Eamonn O’Dwyer is an award-winning composer-lyricist of Guyanese-Irish descent.  His work spans genres from live orchestral to electronica, contemporary musical theatre, film, video games & attractions.  He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and to date his works have been performed in the US, Russia, Australia and Japan.  

His most recent musical Fanny & Stella was featured in the NAMT 33rd Festival of New Musicals in New York in October 2021, and in September 2022 Eamonn made his own New York debut performing an evening of his works at the celebrated 54 Below club in Manhattan. 

Eamonn is currently writing an original score for a new stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Hey! Christmas Tree for the Minerva Theatre in Chichester.

Other theatrical credits include: Frankenstein (UK Tour); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (UK Tour); Brief Encounter (Watermill); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK Tour);Twelfth Night & Henry V (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York);  Mrs Beeton Says… (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NYMT, The Other Palace); The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar Re-imagined (RSC, Swan); Flesh & Bone (National Theatre Studio); Grimm Tales & Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jeeves & Wooster (Barn, Cirencester); Stones In His Pockets (Dukes, Lancaster); The Glass Menagerie (Theatre Chipping Norton); A Christmas Carol, Beauty & The Beast, The Snow Queen, Hansel & Gretel, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Arabian Nights all for the Rose Theatre in Kingston.

For more info visit www.eamonnodwyer.com

Eamonn O’Dwyer is an award-winning composer-lyricist of Guyanese-Irish descent.  His work spans genres from live orchestral to electronica, contemporary musical theatre, film, video games & attractions.  He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and to date his works have been performed in the US, Russia, Australia and Japan.  

His most recent musical Fanny & Stella was featured in the NAMT 33rd Festival of New Musicals in New York in October 2021, and in September 2022 Eamonn made his own New York debut performing an evening of his works at the celebrated 54 Below club in Manhattan. 

Eamonn is currently writing an original score for a new stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Hey! Christmas Tree for the Minerva Theatre in Chichester.

Other theatrical credits include: Frankenstein (UK Tour); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (UK Tour); Brief Encounter (Watermill); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK Tour);Twelfth Night & Henry V (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York);  Mrs Beeton Says… (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NYMT, The Other Palace); The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar Re-imagined (RSC, Swan); Flesh & Bone (National Theatre Studio); Grimm Tales & Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jeeves & Wooster (Barn, Cirencester); Stones In His Pockets (Dukes, Lancaster); The Glass Menagerie (Theatre Chipping Norton); A Christmas Carol, Beauty & The Beast, The Snow Queen, Hansel & Gretel, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Arabian Nights all for the Rose Theatre in Kingston.

For more info visit www.eamonnodwyer.com

Emma trained at Tring and Central School of Ballet and throughout her diverse career has developed specializations in Physical Theatre, Aerial Dance and Puppetry.

She has worked with various puppet makers and designers including Samuel Wyer, Stitches and Glue, Max Humphries, Mervyn Millar, Nick Barnes Puppets, Toby Olié and Tahra Zafar. Her credits as a Puppet/Movement Director include The Wind in the Wiltons & Christmas Carol (Wilton’s Music Hall), L’Enfant et les Sortiléges (Royal Academy of Music), Madagascar the Musical (Selladoor), The Christmasaurus (Tom Fletcher), Dust (Elusive Circus), La Cenerentola (Opera Holland Park & Danish National Opera), Pages (Pacific Playhouse) and Boris and Sergey II (Pleasance Courtyard).

As a performer she has worked with Blind Summit, Scottish Ballet, The Royal Opera, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, The Hanger Arts Trust, Decca Records and on several productions with Will Tuckett including The Wind in the Willows (West End), Faeries & Pinocchio (ROH) & Crane Maiden (Parco/Japan). Whilst performing Emma was Assistant Choreographer on The Secret Garden (Sarasota Ballet), Pinocchio (The National Ballet of Canada), Elizabeth (The Royal Ballet), Hansel & Gretel (Iford Arts Festival), Pleasure’s Progress (Royal Opera House), Streetdance 3D (Vertigo Films) and Associate Choreographer on West Side Story (Sage Gateshead) and The Soldier’s Tale (Parco, Japan). She is currently Associate Director with Nicoll Entertainment on Dinosaur World Live and Dragons and Mythical Beasts.

Emma is based in Southampton and works with the local community and young professionals for MAST Mayflower Studios and Zoielogic Dance Theatre.

Nicoll Entertainment is the brainchild of Oliver Royds and Nick Brooke, creating some of the most innovative family friendly theatre productions of the past decade. The company has toured shows extensively across the UK & Ireland, as well as multiple West End seasons, and international tours across USA, China, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain to name a few.

Their Olivier Award nominated production of The Tiger Who Came to Tea has been a huge success since its debut in 2008, playing to packed houses regularly across the UK and internationally; Dinosaur World Live has wowed audiences across 3 continents since 2017 with its ferociously life-like dinosaur puppets, and is unique in bringing puppets of this scale to an interactive setting where the audience can get so close to them; and most recently the Olivier Award nominated production of Dragons & Mythical Beasts has brought amazement and wonder to audiences across the UK and USA, and in Autumn 2023 will embark on its debut tour of mainland China.

Along with producing their own sell-out shows, Nicoll Entertainment also offer a range of General Management services including tour booking, production management, payroll, merchandising and transport.

For more information visit: https://nicollentertainment.com/

Rose Theatre is one of the largest producing theatres in London and has established itself since its 2008 opening as one of the most exciting theatres in the UK. Our mission is to entertain audiences, elevate artists, and empower our community.

Current and forthcoming Rose productions include: The Boy at the Back of the Class based on the bestselling children’s novel by Onjali Q. Raúf, adapted by Nick Ahad, and directed by Monique Touko, touring until June; the London premiere of the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh production Macbeth (an undoing) written and directed by Zinnie Harris, after Shakespeare; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by Atri Banerjee and starring Geraldine Somerville, touring until June;, and for Christmas 2024 a new version of Robin Hood by Olivier Award winner Chris Bush and directed by UK Theatre Award winner Elin Schofield.

Recent Rose Original productions include:Shooting Hedda Gabler by Nina Segal, based on Henrik Ibsen’s classic Hedda Gabler and directed by Jeff James; A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller, directed by Holly Race Roughan, co-produced with Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre, and Octagon Theatre Bolton; Richard III directed by and starring Adjoa Andoh; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, directed by RTST Award winner Denzel Westley-Sanderson (nominated for four Black British Theatre Awards); The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, in a new version by Steve Waters with music by Michael Henry, directed by Christopher Haydon (nominated for Best Revival at the WhatsOnStage Awards); Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie in a new version by Evan Placey, with music & lyrics by Vikki Stone and directed by Lucy Morrell; A Christmas Carol in a new version by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, with music by Eamonn O’Dwyer, directed by Rosie Jones; Jeff James and James Yeatman’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion,featuring an explosive foam party and a soundtrack of Frank Ocean, Dua Lipa and Cardi B; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, adapted by Rona Munro, which transferred to the West End in July 2019 following a successful UK tour; and the world premiere stage adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, My Brilliant Friend, adapted by April De Angelis, which transferred to the National Theatre in November 2019. The latter were both directed by Rose Associate Artist Melly Still.

For more information visit: http://www.rosetheatre.org

Ella is a London-based Sound Designer trained at Rose Bruford College. She is a board member at the Association for Sound Design and Production.

Credits include: Power of Sail (Menier); Drop The Dead Donkey (UK Tour); The Unfriend(Wyndham’s, West End); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Lyric Theatre / UK Tour / Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse / Alexandra Palace); The Hypochondriac (Crucible, Sheffield Theatres), Sam and her Amazing Book of Dinosaurs (Hong Kong Cultural Centre);  Bleak Expectations (Criterion Theatre); 101 Dalmatians (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Ava: The Secret Conversations (Riverside Studios); Dogs of Europe (Barbican Centre); The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre); Rare Earth Mettle, Inside Bitch (Royal Court); The Lemon Table (UK Tour); Piaf (Nottingham Playhouse); I Think We Are Alone (UK Tour);  Noises Off (Garrick Theatre); Jellyfish, Sometimes Thinking (National Theatre); Black&White (Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Cultural Centre, Kuwait); Trying it On (Royal Shakespeare Company / Royal Court); The Life (English Theatre Frankfurt).

Other credits include: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto (Symphony Centre, Chicago / Lincoln Centre, New York); As Co-Sound Designer: Letter to a Man (Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov, International Tour).

Chuck Brown for Unit 9 Puppet Workshop (Puppet Designer & Fabricator)

Chuck is joint Studio Head at the Nicoll puppet workshop. She joined the company full time in 2021 with Max Humphries, after 16 years as a freelance puppet design team. As the head fabricator she leads on sculpting and finishes. Chuck has worked on many puppets large and small, across theatre and TV. Shows include Dinosaur World Live, Dragons & Mythical Beasts (Nicoll Entertainment); Madagascar the Musical (Sellardoor); The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (360 theatre & Elliot Harper); Don Quiote (Royal Shakespeare Company); Luzia (Cirque du Soleil); Little Shop of Horrors(Regents park); Alice & Wonderland (LA Philharmonic); Alice Underground (Les Enfant Terribles) and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix).

Ryan is a lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera, and fashion. With over a decade of experience, Ryan enjoys working in close collaboration with the creative team, introducing and containing positive working relationships. He studied Theatre Lighting Design at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.  

Theatre credits include: The Boy at the Back of the Class (Rose Theatre & UK Tour); Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s); Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour;, Never Have I Ever (Minerva - Chichester); Saving Face (Curve Leicester & The Place); War and Culture (New Diorama); Black Superhero (Royal Court); Local Hero (Co-Lighting Designer with Paule Constable, Minerva - Chichester); Wild Onion (Norwich Theatre Royal & UK Tour); Lizard Boy (Hope Mill & Edinburgh Fringe); Mission, The Ballad of Corona V (The Big House); Christie Done It, Dr Faustess (Cockpit); Rabbit Hole, Darknet (Union); I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse); Into the Woods, A Merchant of Venice (Playground).

As associate/assistant, theatre credits include: The Rite of Spring (Sadler’s Wells & UK Tour); Wickies(Park 200); The Lemon Table (Salisbury Playhouse/UK Tour); Les Misérables, Les Misérables InConcert (Sondheim).

Upcoming: Now, I See (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Pericles (Swan Theatre).

Oli’s set and costume designs include: Peter Pan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Rose Theatre); The Syrian Baker (Farnham Maltings); Cinderella: The Ugly Truth (Polka); The Old Bridge (Papatango/Bush Theatre); Macbeth (Manchester Royal Exchange); Cosi Fan Tutti, Pelleas et Mellisande, Werther, and The Tales of Hoffmann (English Touring Opera); The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); Grounded, The Christians, and Wittenberg (Gate Theatre), The Choir of Man (West End & Worldwide Tour); Oh Mother, The Darkest Corners, Two Man Show (RashDash); We Want You To Watch (National Theatre/RashDash); Islands, Incognito (The Bush Theatre); The Art of Dying (Royal Court); The Measures Taken (Alexander Whitley Dance); L’Elisir D’Amore, Rodelinda (Scottish Opera); The Gamblers, Dead To Me, Gods are Fallen and All Safety Gone (Greyscale); The Coronation of Poppea, Macbeth (Blackheath Halls Opera), and Blood Wedding (Royal and Derngate). Between 2013 & 2016, Oli designed the sets for the Lyric Hammersmith panto each Christmas.

Costume credits include: Wozzeck (English National Opera); The Lighthouse (ROH Linbury); Big Maggie (Druid) and In Wonderland, a film by Iona Firouzabadi. He had also provided art direction for branded content with Jungle Creations & Seldom Differ. In 2018, Oli cycled from Bristol to Bangkok, working on In Tandem Stories in partnership with the nonprofitkindness.org. He has written about the experiences for The Guardian, Lonely Planet, and WildBounds.