FRIENDS! The Musical Parody

Michael has worked as an actor, writer and director during his long career.

Recent work includes: Directing new plays Not In The Mood For Quiche Anymore & A Guy Called Scott Crawls under A Table And Won't Come Out at the Barons Court Theatre. Prior to that he directed the recent acclaimed UK tour of The Full Monty.

He also directed UK tours of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Yes Prime Minister, When Harry Met Sally and The Play What I Wrote. Clittaford (St James Church, Piccadilly) Relatively Speaking, Confusions (South Africa), Summer Holiday (Theatre Royal Plymouth) Urinetown (Stratford Circus), The Multiverse (Waterloo East Theatre), These Thoughts (Short Film), Universe (P&O Arvia), If You See My Dad (Barons Court Theatre).

As an actor his work includes - Peter Pan, Poppy (RSC Barbican), West Side Story (Her Majesty’s), Exclusive (Strand), Merry Wives of Windsor, The Silver King (Chichester Festival Theatre), From Choices to Chocolates (Riverside Studios), The Rink (Cambridge), Richard II (Oldham Coliseum), Art (Whitehall), The Maids, Family Voices, Leave Him to Heaven, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham), One Touch of Venus (Kings Head).

Michael co-wrote the stage adaptation of Summer Holiday! and wrote Double Top (Valentine Productions/BBC Wales) Serena (SMG). He also wrote the books for Club Tropicana (UK Tour).

Close Encounters (Century City, Los Angeles ) Digital, X, Universe (P&O Cruises) and the musical revue The Multiverse (Waterloo East Theatre).

Michael was assistant director to Jonathan Lynn on Yes Prime Minister at Trafalgar Studios and is thrilled to be Co-Directing and working with him again on the final chapter of this iconic show.

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As Director & Choreographer: The Divas - West End & UK Tour (Fiery Angel).

As Choreographer: Platform - The Other Palace (NYMT); Sleeping Beauty (New Wolsey); Aladdin, Beauty & The Beast (Little Wolf); Cinderella (Stratford East Theatre Royal); Aladdin (Hackney Empire).

As Associate Director & Choreographer: Jerry’s Girls (Menier Chocolate Factory).

As Associate Choreographer: Shucked (Open Air Theatre Regents Park), The Drifters Girl - Garrick Theatre West End & UK Tour (Michael Harrison Entertainment).

Future: Beauty & The Beast at the New Wolsey Theatre.

Myles won Best Choreographer at The UK Panto Awards 2024 for Beauty & The Beast.

Bob and Tobly parody musicals include: FRIENDS! The Musical Parody (New York, Las Vegas, US tour), The Office! The Musical Parody (New York, US tour), Love Actually! The Parody Musical, Katdashians! The Musical (upsetting Andrew Lloyd Weber), The Office! Parody Presents: Who Is The Scranton Strangler?, 90210!, Showgirls!,  Full House! The Musical Parody; and Bayside! The Saved by the Bell Musical (NYTimes Critics Pick).

Assaf Gleizner (NYC) - Born and raised in Israel, Assaf Gleizner is a Grammy nominated composer, MD, orchestrator, and arranger both in NYC and around the world for the past 10 years. Assaf’s favourite credits include:

Broadway: Arts For Autism - Featuring Kelly O'Hara, Julia Murney (Gershwin Theater). Orchestrator, Arranger.

Off-Broadway/Tour: The Office! A Musical Parody (The Theater Center, North America Tour), Friends! The Musical (The Theater Center, North America Tour, International Tour) 90210! The Musical (Theater 80, Chicago) Composer, Orchestrator.

Regional: The Swingaroos (Florida Studio Theater) Composer, MD.

Other: Move On, A Sondheim Adventure - Grammy nominated album featuring Cyrille Aimee (NYC, FRANCE) Arranger, Orchestrator, Producer. Show Choir! The Musical - Featuring Christiane Noll (NYC) Orchestrator. The Wolf, (NC & NYC) Orchestrator.

Assaf is also a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Lighting Design: The Way Old Friends Do, Directed by Mark Gatiss - West End, Birmingham REP & UK Tour (James Seabright), Bleak Expectations - West End (Anthology) Pig Heart Boy - Unicorn London & UK Tour (Fiery Angel), Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana Southbank & UK Tour (Norwich Theatre Royal), Murder On The Orient Express & SpongeBob Das Musical - German International Tour (Show Slot), The Jungle Book, Bleak Expectations & Whistle Down The Wind (The Watermill), West Side Story (Ljubljana Festival) & Pantomimes for Crossroads Pantomimes & Mark Goucher Productions.

Set & Lighting: Midnight Cowboy Musical - Southwark, Oti Mabuse I Am Here - UK Tour (ROYO), Johannes Radebe Freedom, Freedom Unleashed and House Of JoJo - UK Tours (ROYO), The Bodyguard Musical (Ljubljana Festival), LIZZIE Hope Mill Theatre (Hope Mill) & UK Tour, Police Cops - Southwark Playhouse (ROYO) and Oscar At The Crown (ROYO).

Set: The Creakers - by Tom Fletcher, McFly (Plymouth Theatre Royal & Southbank London), A Christmas Carol (Lowry), Lady Chatterley's Lover (Shaftesbury Theatre, West End), The Little Mermaid & Pinocchio (Michael Harrison for Crossroads Pantomimes) & Aladdin (Everyman Cheltenham).

Future Projects: Set and Lighting, Priscilla The Musical (Mark Goucher), Saturday Night Fever & Cher Show - Germany, Macbeth - Chester Story House & RRR Musical - Japan.

Lighting: Tick Tick Boom - China & Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana.

Chris has worked in various fields of the sound industry over the last 20 years as a sound designer and mix engineer, working on numerous productions and with many mainstream bands, artists, and orchestras.

Chris has worked extensively throughout the world, his design credits include: 101 Dalmatians (UK Tour); Cruel Intentions The Musical (The Other Palace, London); The Full Monty (UK Tour); Dirty Dancing (Dominion Theatre, London & UK/EU Tours); White Christmas (The Mill, Sonning); The Bodyguard (Križanke Theatre, Ljubljana); Hairspray (Kilworth House Theatre); Gypsy (The Mill, Sonning); Allegiance (Charing Cross Theatre, London); Mayflies (York Theatre Royal); West Side Story (Križanke Theatre, Ljubljana); Carousel & Half a Sixpence (Kilworth House Theatre); Rehab the Musical (The Playground Theatre, London); Dreamboats and Petticoats (UK Tour); Footloose (UK Tour); But I’m a Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre); Top Hat (The Mill, Sonning); Chicago (Ljubljana Festival); Cats (Kilworth House Theatre); Falsettos (The Other Palace, London); American Idiot (Arts Theatre, London & UK Tour) Winner of BWW Award for ‘Best Sound Design’; Madagascar the Musical (UK/USA Tours); The Producers (International Tour); TriOperas (The Peacock Theatre, London); Thriller Live (West End, Worldwide Theatre/Arena Tours); Guys & Dolls, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Kilworth House Theatre); Knights of the Rose (Arts Theatre, London); Our House (UK Tour); Top Hat & Kiss Me Kate (Kilworth House Theatre); Aladdin & Jack and the Beanstalk (New Wimbledon Theatre); Ricky Gervais Humanity Tour (European Arenas); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Kilworth House Theatre); West Side Story (Kilworth House Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Blackpool, Winter Gardens); Wonderland (UK Tour); Legally Blonde and Singin’ In The Rain (Kilworth House Theatre); 20th Century Boy, The Musical (UK Tours & Coventry, Belgrade); Sleeping Beauty (New Victoria Theatre, Woking); Aladdin & Dick Whittington (Stoke, Regent Theatre); South Pacific & Sister Act (Kilworth House Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Aylesbury, Waterside); My Fair Lady and Anything Goes (Kilworth House Theatre); Peter Pan (Manchester Opera House); The Sound of Music & Me and My Girl (Kilworth House Theatre); Christmas with the Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas (Wyndham’s Theatre, London); Little Shop of Horrors, The Pirates of Penzance & Guys and Dolls (Kilworth House Theatre); The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas (The Adelphi Theatre, London).

Other credits include: Anne-Marie (International Arena Tours & Festivals ); British Summer Time, Hyde Park 2017/18/19; Wildlife Festival 2017; Sentebale, Kensington Palace; UCI
2016 Track Cycling World Championships; Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games; London 2012 Olympics & Paralympics, Velodrome; BAKU European Games HAA Arena; Opening & Closing Ceremonies Invictus Games 2014; Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Warwick Castle; Jaguar XE Car Launch Earls Court; The 
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Warwick Castle; A Night At The Opera (UK Tour); Dancing in the Streets (Munich, Scandinavia & UK Tour); Swan Lake on Ice (UK Tour); What a Feeling (UK Tour); Sweet Soul Music (UK Tour); The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas (UK Tour); Vega 4 (Ireland & UK Tour); Hybrid (Global Gathering); John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (UK Tour); Glen Campbell (UK Tour).

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Recent Supervisor credits include: Diamonds and Dust; Emerald Theatre (Associate Designer) Hairspray (UK Tour), A Night with Janis Joplin (The Peacock Theatre), Hamlet The Lord Chamberlains men (UK Tour), Bat Out of Hell (UK tour/Las Vegas), The Full Monty (UK Tour) The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre), Bat Out of Hell (UK Tour), Animal Farm (National Youth Theatre), Falsettos (The Other Palace).

Recent Wardrobe Credits include: Strictly Come Dancing Pro Tour; UK Tour Strictly Come Dancing Live (UK Tour), Here Come the Boys (London Palladium), The League of Gentlemen (UK Tour), The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios), Some Like it Hip Hop (Zoo Nation Tour).

Credits Include: Wigs, Hair & Make Up Designer Gang of Three (Kings Head Theatre, London), Wigs Designer The Last Laugh (Noël Coward Theatre London, UK Tour & Broadway), Wigs, Hair & Make Up Designer The Parent Agency (Chester Storyhouse Theatre), Wigs Hair & Make Up Designer Hairspray (2024/25 UK & Ireland Tour), Wigs Designer The Magic Flute (Nevill Holt Opera Festival 2024), Wig Designer Buyer & Cellar (London/Tour), Make Up Designer Shrek the Musical (2023/24 UK & Ireland Tour & London Apollo), Make Up Designer Madagascar the Musical (UK, Australia , Asia and USA Tour), Associate Wigs Hair & Make Up Designer Singing in the Rain (Kilworth House), Wigs Hair & Make Up Designer Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre London), Wigs Hair & Make Up Supervisor Drop the Dead Donkey (UK Tour), Wigs Hair & Make Up Supervisor Steel Magnolias the Play (UK Tour), Associate Make Up Designer Mrs Doubtfire: The New Musical Comedy (West End & USA Tour), Make Up Designer Laid in Earth (Sadlers Wells, English National Ballet), Associate Make Up Designer Harry Potter & the Cursed Child (Toronto), Make Up Supervisor The Grinch Who Stole Christmas: The Musical! (UK Tour).

Mark provides services for Music Theatre and TV. As such is a freelance composer, arranger, conductor, musical supervisor and orchestral manager.

TV/Film: As Music Supervisor and Composer Mark has worked on - Penny on MARS (seasons 1, 2 and 3 - Disney TV), Alex and Co (3zero2). On The Sound of Musicals (BBC1) Mark composed the theme tune as well as being an arranger and copyist. He was the arranger on the film Another Mothers Son (BK Films) and composed for the shows Singled Out (MTV/Channel 5) and Dating Hell (Sky One). The latter he was featured as a member of the House Band; something he also did on Lorraine Kelly’s Friday Fever (ITV). Mark has also worked musically on the following shows; John Barrowman Show, This Morning and Saturday Night Takeaway (all ITV), The One Show (BBC1) plus composed various jingles. He is also working with Factory Films on a project aimed for Sky Arts 2022 alongside working on a feature film called Dartmoor Escape with Amoux Films. Mark has also composed for 2 children shows Polka Dot Shorts and Wheels on the Bus both of which toured the UK.

Theatre Supervision/Arranger: Who Do Ya Love (Toronto Workshop and Edinburgh), Now Musical (UK Tour), Rent (New Theatre, Peterborough), The SpongeBob Musical (London Southbank Centre and UK Tour), 9 to 5 (Savoy Theatre, UK Tour, Australian Tour and South Korea), We Will Rock You (World Tour), Madagascar (UK, US, Australia and New Zealand Tours) Trump L’Oeil (The Other Palace, London), Bring It On (London Southbank Centre and UK tour), Footloose (Peacock Theatre, London, Uk and European Tour), A Christmas Carol (Queens Theatre, Barnstaple), Falsettos (The Other Palace, London), Jersey Boys (World Tour), Little Miss Sunshine (Arcola Theatre, London and UK Tour), Avenue Q (UK Tour), Fame (Peacock Theatre/Troubadour Theatre, London and UK Tour), Flashdance (UK Tour and South Korea), Wizard of Oz (Blackpool Opera House), Our House (UK Tour), Spamalot (UK Tour), The Producers (UK Tour), High School Musical, 2 (UK Tour), Annie (UK tours, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand), Little Shop of Horrors (UK Tour), The Snow Gorilla (The Rose, Kingston, London), Hello Dolly (UK Tour), Oliver (Lincoln Theatre Royal and Kuala Lumpur), Electric Lipstick (UK Tour), Miracle on 34th Street (UK Tour), Teen Scream (Lincoln Theatre Royal and Edinburgh Fringe), Bor Productions for MSC, CMC for P&O plus, various Pantomimes.

Theatre MD: (West End) Heathers, War of the Worlds, Dance Til Dawn, American Idiot, Carrie, Knights of the Rose, Stripped, Altar Boyz, Batboy, From a Jack to a King and Return to the Forbidden Planet. (UK Number 1 Tours) 9 to 5, La Cage au Folles, Sister Act, Hairspray, High School Musical 1 and 2, Seussical, Annie, The Roy Orbison Story, Thank you for the Music, Elvis the Musical, All you Need is Love, Blues Brothers meet Soul Sisters, Harrys Web, Phantom of the P’Opera and Rock N Roll Heaven.

He is currently writing for a new animation series as well as two new musicals.

Biography coming soon.

Biography coming soon.

Ian is an established choreographer and an accredited Intimacy Practitioner with 27 years’ experience in TV, Film and Theatre. Ian trained at Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts, London, and Intimacy on set.

Ian’s credits include:

Half Man (HBO) starring Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd, Sunny Dancer (27 Ten Productions) starring Bella Ramsey, The Girl on the Train (UK and Ireland Tour), The Agency (Paramount+) starring Michael Fassbender and Richard Gere, Random Facts About the Sky (Fortuna Films) starring John Hunter Bell, Clutter (Sash Film Productions), Land's End: A Shepherd's Tale (Tin Can Productions), EE Curfew (TV Commercial), Pride and Prejudice (Sort Of), Emma Rice’s Brief Encounter (Cunard), The Full Monty (UK and Ireland Tour), Men Up (BBC/Quay Productions) produced by Russell T. Davies, Greatest Days, The Official Take That Musical, exclusively for (Arvia – Iona P&O), The Play What I Wrote starring Tom Hiddleston (Birmingham Rep, UK Tour), Princess Mirror Belle (BBC), Afterplay (Drumstick Productions), Cinderella - I Married a Numpty (Òran Mór), Last Tango in Partick (National Theatre of Scotland), Cinderella (Kings Theatre Glasgow), Four series of the BAFTA-nominated Molly and Mack (CBBC), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Kings Theatre, Glasgow), Mr Moonlight (Òran Mór Glasgow), Taking the Next Step (BBC), Eight series of the BAFTA-winning show The Dog Ate My Homework (CBBC), Eiderdown, Dance International Glasgow (Tramway), IFEST (Blackpool), Christy Carlson Romano (Walt Disney Records US concert ), The Blues Brothers (UK Tour), Crocodile (Roxy Agogo), BAFTA-nominated independent film, Waitress, Digby Brown (STV), Clyde 1 Live (SECC Arena), Pulse (Tramway Theatre, Glasgow), Moulin Rouge Ball (Newbury), SQA Awards, Scotland (Dance Studio Scotland), Pent Up (Dundee Repertory Theatre).

Ian choreographed and directed multiple projects for the Commonwealth Games including the Tom Daley ambassador performance (Fruit Market, Glasgow), the royal performance for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Emirates Arena), The Commonwealth Mascot press launch (BBC Scotland, Blue Peter), The Queen's Baton Relay (Holyrood Parliament), Countdown with Sir Chris Hoy (ITV's Daybreak), Clyde and Friends (Scottish Tour), The Bill (ITV), London’s Burning (ITV), Dogging Around (BBC), Leprechauns (NBC Entertainment), Feel the Force (BBC2 Scotland) and The Flying Scotsman (Verve Pictures).

Jessica Martin is a multi-talented entertainer whose career embraces acting, singing, impressions, cabaret performing, writing and illustration. She comes from a musical family - her grandfather was the orchestra leader at the Raffles Hotel, Singapore and her father Ido Martin was a band leader and jazz musician with whom Jessica performed from an early age. After graduating from London University with a degree in English and Drama, Jessica got her big television break as the sole female impressionist in the LWT series Copycats. She was also a regular voice actor on the iconic Spitting Image series as well as starring alongside Bobby Davro in his impressionist series Bobby Davro’s TV Weekly. At this time, she was a frequent guest on variety shows such as Sunday Night at the Palladium, Summertime Special and several Royal Variety Shows.

As an actress, she played the memorable character of Mags, an intergalactic werewolf in the Seventh Doctor season of Doctor Who. She reprised the role in three audio dramas for Big Finish and even illustrated her for an exclusive Doctor Who comic published by Titan.

She made her West End debut playing Sally Smith opposite Gary Wilmot in the hit musical Me and My Girl at the Adelphi Theatre and has performed in over thirty musicals to date.

Other theatre credits include: Babes in Arms (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), The Wizard of Oz (Theatre Royal, Plymouth and tour), The Card (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), Mack and Mabel (Piccadilly Theatre and Southwark Playhouse), South Pacific (Churchill Theatre and tour), Sweeney Todd (Bridewell Theatre), Sunset Boulevard (Comedy Theatre), Spamalot (National tour), Sondheim at 80 (Royal Albert Hall), Elf the Musical (Dominion Theatre), Shirleymander (Playground Theatre) Blitz! (Union Theatre) and Menopause – The Musical 2 (UK & Ireland tour).

Last year Jessica headlined the London revival of the Jerry Herman revue Jerry’s Girls (Menier Chocolate Factory) and recently played Lily Pepper in Noel Coward’s Red Peppers and Deena Ames in Aged in Wood (Tabard Theatre).

She has performed panto many times alongside legendary performers including John Inman, Peggy Mount and Christopher Biggins.

Panto includes: Cinderella (De Montfort Hall, Leicester), Aladdin (The Grand, Wolverhampton), Peter Pan (Wycombe Swan), Mother Goose (Cambridge Arts), Cinderella (Churchill Theatre, Bromley) Goldilocks & the Three Bears (Richmond Theatre) and most recently Mother Goose and Aladdin (Cheltenham Everyman).

Jessica writes and draws comics and graphic novels inspired by her love of films and showbusiness. Elsie Harris Picture Palace was shortlisted for the Myriad Editions First Graphic Novel Prize and her graphic memoir, Life Drawing - A Life Under Lights was longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize and Theatre Book Prize 2020.

Forthcoming appearances include Frau Blücher in the regional premiere of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester)