SIGNATURE SERIES - Key Persons


ANDREW HEDGES

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Owner of Autograph
  • Head of Events
Andrew is the Founder and owner of Autograph and one of the early frontiersmen in theatre sound. Over the years, he has worked tirelessly to enhance and further the role of the Sound Designer in modern theatre. He has also worked tirelessly on his pruning! His gardening skills are the stuff of legend and he is quick to offer advice on any aspect of the horticultural endeavour.

SCOTT ARNOLD

Job Titles:
  • Group Managing Director
Scott (Wookie) started his Autograph career in the service department before taking on the daunting task of heading the Hire Division in 2002. He joined the board of Autograph in 2015, and then in 2017 reached the dizzy heights of Managing Director. Scott has the enviable role of overseeing the innovators, designers, creators, engineers, developers and philosophers of Autograph and guiding them all towards a place of enlightenment. Scott is an avid sportsman and dedicated family man. He is one of the quietest members of the company; sometimes we just don't know he is amongst us! Before joining Autograph, Scott was a sound operator on Starlight Express and Smokey Joes Café in the West End. Before that, he was a Welder!

TERRY JARDINE - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
TJ joined Autograph in 1989, having previously worked as a Sound Operator and in Stage Management. In 2000, Terry was appointed Managing Director, and then in 2017 took on the role of Chairman of the Autograph group of companies. When not engaged in running the business or sound designing he is to be found watching his beloved Manchester United or talking rubbish in the pavilion at The Oval. Terry's sound designs for Autograph include many worldwide productions of Les Misérables, Cats (UK Tour, Zurich, Antwerp and the European Tour), the Canadian productions of The Music Man, Man of La Mancha and The Pyjama Game, The Card in the UK and Moscow and Candide in Copenhagen. He also designed the Canadian Opera Company production of Béatrice et Bénédict in Toronto. He designed The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for the RSC in Stratford and Sadlers Wells, Peter Pan and The Pirates of Penzance at the Savoy Theatre, and Guys And Dolls UK Tour.