middlesex University and London Studio Centre where he won the Lia Williams Cup for Best Performance in a Musical.

Theatre credits include: creating the role of Dinero in Sister Act (original cast, Palladium); understudy Jose in Never Forget (Savoy); understudy Garcia in Zorro the Musical (original cast, UK tour); Never Forget (original cast, UK tour); Frank Jnr and Joey in Saturday Night Fever (Asian tour); Travis, Principal and understudy Reverend Shaw in Footloose (original West End cast, Novello and Playhouse); Buffalo Bill and Chief Sitting Bull in Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); Double J, Gus, Fusco and Cesar in Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria); Bombay Dreams (Broadway launch at St James Theatre and Apollo Victoria); understudy the King in The King and I (UK tour) and Father in Children of Eden (Bloomsbury).

Creative/dance credits include: Choreographer for Kara and Artem's show dance in the Strictly Come Dancing final (2010); Assistant Choreographer to Karen Bruce on So You Think You Can Dance boot camp (2011); Strictly Come Dancing launch and final show (2010); So You Think You Can Dance (2010); Saturday Night Fever (Madrid 2009); Footloose (UK tour 2008); Assistant Choreographer to Richard Marcel on BBC Sport  Relief (2010); Choreographic Consultant for Rachel and Vincent's show dance in the Strictly Come Dancing final (2008) and Co-Founder of Tango Argumentino with the Flying Gorillas (world tour).

Lisa Davina Phillip

Clara

Lisa's most recent theatre production was The Golden Hour at the Almeida.

West End credits include: cover and played Rafiki & Shenzi in The Lion King (Lyceum) and Porgy and Bess (Savoy).

Other theatre credits include Pat in Catalysta (Oval House); the National Theatre of Scotland's production of The Bacchae, which transferred to the Lincoln Center New York; Shoot 2 Win (Southside Arts); Miss Faith in Darker The Berry (Albany Empire).

Television credits include Pearl in The Royal Today for ITV.

Lisa was a runner-up in the BBC Norman Beaton Fellowship and has since recorded two productions for BBC Radio: Open Book (produced by Hilary Dunn), and A Kind of Home (produced by Ned Chaillet). Lisa's vocal talent has also contributed to the feature films Bullet Boy and Layer Cake.

Cast recordings include: Ghost the Musical.

Jenny Fitzpatrick

Louise

Jenny trained at Mountview Academy of Performing Arts.

Her first professional engagement was with the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre where she appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV Part 1 and Camelot.

Other theatre includes: Rose Seller/understudy Nancy in Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Princess in Aladdin (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mimi in Rent gala (Garrick); Billie in Our House directed by Matthew Warchus (Birmingham Rep, UK tour); Alice Fitzwarren in Dick Whittington (Nottingham Playhouse); Ronette in the highly acclaimed production of Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory and Duke of York's); Nala in Legend of the Lion King (Paris); Katisha in Hot Mikado (Upstairs at the Gatehouse) and Jill Goose in Mother Goose (Palace Theatre, Watford).

Television includes: Leanne in EastEnders (BBC); Silent Witness (BBC) and Grey Ninja in M.I. High (Kudos).

Cast recordings include: Ghost the Musical and Oliver!.

As a screenwriter, Jenny's first film Payback Season is released in cinemas nationwide from March 2012.

Jennifer Saayeng

Ensemble

Jennifer trained in Musical Theatre at The Brit School of Performing Arts and the London Studio Centre, winning the Merrifield Award for outstanding all-round performance.

Theatre credits include: Black Queen in Chess (Toronto); Hairspray (UK tour); Not Quite Gospel (Custard Factory, Birmingham) and Joyce in Great Pretenders (Gatehouse Theatre). Jennifer also featured in an international TV campaign for Nokia.

Jennifer is delighted to be joining the cast of Ghost and to be making her West End debut.

Jaygann Ayeh

Ensemble

Jaygann trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Theatre includes Avenue Q (Gielgud/Wyndhams Theatres), Ray Charles & James Brown in Blue Brothers Live! (Edinburgh Fringe) and Sammy Davis Junior in The Rat Pack Live! (Edinburgh Fringe). Television includes Lance in Nuzzle & Scratch and Jermaine in Little Britain (both for the BBC). Concerts include: Bernardo in The West Side Story Experience (Royal Festival Hall). Jaygann recently starred as Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire).

Paul Ayres

Ensemble

Paul started his training at Masters Performing Arts College before gaining a scholarship to Mountview, where he graduated with a first-class BA (Hons) degree in Performing Arts.

Theatre credits include: alternate Galileo in We Will Rock You (original UK tour); covering and playing Frankie Valli in the original London cast of Jersey Boys (Prince Edward); cover to Boq in the original London cast of Wicked (Apollo Victoria); covering and playing Pepper in MAMMA MIA! (Prince Edward and Prince of Wales); Godspell (UK tour) and, most recently, playing the role of Jamie in Bright Lights, Big City (Hoxton Hall).

Paul's television credits include: Blue Peter; Children in Need; GMTV; The Royal Variety Show; This Morning and he was a featured soloist on BBC1's Star for a Night with Jane McDonald.

Paul is one of the singers in the band Bloomfield Avenue.

Darren Carnall

Ensemble

Darren trained at the Allesley School of Dance in Coventry and then went on to graduate from Laine Theatre Arts. Most recently he appeared as Kiki the Colorist in the original cast of Legally Blonde (Savoy).

Theatre credits include: Ru/Talk Show Host in the Merrily We Roll Along concert (Donmar Warehouse); Mercedes in La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse); covering Francis and Jean-Michel, Rumpleteaser in Cats (Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Cyprus); Candide (ENO); ensemble/cover Gollum in The Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Scranton Slim/Dance Captain/cover Rusty Charlie and Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly); Kevin in Debbie Does Dallas (Oxford Old Fire Station); Ensemble/cover Emile and Beast's Man in Beauty and the Beast (RSC, Stratford-Upon-Avon); Protean in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (National Theatre); Bobby C/cover Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (UK tour); ensemble/cover Goran in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium); Curtis/cover Michael Spofford in The Witches of Eastwick (Prince of Wales); Featured Artist in the original cast of Fosse (Prince of Wales) and Bailiff in Chicago (Adelphi).

He also travelled extensively as a featured artist on a world cruise aboard the QE2.

Film and television appearances include Scenes of a Sexual Nature; Dresserin Miss Marple: A Sleeping Murder; and the 2010 Marks and Spencer's Christmas Advert.

Darren has provided additional choreography on Make Me a Song (Players Theatre), and was Assistant Choreographer on Bugsy Malone (Queen's) and Tin Pan Alley (Edinburgh Festival).

Scott Maurice

Ensemble

Scott was born in London and started his career at sixteen when he was awarded a scholarship to Pineapple Performing Arts School. He gained three distinctions in musical theatre from Hertford Regional College and was invited back to Pineapple to teach dance, whilst being a part of four dance groups.

Theatre includes: original cast of Never Forget; Fame, Thriller Live and Hair (European tour).

Television includes: Top of the Pops; Blue Peter; BBC's Proms in the Park; MTV's LYNX BOOM CHICKA WAH WAH RALLY (Miami); special guest Motown vocalist on Royal Caribbean; X Factor UK and X Factor Germany; Graham Norton; Children In Need Rocks; 52nd Grammy Awards with Beyonce (Los Angeles); MTV's VMAS with Beyonce (Los Angeles); Chris Brown's Fame (US tour) with Kelly Rowland and Kelly Rowland's UK promo tour.

Scott performed his own material at The Original Songwriters (London/BBC Radio 1xtra). He released his own work Never Leave Me Alone (Warner Music) which reached number two in the Garage charts; the song also featured on many compilation albums including: The Number 1 Garage and Bassline album and Pure Garage: Rewind back to the Old Skool.

Scott is thrilled to be joining the cast of Ghost.

Spencer O'Brien

Ensemble

Spencer trained at Arts Educational School and graduated with a BA Hons in Musical Theatre.

Most recently he was a part of the original London cast of Shrek the Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).

Other theatre includes: Nigel Danvers in Salad Days (Riverside Studios/Bristol Old Vic); Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk (Paul Robeson Theatre); Paparazzi in Betwixt! (Ambassadors); and Joey in Soul Traders (Edinburgh Festival).

Film includes: Young Joe McCarthy in The Real American: Joe McCarthy (HMR).

Samuel Edwards

Ensemble

Samuel trained at Arts Educational School.

Theatre credits include: Robin Hood (Theatre Royal, Norwich) and Broadway to West End (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). Roles whilst training include: Ren in Footloose; Ronnie Driscoll in Curtains, Billy in Carousel and Anthony in Sweeney Todd.

Samuel is delighted to be making his West End and professional debut in Ghost.

Callum Francis

Ensemble

Callum trained at Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Ultimate Broadway (Shanghai Culture Square Theatre); Naked Boys Singing (Charing Cross Theatre); and Fame directed by Karen Bruce (Manchester Opera House).

Most recently Callum appeared as Tribe and understudy Hud in Hair (European tour).

Callum is delighted to be making his West End debut in Ghost.

Francesca Hoffman

Ensemble

Francesca trained at London Studio Centre and most recently appeared on the The Beat Goes On hosted by Dave Berry for Channel 5, where she was the 'pitch-perfect singer'.

Theatre includes: Jellylorum in Cats (Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Cyprus); Millicent in Bless the Bride (King's Head Theatre); X Factor Live Arena Tour 2009 and 2010 (Syco); Britain's Got Talent Live Arena Tour 2011 (Syco); and Hurts European tour (Sony).

Television credits include: Brit Awards 2011 (ITV1); Rob Brydon Show (Channel 4); Red or Black  (ITV 1); Pump it Up workout DVD (MOS); Katy Brand's Big Ass Show (ITV2); X Factor (ITV1); MTV Live Sessions and the Brit Awards 2011 commercial.

Francesca has worked with many top artists including: Take That; Kylie Minogue; Taio Cruz; JLS; Tinie Tempah; James Morrison and One Direction.

She has also appeared in numerous music videos, UK and European tours and worked for big brands including: Head & Shoulders, Nike, Adidas, Plume, Lynx and Nokia.

Louise Lawson

Ensemble

Louise trained at Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts, gaining a BA (Hons) in Dance and Theatre Performance.

Theatre credits include: ensemble and understudy Ali in MAMMA MIA! (international tour); Dance Captain and swing in We Will Rock You (Cologne, Germany) and Rosalie and understudy Shirley and Connie in Saturday Night Fever (Düsseldorf and European tour).

Louise was Associate Choreographer to Arlene Phillips for the UK tour of Flashdance and for the Zürich, Vienna and Stuttgart productions of We Will Rock You.

Olivia Phillip

Ensemble

Olivia trained at Phil Winston's Theatreworks in Blackpool and graduated in 2009.

She joins Ghost direct from making her West End debut in Priscilla Queen of the Desert at the Palace Theatre.

Theatre includes: Diana in A Chorus Line (Lowry, Pele Productions); Tiger Lily in Peter Pan (Theatre Royal, Brighton); and Jenna in The Shade Aint Right (Edinburgh Fringe).

Television includes: Olivia was part of the Supergroup from the Channel 5 show Don't Stop Believing.

Olivia is delighted to be joining the cast of Ghost as she sang for the show at the Abbey Road Studios and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Kirstie Skivington

Ensemble

Kirstie recently graduated from The Urdang Academy.

She discovered her love of performing at a young age whilst competing nationally in gymnastics. She then spent two years with contemporary dance company, Heading Straight Getting Down, before going on to train at the Miskin Theatre in Dartford.

Theatre includes: Chloe in the The Thing about Tom (Workshop). Roles whilst training include:  Mimi in Rent; Rose in Side by Side; and soloist in A New World.

Television includes:  featured dancer in Jason Gardiner's ITV promo.

Kirstie is delighted to be making her West End and professional debut in Ghost.

Spencer Stafford

Ensemble

West End credits include: Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Spamalot (Palace); La Cage aux Folles (Menier Chocolate Factory); Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly); Les Misérables (Palace); Chicago (Adelphi); Cats (New London); Electra in Starlight Express (Apollo Victoria); The Who's Tommy (Shaftesbury); Tommy Steele's What a Show (Prince of Wales); Beautiful and Damned (Lyric).

Other theatre credits include: Don in A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible); Production Tenor in Singin' in the Rain (NT); Chicago (Japan/Korea tour); Kurt in The Ratcatcher (workshop); The Playboy in American Hot (workshop).

Film and television credits include: the film Scenes of a Sexual Nature; Tyskie beer commercial; Crimewatch; Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th Birthday at the Albert Hall; The Royal Variety Performance and the VE Day Celebrations (Coliseum).

Rebecca Trehearn

Ensemble

Rebecca trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

She made her professional stage debut in Aladdin (City Varieties Theatre, Leeds) where she played Princess Dim-Sum.

Theatre includes: Annie in the premiere of Alfie the Musical (Palace Theatre, Watford); title roles in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella (Rhyl); understudy Meat and Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (Dominion); understudy Elizabeth in Dirty Dancing (Aldwych); cover Rose Vibert in Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory); ensemble and cover Jenny in Love Story (Duchess); and Martirio in Bernarda Alba (Union Theatre).

Workshops include: Jack Dagger and Moonshadow featuring the music of Cat Stevens.

Television includes: guest appearances in Casualty and A470. Rebecca also appeared in, and won the Wow Factor for S4C, which led to the release of her self titled solo CD.

Recordings include: film soundtracks for Sweeney Todd; The Da Vinci Code; MAMMA MIA! and Rosalia on the 50th anniversary recording of West Side Story.

Jez Unwin

Ensemble

Jez attended Westminster Cathedral Choir School at the age of seven and was awarded first place as Britain's Choirboy of the Year at the tender age of 10. This led to many television and radio appearances. As an adult he gained a BA in Music from Exeter University before starting a career in theatre.

West End credits include: understudy Oscar Lindquist/Vittorio Vidal in Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Michael Grandage's Evita (Adelphi); The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury) and Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London).

Other theatre credits include: the European premiere of The Light in the Piazza (Curve, Leicester); Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni (New Vic); Guillaume in Martin Guerre (Watermill); Tinman in The Wizard of Oz (Leicester Haymarket); Mendel in Woody Allen's Murder Mysteries (Croydon Warehouse); various in Pacific Overtures (Leicester Haymarket); Man 2 in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (King's Head); Starkey in Peter Pan (Oxford Playhouse); Frank Sinatra in Legends of Swing (tour); A Walk With the Angels (ICA); Top Hat workshop (Sadler's Wells).

Jez is also an accomplished jazz and swing singer. He is a regular guest vocalist for The Nick Ross Orchestra; The Big Swing; Scarborough Spa Orchestra; Venetian Macao; Masquerade; The Rat Pack's Back and You Don't Bring Me Flowers. He has also performed cabaret on several cruise ships including the world cruise on Cunard's QE2.

Amy Webb

Ensemble

Amy trained at London Studio Centre.

Theatre credits include: Ensemble and understudy vocalist (Shanghai Culture Square Theatre); ensemble and understudy Crissy in Hair (European tour); swing and understudy Pearl/Dinah/Buffy/Ashley in Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); Wrench and understudy Pearl in Starlight Express (UK tour).

Other credits include: Germany's Next Top Model; Footballer's Wives and The Bill.

Amy is delighted to be making her West End debut in Ghost.

Sally Whitehead

Ensemble

Sally trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Performance.

West End credits include: Sister Act (London Palladium) and Bad Girls - the Musical (Garrick).

Other theatre credits include: The Light in the Piazza (Curve, Leicester); Jellylorum in Cats (UK tour); playing the role of Agatha and understudying and playing Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, directed by Michael Grandage (UK tour); My Fair Lady (UK tour); Grizabella, Jellylorum and Jennyanydots in Cats (UK tour) and The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre, Kingston).

Other work includes: Songs for a New World (New Players Theatre); The Most Happy Fella, directed by Casey Nicholaw (workshop) and a workshop for the musical Zorro with the Gypsy Kings.

Cast recordings include: Bad Girls the Musical and Ghost the Musical.

Bruce Joel Rubin

Book & Lyrics

Bruce Joel Rubin won an Academy Award for his original screenplay, GHOST. The film was also nominated for Best Picture. He has written numerous other screenplays including Jacob's Ladder, Deep Impact, Stuart Little 2, The Last Mimzy, The Time Traveler's Wife and My life, which he also directed.

Dave Stewart

Music & Lyrics

A multimedia entrepreneur, Dave Stewart is recognised as one of the most respected and accomplished talents in the music industry today. Beyond his creative work as a musician, Stewart is a renowned producer, writer, and known for his astute business acumen. He was recently named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company magazine.

Stewart's career spans more than 25 years and more than 100 million album sales. With Eurythmics partner Annie Lennox, Stewart delivered ingenious pop/rock hits such as 'Here Comes the Rain Again', 'Who's That Girl?', 'Would I Lie to You?', 'Missionary Man' and 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'. In 1999, the duo was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brits.

One of the most sought-after writers and music producers, Stewart has crafted songs for and collaborated with the likes of Bono, Bryan Ferry, Gwen Stefani, Tom Petty, Katy Perry, Joss Stone and Sinead O'Connor, and has recently co-written and co-produced Stevie Nicks' seventh album. Stewart has shared the stage with everyone from B B King, U2 and Eric Clapton to Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. Together with Mick Jagger, he wrote and produced the score for Alfie, starring Jude Law, which won the pair a Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

Stewart has won Best British Producer four times and Best British Songwriter five times, as well as numerous Grammy, MTV and European awards. His solo album, recorded in Nashville's infamous Blackbird Studio, was released in May 2011.

Stewart has created TV series sold to ABC Network in USA starring Reba McEntire and also has a new album 'The Ringmaster General' (recorded in Nashville) coming out in May 2012.

Glen Ballard

Music & Lyrics

Six-time Grammy® award winner Glen Ballard is one of popular music’s most accomplished producers/songwriters and arrangers. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, and has worked with a diverse array of the finest singers and artists in the business, from Aretha Franklin to Van Halen and Aerosmith to Michael Jackson.

One of Ballard’s biggest successes involved chart-topping, multi-platinum album Jagged Little Pill (33 million worldwide, four Grammys -including Album of the Year) which Ballard co-wrote and produced for Alanis Morissette, and was named Best Album of the Decade (1990s) by Billboard magazine.

Ballard has most recently had success writing hit songs for film, including the Grammy® winning and Oscar® nominated Believe for Polar Express, Ordinary Miracle for Charlotte’s Web, and A Hero Comes Home for Beowulf. Ballard’s newest chapter of this vast musical legacy is his recent work in musicals.

Matthew Warchus

Director

International Theatre Director Matthew Warchus’ many theatre credits include Alan Ayckbourn’sThe Norman Conquests which opens on Broadway in April 2009,God of Carnage which opened on Broadway in Spring 2009, Boeing-Boeing in the West End, on tour in the UK and on Broadway (where it won the Tony award for Best Revival), Endgame at the Albery Theatre, the multi award-winning Art in London, on Broadway and in Los Angeles, True West for the Donmar Warehouse, The Winter’s Tale, The Unexpected Man and Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Buried Child, Life x 3 and Volpone for the National Theatre. In addition he has directed the following musicals in the West End - Tell Me On A Sunday, Our House (which won the Olivier Award for Best Musical), Follies and most recently, The Lord of the Rings. His opera productions include Cosi Fan Tutte, Falstaff for English National Opera and Troilus and Cressida for Opera North.

Rob Howell

Designer

Rob Howell's work in theatre includes The Observer; Her Naked Skin, The Reporter, Buried Child, Chips With Everything, Troilus and Cressida, Money, Battle Royal and Howard Katz for the National Theatre; The Shakespeare Review, The Painter of Dishonour, Little Eyolf, Richard III, and The Family Reunion for the RSC; Simpatico, Hard Fruit, and Real Classy Affair for the Royal Court; Tartuffe, The Government Inspector, Vassa, Conversations after a Burial, Lulu (also at the Kennedy Center, Washington), Faith Healer, The Lady from the Sea and Hedda Gabler (also at the Duke of York's Theatre) for the Almeida; Habeas Corpus, The Fix, How I Learned to Drive, True West, The Glass Menagerie (also at the Comedy Theatre) and Proof for the Donmar; Tom & Clem, Tell Me On A Sunday, The Caretaker and Our House in the West End; The Graduate in the West End, Australia and on Broadway; Sunset Boulevard on UK Tour; True West at the Circle in the Square, New York; Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs at Hampstead Theatre and in the West End; Betrayal at the Theatre D'atelier, Paris, and on Broadway; Simply Heavenly at the Young Vic; Peter Pan at the West Yorkshire Playhouse; Julius Caesar at the Manchester Royal Exchange; Eddie Izzard tours in 1998 and 2000; Endgame at the Albery Theatre, Bash at the Trafalgar Studios, Boeing Boeing at the Comedy Theatre and Broadway, Lord of the Rings at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Toronto; Inherit The Wind, The Norman Conquests (also on Broadway), Speed the Plow and Complicit at the Old Vic; The Last Cigarette at Chichester Festival Theatre and The Trafalgar Studios; Private Lives and Prisoner of Second Avenue at the Vaudeville and most recently Deathtrap at the Noel Coward Theatre. His opera credits include Turn of the Screw for the Welsh National Opera and Sophie's Choice for the Royal Opera House and Carmen for The Metropolitan Opera in New York which opened on New Year's Eve 2009.

Rob Howell received the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Set Designer for Troilus and Cressida, Vassa and Richard III. He was nominated for Best Costume Design in the same year for Troilus and Cressida and Money and for best set Designer in 1995 for The Glass Menagerie, for Chips with Everything in 1997 and for The Caretaker in 2001. Our House won the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Musical. In 2006 Rob received an Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Hedda Gabler as well as being nominated for Best Costume Design for the same production. For Lord of the Rings in Toronto Rob received a 2006 Dora Award for Outstanding Costume Design as well as a nomination for Outstanding Set Design, for the same production in London Rob was nominated for Best Set Deign and Best Costume Design at the 2008 Oliver Awards. Rob was nominated for Best Costume Design of a Play in the 2008 Tonys for Boeing Boeing on Broadway, Best Costumes Design at the 2009 Olivier Awards for The Norman Conquests and was nominated for Best Set Design for The Norman Conquests on Broadway in the 2009 Tonys.

Ashley Wallen

Choreographer

Ashley Wallen's credits as a choreographer include: Dance X for BBC1, where he also appeared as a judge and mentor; The X Factor and It's Now or Never, both for ITV; and the burlesque show Hurly Burly which has recently completed its West End run.

Wallen has choreographed for many artists including: Kylie Minogue, Alesha Dixon, Dannii Minogue, Seal, James Morrison, Leona Lewis, Sugababes, Will Young, Lemar and Gabriella Cilmi. His on-screen dance credits include: Moulin Rouge and The Phantom of the Opera, and onstage he has performed with Mariah Carey and Kylie Minogue.

Wallen has choreographed many award-winning commercials including: the Gap 2009 campaign; the roller-skating Evian babies; and the T-Mobile dance in Liverpool Street Station, which led to working with the Black Eyed Peas for the Oprah Winfrey special. His choreography for Lipton's Ice Tea, featuring Hugh Jackman, has become a huge hit on YouTube. Recently, Ashley was employed as Associate Choreographer on Madonna's film WE and Choreographer on Friends With Benefits with Justin Timberlake.

Paul Kieve

Illusionist

Paul Kieve draws upon his lifelong fascination with the history of magic to create original illusions and magical stage effects. His challenges have included turning children into mice, vanishing Hobbits, and staging The Invisible Man.

West End work includes: Matilda, Zorro, The Lord of the Rings, The Woman in White; Our House, The Witches, The Witches of Eastwick and Scrooge as well as many productions with the RSC and National Theatre. Other work includes: The Phantom of The Opera tour, Batman Live and Alice In Wonderland with both ENB and The Royal Ballet. Television includes: Cranford, Heroes of Magic, Children in Need, I'd Do Anything and BBC's History of Magic. He has worked with Derren Brown on his Svengali and Enigma West End show, as well as his Séance and TV series.

Film includes: Hugo directed by Martin Scorsese. He coached Anne Hathaway on the forthcoming Batman movie and was magic consultant to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (in which he also appears). He is the author of Hocus Pocus (Bloomsbury), which featured an introduction by his magic student Daniel Radcliffe and was published in 11 languages. Paul is a Gold Star Member of the Inner Magic Circle. His work on Ghost can also be seen in the Broadway production.

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Christopher Nightingale

Musical Supervisor, Arranger & Orchestrator

Christopher is currently the Musical Supervisor, Orchestrator and wrote additional music for Matilda the Musical  (RSC Stratford and London).

Theatre credits include: Co-Composer of The Lord of the Rings (London and Toronto), for which he was also Musical Supervisor, Arranger and Orchestrator. In 2009, he was Musical Supervisor and Arranger for the UK and Irish tour of Yusuf Islam's Moonshadow. He was Musical Supervisor and Co-Arranger for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams, and he composed additional arrangements and was the Musical Supervisor for the Pet Shop Boys' Closer to Heaven (Arts). He was Musical Director for Whistle Down the Wind (Aldwych) and Oliver! (London Palladium), and Assistant Musical Director for Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). For the RSC he was Musical Director/Keyboards on The Plantagenets, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, A Clockwork Orange, The Plain Dealer, Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV Part I, Singer, Some Americans Abroad, Playing With Trains, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet and Tamburlaine.

Film credits include: coaching, recording, and conducting the cast on the set of Alan Parker's Evita.

Concerts include: Choral Musical Director for Celebration; Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday concert (Royal Albert Hall). He made his conducting début at St Martin-in-the-Fields for an evening of Mozart with the Locrian Ensemble in 2008.

An organ scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Christopher was Musical Director of the Cambridge Footlights for three years before graduating in 1987 and working for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Hugh Vanstone

Lighting Designer

Hugh has designed the lighting for more than 160 productions and worked for most of the UK's national companies and extensively on Broadway. He has received three Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Designer: in 2004 for Pacific Overtures (Donmar); in 2000 for The Graduate (West End) and The Cherry Orchard (National Theatre); and in 1998 for The Unexpected Man (RSC) and The Blue Room (Donmar). In New York he received TONY® award nominations for Mary Stuart and Spamalot.

His most recent work includes: Ghost the Musical (West End); The Wizard of Oz (West End); Matilda (RSC); Deathtrap (West End); La Bête (West End & Broadway); Shrek (London & US Tour); The Late Middle Classes (Donmar); The Real Thing (Old Vic); Arabian Nights (RSC); A Steady Rain (Broadway); Tanz der Vampire (Vienna & Berlin).

Bobby Aitken

Sound Designer

Bobby has been involved with theatre sound for over 20 years throughout the UK and around the world.

Design credits include: MAMMA MIA! (worldwide); Grease (worldwide); Dirty Dancing (worldwide); Lennon (Broadway); We Will Rock You (worldwide); Blast! (London/US); Return to the Forbidden Planet (worldwide); Five Guys Named Moe; Which Witch?; Metropolis; Pete Townshend's The Iron Man; High Society; Time; The Fix; The Beggar's Opera and Bartholomew Fair (RSC).

Opera credits include: Carmen, Madame Butterfly, Aïda, Cav and Pag, Tosca and La bohème.

Bobby won the 2005 Helpmann Award for Best Sound Design for the Australian production of We Will Rock You.

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Jon Driscoll

Video and Projection Designer

Trained: National Film and Television School and Croydon College of Art.

Theatre: Wizard of Oz (The Palladium), Birdsong (Comedy), Love Never Dies (Adelphi), Enron (Noel Coward) - Olivier Nomination for Best Projection Design, The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Vaudeville), Earthquakes in London, Nation, The Power of Yes, All's Well that Ends Well, The Observer, Gethsemane, Her Naked Skin, Fram, A Matter of Life and Death, The Reporter (NT), Midnight's Children (RSC), Frost/Nixon (Donmar), Complicit (Old Vic), The Lightning Play, Whistling Psyche (Almeida), Darwin in Malibu (Hampstead), Some Girls are Bigger than Others, Lady Into Fox (Lyric Hammersmith), The Last Cigarette (Chichester), Fabulation, Bloody Sunday (Tricycle), Whistle in the Dark (Royal Exchange), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych), Brief Encounter (Carlton Cinema) - Olivier Nomination, Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Design. Our House (Cambridge Theatre), Heroes, Up for Grabs (Wyndham's), When Harry Met Sally (Theatre Royal Haymarket), On the Third Day (Ambassadors), Dance of Death (Lyric/Sydney), Rebecca, God and Stephen Hawking (Tour).

Ballet: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ROH)

Opera: A Midsummer Night's Dream (ROH), The Magic Flute (Grange Park), Genoveva (Opera North) and Orfeo (Kent Opera).

He is a Technical Associate of the National Theatre.

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Liam Steel

Additional Movement Sequences

Liam has gained an international reputation as being one of Britain's leading physical theatre practitioners. He is Artistic Director of his own company - Stan Won't Dance, with whom he has created five pieces to date, and is widely recognized for his groundbreaking collaborations with companies such as Frantic Assembly (with whom he created four productions), Complicité, and with DV8 Physical Theatre - where he was a core member for eight years working on five international touring productions and the Emmy award winning film version of Enter Achilles.

As a Freelance Director and Movement Director his work includes productions with the Royal National Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, The Lyric Hammersmith, Birmingham Rep, Northampton Theatre Royal, The Royal Court, Headlong Theatre Co, Tamasha Theatre Co, Manchester Royal Exchange, The RSC, and six productions at the Library Theatre, Manchester. He is a core collaborator at Regents Park Open Air Theatre and has worked on five productions there over the last four seasons including co-directing and choreographing the Olivier Award winning production of Into The Woods. Opera direction includes Holland Park, three productions with English Touring Opera, and a special commission from the Royal Opera House. He has created numerous award winning contemporary dance commissions, choreographed for West End Musical Theatre and International New Circus (including working as a guest director for Cirque du Soleil) and created a number of large scale, site-specific works (including directing London's Olympic Torch handover event with over 500 singers, dancers and circus artists). In 2009 Liam staged the theatrical extravaganza Ben Hur for the O2 arena and stadiums worldwide, and he is presently choreographing the highly awaited film version of the musical Les Misérables.

David Grindrod

Casting Director

This is David's third collaboration with Matthew Warchus, the other two being Our House (Olivier Best New Musical Award) and The Lord of the Rings.

Current West End and other casting includes: Chicago (and UK Tour); Mamma Mia! (Worldwide); The Wizard of Oz, Shrek, Crazy for You (Regent's Park and West End); Matilda, Sister Act (UK Tour) and West Side Story (RSC World Stages).

Film: Dancer casting for Nine directed by Rob Marshall, Ensemble casting for Mamma Mia! directed by Phyllida Lloyd and The Phantom of the Opera directed by Joel Schumacher.

Television:  Superstar (ITV); Over the Rainbow (TalkbackThames); I'd Do Anything, Any Dream Will Do, How Do Solve A Problem Like Maria (2007 Emmy Award); Kombat Opera presents... (2008 Golden Rose Montreux Award); Hollyoaks (Channel 4) and West End Star (TV3 Sweden).

David Grindrod Associates is a member of The Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain.

James McKeon

Musical Director

James studied at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and Christ's College, Cambridge where he was the organ scholar.

Most recently, James was Associate Musical Director for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera".

Credits as Musical Director include: Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic), Imagine This (West End and Plymouth Theatre Royal), Zorro (UK tour), Evita (Adelphi Theatre), My Fair Lady (Cameron Mackintosh's UK Tour), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium), Boy George's Taboo (The Venue), Closer to Heaven by Pet Shop Boys and Jonathan Harvey (Arts Theatre), Stephen Sondheim's Passion (Bridewell Theatre 10th Anniversary Production).

Other conducting credits include: The King and I (Royal Albert Hall), Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith and Novello Theatre), The Sound of Music (London Palladium) and Cats (UK Tour).

On television, James has played the piano for Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop; X Factor; Last Choir Standing; The Sharon Osbourne Show and Hollyoaks. He also performed at the Royal Albert Hall playing keyboards for the 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert of Boy George and Culture Club.

Colin Ingram Productions Ltd

Producer/General Manager

Colin Ingram has worked with some of the most successful theatre producers, directors and actors in the world. He spent six years with Cameron Mackintosh before heading up Disney Theatrical in the UK for over two years. Colin then became Executive Producer for the inaugural and second season of Kevin Spacey’s Old Vic Theatre Company and joined Sally Greene as her Executive Producer on the hit musical Billy Elliot. Colin formed Colin Ingram Ltd in 2005 to develop and produce new theatre productions and to offer general management services to other producers.

During his career, Colin has worked on the following productions as Executive Producer or General Manager: Billy Elliot, Movin’ Out, Les Misérables, Phantom Of The Opera, The Lion King, Beauty And The Beast, Oklahoma!, Witches of Eastwick, Vagina Monologues, Richard II, Hamlet, Philadelphia Story, Aladdin, National Anthems, Cloaca.

Colin graduated in Law and International Finance before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. His business training has been a huge asset in producing productions on budget and raising millions of pounds in investment from private investors.

Based in London, Colin Ingram Limited has acted as consultant to Old Vic Productions for the New York and Australian productions of Billy Elliot and produced and general managed Trevor Nunn’s Gone With The Wind along with investing in Swimming With Sharks with Christian Slater. Colin recently produced and general managed Breakfast at Tiffany’s starring Anna Friel at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and is currently working on transferring it to Broadway.

For information and investment opportunities see www.coliningramltd.com.

David Garfinkle

Producer

David Garfinkle is President and Chief Executive Officer of HELLO Entertainment, a theatrical production company created by David Garfinkle and the late Tony Adams. He also founded and was Managing Partner of The Entertainment and Intellectual Property Group, concentrating on entertainment law, including theatre, film, television, music, publishing and the internet.

David is the founding producer of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, directed by Julie Taymor, with music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge, currently on Broadway. He was also a lead producer of The Immigrant (Drama Desk nominations: Best Book and Orchestrations), and three-time Tony Award-winner Hinton Battle's live stage production Hinton Battle: Largely Live. Over a 20-year period, he has served as production counsel on numerous film, television and theatrical productions.

David was educated at Duke University and Boston University School of Law.

Land Line Productions

Producer

Land Line Productions has a philosophy of creating and supporting new works for live theatre and the web. A collection of writers, producers, musicians and engineers, Land Line focuses on original material in all areas of its productions. Land Line also provides social media, online marketing and production services for business clients.

Current productions include: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Ghost, Memphis, The Divine Sister.

Donovan Mannato

Producer

Donovan Mannato has been a producer and financial advisor since leaving his career as an entertainment lawyer in 1998.

Donovan graduated with an International Economics degree from The George Washington University in 1991. Smitten with the entertainment business, Donovan acted in the Oscar winning film Philadelphia during his final year in law school. He went on to work for EMI-Capitol Music Group/Capitol Records for several years before returning to his financial roots to become an award-winning financial advisor.

In 2000, Donovan saw the stage musical play Prey for Rock & Roll at the legendary rock club CBGBs and decided to produce it into the film of the same name. The film, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2003, received critical acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. That same year he met his wife, West End actress and singer Deborah Dutcher, with whom he now has a son.

Ghost is his first foray into the theatre.

Michael Edwards & Carole Winter

Producer

Producers: Michael Edwards & Carole Winter

Executive Producer: Matthew Gordon

Marketing Director: Matthew Damsell

Production Assistant: Sophie Boyd

Credits include: Pygmalion (Garrick); Ruby Wax: Losing It (national tour and Menier Chocolate Factory); Midsummer (Soho) by David Greig; Morecambe (Duchess) by Tim Whitnall (2010 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment); Carousel (Savoy); Exit the King (Barrymore Theatre, New York) by Eugène Ionesco, in a new translation by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush (2009 Tony Award for Best Actor); On the Waterfront (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) by Budd Schulberg; Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar Studios) by Joe Orton; Damascus (Tricycle and international tour) by David Greig; Horrid Henry – Live and Horrid! (Trafalgar Studios) by John Godber; Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud) by Luigi Pirandello, in a new version by Rupert Goold and Ben Power; David Harrower's Blackbird (UK tour); Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (Playhouse/UK tour) adapted by David Greig and Rufus Norris; In Celebration (Duke of York's) by David Storey; The Dumb Waiter (Trafalgar Studios) by Harold Pinter; Underneath the Lintel (Duchess) by Glen Berger; The Flags (Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin) by Bridget O'Connor; Blackbird (Albery), directed by Peter Stein (2006 Olivier Award for Best New Play), followed by a co-production with Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway; Twelve Angry Men (Comedy) by Reginald Rose, directed by Harold Pinter.

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Adam Silberman

Producer

Adam Silberman has spent the past 23 years in the world of international theatre, having worked extensively in London, New York and Sydney. He currently resides in New York but divides his time between the US and the UK.

Adam started with Cameron Mackintosh Australia in 1988, and was transferred to London to become the Financial Controller of Cameron Mackintosh Ltd (CML) in 1992. During his tenure, CML managed or licensed over 40 productions such as Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Cats, Oliver! and Martin Guerre worldwide. During that time, CML was also involved in theatre ownership, merchandising, music licensing, ticketing and associated investments in the theatre industry.

In 1999, Adam returned to Australia to work as Chief Operating Officer for Bazmark, a company which is jointly owned by the award-winning director, writer and producer Baz Luhrmann and Oscar-winning designer Catherine Martin. The company has produced several feature films, major stage productions and music albums (La bohème, Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge and Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream).

Adam was the Executive Producer of Puccini's La bohème, directed by Baz Luhrmann, which opened in San Francisco and then transferred to Broadway, where the production was nominated for six Tony Awards.

Adam is currently Executive Producer of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, directed by Julie Taymor, with music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge of U2, which is currently running at the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway.

Paramount Pictures Corporation

Producer

Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands. The company's labels include Paramount Pictures, MTV Films, and Nickelodeon Movies.

PPC operations also include Paramount Digital Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing, Paramount Studio Group, and Worldwide Television Distribution.

THE AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP LTD

Producer

Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, the Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd (ATG) is the largest owner/operator of theatres in the UK with 39 venues, an internationally recognised theatre producer and a leader in theatre ticketing services through ATG Tickets.

ATG's impressive portfolio of West End theatres includes historic buildings such as the Apollo Victoria, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York's, Fortune, Harold Pinter, Lyceum, Phoenix, Piccadilly, Playhouse, Savoy, Trafalgar Studio 1 and Trafalgar Studio 2.

ATG's regional theatres include The Ambassadors Woking encompassing the New Victoria and Rhoda McGaw Theatres and the award-winning 6 screen cinema complex, Ambassador Cinemas; Aylesbury Waterside Theatre; New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham; Theatre Royal Brighton; Bristol Hippodrome; Churchill Theatre Bromley; Edinburgh Playhouse; Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone; King's Theatre and Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Grimsby Auditorium; Liverpool Empire; Palace Theatre and Opera House, Manchester; Milton Keynes Theatre; New Theatre, Oxford; Richmond Theatre; Southport Theatre; Regent Theatre and Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent; Sunderland Empire; Princess Theatre, Torquay; New Wimbledon Theatre and New Wimbledon Studio; Grand Opera House, York.

ATG has been behind some of the most successful and innovative productions in Britain and internationally. Current and recent ATG co-productions include the Lincoln Center's production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific in London; Ghost the Musical, in Manchester and London and on Broadway in 2012;the hugely successful UK tour and London production of Monty Python's Spamalot by Eric Idle; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford starring Simon Callow; and The Misanthrope starring Damian Lewis and Keira Knightley; the critically acclaimed award-winning musical West Side Story, at Sadler's Wells and on tour in the UK; Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard; the hit comedy Fat Pig by Neil LaBute; Harold Pinter's The Lover/The Collection; Elling starring John Simm; The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess directed by Trevor Nunn; Guys and Dolls starring Ewan McGregor; Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and the Tony Award-winning Company, both on Broadway, and The Rocky Horror Show.

ATG is also mounting productions around the world. ATG's recent productions in Australia include The Rocky Horror Show, Guys and Dolls and West Side Story. Recent ATG productions on Broadway include Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon starring in Exit the King.

Other ATG successes include the co-production of The Weir in London and on Broadway(winner of the 1999 Olivier Award for Best New Play); Smokey Joe's Café in the West End and the Olivier award-winning Slava's Snowshow in the West End and North America plus the multi award-winning West End musical, Carmen Jones.

ATG has a wholly owned subsidiary company Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP), led by Sonia Friedman, who is one of the most prolific producers in the West End and on Broadway. Current and recent productions include the Olivier award-winning smash hit musical Legally Blonde the Musical, Jerusalem, in the West End and on Broadway, Betrayal starring Kristin Scott Thomas, The Children's Hour starring Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss, Much Ado About Nothingstarring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Shirley Valentine & Educating Rita, La Bête, Othello, La Cage Aux Folles, Arcadia, Boeing-Boeing, The Norman Conquests, The Seagull, No Man's Land and Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll.

ATG also owns a major national family entertainment and pantomime company, First Family Entertainment (FFE).

Robert G Bartner

Producer

Robert G Bartner's credits: Broadway: Book of Mormon (Tony); Jerusalem, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Arcadia, La Bête, Memphis (Tony); La Cage aux Folles (Tony); Company (Tony). Upcoming: Clybourne Park. West End:  The Children's Hour, Flare Path, All My Sons, Yes, Prime Minister, Legally Blonde, The Mountaintop (Olivier); The Misanthrope, La Cage Aux Folles (Olivier); Guys and Dolls (Olivier), Absent Friends. Upcoming: Hay Fever, The King's Speech and South Pacific.  Mr Bartner thanks his family, especially M Beverly, for their love and support.