Peter Pan - West End Creative Team

Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to "The Birds," and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson. In 1940, he studied at the ... read more Born in Philadelphia, Rick is the winner of a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Billy Elliot on Broadway and a Helpmann Award for Billy Elliot in Sydney, he also has won two Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Tony and Drama Desk Award for An Inspector Calls (Broadway). Theatre work includes: Billy Elliot the Musical (worldwide); Merchant of Venice (RSC); Sweeney Todd (Paris); The Sound of Music (Buenos Aires); No Naughty Bits, Tiger Country (Hampstead); Tribes, A Number (Royal Court); Family Reunion, Betrayal, The Philanthropist, Old Times (Donmar); Rope (Almeida); Landscape With Weapon, Honour (National ... read more Place of Birth: Ottawa, Canada Training: University of Toronto, Royal Conservatory of Music, University Of Nevada, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Toronto School for the Circus Arts Theatre: The Lion King (original Toronto Cast); Cirque du Soleil’s Zumanity (Las Vegas); Tavaziva Dance Company; West Side Story (Stratford Shakespearean Festival), Spirit of a Nation (Canadian Heritage Arts Society) Television: Much Music; TV Ontario Panelist Radio: Energy 1200 Other: Human Rights Campaign in Chicago; Trumpet Awards; Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park; American Dance Awards. Powell's credits include The Lehman Trilogy, Othello (National Theatre); The Prudes, Bad Roads, The Nether (and West End), Unreachable, X (Royal Court); Wolf Hall/Bring Up The Bodies (and Broadway/West End), The Inn at Lydda, A Life of Galileo, Richard III, The Drunks, God in Ruins (RSC); Julius Caesar (The Bridge); People, Places & Things (Stadsteatern, Stockholm); City of Glass (59 Productions/Lyric Hammersmith); Cold Calling: The Artic Project (Birmingham Rep/CBSO); Lord of the Flies (UK Tour); Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens Theatre/Edinburgh).