Actress in a Musical, Meg Giry in Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre), for which she received a 2011 Olivier Award Nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical, Company (Queen’s Theatre) directed by Jamie Lloyd, Paradise Moscow (Opera North) directed by David Pountney, Maria in The Sound of Music (London Palladium), Janet Van Der Graaf in The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello Theatre), for which she received a 2008 Olivier Award Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, Dick Whittington (Barbican Theatre) directed by Edward Hall, Maisie in The Boyfriend (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park) and received a 2007 Olivier Award Nomination for Best Supporting Role in a Musical, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre) directed by Michael Grandage, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium), Cats (New London Theatre and National Tour), Fosse (European Tour), Anything Goes (Grange Park Opera), Scrooge (Dominion Theatre) and The Sound of Music (Sadler’s Wells).
Television and film credits include: Casualty (BBC), Five-Aside (Emerald Films), Doctors (BBC), The Land Girls (BBC), Hotel Babylon (Carnival Films), Beyond The Sea directed by Kevin Spacey and Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures).
Workshops include: Marilyn directed by David Grindley and It’s A Wonderful Life.
Recordings include: Top Hat (Original Cast Album) and Love Never Dies (Concept Album).
Marco Jos Vantyler
Jos Vantyler won a Theatre Choice Award for Outstanding Performance in a new play and was nominated a second time for an OffWestEnd Award (Offie) for Best Male Performance of 2012 for his portrayal of the promoter of the Dance Marathon contest in Dead on Her Feet, also written by Ron Hutchinson.
He appeared in the all-star cast of King Lear at The Old Vic in 2013 and in Love’s Labours Lost for the 20th anniversary of Northern Broadsides in 2011. He learnt the Trapeze to play the protagonist of Circus Britannica in 2011 (The Bike Shed Theatre). He played Tom Sawyer in James Graham’s Huck (Southwalk Playhouse and National Tour) and received an Offie nomination for Outstanding Male Performance. Other award-winning and nominated work includes Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (Lincoln Center, New York), A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller (New York Tower Productions) and the Broadway transfer of Prophecy (New End Theatre).
On television he has appeared on Knight Spell and the Name of God (Fairmont/HBO) and Here and Now (CBS).
CREATIVE TEAM
Ron Hutchinson
Writer & Co-Director
Writer Ron Hutchinson is an Emmy award-winning screenwriter for Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, currently based in Los Angeles. He has received four other Emmy nominations. After working at several jobs, including carpet fitter, fish gutter and Social Security Department fraud investigator, he wrote his first television play Twelve Off The Belt for the BBC. A series of television plays and series then followed, including two series of Bird of Prey starring the late Richard Griffiths and Connie, starring Stephanie Beecham.
Ron’s first stage play, Says I Says He, was produced at the Sheffield Crucible, Royal Court Theatre and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles. It led to his becoming Writer In Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and won him the George Devine Award. Other plays that have been produced internationally include Moonlight and Magnolias at The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, The Tricycle and the Manhattan Theatre Club which was nominated for the 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work in Chicago and won a New York Critic’s Circle Comedy Award. West End productions include Steven Daldry’s revival of Rat in the Skull (Olivier Award nomination) and Beau Brummel at the Haymarket, Leicester Square. For the Royal National Theatre he adapted Mikhail Bulgakov’s Flight and Carl Zuckmayer’s The Captain of Kopenick, both performed on the Olivier stage.
After moving to Los Angeles he wrote and produced extensively for American cable and network companies including HBO, ABC, NBC, CBS, Lifetime and Showtime. He has recently resumed writing for BBC radio and his series of five short plays, Hollywood Endings starring Kathleen Turner, is due for transmission on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. He has also taught screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
Victoria Fischer
Original Story
Victoria trained at The Oxford School of Drama. Her first play Finding Evita, based on her journey to Buenos Aires to learn Tango, debuted at the Face to Face Solo Theatre Festival in London in 2012. She developed this play with Ron Hutchinson; Flying Into Daylight is the result of that collaboration.
Other theatre credits include roles in Backbeat at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow; Dead on Her Feet at The North Wall, Oxford and Arcola Theatre in London and a UK Tour as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet with the Young Shakespeare Company.
Max Roberts
Co-Director
Max is the Artistic Director and a founding member of Live Theatre. His directing credits include new plays by some of the finest writers from the North East including: CP Taylor, Tom Hadaway, Alan Plater, Phil Woods, Julia Darling, Shelagh Stephenson, Peter Straughan, Lee Hall and Michael Chaplin.
For Live Theatre’s 40th anniversary season in 2013 Max directed Tyne by Michael Chaplin, Wet House by Paddy Campbell and a revival of Lee Hall’s Cooking with Elvis, a play he first directed for Live Theatre 16 years ago. In 2014, Max directed a series of rehearsed readings of screenplays by Lee Hall (and Simon Beaufoy) as well as Live Theatre’s new production Good Timin’ and Wet House which returned to Live Theatre before going on a National Tour.
Julian Rowlands
Musical Composer & Performer
Julian Rowlands, one of Europe’s leading Tango musicians, is a bandoneonist, composer and arranger specialising in Tango, classical and contemporary music. Julian received his degree in music from Southampton University and studied bandoneon with the leading Argentinean player Victor Villena.
Julian is a member of Tango Siempre, and created the score for the Olivier Award nominated show Midnight Tango together with Ros Stephen and Jonathan Taylor of Tango Siempre. He performed in the show in the West End and on tour from 2011 to 2013.
He has appeared on BBC television’s Strictly Come Dancing, The One Show and Zingzillas, on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, and at major concert and theatre venues in the UK and Europe such as the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Opera House and the Phoenix and Aldwych Theatres.
Amir Giles
Choreographer
Amir Giles is a performer and choreographer, who trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. His experience spans performance, collaborative devising, movement direction and choreography for television, film, theatre and opera.
He has taught at The Royal Ballet School, The Royal College of Music, Bodyguard – The Musical, The Royal Ballet, for productions at the Royal Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall, and multiple major Tango schools in London and abroad. As a choreographer and movement director Amir has worked with Paramount Pictures, Boy
