Best known as a pivotal creative mind behind the renaissance of Disney animation and his work on The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and The Beast (which is dedicated to, "Our friend, Howard Ashman, who gave a Mermaid her voice and a Beast his soul...") Ashman's first love wa

Richard Bean was born in Hull in 1956. After school, he worked in a bread plant before leaving to study Psychology at Loughborough University. Richard has worked as a psychologist and a stand-up comedian. He lives with his partner Erica and two daughters, Tilly and Ruby.

Multiple Grammy, Ivor Novello and BMI Award winning David Arnold is one of Britain’s leading film composers and music producers.

Richard is best known for writing and composing the award-winning Jerry Springer: The Opera (National Theatre/West End/Carnegie Hall/Sydney Opera House). Jerry Springer… has collected awards across the globe including four Olivier Awards in 2004.

Bob Carlton is the Artistic Director of the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. He read Drama at the University of Hull and on graduating won an Arts Council Trainee Director's Bursary to the Belgrade Theatre in his hometown of Coventry. 

HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE in partnership, wrote books for The Sound of Music, Call Me Madam, Happy Hunting, Anything Goes and Red, Hot and Blue; and the plays Life with Father and The State of the Union (Pulitzer Prize).

JON CONWAY was the co-founder of QDOS ENTERTAINMENT group over twenty years ago, helping steer it to be one of the UK’S major light entertainment companies.

Firth was born in Wirral, Merseyside, in the North West of England.

Tomy Hedley wrote the book and was an executive producer of Flashdance The Musical. Having written the original screenplay, Heduly coined the title Flashdance to convey a complete style that merged fashion, music and dance.