Born London, June 11th, 1959
- Married to Tim Hawes (Professional Freelance Trumpet Player)
- 3 children
Training
- LAMDA Stage Management and Technical Theatre Course.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT from 1979 – 1987
- Theatre Royal Windsor ASM / DSM
- Annie – Victoria Palace Theatre ASM /DSM
- Pirates Of Penzance – Theatre Royal Drury Lane Stage Manager
- La Cage Aux Folles – London Palladium Stage Manager
- Hinge and Bracket at the Comedy- Company Stage Manager
- 1987 – 1994 PA to Lee Menzies
- 1994 – 1995 Temporary work for Agents / General Managers / Publicists around the West End of London
- Licensed by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead as a Chaperone.
- October 2010 set up Master classes in The Art of Auditioning teaching children all over the UK and Ireland.
- February 2012 Oberon Books published CHILDREN IN THEATRE. A practical guide for performing children and their parents.
- Lectures to parents, agents and stage management on the subject of children in professional entertainment.
- February 2014 – started Performing Arts Courses.
- Specialist in licencing children to work in the UK and abroad with fairly frequent trips to the City of Westminster Magistrates Court.
- Member of the Casting Directors Guild
1995 – Present
Casting Director / Administrator
- Overseeing all aspects of casting children, licencing (UK and overseas), scheduling rehearsals and performances and employing chaperones and tutors in London and on tour.
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING
Children’s Casting Director
- LES MISERABLES Queens Theatre, London
- MISS SAIGON UK Tour
- THE SOUND OF MUSIC UK Tour
- LES MISERABLE UK TOUR
- RUTHLESS Arts Theatre London
As Children’s Manager / Administrator:
- MATILDA The Musical Cambridge Theatre
- THE FERRYMAN Gielgud Theatre
- MATILDA The Musical UK Tour
PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS
For Cameron Mackintosh Limited –
- OLIVER! – London Palladium 1995 and the tour/Theatre Royal Drury Lane 2008 and the tour
- LES MISERABLES on Tour
- LES MISERABLES at the 02
- MARY POPPINS in London and on Tour
- MISS SAIGON in London and on Tour
- HEY MR PRODUCER! at the Lyceum
- OKLAHOMA! at the Lyceum
For The Really Useful Group –
- THE SOUND OF MUSIC
- WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND
- THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
OTHER PRODUCTIONS
- A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, Garrick Theatre London
- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, All Indian UK Tour
- A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER, Donmar Warehouse and West End
- ANNIE, Apollo Victoria and UK Tour
- ANNIE GET YOUR GUN UK Tour
- ASPECTS OF LOVE, Menier Chocolate Factory
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Dominion Theatre
- BEFORE THE PARTY Almeida Theatre
- BLACK AND WHITE BALL, The King’s Head
- BUGSY MALONE, Queens Theatre
- CAROUSEL, Savoy Theatre
- CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, Novello Theatre
- CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
- CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, Several Productions
- CHRISTMASAURUS – Eventim Apollo
- DR DOLITTLE, Labatts Apollo and UK tour
- EDNA, Haymarket Theatre and UK Tour
- EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES – National Theatre
- FENCES – Theatre Royal Bath / Tour and Duchess Theatre London
- FINDING NEVERLAND – The Curve, Leicester
- GOODNIGHT MR TOM, Phoenix Theatre and UK Tour
- GONE WITH THE WIND, New London Theatre
- GYPSY Chichester Festival Theatre / Savoy Theatre
- HEATHCLIFF, Labatts Apollo and UK Tour
- IMAGINE THIS, New London
- KRISTINA @ the Royal Albert Hall, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
- LAUTREC, Shaftesbury Theatre
- MACBETH, Gielgud Theatre
- MADAM BUTTERFLY, Royal Albert Hall
- MEDEA, Queens Theatre
- NINE, Donmar Warehouse
- PORGY AND BESS, Savoy Theatre
- SOUTH PACIFIC UK Tour
- SHOWBOAT, Prince Edward
- SPEND SPEND SPEND, Piccadilly Theatre
- TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES, Savoy Theatre
- THE BRIDGE – short film
- THE FIX, Donmar Warehouse
- THE FULL MONTY, UK Tour
- THE KING AND I, London Palladium and UK Tour
- THE KING AND I, Royal Albert Hall
- THE LION KING UK Tour Various Venues and Basel
- THE SECRET GARDEN, Aldwych Theatre
- THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE – Leicester Curve & the Menier Chocolate Factory
- THE SOUND OF MUSIC UK TOUR David Ian Productions
- THE TURN OF THE SCREW Almeida Theatre
- SHREK the Musical, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
- WHITE CHRISTMAS, Various Venues
- I’D DO ANYTHING (The Search for OLIVER!) BBC TV


