Production Team

Jane has dedicated her professional life to music for over forty-five years as a teacher, and as performer in her one-woman show for children - Teresa’s Terrible Tragedy, and is a composer of several original songs and compositions published by both Oxford and Cambridge University Press.

 

Jane taught music at primary schools across London and her pupils performed with professional organisations such as the English National Opera, the BBC Singers and Voces 8,  at venues across London including the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall. Working for the Hackney Music Service she brought her vocal experience to the borough choir encouraging a high standard of performance.

 

A former member of the London Symphony Chorus, Jane worked under conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Davis and Claudio Abbado. 

Now mostly retired, she has been using her time to develop Once in a While which she first wrote in the 1980s, inspired by the works of Ivor Novello.

David trained as a classical singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has worked extensively as a performer in opera, operetta, musicals and pantomimes. Notable credits include Gastone in Jonathan Miller’s production of La Traviata, Bunthorne in Patience at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Mr. Bumble in Daniel Evans’ production of Oliver! at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Auctioneer/Jeweller/Passarino in The Phantom of the Opera and over thirty appearances in panto, primarily as dame.

 

As a director, David has staged over fifty productions. His version of Ruddigore was Time Out Critic’s Choice, and his productions of Who Will Carry the Word? and See Me For Myself were nominated for Off West End Awards.

 

As a writer, David has written innumerable pantomimes for both amateur and professional companies. His New Adventures of Peter Pan was nominated for a Pantomime Award for Best Script following it's 2024 production at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. He also wrote the script for a UK tour of Robin Hood and Kristina Rihanoff’s Dance to the Music.

Chris is a graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with career expertise spanning the opera, musical theatre, classical and contemporary music genres.

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He works in London as a musical director, vocal coach, pianist, and arranger and is an IPATH singing teacher, utilising Estill voice training where he constantly keeps up to date with the latest vocal science and safe singing guidance.

 

Chris has MD’d and vocal coached on musicals and operas internationally including in the USA, the Middle East, South East Asia and all around the UK in addition to working on the high seas as a Musical Director for P&O Cruises.

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He has taught at many prestigious arts institutions including, The Urdang Academy, Rose Bruford College, Arts Ed and London School of Musical Theatre.

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He is also currently a musical theatre practitioner at Be.Training Programme at Northfleet School For Girls, and David Stinson Theatre School.

Mark is a musical director, keyboard player, accompanist, composer, arranger and software engineer.

 

Most of his professional life has been in software, but he’s recently made the leap to pursue a dual career in music and software.

 

He’s an experienced accompanist and musical director in classical operetta (particularly the works of Gilbert and Sullivan), as well as modern musical theatre styles and comedy, and has been musical director for shows such as The Mikado, Ruddigore, She Loves Me, My Fair Lady and Guys and Dolls, as well as for the long running satirical comedy show NewsRevue (Canal Cafe Theatre), and assistant musical director for Sleeping Beauty (Upstage Productions at The Radlett Centre).

 

He is currently working on a new musical - Weapons Of Mass Seduction - as musical arranger/supervisor and additional music which will receive its world premiere in New York in June.

 

He is also a producer/accompanist with new boutique opera company Jam Factory Opera. 

Dino is a senior banking lawyer with extensive experience within financial institutions. He advises on a broad range of in-house matters, from lending transactions to commercial contracts and company secretarial matters.

 

He completed his undergraduate degree in Modern Languages (Spanish & Portuguese) at Trinity College, Oxford, and gained his legal qualifications at The College of Law, London.

 

Dino is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and, in his spare time, he is a director, the company secretary and chair of the board of trustees of Sputnik Theatre Company, an independent British theatre company dedicated to sourcing, translating and producing international drama for British audiences; the legal and business consultant of I-PATH (International Performing Arts and Theatre), a dance and performing arts examination board offering Ofqual-regulated exams; a trustee of both the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Trust and of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Benevolent Fund; and the Board Advisor of Living Bankside, a local community engagement charitable organisation in London SE1.