Oliver! - West End Creative Team
Production Staff
Lionel Bart
Bookwriter
Composer
Lyricist
Charles Dickens
Source Material
(Based on novel)
(Based on novel)
Matthew Bourne
Choreographer
Widely hailed as the UK's most popular and successful choreographer/director, Matthew is the creator of the world's longest-running ballet production, a five-time Olivier Award winner and the only British director to have won the Tony® Award for both choreographer and director of a musical. He is artistic director of New Adventures, which has created an enormous new audience for dance with its groundbreaking dance/theatre productions Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Car Manand Play Without Words. Musical theatre includes Oliver!, My Fair Lady (Olivier Award), South Pacific and Mary Poppins (Olivier Award). Matthew's latest production, Edward Scissorhands, based on ... read more
William David Brohn
Orchestrator
Broadway: Wicked, Mary Poppins, Ragtime (1998 Tony Award®), Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden (1991 Drama Desk Award), Crazy for You, Carousel, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Sweet Smell of Success.
London: My Fair Lady, Oliver!, South Pacific. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Secret Garden.
Lincoln Center: A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose. Ballet arrangements: for Christopher Wheeldon, Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovich.
Recordings: for Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Joshua Bell's CD "West Side Story Suite."
Paul Groothius
Sound Designer
David Hersey
Lighting Designer
Since his arrival in London from New York many years ago, David Hersey has designed the lighting for hundreds of plays, musicals, operas and ballets. He was lighting consultant to the National Theatre for ten years and is a past chairman and current fellow of the Association of Lighting Designers. In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University. His many awards include Tonys for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables plus the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night. He received Tony nominations for The ... read more
Martin Koch
Musical Director
Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Cats Oliver! MAMMA MIA! and Billy Elliot.
Recording Over thirty albums including Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Oliver!, Les Miserables - Symphonic Recording (Grammy winner), Hey Mr Producer, MAMMA MIA! (Grammy nomination), Jerry Springer The Opera, Billy Elliot, Bad Girls and John Barrowman The Album.
Orchestration: Just So, Moby Dick, MAMMA MIA! (Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestrations), Jerry Springer The Opera, Billy Elliot (Winner - Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Orchestrations), Bad Girls, Desperately Seeking Susan, Kombat Opera - 5 Opera’s for BBC TV, Paparazzi and Cattle Call, 2 Ballets by Richard Thomas.
Martin runs a successful ... read more
Southbrook Group Limited
Producer
(in association with)
(in association with)
Cameron Mackintosh
Producer
Cameron’s Original productions include LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and CATS - the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4th decades - MISS SAIGON, MARY POPPINS (currently back in the West End and co-produced with Disney), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, SONG AND DANCE, TOMFOOLERY, MARTIN GUERRE, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. He also reinvented modern versions of OLIVER!, FOLLIES, HALF A SIXPENCE, BARNUM and MY FAIR LADY. His new versions of LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON and OLIVER! are now proving ... read more
Sam Mendes
Director
Sam Mendes began his theatre career after graduating from Cambridge in 1987, when he was hired as an assistant director at Chichester Festival Theatre. He made his professional directing debut in September 1987 with a double bill of Anton Chekhov's The Bear and The Proposal. In 1989, he became the inaugural director of the Minerva Theatre. That year, he took over a production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance at Chichester and made his West End directing debut at the Aldwych Theatre with Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Judi Dench. London Assurance subsequently transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
In 1990, Mendes ... read more
Mike Walker
Sound Designer
Anthony Ward
Scenery/Costumes
Awards and Nominations
1995 Olivier Awards
Best Director of a Musical: Sam Mendes was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical Revival: Lionel Bart was nominated but did not win.
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