Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol, Woyzeck (The Old Vic); OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End / Broadway); King Kong (Broadway); Mydidae (West End / Soho); Stacy (West End / Tron / Arcola); Let the Right One In (West End / Dundee Rep / Royal Court); Junkyard (UK tour); The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae / National Theatre / UK tour); Bunny (Nabokov / UK tour / New York); Stuart: A Life Backwards (Sheffield Crucible / UK tour); Sunday (Atlantic Theatre); The End of History, Hope (Royal Court).

Television includes: Help, Then Barbara Met Alan, Crip Tales, The Eddy, The Accident, His Dark Materials, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, Kiri, National Treasure, The Last Panthers, Don’t Take My Baby, This Is England, The Fades, Glue, Cast-Offs. Film includes: Enola Holmes, The Secret Garden, The Aeronauts, Dirt Music, Radioactive, Wonder, War Book, A Long Way Down, The Scouting Book for Boys.

Jack’s work for television has won him five BAFTAs and an RTS Television Award.

In 2022 Jack was the recipient of both the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing, and the Royal Television Society’s award for Outstanding Contribution to British Television. Jack is a patron of Graeae Theatre Company which champions the representation of the disabled community on stage, an associate artist of The Old Vic, and recently launched the pressure group Underlying Health Conditions to champion disabled representation in the TV industry.

Theatre includes: Lungs, Present Laughter, ‘Art’, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, Speed-the-Plow (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic / Broadway); OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer, Three Kings, Lungs (The Old Vic); Matilda the Musical (RSC / West End / Broadway / International tour); Ghost the Musical (West End / Broadway / South Korea); La Bête (West End / Broadway); God of Carnage (West End / Broadway/LA); Deathtrap, Endgame (West End); Our House, Much Ado About Nothing (West End / UK tour); Boeing-Boeing (West End / Broadway / UK tour); The Lord of the Rings (West End / Toronto); Buried Child, Volpone (National Theatre); Follies (Broadway); Life x 3 (National Theatre / The Old Vic / Broadway); True West (Donmar / Broadway); The Unexpected Man (RSC / West End / Broadway); ‘Art’ (Broadway / West End / Los Angeles); Hamlet, Henry V (RSC); Betrayal, Death of a Salesman, The Plough and the Stars, Fiddler on the Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, True West, Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse).

Opera includes: Falstaff, Così Fan Tutte (ENO); The Rake’s Progress (ROH/WNO).

Film includes: Matilda The Musical; Pride — BIFA Best British Independent Film, Simpatico.

Matthew was an Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse and Artistic Associate at The Old Vic before being appointed Artistic Director of the theatre in 2014.

Theatre as Composer includes: A Christmas Carol – Tony Award® for Best Original Score (The Old Vic / Broadway); OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Future Conditional, (The Old Vic); The Divide (The Old Vic/EIF).

Theatre as Orchestrator, Additional Music, Musical Supervisor includes: Groundhog Day — Olivier Award for Best New Musical (The Old Vic / Broadway); Matilda the Musical — seven Olivier Awards, four Tony Awards® (RSC / West End / Broadway).

Theatre as Musical Supervisor, Arranger and Orchestrator includes: Ghost The Musical (West End / Broadway).

Theatre as Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator includes: Bombay Dreams (West End).

Theatre as Co-Composer and Orchestrator includes: The Lord of the Rings.

Theatre as Arranger and Musical Director includes: Closer to Heaven (West End).

Theatre as Musical Director includes: Whistle Down the Wind, Oliver!.

Film as Composer includes: Pride.

Film as Conductor/Vocal Coach includes: Evita.

Film as Original Score and Executive Music Producer includes: Matilda The Musical.

Theatre as an Associate Artist includes: Groundhog Day — Olivier Award for Best New Musical (The Old Vic / Broadway); ‘Art’, No’s Knife, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic).

Theatre includes: OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Back to the Future, Anything Goes, The Height of the Storm, Mary Poppins, The Birthday Party, Venus in Fur, Dreamgirls, Matilda the Musical (West End); Hillary and Clinton, The Boys in the Band (Broadway); The Snail House, The Forest (Hampstead Theatre), Exit the King, The Red Lion (National Theatre).

Awards include three Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards® and a Molière Award.

Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (Broadway / The Old Vic / US Tour) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (The Old Vic / NT Live); An Ideal Husband, Upstart Crow, Daddy Cool, The Girls (West End); All Male H.M.S. Pinafore, Onassis (UK Tour); HMS Pinafore, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe (ENO); The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Frost / Nixon (Sheffield Theatres); Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park Open Air); Twelfth Night (Young Vic); Jack Absolute Flies Again, A Pacifist Guide to the War on Cancer (National Theatre), A Christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast (Chichester).

Film includes: The Grinch, Pride, Dance with Me.

Lizzi is an Old Vic Associate Artist.

Laurie is an established musical director, pianist and music copyist across the West End and beyond.

His projects have included A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), Groundhog Day (London and Broadway), Ghost The Musical (London, Broadway, Korea, UK Tour), A Pleasure’s Progress (Royal Opera House), A Tender Thing (RSC), The Lord Of The Rings (Drury Lane), Carousel (Savoy), The Pirates Of Penzance (Savoy), Lend Me A Tenor and The King & I. He has been on the television in Genius, I’d Do Anything and Your Country Needs You, and was the orchestral conductor for the score of the 2014 movie, Pride. He is also a guest teacher at London colleges including Royal College Of Music, Mountview, LSMT and Italia Conti.

Some further credits as a keyboard player/audition pianist include: Book Of Mormon, Jersey Boys, Legally Blonde, Love Never Dies, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Scrooge, Singin’ In The Rain, Top Hat, Wicked (all West End); The Color Purple (Chocolate Factory) and High Society (UK tour).

Laurie has been involved with Matilda The Musical at the RSC, from its initial workshops through productions at Stratford, Broadway, Australia and the UK tour. He has been the musical director and associate musical supervisor for the London production since 2013 and was also associate music producer and orchestral conductor for the Matilda The Musical 2022 movie.

Peter is a musical director, composer, and voice teacher. Musical Director credits include Australian and international productions of: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (MD), Jagged Little Pill (Australasian Musical Supervisor/MD), School Of Rock (Vocal Coach/AMD) Matilda The Musical, Beyond Desire, A Little Touch Of Chaos, On The 20th Century, A Little Night Music, My Fair Lady, Little Women, The Hatpin, LoveBites, Sing On Through Tomorrow, Annie (AMD), Cats (AMD), Jekyll & Hyde (AMD), The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber (AMD), amongst others.

He co-wrote The Hatpin, LoveBites and A Little Touch Of Chaos with James Millar and Dangerous with Jayde Kirchert. His shows have been produced across Australia, New York, London and many other cities in the world to critical and award-winning acclaim. He was twice the fortunate recipient of the Jeanne Pratt Artist in Residence at Monash University. He is also the Voice Consultant for Hamilton in Australia and now the International Tour and also voice coaches other shows including & Juliet, West Side Story, Miss Saigon and School of Rock.

He is also a Lecturer in the Music Theatre department at the Victorian College of the Arts at The University Of Melbourne.

Sophie is a Melbourne-based set and costume designer. Sophie graduated with a Bachelor of Production (Design) from VCA in 2010 winning the Beleura John Tallis Design Award in her final year.

Sophie recently designed costumes for Death of a Salesman (GWB Entertainment and Red Line Productions) and Come Rain or Come Shine (Melbourne Theatre Company). Recent set and costume designs include Monument (Red Stitch Actors Theatre) and Unprecedented (HotHouse Theatre).

Earlier design work from Sophie includes Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company); Burn This, The One and Mr Burns, A Post Electric Play (fortyfivedownstairs); All the Shining Lights, Those Who Fall in Love like Anchors Dropped Upon the Ocean Floor, Between the Clouds, Pyjama Girl and Letters from the Border (HotHouse Theatre); Selling Kabul, A Simple Act of Kindness, Fast Food, Iphigenia in Splott, Grace, Extinction, Rules for Living and You got Older (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Garage Girls, #No Exemptions, Thigh Gap and A Long Day’s Dying (LaMama Theatre).

Sophie was Costume Design Associate on Girls & Boys, Bernhardt/Hamlet, An Ideal Husband and Twelfth Night (Melbourne Theatre Company).

You can view Sophie’s work at sophiewoodwarddesign.com

Hugh Hamilton has been Associate Lighting Designer on Phantom of the Opera in 2022, Jagged Little Pill, Come from Away, Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys,, My Fair Lady (Opera Australia), Wicked (Korean Language), The King and I, The Addams Family Musical, Legally Blonde, Rock of Ages and Guys and Dolls.

Hugh has also designed, amongst others, Miracle City, Sideshow (Hayes), One Billion Beats (CAC), Ladies Day (Griffin), I am My Own Wife Tour (Oriel), Eora Crossing, On the Case (Legs On the Wall), HMS Pinafore (Bel Rosa Opera Company), Freefall (Sydney Dance Company), Del Del (Sydney Theatre Company), and Ursula (Brink Productions), as well as designing shows for dance companies, events and the site lighting for Opera Australia’s Turandot, Carmen and La Boheme.

Internationally he has worked on Phantom of the Opera, CATS, Wicked, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon and the Mamma Mia! 10th Anniversary tour.

Sharon has had the pleasure of working on a number of projects with GWB Entertainment including Matilda (International Tour), Ghost (International Tour including Australia) and now A Christmas Carol.

Other shows include: Hamilton London, Billy Elliot (London and Holland), Matilda (Korea) and Phantom of the Opera (International Tour). She has also worked on Crazy for You, West Side Story and Sunny Afternoon.

For the RSC: The Tempest, A Comedy of Errors, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (London and Broadway). Most recently she has been at The Almeida Theatre London and her credits there are The Chairs, House of Shades and Patriots.

Sharon is very pleased to be back in Melbourne and especially looking forward to A Christmas Carol.

Jan is delighted to be a part of the A Christmas Carol family once more after his role as Swing/Dance Captain in 2022.

Some of Jan’s theatre credits include Muriel’s Wedding The Musical (Dance Captain), Dream Lover, Singin’ In The Rain, Mary Poppins (NZ), Anything Goes, The Producers and Sweet Charity (Dance Captain) for the Palace Theatre (USA), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Promises Promises, The Boy From Oz, Music Man, The Mikado, and Pirates Of Penzance.

Jan is an educator and theatre director/choreographer with Patrick School of the Arts in Melbourne.

He is also an early-career playwright and now a Doctor of Philosophy candidate (Performing Arts) where his writing and research is supported by a Griffith University HDR Candidate Scholarship.