TICKLE at Drayton Arms Theatre

Robbie has had an extensive career starting as a performer in numerous stage productions for Original London and European theatre companies: Chicago; Fosse; My One and Only and Royal National Theatres’ Anything Goes to name a few, as well as many appearances on Television, in Film, on Video and in Cabaret. Her recording credits include: Chicago (Original London Cast) and Anything Goes (National Theatre Cast). Choreography credits include: Boys in the Buff the Concert (King’s Head Theatre); Boys in the Buff (Stockwell Playhouse); Dynasties: The Sands of Time (Jazz Dance Company, UK Tour); critically-acclaimed Sondheim’s Follies, Put On A Happy Face, Into The Woods (Landor Theatre); I Love You Because (UK Premiere, winner of Theatregoers’ Choice Award for Best Off-West End Musical, 2007, Landor Theatre); Alvaro’s Balcony ( Landor Theatre); Curtains (2013 Award Winner for Best Choreography, Front Row Dress Awards and shortlisted Finalist for the WhatsOnStage ‘Offies’ for Best Choreography, Landor Theatre); Damn Yankees (Offie Nomination for Best Choreography 2014, Landor Theatre); She Loves Me (4 Offie Nominations, 2015 and shortlisted Finalist for WhatsOnStage ‘Offies’, Landor Theatre); The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Sincerely Yours (Landor Theatre); Opening Gala , Hello Again, Pippin , Assassins for (Birmingham School of Acting); The Wrong House (LSMT); The Step into Dance Company; The Royal Academy of Dance; Almost Like A Virgin (Edinburgh Fringe); City of Angels (Bridewell Theatre); Bumblescratch (Workshop, Robert Sherman Jr, Network Theatre); Do You Have A Secret Crush? (Sleeping With Straight Men) (LOST Theatre), Guys and Dolls, Sound of Music , Oliver, (Francis Holland school) and numerous Jazz and Musical Theatre pieces for various dance colleges , Move it and corporate gigs including The Natural History Museum and Mastercard . Directorial credits ; Skin Deep – The body image show (Edinburgh Fringe), For the Jazz Dance company -Touring productions, JDC, Evolution , Circus of Dreams, Silver Screen, Unexpected Tales , Dynasties-The sands Of Time, Decades, Iconic and Phoenix- Rising from the Ashes .(Pentland Theatre), Assistant Director Alvaro’s Balcony (Landor Theatre ) Other info: Robbie is Artistic Director and Company Director of London Studio Centre’s Jazz Dance Company.

David studied at the Royal College of Music and has a busy career performing, conducting and writing. He trained as a pianist and an organist and held several organ scholarships at St. George's, Beckenham, St. Luke's, Chelsea and Christ Church, Chelsea. As a pianist he has performed at the Wigmore Hall, St. John's, Smith Square, The Royal Festival Hall and The Purcell Rooms, as well as live on BBC Radio and Television. He is a busy accompanist and repetiteur, including working for the BBC Proms, as well as spending much time performing piano accompanied opera for Charles Court Opera, The Kings Head Theatre and Regents Opera. David is also a conductor and has directed a wide range of music from Gilbert and Sullivan, in which he specialises, to Ligeti and Britten. He regularly arranges and writes for several companies and is passionate about opera in English. He has had several of his own translations performed, and his translation of The Elixir of Love was nominated for an Off-West End award, which was ultimately won by Charles Court Opera's production of HMS Pinafore, for which David was the musical director.

Musical Theatre credits include: Tales My Lover Told Me and Tickle (King’s Head Theatre, Islington); The Last Fattybottypuss in the World (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); It’s Only Make Believe (Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate), Dishonorable Ladies, one woman show for Honor Blackman, (National tour, and West End); Sophie Tucker’s One Night Stand, Bette Midler and Me and Skin Deep (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Lunch With Marlene and Noel - starring Kate O’Mara - and Hetty Feinstein’s Wedding Anniversary (New End Theatre, Hampstead) Devilish! (Landor Theatre). Jewish Legends, Great Jewish American Songbook, That’s Jewish Entertainment, MGM Story and A Night at the Oscars (Upstairs at the Gatehouse). His musical Sleeping Arrangements opened in 2013 at the Landor Theatre. CD available from SimG Productions. Elton John – A Little Bit Funny opened in 2020 at Upstairs at the Gatehouse and is currently touring.

Frostbite, Pippin and Next Thing You Know (Garden Theatre); TICKLE, Margot, Undetectable (OFFIE Nominated Lighting Design), The Crumple Zone, Boys in the Buff (King’s Head Theatre); Skin Deep (Ed Fest and UK Tour); Marry Me A Little, Muscles the Musical, Alvaro’s Balcony, Discotivity, Stand Tall, Vincent River, The Hot Mikado, Get Aladdin, A Class Act, Next Thing You Know, Nunsense, Bakewell Bakeoff, Meet Me in St. Louis, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Man Inside, Damn Yankees (OFFIE Nominated Lighting Design), She Loves Me, In the Dead of Night, The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Sincerely Yours, Personals, Romance Romance, Devilish (Landor Theatre); Do you Have a Secret Crush? (Stockwell Playhouse) Other credits: Disney on Ice (Worldwide including Tokyo Budokan, New Orleans Super Dome, Toronto Sky Dome, NYC Radio City Music Hall), Royal Wedding Dress Exhibition (Kensington Palace). #Hashtag Lightie (Arcola Theatre), Cirque Enchantment (UK Tour) and Jazz Dance Company UK Tour (6th year). Other credits: Producer of Christmas Skating Events in Torquay for 5 seasons; Producer of Bluebirds (Above the Stag); LAMBCO Fringe Festival 2014 and 2015, Sincerely Yours (Landor Theatre) and Associate Producer for Bewitchment on Black Ice (Landor Theatre). Produced the LAMBCO Fringe Festival 2016, and The Crumple Zone (Pleasance London), Boys in the Buff (Stockwell Playhouse and King’s Head Theatre) and Skin Deep (UK Tour and Edinburgh Fringe 2018), DJ Maxx Festival, Dance Overtures, and various projects in the Middle East including the Luseil Stadium for the World Cup 22. Web: lambcolighting.co.uk

David has designed the set and costumes for plays, musicals, and other spectacles at venues of every scale from international arena tours to studio theatres via prominent international and regional producing houses and the West End, most recently with Heathers The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Some of his other credits include: Little Shop Of Horrors, Sister Act and Legally Blonde (Aberystwyth); Strictly Come Dancing The Professionals (UK tour); Ice Age Live - A Mammoth Adventure (Arena World Tour); the UK touring Production of Robin Cousins’ ICE; National Touring productions of End of the Rainbow, Little Shop Of Horrors, and Our House. High Fidelity (Turbine Theatre); Honest Amy (directed by Kathy Burke); Bang Bang by John Cleese, Dick Whittington, Snow White, (GBPA best costume design nominee), Jack and the Beanstalk, Oliver and Cinderella (Mercury Theatre Colchester).

Producing credits include: Christmas Skating Events (5 seasons, Torquay); Bluebirds the Musical (Above the Stag Theatre); LAMBCO Fringe Festival 2014 – 2016 (LOST Theatre); Sincerely Yours (Landor Theatre); Bewitchment on Black Ice (Associate Producer, Landor Theatre); Do you have a Secret Crush (Sleeping with Straight Men)? (LOST Theatre); The Crumple Zone (Clapham Omnibus, Pleasance Theatre, King’s Head Theatre); Boys in the Buff the Musical (Stockwell Playhouse) and Boys in the Buff (King’s Head Theatre), Skin Deep (UK Tour and Ed Fringe 2018), Margot, Dame - the Most Famous Ballerina in the World (King’s Head Theatre), Tickle (King’s Head Theatre), Boys in the Buff, Soho Boy (Drayton Arms Theatre).