Production Team 2009

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Production Team
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Producer		Musical Director		Choreographer
Phil Simcox		Andy Booth		Chris Parkes
Phil enjoys watching his beloved Derby County football club and is a keen golfer (that isn't to say he is any good at it with a handicap of 25 after playing for 5 years!). Phil has been in numerous musicals in and around Derbyshire in the last 20 years. He started at the tender age of 9 appearing in Oliver with Derby Opera Company. Since then he has had many principal roles such as Will Rogers from Will Rogers follies and Tony in Copacabana (Good Companions stage society) Harold Hill In The Music man & Bill Sibson in Me and My Girl (Belper Musical Theatre) The Russian in Chess & Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Heanor operatic society), Kipps in Half a sixpence & Billy in Anything Goes (Ripley and Alfreton Operatic Society). Phil has also work with the following companies: Long Eaton, Rolls Royce, Gateway, Spotlight, Nottingham Opera, and Central Operatic. Phil's day job is the Operations Manager for Sportwise Marketing.				A.I.S.T.D (Cecchetti) Chris won a scholarship to the Laine Theatre Arts in Surrey. Since returning home, Chris has become an Associate teacher of Cecchetti ballet, a specialised form of classical ballet founded by the Italian maestro Enrico Cecchetti. Chris is the manager and head of Jazz and After Hours faculties at the Derby Academy School of Classical Dance. Chris has been teaching at the Derby Academy for the last four years and trains vocational students of dance for a career in musical theatre, classical ballet and commercial dance. Chris is also the Creative director for the Derby Academy’s Musical Theatre shows. Chris’s theatre, TV and film credits include: being a member of a backing group to Victoria Beckham, In a Land of Plenty, Cross Roads, Peak practice and more recently picked as a choreographer and dancer to work with Gordon Ramsay by channel four for “Gordon’s Kitchen Nightmares” Chris was the choreographer for the UK Fashion tour for George at ASDA In March 2006 Chris took the lead role of “Joe Hardy” in “Damn Yankees” at the New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent.
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