Staff A-Z

Training: ArtsEd.

Current Projects: Season 10 of BBC1’s Garden Rescue (Narrator) and Kate in Mamma Mia The Party!
Theatre includes: Rhonda and assistant director in Cool Rider (Palladium/Duchess Theatre), Miss Sherman in Fame (Christmas Theatre, Athens), Standby Connie/Cassie in The Taxidermist’s Daughter (World premiere, Chichester Festival Theatre), Violet Newstead/Roz Keith/Margaret in 9 to 5 (Korea/UK Tour/The Savoy), Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray (UK Tour), Young Beryl in Liverbirds Flying Home (Royal Court, Liverpool), Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre), On The Town (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Cherry Sundae in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Rhoda in White Christmas (Dominion Theatre), Mimi, understudy

Adelaide in Guys & Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre), Vodka in Drunk! (Leicester Curve & Bridewell Theatre), understudy Roxie and assistant choreographer in Chicago (Leicester Curve), Kiss Me Kate (Old Vic), Wonderful Town (Original UK Tour), understudy Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street (Leicester Curve, Chichester Festival Theatre), Soho Cinders (Queen’s Theatre), Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre) and Mary Poppins (UK Tour).

Workshops include: Judy (feature film), Doctor Who (BBC1), Hugo (Dominion Theatre), Spittin’ Distance (NT Studio) and Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Recordings include: 9 to 5 and Cool Rider.

Film and tv includes: Narrator of Garden Rescue (BBC1), Wonka! (Warner Bros), Matilda the Musical (Netflix) and The Final Bow (short, Kutay Kollectiv).

Creative

work includes: Choreographer of Stranger Sings! (Southwark Playhouse), Choreographer of Claus: The Musical (World Premiere, The Lowry) and Lucinda is currently working as a dramaturg on 2 new musicals in development.

Lucinda Lawrance trained at ArtsEd and is a Dance Teacher for the Musical Theatre Department at Trinity Laban.

Zoe is a voice, text and dialect coach based in London. After completing her MFA in Professional Voice studies at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Zoe went on to teach across some of the UK’s best drama schools including Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Mountview, Italia Conti, Trinity Laban and internationally Fontainebleau School of Acting in France. 

Simon Masterton-Smith trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Arthur Reckless and at the London Opera Centre under Pieter van der Stolk. While with the English National Opera, he was coached by Denis Dowling and Josephine Veasey.

Since Simon got his first pantomime job after Arthur sent him to audition during his first term at Guildhall, he has worked in many different areas of the entertainment industry, including opera and musicals as well as pantomime, recordings, television and film. He sang at Glyndebourne Festival, Summer Season and played both the village idiot and God in his first West End musical, Beyond the Rainbow. Simon commented: “I’ve even had a go as a Rock Ballad singer in West Berlin!”

Sara Louisa Parry studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Her first professional job was in the cast of Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre, Manchester and toured with the show to Dublin and Edinburgh. She was also a member of the cast in the 10th Anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1995. .

Verity is a seasoned West End performer, having played both lead and ensemble in a variety of musicals. A selection of her credits include: Carousel at the London Coliseum; Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre; Sweeney Todd at the London Coliseum; Sunny Afternoon at the Pinter Theatre; Sister Act at the London Palladium; The Sound of Music at The London Palladium and Jerry Springer, the Opera at the Cambridge Theatre. She is in constant demand as a singing teacher and vocal coach at the highest level and works regularly as a musical director and arranger.

Karen Rabinowitz’s work as a director has included Hansel & Gretel (Stratford East), Goodbye Barcelona (Arcola), Love’s Labours Lost (Suffolk Chamber Opera), Unburied Treasures (Rosemary Branch), Nostalgia Brand Chewing Gum (Pentameters), Ain’t We Got Fun? (Lyric Studio), Safety in Numbers and It’s All in the Stars (Molecule Theatre), Alice Through the Looking Glass (Dundee Rep), Twelfth Night and Hamlet (Waterville, Maine) and revues for the Edinburgh Fringe and Covent Garden Festival.

From 1995-2014 she was Course Leader for the Musical Theatre Course at the Royal Academy of Music, where her musical productions included Follies, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, City of Angels, Nine, Little Me, Sweet Charity, The Pajama Game, Happy End, The Wiz, and A… My Name is Alice. Plays included The Importance of Being Earnest, The Way of the World, California Suite and London Suite.