Randall A. Buck recently enjoyed his 50th anniversary in ‘the business’, having spent the last 21 years as CEO of the innovative, full-service theatrical production company, Troika Entertainment, and producing/co-producing well over 50 productions around the world, most recently the global production of Phantom Of The Opera. Prior to this, Randy was Vice President of Production and General Manager for LiveEnt in Toronto, managing it’s touring productions including Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Ragtime and Hal Prince’s revival of Showboat! on three continents.
Mr. Buck is now providing services as a global theatrical consultant from his mountain top home in Vermont.
Co-Chairman of the Robert Stigwood Group, Patrick worked alongside Robert Stigwood for nearly 40 years on a multitude of successful projects, including the movies Gallipoli with Mel Gibson, The Fan with Lauren Bacall and the Evita movie, directed by Alan Parker with Madonna and Antonio Banderas, as well as the Grease and Saturday Night Fever musicals in London, on Broadway, and in over 40 countries.
Former COO at the Robert Stigwood Group, where responsible projects included the Saturday Night Fever and Grease movies, the Jesus Christ Superstar movie & stage production, the Evita stage production and the global management of icons such as The Bee Gees, Eric Clapton and Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber. A highly successful independent producer and consultant, and founder Board member of the UK’s first national breakfast TV franchise, TVAM, with David Frost, high profile clients includesuch as HRH Prince Of Wales (now the King); Diana, Princess Of Wales; Rank Entertainment; Walt Disney Attractions; and NFL Europe, amongst many others.
Garry has enjoyed a forty year career in theatre, with almost twenty five as a producer. He has mounted, produced and/or managed large-scale musicals such as Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Boy from Oz and Showboat, and internationally toured shows including Tap Dogs, Slava’s Snowshow, Mums the Word, Gumboots, Fosse and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.
Garry is lead producer and managing partner for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, Australia’s most successful theatrical export. The hit musical played London’s West End and Broadway and has since opened in thirty countries and 135 cities.
Through RGM Productions, Garry produced the world premiere of Ingmar Bergman’s Through A Glass Darkly in London and New York. He produced The Two Worlds of Charlie F, a play based on the true stories of (and performed by) rehabilitating ex-soldiers; and a contemporary musical comedy adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting Of The Snark for a family audience. His West End transfer of Songs for Nobodies (starring Bernadette Robinson in the highly acclaimed one-woman show by Joanna Murray-Smith) was nominated for an Olivier Award.
Garry is the international producer of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show and (with his RGM team) books and manages the cabaret musical Velvet, Another Kind of Blue from The Netherlands, Parisian Stéphane Letellier’s Stories and the West End hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
Garry headed the Production course at Australia’s national theatre school (NIDA) for a decade and has enjoyed an unbroken relationship with the school extending for almost four decades including two terms as a member of the Board.
Original Producer (Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, The Musical)
Nullarbor Productions was originally formed as a partnership between Back Row Productions, Michael Hamlyn (Specific Films) and Allan Scott. Garry McQuinn (Back Row co-founder), Michael and Allan produce all international productions.
Garry is the managing partner and lead producer for all productions of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. He began his career in Australia and has been lucky enough to work around the world for quite a few years on many wonderful shows with some excellent people.
Michael has been a film producer for longer than he cares to remember. In 1990 he met Australian director Stephan Elliott and became involved as producer in the project The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The film was made three years later by Latent Image and Specific Films, the rest is an endless history.
Allan has written and produced more than 20 feature films, some of which have won awards and some his children praised. He graduated from McGill University and the CBC. He has been chairman of a public company and a trade union at the same time. This probably led him to Priscilla.
Nullarbor has overseen and managed productions on the West End and Broadway, and every musical production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert since 2006 including seasons in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, North America, United Kingdom and on the high seas with Norwegian Cruise Lines. In addition they look forward to new productions in Mexico and return seasons in Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain and the UK.
Stephan’s career kicked off shooting hundreds of weddings from the age of 13 to 18 and now he turns green with the first bars of a bridal waltz. He entered the film industry as an assistant director /editor on a series of dreadful Australian films before stepping up to the director’s chair at 26 with the comedy caper Frauds, starring Phil Collins and Hugo Weaving. This first feature was selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival 1993. He announced his second feature - a script to be churned out in 12 days en route to the south of France. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce. Priscilla went on to become one of the most successful Aussie films of all time, racking up an Academy Award, BAFTA and AFI awards for Best Costume Design and a Best Make Up/Hair. Other nominations include a Writers Guild Award and Golden Globe for Best Comedy/Musical. Stephan then committed career suicide when he was talked into screening his unfinished black comedy Welcome to Woop Woop, starring Rod Taylor, Barry Humphries and Rachel Griffiths - in Cannes 1997. It was booed out of the festival. The film has since grown into a massive underground cult. He countered with a change of genre - the thriller Eye of the Beholder (1999) starring Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, KD Lang and Jason Priestley. The film premiered at Venice that year winning the Brussels sci-fi and fantasy festival – an award also shared by Frauds.
Stephan then took an interesting career turn by looking for inspiration in the French Alps – and promptly skiing off them. He broke his pelvis and fractured his legs and back. After 4 years of recuperation, Stephan got back on the horse with Priscilla The Musical and a Noel Coward film adaptation, Easy Virtue starring Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas. In 2012 Stephan completed his first Australian comedy in almost two decades A Few Best Men starring Twilight’s Xavier Samuels, Kris Marshall and Olivia Newton John, back to back with the feature RIO I LOVE YOU – the follow up to the hugely successful PARIS, je t’amie in Brazil.
In 2018 Stephan filmed his childhood for his black bio-pic comedy Swinging Safari, reuniting Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue.
He is just about to announce his final film. And he’s going out with a bang.
Allan Scott has written, co-written and produced over twenty feature films, working with some of the biggest stars in the world. From the Venice-set thriller, Don’t Look Now (starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, recently voted best British film) via Regeneration (writer, co-producer, starring Jonathan Pryce and Johnny Lee Miller), Shallow Grave (executive producer), The Preacher’s Wife (writer, starring Whitney Houston, Denzel Washington) The Witches (the third of his collaborations with director Nicolas Roeg) and In Love and War (writer, starring Sandra Bullock). His screenplay of the movie Kon Tiki was acknowledged when the film received an Oscar nomination in the Foreign Language category at the Academy Awards in 2014.
He served on the board of the British Film Institute for six years and was Chairman of The Writers’ Guild 1992-1994. He has co-written (with David Ambrose) and will produce The Conjuror, a stage thriller which he hopes will be in the West End next year.
Phil is a writer/actor/composer/pianist. He was a staff writer and performer for ABC TV comedy programs The Gillies Report and Good News Week. Phil is currently known for Sydney’s Wharf Revue, an annual political satire that has been running for 25 consecutive years, where he is co-writer, musical director and performer.
His many cabarets include the solo show Reviewing the Situation (playing Lionel Bart), Mario, 30 Something, and Newley Discovered, all of which premiered at the prestigious Adelaide Cabaret Festival and toured Australia. As an actor Phil has appeared in Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill, The Illusion by Tony Kushner, played Dr. Pangloss in Bernstein’s Candide at the Sydney Opera House, and won Best Comic Actor at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Awards for his role in Guy Mansfield’s Swan Song. As a pianist, he accompanied Lily Savage at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Phil was script consultant on the original production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Musical. He also composed and co-wrote The Republic of Myopia, a musical that opened the Sydney Theatre Company’s Packer Theatre in 2004. Over the past decade, he has collaborated with performer/writer Trevor Ashley in a series of satirical shows including Fat Swan, The Lyin’ Queen, Moulin Scrooge, and The White Mermaid (2023). He also composed musical scores and songs for five children’s shows for Monkeybaa Theatre Company, and recently wrote additional material for Alice in Wonderland, co-produced by Bonnie Lythgoe.
Phil has had four comic-mystery novels published in Australia and the US including Gay Resort Murder Shock! and One Dead Diva. He writes classical music reviews for Australia’s Limelight magazine, and for Fanfare magazine in the US.
MGM On Stage licenses a wide variety of film titles for adaptation to the stage. Titles that have appeared on stage around the world have included: Legally Blonde; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang; Mystic Pizza; Rain Man; The Apartment; and Rocky. Titles opening this 2022/23 season include: Some Like It Hot and New York, New York, with many more in active development.
MGM On Stage is a division of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, which is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and global distribution of film and television content across all platforms. The company owns one of the world's deepest libraries of premium film and television content as well as the premium pay television network EPIX, which is available throughout the U.S. via cable, satellite, telco and digital distributors. In addition, MGM has investments in numerous other television channels, digital platforms and interactive ventures and is producing premium short-form content for distribution. For more information, visit www.mgm.com.
Brian Thomson made his theatre debut in 1971, designing the sets and costumes for Jim Sharman’s productions of As You Like It for the Old Tote Theatre and Hair for producer Harry M. Miller. These were followed by sets for the original Australian and London productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Show, and the enduring cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Since then, he has designed sets for more productions in the Sydney Opera House than any other designer (50 in 50 years) and worked on innumerable productions for all the leading Australian theatre companies and for Sydney Dance Company. He has continued to work on major musical theatre productions here and overseas, including the Broadway production of The King and I, which won him a Tony award in 1996; The Boy from Oz with Hugh Jackman; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; and Dream Lover: The Bobby Darin Musical.
For Opera Australia he has designed Bliss, Billy Budd, Voss, Death in Venice, The Eighth Wonder, Madeline Lee, The King and I, Salome and La Bohème. For Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour credits include La Traviata, Carmen and West Side Story.
He designed the sets for Kylie Minogue’s Intimate and Live Tour and her Goddess floats for the 2012 Sydney Mardi Gras, as well as Dame Edna’s bookend productions: Housewife Superstar!!! (London and North of Broadway 1977) and Dame Edna: Back With A Vengeance! (Broadway, 2004) plus several Farewell Entertainments. He was also the supervising designer for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, the 2001 Centenary of Federation Ceremony, the 2003 Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony, and the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, as well as The Harbour Bridge Effect for Sydney’s New Year’s Eve celebrations (2005–2010).
Other movies include Shock Treatment, Starstruck and Frauds.
Recent set design credits include Betty Blokk-Buster (Sydney Festival), Krapp’s Last Tape (The Old Fitz), The Dance of Death (Belvoir), The Turquoise Elephant (Stables), Only Heaven Knows (Hayes), Faith Healer for Belvoir and The Chairs at the Old Fiz.
In 2005 Brian Thomson was awarded an Order of Australia for his contribution to the Arts; in 2017 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sydney Theatre Awards and in 2019 NIDA awarded him an Honorary Master of Fine Arts degree.
Justin is an internationally recognised Production and Video Designer working across stage, screen and events.
Originally from Sydney Australia, Justin studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts. This was the start of his dedication to a career in design, which now spans over a decade in the industry and credits him to over 50 projects. He moved to the UK in 2012 and continues to make work from his London studio.
Credits include: Jean Paul Gautier’s Fashion Freak Show (Round House, London and World Tour), Mimmi – A New Musical (Cadogan Hall), Proud (The Kings Head), Arcadia (The Factory, Manchester International Festival), The Sugar House (The Finborough Theatre), Youth Without God (Coronet Theatre), Songs for Nobodies (Ambassadors Theatre – West End), The Tap Pack (Peacock Theatre).
Opera includes: Peter Grimes (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), War Requiem (Liceu Opera, Barcelona). Dialogues des Carmélites (Royal Conservatoire Scotland), Euegne Onegin (Buxton Festival Opera), Avis & Galatea (English National Opera), La Traviata (Theatre des Champs-Elysees), War Requiem (English National Opera), Gianni Schicchi (Jiangsu Opera House, China).
In 1995 Tim won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and an Australian Film Institute award (AFI) for his costume design for the feature film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. He later revisited this work in the stage show Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Musical which has been performed worldwide and won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical.
After the success of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Tim spent many years designing for featured films including Today You Die, Lowrecked, Miss Congeniality, Into the Sun, Red Riding Hood, Mo Jave Moon, and Mighty Morphing Power Rangers to name a few. His TV credits include: V.I.P. High Society, and Kathy and Mo, as well as a number of music videos for popular artists such as Miss Elliott, Cher, and Matchbox 20.
After returning to Australia, Tim designed for the encore presentation of The Sapphires, produced by Black Swan Theatre Company and Company B. Tim designed the costumes for PJ Hogan’s latest film Mental, earning him a Best Costume Design nomination for the AACTA awards. He also designed for the 2012 TV series I Will Survive for Channel 10 and Fremantle Media Australia, Channel 9’s Australia’s Got Talent, and Channel 7’s Dancing with the Stars in 2014 and 2015.
Tim’s designs can also be seen on Australia’s celebrities, including Christine Anu for her Rewind show (2012), Casey Donovan for The Deadlys (2012) and Trevor Ashley for Diamonds are for Trevor as part of the 2012 Mardi Gras Festival.
In 2013, Tim designed the costumes for Gypsy directed by Gale Edwards and starring Caroline O’Connor, and co-designed the costumes for The Pirates of Penzance. Tim has continued to design costumes for the 2014 production of Guys and Dolls, directed by Gale Edwards, and the sell-out production of Sweet Charity at the Hayes Theatre.
2015 saw Tim design the costumes for The Production Company’s season of West Side Story, directed by Gale Edwards. In late 2015 Priscilla played in Madrid, the UK, and embarked on its first cruise ship aboard the Norwegian Epic.
Tim won the Broadway world and the Sydney Theatre award for design costumes for Luckiest Productions / Tinderbox Productions’ season of The Little Shop of Horrors.
When Lizzy Gardiner accepted her Oscar for Best Costume Design at the 67th Academy Awards, she looked out over the crowd. "I've made it," she thought to her 25-year-old self. Thankfully the moment of shameful self-congratulation lasted about two seconds. Then she remembered she was wearing a dress made out of 254 gold American Express credit cards and she was going to have to spend the rest of the night avoiding PAY-WAVE venues in case she rang up thousands in debt by accidentally standing too close to the till.No, really, it was 1995 and PAY-WAVE wasn't invented yet but Gardiner's reputation as the wildly inventive designer behind “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”, had been. Lizzy also won Best Costume at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Best Costume Design at the Australian Film Institute Awards.
Since then, she has designed international hit films in a variety of genres including comedy, satire, thriller, action, sci-fi, supernatural, superhero, horror, drama, period, and LGBTQIA+ films.
Gardiner's reputation as a talented creative is enhanced by her ability to bring the vision to life through exceptional organization and respectful working relationships. She is meticulous in her script analysis, living and breathing each story and era, as she helps actors find their characters and each production its vision. "I don’t think people are aware how vulnerable an actor is. Trust has to be gained," says Gardiner. "There is never enough time and there are strong opinions coming from every direction. Collaboration is key; it's the ability to hear many ideas and then settle on the right idea (which is not necessarily your own). There is no place for an outsized ego as a costume designer."
Gardiner has received countless accolades for her work including a Tony and an Olivier award for her costumes in Priscilla, the musical, however it's her sense of humor, and willingness to embrace the ridiculous that has won her repeat bookings.
“The recognition from my peers and heroes has gone way beyond any expectations but the film and television industry makes sure you remain grounded."
Andrew won the 2018 Helpmann Award for ‘Best Choreography in a Musical’ for the World Premiere season of Muriel’s Wedding the Musical (STC/Global Creatures). He also won the 2015 Helpmann Award for Opera Australia’s Anything Goes and the 2014 Helpmann Award for the Hayes Theatre’s inaugural production of Sweet Charity. Sydney Theatre Critics Awards include Muriel’s Wedding in 2017 and Little Shop of Horrors (Luckiest Productions & Tinderbox Productions) in 2016.
Most recently Andrew choreographed BLOOM for Melbourne Theatre Company, Fun Home for Sydney Theatre Company and Merrily We Roll Along for Luckiest Productions/Hayes Theatre Co. Theatre credits also include Kiss of the Spider Woman (Melbourne Theatre Company). Assassins (Hayes Theatre Co), Dream Lover (John Frost & Gilbert Theatrical), Sydney Opera House - The Opera and Two Weddings One Bride (Opera Australia), Ladies in Black (QTC/MTC) Rupert (Daniel Sparrow Productions), Dream Song, Shane Warne the Musical (concert), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and the World Premiere musical An Officer and A Gentleman (GFO). For Melbourne Theatre Company he has choreographed Shakespeare in Love, Twelfth Night, Rupert which toured to the Kennedy Center in Washington, Private Lives, Egg. Hamlet, Next to Normal, and The Drowsy Chaperone. Andrew co-choreographed the international production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert for Broadway and its other worldwide seasons including the recent 2018 10th anniversary Australian celebration tour.
Andrew co-directed The Producers and Anything Goes for The Production Company and was the Resident Director for Shout! The Legend of the Wild One and Fiddler on the Roof.
Also, for The Production Company, Andrew has choreographed Jerry’s Girls, La Cage Aux Folles, The Pirates of Penzance, Gypsy, The Boy from Oz, Carousel, Mame and The Boy Friend. He co-choreographed The Music Man and Bye Bye Birdie. Other credits include: the original Australian production of Eurobeat – Almost Eurovision, which was revived for the Edinburgh Festival, West End and UK tour. Menopause – the Musical, Leader of the Pack – The Ellie Musical (Betty Pounder Green Room Award winner for Best Choreography), Sideshow Alley, The Merry Widow for Melbourne City Opera, Wombat Stew and Prodigal. Live and cabaret shows include Doris Day-So Much More Than the Girl Next Door, Britney Spears the Cabaret, Newley Discovered, Todd McKenney-Songs and Stories of Peter Allen and Cry Me A River-The World of Julie London.
Andrew's television credits include the 2023 Logie Awards, Australian series of So You Think You Can Dance, Indigeridoo and Ja'ime's Assembly Routine on the cult TV show We Can Be Heroes, Dead Gorgeous for ABC/BBC TV, The Librarians for the ABC and Mr and Mrs Murder for Fremantle Media (TEN).
Matt has had an extensive career both on and offstage.
His choreographic work includes: Resident Director, GREATEST DAYS, Kindred Partners, Choreographer, MOTHER GOOSE, Little Wolf, Assistant to the Choreographer, BODYGUARD, David Ian and Michael Harrison, Assistant to the Choreographer, CHICAGO, David Ian, Choreographer, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, Evolution Productions, Resident Director and Choreographer, CHICAGO UK TOUR, David Ian, Choreographer, SINDERELLA, Daddyy Productions Ltd, Assistant Choreographer, SINGIN IN THE RAIN, This Morning (TV appearance), Choreographer, ANYTHING GOES, This Morning (TV appearance), Choreographer, Choreographer and Assistant Director, LYTHAM FESTIVAL PROMS, Lytham Festival, Choreographer, IN THE HEIGHTS, Emil Dale Academy, Choreographer and Assistant Director, LE JAZZ HOT FEAT BONNIE LANGFORD, Future Dreams, Assistant Choreographer and Director, ABBA HERE WE GO AGAIN, Butlins, Choreographer, LEGALLY BLONDE, Emil Dale Academy, Choreographer and Director, BIG TOP, LSMT, Assistant Choreographer and Director, EN KVOLL MED DANIEL GANESH, Nykoping.
His performing credits include: Dance Captain/Swing, MAMMA MIA THE PARTY, O2 Arena, Dance Captain/Swing, CHICAGO, Pheonix Theatre, Dance Captain/Swing, CABARET, UK Tour, Dance Captain/Swing, BODYGUARD, Dominion Theatre, Dance Captain/Swing, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, Shaftesbury Theatre, Ensemble, MONTY PYTHON LIVE, O2 Arena, Featured Singer, HOT STUFF, Leicester Curve, Bobby/Onstage Swing, CABARET, Savoy Theatre, Swing, CHICAGO, Garrick Theatre, Ensemble, CHICAGO, Cambridge Theatre, Thomas Hassinger, SOUTH PACFIFC, UK Tour, Dancer, LAUGHING MATTERS CELIA IMRIE, Ensemble, FOLLIES CONCERT, London Palladium, Vocalist, SONDHEIMS 75TH BIRTHDAY GALA, Theatre Royal, Dancer, RENAULT CLIO, Commerical, Dancer, ANDRE RIEU, Commerical, Actor, ASHES, Commerical, Dancer, BRUCES HALL OF FAME, Hat Trick Productions, Genie of the Lamp, ALADDIN, Shaw Theatre.
Dean Coach is a successful Australian Actor, Dancer and Musical Theatre Performer. His variety of talents have cemented him as a regular in various Theatre, Film and TV productions both locally and internationally.
Born in Melbourne, Dean began his illustrious career on screen starring in the Australian Film, Rainbows end at the young age of 10. After completing his studies at the Victoria College of the Arts Secondary School he went on to perform with Royal Caribbean and Universal Studios. His foray into Musical Theatre began with him being cast in the Australasian tour of Phantom of the Opera whereby he played the role of Slave Master. Continuing his journey, Dean was cast in the Australian and New Zealand tour of Mary Poppins where he was Dance Captain.
In 2013, Dean made the move to London where he became part of the 2014/15 cast of Starlight Express in Bochum Germany, where he played the role of Krupp.
Upon returning to London, Dean seamlessly transitioned between stage and screen, leaving his mark in numerous commercials spanning the globe. From Doha to Denmark, Paris to Amsterdam Dean appeared in a variety of campaigns for such renowned brands as Hilton Hotels, Lexus, Guinness and Qatar Airways.
Beyond the limelight, Dean Coach is a co-founder of CoachandSharpe.com: A successful fitness company. Together with his husband, Dean has established himself as a leader in the field of fitness and personal training sharing his knowledge and wisdom with high profile clients in London and New York.
Dean is excited to be working behind the scenes on the creative side as Assistant Director/Choreographer. He thoroughly enjoyed helping cast this wonderful show and cannot wait to share the immense talent of all involved with Priscilla the Party.
Spud began his musical training in the country town of Lithgow at the age of 6 under the tuition of the Josephite nuns. He and his bruised knuckles survived the experience, and he moved to Sydney in 1969 to continue his tuition at the Conservatorium of Music.
After his training, Spud began writing arrangements for local artists and soon found himself working with international legends as diverse as Marlene Dietrich and Slim Whitman. He entered the music theatre world in the 1970s as Assistant Musical Director of Godspell. He moved to London’s West End to work on various productions and returned to Australia in the 1980s as assistant musical director of Evita. He later joined Channel 10 as a Musical Director then moved to the Nine Network as Musical Director of In Sydney Today with Ernie Sigley and Denise Drysdale. Spud returned to theatre as Musical Director of Reg Livermore’s Firing Squad and later as co-composer of Reg’s production of Big Sister.
He continued working in various Australian theatre productions such as Buddy and was recently one of the orchestrators of Shout. In 2006 Spud was Musical Director and arranger for Dusty, and subsequently received the 2006 Helpmann Award for Best Musical Direction. He also returned to television as musical director of Starstruck for the Nine Network, and was music consultant for the Australian film Thunderstruck. He has received a Mo award and an award from Rotary for his contributions to the Australian music industry.
Spud is an avid supporter of the future of the Australian music industry and has recently dedicated his time to nurturing new talent. He is an artistic director of Sydney’s CaSPA (Catholic Performing Arts), and is also a lecturer at The Australian Institute of Music.
Steve started the piano at four years of age as he was fortunate to have been born into a very musical family. Before he was a teenager he discovered his love of performing whilst earning his pocket money playing in his dad’s bands in pubs and working man’s clubs up and down the country. This is where he cut his teeth playing all sorts of music from the Beatles and Elvis Presley to Dire Straits and Stevie Wonder. From 18, he studied at Reading University where he received an honours degree in composition. Since graduating he has worked in many facets of the music industry but he has spent the majority of his time in the pop/rock music and musical theatre genres.
Steve was Musical Director and keyboard player for Lisa Stansfield for just shy of a decade in the noughties, during which time his work encompassed three extensive European tours, numerous corporate gigs and a full gamut of festivals all over the world including two headline performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He has also played live with Lisa on many T.V. and Radio broadcasts including Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4), Capital Radio, Steve Wright in the afternoon (BBC Radio 2), Parkinson and Top of the Pops! to name but a few.
Other artists Steve has worked with as Musical Director and/or keyboard player are as varied as Shania Twain, Matt Lucas, Peter Andre, Tommy Steele, Vincent and Flavia from Strictly Come Dancing, Brian May, The Real Thing, Jason Donovan, Gary Barlow and Neil from the Young Ones.... Steve’s West End musical theatre credit highlights include: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Musical Director), Rock of Ages (Associate Musical Director), Viva Forever! (Associate Musical Director), Bat out of Hell, Beautiful, Miss Saigon, Let it Be, School of Rock, The Bodyguard, Thriller Live!, Scrooge, Jersey Boys, Shrek, Ghost, Wicked, Footloose, Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat, Daddy Cool, Whistle Down The Wind, The Lord of the Rings, Grease, Evita and We Will Rock You.
His touring theatre work: The Last Tango (Musical Director), Rock and Roll Heaven (Musical Director), The Greatest Rock Tour of Them All (Musical Director), The Lion King, Witches of Eastwick, The Wedding Singer, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kinky Boots, Annie, The Wedding Singer, Saturday Night Fever (Germany, U.K and Far East tours), Cats (U.K Tour and Germany), Starlight Express (U.K. tour and Germany), Cabaret (Germany) and Les Miserables (Germany).
Recording work includes: Strictly Come Dancing (U.K. tour and Live DVD), Scrooge the Musical (original West End cast recording), Heli Schneider – New Statements (Blacklisted Records, Hamburg) and a wealth of TV appearances across many genres and channels.
Like all musicians, Covid finally forced Steve to have some well-earned time off and thus afforded him the opportunity to get back to his first true love....composition. He is now halfway through writing his first album and continues to perform on stages all over the world.
Steve is delighted to be returning as MD of Priscilla and can’t wait to get the party started!
Per Hörding is based in Stockholm, Sweden. He works both locally and abroad with theatre, musicals, dance, concerts, tours, television and events. He is a recipient of the Broadwayworld South Africa Award, and has been nominated for the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award and an Offie Award for Best Lighting Design.
Selected credits:
Waitress musical in Norrköping and Linköping 2023, 2:22 A Ghost Story in Stockholm 2023, Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show in Germany, Japan and London UK 2019-2023, Chicago musical Stockholm 2022, NOICE rock musical Stockholm 2021, Forever Piaf musical Stockholm 2021, She Loves Me musical Jönköping 2021, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Stockholm, South Africa and onboard the cruise ship Norwegian Epic 2013-2017, Murder Ballad musical Stockholm 2016, Hedwig And The Angry Inch musical Stockholm 2016, Drowsy Chaperone musical Stockholm 2015.
You can learn more at www.perhording.com.
Recent Sound Designs include; Tarantino Live (Riverside Studios), The Great British Bake Off Musical and Death Note (West End); I Should Be So Lucky, Shrek the Musical, The SpongeBob Musical, The Way Old Friends Do, Bugsy Malone, 9 to 5, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Hairspray, Rock of Ages, Club Tropicana, Dr Dolittle, Fame, The Railway Children, The Wedding Singer, The Million Dollar Quartet, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Return To The Forbidden Planet, Happy Days The Musical, Carnaby Street, High Society, Blood Brothers, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jekyll & Hyde, Tommy, Save The Last Dance For Me, The Boy Friend, Half A Sixpence, The Roy Orbison Story, This Is Elvis, Laughter In The Rain (UK tours); Mother Goose, Cabaret, Scrooge, Soul Sister, Dreamboats & Petticoats and The Country Girl (West End & UK Tours); We Will Rock You, Starlight Express and Evita (International Tours); Whistle Down The Wind (UK & American Tours); Dancing In The Streets (West End & International Tours); Mame (Hope Mill Theatre); The Stick Maker Tales (National Theatre Wales); The Wizard of Oz & Into The Woods (Leeds Playhouse); Bugsy Malone (Hammersmith Lyric); Five Guys Named Moe (Festival Square Theatre & Marble Arch Theatre), Now is Good, Little Shop of Horrors, A Little Night Music and The Beggar’s Opera (Chester Storyhouse), Hedda Gabler (Northampton Royal); The Prodigals (Coventry Belgrade & Edinburgh Fringe); The King & I and Hairspray (Leicester Curve & UK Tour); Obama The Mamba (Leicester Curve & The Lowry); Simply Cinderella, The Pillowman, Hot Stuff, Gypsy, Hello Dolly!, Oliver, Piaf, Sweeney Todd, Chicago and The Sound of Music (Leicester Curve).
Debbie did a degree in Drama at Hull University and then began her theatre career in Stage Management in the West End on shows such as Dracula and Annie. After working as a Production Assistant for Robert Fox, she moved on to assisting the renowned casting director Celestia Fox on various shows and films, before going freelance as a General Manager and Casting Director. She is delighted to be returning to Priscilla Queen of the Desert in party form!
West End/UK Tours include The Choir of Man; The Wizard of Oz; The Drifters Girl; Bridesmaids of Britain; The Snowman; Dirty Dancing; Thriller Live; American Idiot; Knights of the Rose; 20th Century Boy; The Knowledge; Close to You; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; Sinatra; Our House; Starlight Express; Mum’s the Word; Jackie; Grease; Flashdance; The King and I; Showboat; Dancing in the Streets; The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas; Daisy Pulls It Off; The Harder They Come; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Saturday Night Fever; Fame; Peter Pan; The Pirates of Penzance; Smokey Joe's Café; The Rocky Horror Show; Anything Goes; A Chorus Line; A Tribute to the Blues Brothers.
Regional and international productions include Nativity! The Musical; Trio; Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera; Playboy of the West Indies; The Birds and the Bees; Never Lost At Home; Hugh Jackman The Show; Cruel Intentions; Friends the Musical Parody; Menopause the Musical; Starlight Express; Once; We’ll Live and Die In These Towns; Footloose; Noise Boys; Syd Norman’s Pour House; Kinky Boots, Million Dollar Quartet, Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages; Room, Bubbly Black Girl..; Oxy and the Morons; Mods and Rox; The Last Five Years; It’s a Wonderful Life; Hairspray; The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency; As You Like It; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; Noises Off; Kiss Me Kate; West Side Story; Singing in the Rain; Legally Blonde; Midsummer Songs; Five Guys Named Moe; The BFG; The Last Five Years; Blues in the Night; My Fair Lady; Anything Goes; The Sound of Music; Me and My Girl; Little Shop of Horrors; Guys and Dolls; Crazy For You; Oklahoma!; The Pirates of Penzance; White Christmas; Soul Sister; Little Shop of Horrors; Amadeus; Side by Side by Sondheim; Only You Can Save Mankind.
Children’s casting includes Annie; The King and I; The Bodyguard; Waitress; Kinky Boots; Avalanche; Caroline or Change; Medea; The Sound of Music; Mimi’s World, Thriller Live; Show Boat; Once; Room; Grandpa In My Pocket; Peter Pan.
Recorded media includes Mittens and Pants; Mimi’s World; Waybuloo; Grandpa In My Pocket; What’s Your News; Buddy Patrol; Tic Toc; Quick Quack Duck; Grease is the Word; Amahl and the Night Visitors; Planet Cook.
OFFIE Nominated Dimitris Kafataris is an actor with a military background. He has served in the Green Berets Commando Corps of the GreekCypriot forces for several years. He then studied Acting and Stage Combat at East 15 Acting School, where he added stage and screen combat to his skills repertoire. He is now a theatrical weapons expert that has experience in a vast array of unique systems including broadswords, knifes, rapier and dagger, sword and shield, firearms, unarmed combat and many more.
Dimitris works alongside his acting career as a fight director and a firearms instructor for Screen and Theatre, specialising in modern warfare roles, firearms handling and tactical military movement.
His work includes Motion Capture performance for Video Games, West End shows, Shakespeare productions, Immersive Theatre and an OFFIE Nomination for Best Choreography/Movement. Dimitris is also the founder of TITANBORN, a Theatrical Specialist Combat company.
Established in 2012, RGM is an Olivier Award-nominated theatre production company founded by Garry McQuinn.
Garry is the worldwide lead producer of the Broadway and West End hit musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert (the inspiration for Priscilla The Party!), a show that has travelled to 135 cities and 30 countries around the world.
Tap Dogs, Gumboots and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake are just some of the other international brands Garry has produced and rolled out across the world’s stages.
For RGM Productions Garry is currently producing the world tour of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show and developing musical versions of She Devil, Puberty Blues, Round The Twist and A Cheery Soul. RGM produced the West End transfers of Songs For Nobodies and The Hunting Of The Snark, and they are the international booker for all first class productions of the West End Hit musical, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. RGM also book and manage a range of exciting dance shows including Velvet, The Tap Pack, Another Kind of Blue, Tango After Dark and Stories.
RGM has retained the original Priscilla creative team to ensure that Priscilla The Party! delivers the same production value to its audience as the original show, along with new and compelling interactive audience engagement.
Jo has worked in theatre marketing for over 30 years in London, around the UK and internationally, offering creative marketing solutions for entertainment clients and venues.
She provides the ‘full service’ of a marketing agency, heading up the strategy and budgets and outsources the various disciplines to experts in their fields. Current clients include MAMMA MIA!, Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show and Hampstead Theatre.
She is proud to have compiled a ‘dream team’ for Priscilla The Party! Comprising The Outside Organisation, Sine Digital, JWoo, CMS Media, MADE and n9design who together are having the times of their lives on this amazing show.