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Mandela West End

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Hannah Beachler Set designer
Greg Dean Borowsky Music and Lyrics
Shaun Borowsky Music and Lyrics
Benjamin Kwasi Burrell Musical Supervisor
Jon Clark Lighting designer
Jon is an Olivier Award winning and double Tony Award nominated lighting designer, based in the UK. Theatre includes NATIONAL THEATRE: The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory, New York and Piccadilly Theatre, West End), Manor, I’m Not Running, Absolute Hell, Amadeus, As You Like It, The Beaux Stratagem, Hamlet, Othello, The Effect, Collaborators, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Greenland, Pains of Youth, Our Class, Damned by Despair, Women of Troy, The Cat in the Hat, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel. ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (RSC): Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, ... read more
Bongi Duma Additional Music & Lyrics
Broadway: The Lion King. Bongi Duma was born in Durban, South Africa. Credits: Africa Africa; Mighty Zulu Nation across England, Italy and Ireland. Thanks to African heroes Ian Sotrey, Duma Ndlovu, Lebo M and my beautiful Mother. Original cast, The Lion King (Germany). ... read more
Fay Fullerton Costume designer
Fay Fullerton trained in fashion design and period costume at London College of Fashion. She joined the Royal Opera House costume department as a costumier in 1977, was promoted to Head of Production Costume in 1999, and appointed Head of Costume in 2013. Costume design for the stage include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2009) by Debbie Allen. Costume design for ballet include Elizabeth (2013) by Will Tuckett, Circular Ruins by Goyo Montero and Two Sides Of by Juliano Nunes, both part of the New Work New Music programme commissioned by the Royal Ballet (2019), Everyone Keeps Me by Pam ... read more
Paul Gatehouse Sound designer
Oliver! (Japan); SIX (Broadway); Rent (Hope Mill Theatre); SIX (Australia); Mary Poppins (The Prince Edward Theatre); SIX (U.K. Tour); The Witches of Eastwick (Cirkus, Stockholm); SIX (US Tour); Amélie (Munich-Werk7); Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Theatres, Southampton); SIX (Arts Theatre London); Mary Poppins (Zurich/Dubai, Asian Première in Tokyo). Associate Designer: Hamilton; Half A Sixpence; Les Misérables;The Phantom of the Opera (London). Recordings: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein – Original London Cast Recording, (Producer/Mixer); Disney’s Newsies (Mixer); Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording (Recording Engineer & Mixer). ... read more
Akhila Krishnan Projection and Video Designer
Gregory Maqoma Choreographer
Sean Mayes Musical Director
Born in Toronto and based out of New York City, Sean Mayes enjoys an active and varied career internationally as a conductor, music director, orchestrator, arranger, composer, author, and educator across North America and Europe, with his work spanning numerous musical styles through some of the world’s largest theatres and concert halls, moving between Broadway, theatre, opera, classical and pops. In New York, Mayes shares his time as conductor for two Tony Award-winning Broadway productions, the new MJ: THE MUSICAL and HADESTOWN. At home in Canada, Mayes was Music Director and Conductor of the all-Canadian premiere of THE COLOR PURPLE in ... read more Laiona Michelle, a native of Springfield, MA added writer to her resume with her double bill as writer and star of the critical and box-office smash, Little Girl Blue, The Nina Simone Musical, which launched its world premiere engagement at the George Street Playhouse on Feb 1, 2019. Now, she takes on the mantle of book writer, for a new project, Mandela -- a musical based on Nelson Mandela’s life; from his days as a leading activist against Apartheid, to his imprisonment and eventual release to become the nation’s President. Laiona Michelle began to gain national notoriety when she made her ... read more
Schele Williams Director
Schele Williams is the director of the upcoming revival of Elton John and Tim Rice’s musical “Aida." She was the associate director of “Motown: The Musical,” and re-conceived and directed the recent national tour of the show. She was also the associate director of “Porgy and Bess’ on its European tour and associate choreographer of “Rent” on its North American and international tours. Schele appeared in Chess and Aida on Broadway. ... read more
Sam Young Orchestrator
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