Company - The Benjamin Button Musical

The Company

CAST

Matthew Burns

Training: ALRA Theatre Credits: Once the Musical (Original UK Tour); The Score (Theatre Royal Bath); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse 2019 and 2023); The House With Chicken Legs (Les Enfants Terribles); Treasure Island, The Wind In The Willows (The New Vic Theatre); The Scarecrow’s Wedding (West End); The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency (Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Cardboard Citizens); Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (Oddsocks Shakespeare Company); Robin Hood (Leeds City Varieties); A Christmas Carol, The Ballad of Rudy (Goblin Theatre); Aladdin (Stafford Gatehouse); Henry V, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet (Pendley Shakespeare Company); Buddy Holly and The Cricketers (UK Tour) TV/Film Credits: Hanna (Amazon Prime Studios); Into The Abyss (Indie Film Prods); Born On This Day (Channel 4)

Jonathan Charles

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Theatre Credits: Moby Dick (Simple8), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse); Rosie & Hugh’s Great Big Adventure (North Wall) and A Christmas Carol (Bolton Octagon); The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre); Beauty & The Beast, Robin Hood & Marian, The Borrowers and Dracula (New Vic Theatre); On Hostile Ground (Royal & Derngate Northampton); War Horse (National Theatre and No 1 Tour); The Butterfly Lionand A Christmas Carol (Barn Theatre); Cinderella (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Peter Pan In Scarlet (New Vic Theatre and Oxford Playhouse); The Tempest (Stafford Castle); Sunset Five (Edinburgh Festival, Pleasance Theatre & Greenwich, DugOut Theatre Co); Juno & The Paycock (Bristol Old Vic and Liverpool Playhouse); The Revenger’s Tragedy (Gentleman Jack Theatre) Film & Television Credits: Art Spiegelman in The Toys That Built America (History Channel); Down To Earth (BBC)

Oonagh Cox

Training: ArtsEd Theatre Credits: On-stage Swing/1st Cover Blanche in Bonnie and Clyde (UK & International Tour); The Book Thief (Curve and Belgrade); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse); Cinderella in Cinderella (Newcastle Theatre Royal); Rusty/2nd Cover Ariel in Footloose (UK & International Tour); Cinderella in Cinderella (Richmond Theatre) and Hortensia in Matilda the Musical (West End) directed by Matthew Warchus Television Credits: Dancer in The Holiday Workshops Credits: Jackie in Hay Fever the Musical

John Dagleish

Training: Drama Centre London Theatre Credits: Spike (The Watermill Theatre), Cratchit (The Park Theatre), Sylvia (The Old Vic), A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic), Common (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Young Vic), The Winter’s Tale/Harlequinade (Branagh Theatre Company at The Garrick), Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Royal Court). Film Credits: The Scurry, The Little Mermaid, Matilda the Musical, Judy, Farming, Christopher Robin, The Gentlemen, All Is True, Justice League, On The Beaches, Mary Poppins Returns, The Monuments Men, Age Of Heroes. TV Credits: 3 Body Problem, Sexy Beast, The Third Day, The Bisexual, The Moorside, The Last Dragonslayer, Silent Witness, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Siblings, Truckers, Beaver Falls, The Hollow Crown, Starlings, Any Human Heart, Lark Rise To Candleford, The Bill.

Katy Ellis

Training: Guildford School of Acting Theatre Credits: Rosie and Hugh’s Great Big Adventure (The North Wall/Pleasance Courtyard/Soho Theatre); Get Happy (Told by an Idiot, Barbican); Ride (Leicester Curve/Southwark Playhouse); Wuthering Heights, Malory Towers (Wise Children, UK & International Tours); Never Tickle a Tiger, That Pesky Rat (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Scarecrows’ Wedding (Leicester Square Theatre, UK Tour); Metamorphosis (Tristan Bates Theatre); Daisy Pulls it Off (Charing Cross Theatre) Radio Credits: Temporal (Sweet Talk Ltd); Read the Room (Big Fish/BBC Radio 4)

Anna Fordham

Training: Rose Bruford College Theatre Credits: The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), And We’ll Catch Stardust Yes We Will (Womens Writes/Vault Festival), Sleeping Beauty (Queens Theatre Hornchurch), Sunshine on Leith; Little Women (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Watford Palace), The Brothers Grimm Present Cinderella (Barn Theatre), NewsRevue (Canal Cafe), I’m Eric Get Me Out of Here (New Vic Stoke), Women in Power (NST/Oxford Playhouse), The Borrowers (Watermill), Fantastic Mr Fox (Lyric Hammersmith/UK Tour), and Jack and the Beanstalk (Emergency Cover, Bridgehouse Theatre) Workshop Credits: The Bridges of Madison County (National Theatre Studios), Coven (Kindred Partners), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse), Hirta (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), The Wild Party (Watermill/Chipping Norton), and A Penny Dreadful (Royal & Derngate) TV Credits: The Athena (Sky) Other credits include: We Progress (Short), Flood of Light (Rolo Tomassi) and Blink (Midas Fall) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button marks Anna’s west end debut.

Clare Foster

Training: Masters Performing Arts College Theatre Credits: Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ Noel Coward Theatre); The Realistic Joneses (Ustinov, Theatre Royal Bath); Consent (Harold Pinter Theatre); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Apollo Theatre, Olivier nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Play); Guys and Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre); Separation and Duet for One (Octagon Theatre, Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actress); Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Harold Pinter Theatre); Finding Neverland (Curve); Crazy For You (Regents Park Open Air Theatre/ Novello Theatre, WOS nomination for Best Actress in a Musical); Oleanna (Nottingham Lake Side Theatre); Love on the Dole and A Streetcar named Desire ( Octagon Theatre, Manchester Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress); Avenue Q (Noel Coward Theatre. Olivier award nomination for Best Ensemble), The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury Theatre); Out of This World and The Master and Margarita (Chichester Festival Theatre); We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Sweet Charity (Crucible Theatre), Chicago (UK Tour) Film Credits: Heads of State (Amazon); Seacole (Racing Green Pictures); Holmes & Watson (Sony); Les Misérables (Universal/ Working Title); Black Forest (Sci-Fi Channel) Television Credits: Miss Austen (BBC and Masterpiece); Until I Kill You (ITV); Nolly (ITV); The Ex-Wife (Paramount Plus) Dark Heart (ITV); Sherlock (BBC); Taboo (FX); Galavant (ABC Studios); Ripper Street (BBC); The Crown (Netflix)

Philippa Hogg

Training: Guildford School of Acting Musical Theatre Performance Theatre credits include: The Enormous Crocodile (Leeds Playhouse); Peter Pan (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse 2019 & 2023); Blood Harmony (ThickSkin/Traverse Theatre); The Jungle Book (The Watermill Theatre); Pippi Longstocking (Royal & Derngate); Little Robin Redbreast (Salisbury Playhouse); Utility Function (Bristol Old Vic); The Scarlet Pimpernel (Theatre Royal Bath); The Leftovers (Leicester Curve); Olivier Award Winning Alice’s Adventures Underground & The Vaudevillains (Les Enfants Terribles); Wood (VAULT Festival); The Scarecrow’sWedding (Leicester Square Theatre); The Games We Played (Theatre 503) TV credits include: Flack (Amazon Prime) Workshop credits include: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Little Man (Sheffi eld Crucible); The Fir Tree (Arts Depot); Sugar House (Finborough Theatre); Jane (Tobacco Factory)

Damien James

Training: Rose Bruford College Theatre credits include: Fun at The Beach Romp-Bomp-A-Lomp!! (Southwark Playhouse), Luna Loves Library Day The Musical (UK Tour), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Ordinary People (Hazlitt Theatre), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse), Red Riding Hood: The Rock ’n’ Roll Panto (Liverpool Everyman), Othello (The Watermill), The Play That Goes Wrong (UK Tour), The Play That Goes Wrong (The Duchess), Camelot (The Watermill) and Romeo and Juliet (Stockwell Playhouse) Television credits include: Casualty (BBC), Doctors (BBC)

Elliot Mackenzie

Training: Rose Bruford College, The BRIT School Theatre credits include: Lord of the Rings (The Watermill Theatre); Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (UK Tour); Whistle Down The Wind (The Watermill Theatre. Nominated for the WhatsOnStage Award for ‘Best Musical Direction’ as On-Stage MD); The Misadventures of Pinocchio: The Radical Robot Girl (The Bohemians Theatre Company); Dick Whittington (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Aladdin (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Million Dollar Quartet (UK & India Tour); Lexi (The Bohemians Theatre Company); Zog (Rose Theatre, Kingston/UK Tour); Wondertown (The Bohemians Theatre Company) and A Christmas Carol (Rose Theatre, Kingston) Other Performing credits include: Phoebe’s First Christmas (Embracing Arts) He is a founding member and the Musical Director of the Bohemians Theatre Company. Elliot recently appeared in Britain’s Brightest Celebrity Family (ITV) and is the reigning champion!

Ann Marcuson

Training: Webber Douglas Theatre credits include: Brendan, Son of Dublin (ICC and Liverpool Festival); These Demons (Theatre 503); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse); Two Ladies (Bridge Theatre); Checkpoint Chana (Finborough); The Mighty Walzer (Royal Exchange Theatre); Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre Productions and Gielgud); The Lottery (Bury Court Opera); The Glass Slipper and Bloodhound (Northern Stage); The Family Reunion (Donmar Warehouse); Little Wolf and Hard Love (Hampstead Theatre); Needle (Soho Theatre); Sweet Dreams (Sphinx Theatre); Strange Love (Young Vic); Brassed Off (York Theatre Royal); I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls (Tricycle/ Watermill, The Times “Best Performance”); Pinocchio (Regent’s Park Open Air); Twelfth Night (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), Little Shop of Horrors (Basingstoke Haymarket); Diary Of Anne Frank (Harrogate Theatre); Over Ruled (King’s Head) Film and TV credits include: The Power (Sister Pictures/Amazon Studios); This Is Going To Hurt (BBC); Redemption Day (H Films); Emmerdale (ITV); Bancroft (ITV Studios), The Divorce (UK Jewish Film Festival); A Place For Everything (BFI); Shark (Met Films); Relentless (October Films); Family Affairs (Freemantle/ Channel 4); The Bookworm (BBC) Radio credits include: Sabbat (London Radio), The Middle Eastern Cookbook (Radio 4)

Jack Quarton

Training: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) Theatre credits include: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse, Elephant); Amélie (Criterion Theatre); The Wicker Husband, Much Ado About Nothing (Watermill Theatre); Assassins (Nottingham Playhouse/Watermill Theatre); Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse/Northern Stage); Wonderland, Coram Boy (Nottingham Playhouse); An August Bank Holiday Lark (Northern Broadsides); Song of the Sytch (Claybody Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Swallows and Amazons (Storyhouse/Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Great Expectations, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Hansel and Gretel (Derby Theatre); On the Mend (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Pants On Fire Theatre Company); Alice in Wonderland (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); The Master and Margarita (Lodestar Theatre Company) Film credits include: Mike Leigh’s Peterloo Jack also works as a composer, lyricist and musical director. His work includes A Christmas Carol, Cinderella (Derby Theatre, MD), Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Nottingham Playhouse, composer and MD), Everything is Possible (York Theatre Royal, choral arranger), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Pants on Fire, MD).

Benedict Salter

Training: LAMDA Theatre credits include: The Score (Theatre Royal Bath); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse); Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Little Night Music (Watermill Theatre); Lone Flyer (Jermyn St/Hull Truck-shortlisted for Best Supporting Performance, Off-West EndAwards 2022); Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Inspector Calls (West End); A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre); Vespertilio (VAULT Festival and Dublin Fringe); The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (Tower of London); Shakespeare in Music (RSC/SouthbankSinfonia) Voice credits include: Final Fantasy XVI: The Rising Tide (Square Enix)

The Company

CAST

Matthew Burns

Matthew Burns

Jonathan Charles

Jonathan Charles

Oonagh Cox

Oonagh Cox

John Dagleish

John Dagleish

Katy Ellis

Katy Ellis

Anna Fordham

Anna Fordham

Clare Foster

Clare Foster

Philippa Hogg

Philippa Hogg

Damien James

Damien James

Elliot Mackenzie

Elliot Mackenzie

Ann Marcuson

Ann Marcuson

Jack Quarton

Jack Quarton

Benedict Salter

Benedict Salter

CREATIVES

Jethro Compton

Book & Lyrics, Director & Stage Designer

Darren Clark

Music & Lyrics,Co-Music Supervisor, Orchestrator & Arranger

Mark Aspinall

Musical Director & Co-Music Supervisor, Orchestrator & Arranger

Chi-San Howard

Choreographer

Anna Kelsey

Costume Designer & Associate Stage Designer

Zoe Spurr

Lighting Designer

Luke SwaffieldforAutograph Sound

Sound Designer

Ginny Schiller CDG

Casting Director

Emily Oulton

Associate Director

Meadhbh Lyons

Associate Choreographer

Amy Wallace

Assistant Director

Matthew Burns

Music Associate

Philippa Hogg

Creative Associate

Erin Wittonfor GBA

Production Manager

Jonathan Gosling

Company Stage Manager

Sally Inch

Deputy Stage Manager

Lucy Rees

Assistant Stage Manager

Emma Hollows

Costume Supervisor

OliviaHilton-Foster

Head of Wardrobe

DylanWinn-Davies

Sound No. 1

Lucy Taylor

Sound No. 2

Pol Hodge

Cornish Translator

GBA

General Management

AKA

Marketing & Advertising

RAW PR

Publicity

PRODUCERS

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Co-Music Supervisor, Orchestrator & Arranger

Luke Swaffield
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Autograph Sound

Erin Witton
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Olivia
Hilton-Foster

Dylan
Winn-Davies