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Theatre credits include: Witness for the Prosecution (Eleanor Lloyd Productions); A Spider’s Web, The Diary of Anne Frank, Love from A Stranger (Tabs Productions); Strictly Murder (Hello World Productions); Boeing Boeing (ABA Productions, Hong Kong); Rope & Equus (talkingScarlet); A Murder is Announced (National Tour); Sylvia Plath’s Three Women (Assembly Rooms & Inside Intelligence); And Then The Room Was Plunged Into Darkness (Barbican).
Screen credits include: Insomnia (Paramount+); Lewis (ITV); Off-Piste (SIFF & Chelsea NYFF Best Actress); The Waterhouse; The Draw; War of the Worlds; Blackbird; The Pugilist.
Radio credits include: Alfie (BBC); Doctor Who, Callan, The Avengers, Space 1999 (Big Finish); The Merchant of Venice (RBM Productions).
Training: Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre credits include: The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre); Cluedo (UK Tour); Cockfosters (Turbine Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, and Richard III (Pop-Up Globe); The Great Gatsby (Lakeside Arts Theatre).
Screen credits include: 800 (Movie Train Motion Pictures); Saving Penelope (Jacco Macacco Films); BROASIS (Tiny Speck Productions); Fox in the Night ( Real Films/Channel 4).
Training: Oxford School of Drama and Ecole Philippe Gaulier.
Theatre credits include: The Haunting (New Vic); Mother Goose (Duke of Yorks/Tour); Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Regents Park Open Air); Don Quixote (RSC/Nimax); Dr Faustus, The Alchemist (RSC/Barbican); One Man Two Guvnors (New Wolsey/Nuffield Southampton); Iolanthe (ENO); Play 29 (Vault Festival); Twelfth Night (Flute); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Squerryes Court).
Television credits include: Doctors; Harlots; Shakespeare Live! From the RSC.
Film credits include: Napoleon; Dumbo; Teen Spirit.
Theatre credits include: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (National and International Tour); Soldier On; Kerbs; Much Ado About Nothing.
Television credits include: EastEnders (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Emmerdale (ITV); Patience (Channel 4); Hollyoaks (Channel 4); The Full Monty (Disney+);
The Undeclared War (Channel 4) & Trying (AppleTV).
Film credits include: Picture This; Dream Horse; Tomb Raider; Polite Society.
Theatre credits include: Land of the Free (Southwark Playhouse); Murder in the Dark (Tour); Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre/Old Vic); An Inspector Calls (West End); Market Boy, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National Theatre); Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, The General from America, Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3, Richard III (Royal Shakespeare Company); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston); Roots (Manchester Royal Exchange); Copenhagen (Royal Lyceum); Way Upstream (Derby Playhouse); In The Next Room (The Vibrator Play) (St James Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Ludlow Festival); Antony and Cleopatra, Tiger Tail (Nuffield Theatre); Desire Under The Elms (New Vic); Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Hedda (Palimpsest); Kalashnikov (Pursued By A Bear); Slaves (Theatre 503).
Film credits include: The Upside of Ange; She’s Gone; Hedda.
Television credits include: House of the Dragon; Outlander; You Me & Them; Doctors; Trial & Retribution; Dream Team; Spooks; Armadillo; Bad Girls; In the Name of Love; Family Affairs; The Bill; Birds of a Feather; The Professionals.
Training: Central School of Speech and Drama.
Recent credits include: Queen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Further stage credits include: The Changing of the Guard (Jermyn Street Theatre); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Stockholm, Henry VI, The Mysteries (all with Playbox Theatre).
Television credits include: Doctors (BBC)
Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre credits include: Accolade (Theatre Royal, Windsor & Tour); Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain (Birmingham Stage Company); The Da Vinci Code (UK Tour); An Inspector Calls (UK Tour); Séance (The Other Palace); Sherlock Holmes and the Crimson Cobbles (The Theatre, Chipping Norton & Tour); Night Must Fall (Salisbury Playhouse & Original Theatre); A Little History of the World (Watermill Theatre & Tour); Urinetown: The Musical (Apollo Theatre & St. James’s Theatre); Richard III and The Pride (Jamie Lloyd Theatre Company, Trafalgar Studios); A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet and The Importance of Being Earnest (London Touring Players), Macbeth (Lord Chamberlain’s Men), Newsrevue (Canal Cafe Theatre) The Lost World (Bristol Old Vic).
Screen credits include: We Hunt Together (BBC/UKTV); Ghostbusters: The Gates of Gozer (Secret Cinema); Casualty (BBC); The Cost of Living (Rhyming Films) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Warner Bros.)
Audiobooks include: ‘Dark Star: A Biography of Vivian Leigh’ and ‘Beyond the 39 Steps: A Life of John Buchan’ for Bloomsbury.
Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre credits include: Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street Theatre) Noises Off (Birmingham Rep & UK Tour) Mr Burns: A Post-electric Play (Derby Theatre); Surfacing (The Vaults); When Darkness Falls (UK Tour); Private Peaceful (Nottingham Playhouse & UK Tour); Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida Theatre); I Don’t Dance (So&So Arts); AAAAA (Lion & The Unicorn); Horseshoes For Hand Grenades (East Riding Theatre); Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem (Old Red Lion); Me And My Left Ball (Tristan Bates Theatre).
Television credits include: Doctors (BBC).
Film credits include: The Batman (Matt Reeves); Cost of Living (Ryan Hogan).
Audio credits include: A Kestrel For A Knave (BBC Radio 4).
Training: Guildford School of Acting & The BRIT School
Theatre credits include: The Big BiteSize Breakfast Show (The Pleasance); Sybil Evers, Chariots of Fire (Frinton Summer Theatre); Kitty, Taking Steps (OSO Theatre); Ensemble, The Malarkey Chronicles (Upstairs at The Gatehouse); The Bright Bright Black (RADA & Criterion Theatre); Jennet Device, The Lancashire Witches (The Glitch); Fairy Bowbells, Dick Whittington (Godalming Borough Hall); Jane Downing, The Last Post (UK Tour); Sorrel Saxon/Tracy Taylor/Julie-Ann Jobson, Damsels in Distress Trilogy (Theatre Royal Windsor); Sarah, Without – New Musical (Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe); Evelyn, Absent Friends (OSO Theatre); Lucy, The Government Inspector- MT Fest (The Turbine Theatre); Harriet Smith, Emma (Manor Pavilion Theatre); Ela Delahay, Charley’s Aunt (Manor Pavilion Theatre); Ensemble, Jane Eyre (The Minack Theatre); Guinevere/Morgan La Fay, The Tales of King Arthur (Hobgoblin Theatre Company).
Training: Webber Douglas
West End credits include: Understudy on The Woman in Black (Fortune) and The Mousetrap (St Martins Theatre). He has also worked in Stockholm for the last 20 years in A Christmas Carol.
Other stage work includes: Fiddler on the roof; South Pacific; Twelfth Night; Pravda; A Chorus of Disapproval.
Radio and TV roles include: Vicars; Football Referees; Tax Inspectors and other pillars of the community!
Clive currently volunteers for a drug and alcohol treatment charity, Resolve.
Training: The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martins Theatre); Suitcase Shakespeare (UK Tour);
Blockbuster (Key Theatre, Peterborough); Wild Boy (UK Tour).
TV & film credits include: Brexit – The Uncivil War; Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him.
Workshops include: The Mysteries of Milton Hall (The National Theatre)
Richard is an Artistic Associate with Lamphouse Theatre.
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre Credits include: The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre); Macbeth: A Tale of Sound and Fury (6FootStories/Brighton Fringe; A Christmas Carol, Carrie’s War, Our Town, Blue Remembered Hills (Apollo Theatre Company/Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shooting Stars Theatre Company), Back to Back, Flickbook (Poleroid Theatre/Theatre 503/White Bear).
Ben has also toured extensively with the award winning Ten Ten Theatre and the Young Shakespeare Company and has starred in several short films with The Lacuna Works.
West End credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s Theatre), Les Misérables (Palace Theatre), Starlight Express Vocal Booth (Apollo, Victoria), The Sound Of Music (Sadler’s Wells).
Other stage credits include: Sondheim’s Road Show (Union Theatre), A Dolls House (Barons Court), 84 Charing Cross Road,, Shakespeare’s Fools and Horses (St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden) and played Mother Christmas for Lapland UK.
Concerts include: Les Misérables 10th Anniversary (Royal Albert Hall), Les Misérables 25th Anniversary (O2 Arena), and Lesley Garrett’s Travelling Light tour.
T.V. credits include: EastEnders, (BBC), The Great Plague (Discovery).
Philip’s work as a Director includes: In the West End: The Duchess of Malfi, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Parts One and Two), Taking Sides, Collaboration, Dear Lupin. At the National Theatre: Private Lives, The Heiress, Early Morning National Tours: The Habit of Art (also New York), The Croft, The Mirror Crack’d, Murder in the Dark.
At Chichester Festival Theatre: Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, The Master Builder, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables, Rattigan’s Nijinsky, A Marvellous Year For Plums.
Other: Dr Faustus, Hamlet, The Browning Version (Greenwich), The White Devil ( Lyric, Hammersmith), The Comedy of Errors (Regent’s Park), The Cocktail Party (Edinburgh International Festival), The Duchess of Malfi (Leeds), The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Rose, York), Four of the 66 Books (The Bush). Online: A Cold Supper Behind Harrods, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (which he also wrote), Barnes People.
Radio includes: A Patriot For Me, A Soldier and a Maker, An English Tragedy, and his own adaptation of E M Forster’s The Machine Stops.
Philip is also an actor.
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Denise trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her career as an actress and singer working in the West End, film, television, and radio. She began her relationship with The Mousetrap by playing Miss Casewell in 1994 and then again in 2001. She became Production Supervisor for the show in 2009 and then Artistic Director in 2018. She has cast every West End production since 2009, tours since 2015 and has cast and directed productions in China, the Far East and India.
Other production and casting credits include: Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk (feature films), Bloody Difficult Women (Riverside Studios), The Pargetter Triptych (podcast), Musik (Edinburgh and West End), The Dame (Park Theatre and National Tour), Dead Sheep (Park Theatre and National Tour), An Audience with Jimmy Saville (Park Theatre and Edinburgh), The Roundabout (Park Theatre and New York), Twitstorm, Deny Deny Deny and Twilight Song (Park Theatre), Alex Salmond Unleashed (Edinburgh and National Tour), Once Seen on Blue Peter (Edinburgh Festival), All or Nothing (Arts and Ambassadors Theatre), Don’t Call Me Nigel (National Tour), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (National Tour), The Watcher (Waterloo East Theatre), The Translucent Frogs of Quuup (Edinburgh Festival, Ambassadors Theatre, Kings Head), Burton, Clown in the Moon, Wilde Without the Boy (Edinburgh and St James’s Theatre), The Man Called Monkhouse (National Tour), Starting Here, Starting Now (Jermyn Street Theatre).
She is also a recipient of both Stage One Bursary and Start Up Fund for producers and is a member of UK Theatre and the League of Independent Producers.
Peter Saunders’ first job was as a very junior assistant cameraman. He graduated to cameraman and film director.
He then produced his own films and lost all his money. He worked as a reporter on the Daily Express for four years; then as press agent to bandleader Harry Roy. He joined the army when war broke out, rising from private to captain.
He jumped in at the deep end and put on his first play in 1947. He then produced more than 150 shows all over the world including the world record breaking The Mousetrap. In 1981 he was knighted for his services to the theatre. In April 1994 he transferred the management of The Mousetrap to Mousetrap Productions run by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen. Sir Peter’s hobbies included chess, photography, the music of George Gershwin, telephoning, and collecting wills. He was married to Katie Boyle.
Sir Stephen has been a theatre owner and manager since 1984 when he was Joint Chief Executive of Maybox Group which acquired and managed the Albery, Criterion, Donmar Warehouse, Piccadilly, Whitehall and Wyndham’s Theatre, as well as developing the first British owned multiplex cinemas.
Maybox was sold in 1989, in which year he became Director of the Victoria Palace Theatre but sold it to Cameron Mackintosh in 2014. Sir Stephen became the Producer of The Mousetrap in 1994. Since then he has also taken on the management of the St Martin’s Theatre as well as the Vaudeville from 1995 – 2002 and the Savoy from 1997 – 2005. In April 2007 Sir Stephen purchased the Ambassadors Theatre, the sister theatre to the St.Martin’s and the original home of The Mousetrap for the first 21 years of it’s run. Before entering the theatre business Sir Stephen was a financial journalist and a founder director of Euromoney Publications. Sir Stephen was President of the Society of London Theatre from 2002 to 2005; and he was a Trustee of The Theatres Trust 1998 – 2004. In 2007 Sir Stephen became Chairman of RADA, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
He founded Mousetrap Theatre Projects in 1996 which each year takes thousands of young people, who would not otherwise have the opportunity, to the best of West End Theatre, and is the industry’s leading education charity.
Over the past 25 years, Adam Spiegel has produced extensively in London’s West End as well as various tours throughout the UK and internationally. Most recently Adam has taken over as producer of the world’s longest running show The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre), upholding its prestigious legacy within the West End.
West End credits include: Motown The Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Fame (Aldwych Theatre and Shaftesbury Theatre); Sister Act (London Palladium); Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria); High School Musical – Live on Stage! (Hammersmith Apollo); Midnight Tango (Aldwych Theatre, Phoenix Theatre); Dance ‘Til Dawn (Aldwych Theatre); Love Story (Duchess Theatre); Crazy for You (Novello Theatre); The Mysteries (Queen’s Theatre) and Birdy (Comedy Theatre).
UK touring credits include: Motown the Musical (2018); Fat Friends the Musical (2017); Tango Moderno (2017); Shirley Valentine (2017); The Mousetrap 60th anniversary tour (2012–2016); To Kill a Mockingbird (2014 and 2015); Love Me Tender (2015) The Producers (2015); Fame; Saturday Night Fever; The Last Tango (2015-2016); Dance ‘Til Dawn (2014 and 2015); Midnight Tango (2011, 2012 and 2013); Strictly Come Dancing Live; High School Musical – Live on Stage!; High School Musical 2; the Creole Choir of Cuba; The Mysteries; Lady Salsa and Five Guys Named Moe.
International touring credits include: Saturday Night Fever (Australasian and Scandinavian tours); Fame (Scandinavian and US tours) and the Creole Choir of Cuba (worldwide).
Other theatre credits include: To Kill a Mockingbird (Barbican Theatre); Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall, London); Lady Salsa (Pleasance Theatre) and Promises, Promises (Sheffield Theatres).
Adam produced the annual Laurence Olivier Awards for the Society of London Theatre for five years running from 2004 to 2008. Adam has also previously acted as an arts consultant for both The Sunday
Times and Tate Britain. Adam now sits on the board of SOLT and the League of Independent Producers.
www.adamspiegel.com
Brian Fenty is a multi-hyphenate producer, entrepreneur, creative, and executive, and is delighted to produce Agatha Christie’s storied and genre-defining work, The Mousetrap, ensuring its continued position as the world’s longest-running show.
Brian is the founder and CEO of TodayTix, the global e-commerce leader for cultural experiences with more than 20 million members. With over 10 years of experience in the intersection of technology, commerce, and culture, he leads a portfolio of brands and platforms that connect audiences with the best live entertainment around the world, including TodayTix, Show-Score, and the legendary immersive pioneer, Secret Cinema.
A lifelong entrepreneur, investor, and Broadway producer, Brian has a passion for unlocking greater access and diversity in the arts and culture sector. As a Tony-Nominated Broadway producer, he has produced Broadway’s Oleanna (starring Bill Pullman) and The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (starring Rachel Brosnahan), as well as the off-Broadway hits Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (with Aubrey Plaza) and Hold On to Me, Darling (with Adam Driver).
Brian has been recognised by Crain’s 30 Under 30, Variety’s Dealmakers List, the Broadway Impact List, and as a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Fund award. Under his leadership, Producers TTG has been recognised as a Fast Company Most Innovative Company and part of The Marketplace 100.
Brian is deeply committed to the arts and technology, and their ability to preserve great cultural icons. He serves on the boards of the American Friends of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, the Institute for Arts and Humanities, and the Warner Theatre.
He lives in London with his wife, children, and giant Bernedoodle, Moo.
