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Training: Oxford School of Drama. Theatre credits include: Wilko: Love, Death & Rock ‘n’ Roll (Leicester Square Theatre & Southwark playhouse), The Unicorn (Pegasus Theatre Edinburgh), New Face for Fast Times (Soho Theatre), Henry V (Rose Playhouse), Machinal (Pegasus Theatre). Television credits include: The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky), Suspicion (Discovery HD), Geek Island (UKTV).
Training: Guildhall School Of Music & Drama. Theatre credits include: Barefoot in the Park (Vienna’s English Theatre), Four Play (Theatre503), Another Country (Chichester Festival Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), Butley (Duchess Theatre), Penetrator, by Anthony Neilson and Super John (Freehouse Creative Productions) Television credits include: Bridgerton (Netflix), Steal (Amazon), Casualty (BBC), Sanditon (ITV), Eastenders (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Summer Of Rockets (BBC), Doctor Foster (BBC), Control Alt (Realm Pictures), Chewing Gum (Retort Comedy). Film credits include: The Telemachy (Matchbox Productions).
Training: The BRIT School, The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. Theatre credits include: Richard III (Almeida Theatre). Television credits include: Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix/Shondaland), Sister Boniface Mysteries (BBC), Mood (BBC/AMC), Safe (Netflix), Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color (Disney+/Nat Geo). Film credits include: Summerland (Lionsgate). Radio credits include: The Archers (BBC Radio 4), The Radio Drama Company (BBC).
Theatre credits include: Witness For The Prosecution (London County Hall), Cloakroom (PW Productions), All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory), Ant Street (Arcola Theatre), A Doll’s House, Roma and The Flannelettes, Dry Rot (Keswick), The Grapes of Wrath (Colchester), Glory Glory, The BFG (The Duke’s), Romeo and Juliet (Sprite Productions); Everybody Loves A Winner (Royal Exchange), The Mother, Round the World in 80 Days (The Scoop), The Twits (Bolton Octagon), Road (Pilot Theatre), The Arbor, Battina and the Moon (Sheffield Crucible), Finishing the Picture, Lark Rise to Candleford, Alfie (Finborough Theatre), Happy Families (Library Theatre), Women on the Verge of HRT, Thick as a Brick, Gym ‘n’ Tonic, April in Paris, Gargling with Jelly (Hull Truck). Television credits include: Brassic (SKY), Silent Witness (BBC), Grace (ITV), Ruby Speaking (Yellow Door ITVx), Domina (Tiger Aspect), Sister Boniface Mysteries (BBC / Britbox), Call the Midwife (Neal Street Productions / BBC), Malory Towers (King Bert / BBC), The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix), The Pale Horse (Mammoth Screen / BBC), Doctors (BBC), Goldie’s Oldies (Nickelodeon), Coronation Street (ITV), The Bill (ITV), The League of Gentlemen (BBC), Wire in the Blood (Coastal Productions), Fat Friends (Carlton Television). Film credits include: Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness (Modi Productions).
Training: The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include: Witness For The Prosecution (London County Hall), Billy Elliot (Leicester Curve), The Ladykillers (Oldham Coliseum), Twelfth Night (Storyhouse Theatre), The Borrowers (Storyhouse Theatre), Henry V (Storyhouse Theatre), Julius Caesar (Storyhouse Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (Octagon Theatre), The Funfair (Home), The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon (Oldham Coliseum), The Seagull (Library Theatre), Wanted Robin Hood (The Lowry), The Merchant of Venice (RSC), Macbeth (RSC). Television credits include: Peaky Blinders (BBC), Death Comes To Pemberly (BBC), Brassic (Sky), Doctors (BBC), Moving On (LA Productions/BBC), Coronation Street, (ITV), Brookside (Mersey TV), Hollyoaks (Lime Productions), Holby City (BBC). Film credits include: The Rise and Fall of The Krays, The Comfort Zone and Strange Relations. Radio credits include: Radio Drama Company (BBC).
Training: Ryerson Theatre School and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Boudica (Shakespeare’s Globe), TomorrowLove VR (National Theatre Studio), Dirty Little Machine (VAULT Festival). Film credits include: Poor Things (Golden Lion). Television credits include: Believe Me (ITV), Alice & Steve (Disney+), Inside Man (BBC/Netflix), The Great (Hulu). Voice work includes: over 150 audiobooks; an Earphones Award from Audiofile Magazine; the video games Horizon: Forbidden West and Terminator: Resistance, and Cinema Inferno (Maison Margiela).
Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Ecole Philippe Gaulier, and Royal Holloway University. Theatre credits include: How To Survive Your Mother (King’s Head), Toast (West End), Don Carlos (Rose Kingston), Great Apes (Arcola), Running Wild (Regent’s Park), The Fifth Column (Southwark), The One That Got Away (Bath), The Dog, the Knife and The Night (Arcola), Boris Godonov and The Orphan of Zhao (RSC), The 39 Steps (West End), Frankenstein (Frantic, Northampton), The Ramayana (Lyric Hammersmith), Market Boy (Royal National Theatre), Villette (Frantic, Scarborough), The Coffee House, The Merchant of Venice, Seven Doors, Doctor Faustus & The Government Inspector, Scapino (Chichester), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Citizens Glasgow), The Taming of the Shrew (Nottingham), The Chairs (Glasgow), Les Justes (Gate), The Woman Who Swallowed A Pin (Southwark), King Lear (Ninagawa Co), Measure for Measure (Edinburgh Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Almeida), The Mill On The Floss, Waiting for Godot (Contact Manchester), Les Enfants Du Paradis (David Glass). TV credits include: Doc Martin, Downton Abbey, Holby City, Doctors, Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression, The Bill, Doctor Barnardo. Radio credits include: The Government Inspector, Monsignor Quixote, Dombey and Son, Kes Film: Emma, The Welcome Committee.
Theatre credits include: A Matter of Life & Death (New Vic Stoke), The Three Musketeers (New Vic Stoke), When Darkness Falls (UK Tour), Henry V (Donmar Warehouse), War Horse (National Theatre & UK Tour), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (National Theatre), Wireless Operator (The Park Theatre), Peter Pan (Regent’s Park), Yen (Gothenburg English Studio Theatre), Chalk Farm (The Bush), Henry V (Mouth to Mouth Productions) and Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). Television and film credits includes: Angel of the North (Walk the Line Pictures), Henry V – Hollow Crown (BBC), Parents (Objective Productions), Hysteria (Hysteria Films), Prince of Persia (Dagger of Time Productions), Amazing Adventures of Zach Zubar (Turner Entertainment) and Magic Grandad (Glasshead). Radio credits include: Last of the Mohicans (BBC Radio 4).
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweet Charity, Fun Home (Mountview). Concert credits include: Magic at the Musicals 2024 (Royal Albert Hall) and Tim Rice: My Life in Musicals (London Palladium).
Training: Mountview. Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St Martins Theatre), Les Miserables (Palace Theatre), Starlight Express (Apollo Theatre), The Sound of Music (Sadler’s Wells), Road Show (Union Theatre), A Doll’s House (Barons Court Theatre) 84 Charing Cross Road (84 Charing Cross Road). Concert credits include: Les Miserables 10th Anniversary (Royal Albert Hall), Les Miserables 25th Anniversary (02 Arena), Lesley Garret’s Travelling Light tour. Television credits include: Eastenders (BBC), The Great Plague (Discovery).
Training: The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martins Theatre), Suitcase Shakespeare: Macbeth (UK Tour), Suitcase Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (UK Tour), Blockbuster (Key Theatre, Peterborough, Wild Boy (UK Tour).
Television and film credits include: Brexit – The Uncivil War, Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him.
Workshops include: The Mysteries of Milton Hall (National Theatre). Richard is also an Artistic Associate with Lamphouse Theatre and has been involved in devising, reimagining and performing a variety of shows, including A Christmas Carol, The Jungle Book and Peter Pan.
Richard is delighted to be returning to The Mousetrap.
Training: Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s Theatre), Macbeth: A Tale of Sound, Fury (6FootStories/Brighton Fringe), A Christmas Carol, Carrie’s War, Our Town, Blue Remembered Hills (Apollo Theatre Company/Yvonne Arnaud Theatre),A Midsummer Night’s Dream Macbeth (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.
Training: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. West End credits include: The Hobbit (Fortune), Fiddler on the Roof.
Understudy credits include: The Woman in Black (Fortune Gross Indecency. Clive has also worked in Stockholm for the last 20 years in A Christmas Carol.
Other stage work includes: The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Twelfth Night, Pravda, A Chorus of Disapproval.
Radio and television credits include: Vicars, Football Referees, Tax Inspectors and other pillars of the community!
Clive received an award as a Covid-19 Local Hero for his work as a homeless navigator on the Restart Homeless Project in Welwyn Garden City.
Ola is a critically acclaimed and award winning theatre, film, and opera director based in London.
She is the winner of the BBC Performing Arts Fellow Award (2015), Genesis Future Director Award (2016), h100 Theatre & Performance Award (2018), Elle list’s ‘50 Game Changers of Now’ (2019), Peter Hall Bursary Award (2020) and Women to Watch on Broadway (2023).
In 2016 she held the position of Artistic Associate at Theatre Royal Stratford East and Lyric Hammersmith. From 2018 to 2022 she was Artistic Associate at the Royal Court Theatre and International Associate Director of Tina Turner the Musical. Ola is currently an Associate Artist at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Her directing credits include The Crucible (Shakespeare’s Globe), Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), England on Fire (Sadler’s Wells), Once on This Island (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn Theatre), Heart (Audible & Minetta Lane Theatre NYC), Is God Is (Royal Court Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), The Knife of Dawn (Royal Opera House), Appropriate (Donmar Warehouse), The Convert (Young Vic Theatre), Poet in da Corner (Royal Court Theatre), Twilight Los Angeles 1992 (Gate Theatre), Start Swimming (Young Vic Theatre & Summerhall).
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.
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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.
