Currently: Assistant Musical Director ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ at Chichester Festival Theatre
Upcoming: ‘Shout’ Upstairs at the Gatehouse, keyboard 2; ‘Tick Tick Boom’ China Tour, Assistant Musical Director
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As Music Supervisor: ‘No Limits’ (Turbine Theatre)
As Musical Director:
SIX The Musical - West End - AMD
Lizzie - Hope Mill Theatre - MD
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Chichester Minerva Theatre - AMD; Workshop - Music Assistant. (MS: Phil Bateman, MD: Chris Poon)
Unfortunate - Southwark Playhouse Elephant/UK Tour - Assistant/Cover MD
Cinderella Pantomime - Winding Wheel Theatre - MD
BBC Prom 34 - 21st Century Soundtracks, Royal Albert Hall, Conductor: Robert Ames - ASST.
BBC Prom, Jordan Rakei - Glasshouse Centre Newcastle, Conductor: Robert Ames - ASST.
Pink Doll Cabaret - Crazy Coqs - MD
Connections - concert, Rhys Wilkinson, The Other Palace - MD
Claudia Kariuki - concert, Piano Smithfield - MD
No Limits - The Turbine Theatre - MD
Titanic - Wermland Opera, Sweden – AMD
As Deputy:
‘Wicked’ UK Tour, Keys 4
‘SIX’ West End and UK/International Tour, MD (ongoing)
‘Bonnie and Clyde’ West End, Keys 2
‘Bat Out of Hell’ West End, Keys 2
Musical theatre playing:
Audition piano: ‘SIX’ West End; Agent Auditions, Trinity Laban; ‘West End Calling’ auditions; ‘Side Show’ Lambert Jackson London Palladium Concert; ‘Starlight Express’ Troubadour Theatre, ‘Gypsy’ The Mill at Sonning, ‘Anything Goes’ UK Tour; ‘The King and I’ UK tour
Rehearsal piano: ‘Bat Out of Hell’ UK Tour, ‘Titanic’, Wermland Opera; ‘The Wedding Singer’ Trinity Laban; ‘Loserville’ Trinity Laban
Keys 1: ‘Elf’ Italia Conti (MD: Brady Mould), ‘The Addams Family’ Bob Hope Theatre; ‘The Little Mermaid’ (MD: Pete Lack), ‘Big Fish’ + AMD Trinity Laban, ‘Legally Blonde’, The Harrodian School, (MD: Issie Osbourne); ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ + AMD (NYMT)
Keys 2: ‘Festival of Voices’ concert, Hackney Empire (MD: Dan Boardman), ‘Company’ Bird College’ (MD: Mark Aspinall); ‘Christmas at the Musicals’, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (MD: Mark Aspinall); ‘Our House’ Trinity Laban; ‘Curtains’ Trinity Laban; ‘Calendar Girls’, Bob Hope Theatre (MD: Nicole Johnson); ‘Merrily We Roll Along’, Trinity Laban (MD: Verity Quade)
Keys 3: ‘The Wedding Singer’ Urdang (MD: Olivia Zacharia)
LMTO playthroughs: ‘The Sound of Music’ Repetiteur, ‘Titanic’ keys 1
NMTO playthroughs: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Repetiteur and keys 1; ‘Beauty and the Beast’ keys 2; ‘Singing in the Rain’ keys 2
CREDITS
No Limits
In February 2023, Ella made her off West End musical direction debut, piano conducting the new song cycle ‘No Limits’. The show ran at the Turbine Theatre for 2 weeks.
Produced by Paperhouse Productions, Sam Caldwell
Direction by Dean Johnson
Movement direction by Rhys Wilkinson
Titanic
Summer 2022, Ella spent 7 weeks in Karlstad, Sweden, playing rehearsal piano for Wermland Opera’s production of ‘Titanic The Musical’
It was surreal to be working in Sweden alongside such a talented company, topped off with getting to play Maury Yeston’s gorgeous score.
She will return to Sweden the summer of 2023 to play rehearsal for their next production, The Hundred Year Old Man.
Lockdown Project
In the height of the COVID pandemic, Ella co-created the ‘Theatre Turns Tango’ video!
Showing the depiction of Latin American genres in musical theatre through time, the video cycles through lots of well-known theatre songs, as well as some more niche gems.
A collaboration of music and dance, the singing is paired with choreography, showing how we can all come together in times of struggle.
So many people turned to the arts during the pandemic, proving its importance in mental health, and therefore highlighting the need to keep arts funding alive.