Production Team 2010

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Production Team
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Producer		Musical Director		Choreographer
Phil Simcox		Andy Booth		Chris Parkes
Phil has been in numerous musicals in and around Derbyshire in the last 25 years. Working with many companies of the years including: Good Companions Stage Society, Belper Musical Theatre, Heanor Operatic Society, Ripley and Alfreton Operatic Society, Long Eaton, Rolls Royce, Gateway, Spotlight, Nottingham Trent Opera, Central Operatic and Gatepost. Phil is a founder member of Fourblokes and has been a regular performer over the last 4 years. Notable roles include Judd in “Bouncers” 2005, Walters in “Welcome Home” 2006, Raymond “Blue Remembered Hills” 2007 and Neville in Neville’s Island” 2008. More recently Phil has turned his hand to producing and directing and has successfully staged Mack and Mabel with the Good Companions Stage Society in 2007 and Ripley and Alfreton Operatic Society 2009. Phil has recently won the NODA award for both of his productions in 2008 of Carousel with the Good Companions Stage Society and “My Fair Lady” with Ripley and Alfreton Operatic Society. Phil is now look forward to his next projects they are Footloose 2009 “Good Companions” Chess 2010 “Ripley and Alfreton” and Beauty and the Beast “Good Companions”2010.				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 five 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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