Meet The Team
Great Musicals don't grow on trees...so thank goodness we've got such a talented team to do the hard graft! Rest assured all our musicals are created by industry professionals - writers, singers, actors, musicians, artists...so it's no wonder songanddancekidz musicals are such rip roaring riots. The team also teaches and coaches the younger generation of performers in schools across the UK, so you can be sure that they know what people want from a musical.
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The team members' profiles are below - just click on them to read about what they've done in the industry and see how they help songanddancekidz musicals to be the success they are, time and time again...
Jonathan is a professional actor and acting coach. He trained as an actor at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London for three years back in the early 90s. He further studied at the Guildford School of Acting where he gained a First Class Honours Degree in... Read more »
Writing songs since the Seventies. Worked with; Pete Cox, Go West, Judy Tzuke, Wild Willy Barret & Nigel Gray, producer to The Police. Michael is the creator of a musical for younger children, ‘Delahaye the Dog’. Wrote the songs for Jonathan Rice’s musical, ‘Tin Pan Sally.’ Read more »
Over 30 years in the music business, Eric began his career at the age of seventeen playing guitar in punk bands including The Damned, B-Movie and The Whizz Kids. His first film score commission was for horror movie, The Drowning Pool, starring Linda Blair. Other projects include TV show Hacket... Read more »
Dominic Anthony Ferris is a musician whose field of expertise crosses over several genres: music theatre, pop/rock and classical. He trained at the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2010 with an honours degree in piano performance. Dominic is currently working closely with Indonesian pianist Elwin Hendrijanto after forming the... Read more »
Ellie’s passion is Musical Theatre. She got her first taste of this genre when she attended Stagecoach Theatre Arts from the age of three. After ten years of regular attendance at Stagecoach Ellie decided that she needed a more professional training, and, therefore for the past two years... Read more »
Louie’s passion is to sing and perform. Not only does he attend, full-time, Arabesque School of Performing Arts in Chichester during the week he also trains at the part-time stage school Goldmans in Brighton at week-ends. He is an experienced performer that belie his years (only fourteen... Read more »
Abby, who is only fourteen years of age, has been interested in the Performing Arts since she can remember. She started attending classes at Stagecoach where she really caught the bug. She now trains in all the performance disciplines at the full-time school Arabesque School of Performing... Read more »
Mark has been working professionally in the Entertainment Business for as long as he can remember. His early career includes commercials for Cheesestrings and EDF energy. He is a true all-rounder; sings, dances, acts and plays guitar. He has appeared as Sweeney in Sweeney Todd, Thenardier... Read more »
Alice has a wealth of performance experience under her belt. At only sixteen years of age she has had many coveted roles in over a dozen musicals during her time training at Arabesque School of Performing Arts including Taylor in High School Musical, Consuela in West Side Story,... Read more »
Esther developed an interest in children's artwork during her degree studies of Psychology at Oxford University in 1995 and after using art based therapeutic interventions whilst working with the NHS completed a doctorate in understanding expression in children's artwork at the University of Surrey in 2000. She teaches and conducts research... Read more »
Eleven year old Toby has had a lot of professional stage experience for his tender years. Shortly after his appearance in Peter Pan at the Theatre Royal in Brighton he was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company holding his own amongst the original cast of Matilda - A... Read more »
Ella loves to sing and was chosen to become a fully fledged member of the Theatre Workshop International Choir back in 2010 – she is still representing them and is a veteran member at the age of fourteen. Besides her singing commitments she has found time to tread the... Read more »
Kathryn was drawn to the Performing Arts from a very young age and has never looked back. Besides her involvement in many shows, festivals and workshops she has had rigorous training in all disciplines. Her formal training started when just a mere girl attending full-time at The Arabesque School... Read more »