WATERMILL - Key Persons


Alvaro Flores

Alvaro is a London-based, international actor/musician and voice actor of Mexican origin. He is multilingual and speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Andrew McKenzie - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors

Antonio Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • on Stage Musical Director
Antonio graduated from the Conservatoire of Music in Seville with a BMus (Hons) specialising in classical piano. Since then, he has worked extensively as a concert pianist, composer, accompanist and musical director around Spain, before moving to London in 2019.

Arabella Neville-Rolfe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Baroness Hamwee AM

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board

Becca Chadder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Buster Watson

Harrison began his musical career in the world of rock and/or roll as a teenager. A lover of all styles of music, Harrison began working as a guitarist or pianist in amateur dramatics societies and college productions of shows soon after leaving school. As Musical Director/Buster Watson in the original 2015 production of Teddy, Harrison moved into the professional world. Since then, he has collaborated with composer Dougal Irvine on The Snow Queen at the Royal, Northampton and Angry Birds throughout its development at venues like The Park Theatre and The Other Palace.

Carole-Anne Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board

Chioma Uma

Chioma Uma graduated from Rose Bruford College with a degree in Actor-Musicianship. She made her first professional onstage debut as 'Hattie' in Kiss Me, Kate! at The Watermill Theatre and had her first leading role playing 'Cinderella' in 'Cinderella the Rockin' Panto!' last year. Additionally, Chioma has composed and musically directed for theatre in the past, recently Co-commissioned to compose for Ockham's Razors touring show ‘This Time'. Due to the pandemic, Chioma's Shakespearean debut to play ‘Rosencrantz' in The Watermill's all-female Hamlet was temporarily delayed but she is delighted to be returning to The Watermill for their socially-distanced concert rendition of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot

Claire Murray

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board
  • Executive Director and Joint CEO

Craig Titley-Rawson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Danni Powell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

David Grindrod

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

David Suchet

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board

Deborah Puxley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board

Fern Bamber

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Stage Manager

Frances Newman

Job Titles:
  • Movement Director

Howard Williamson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Administration

Josh Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Sound Designer

Judith Bunting

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Justin Audibert

Job Titles:
  • Director

Katie Breathwick

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors

Kirk-Ann Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Lady Gillian Howard de Walden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board

Lucy Betts

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Margaret Whitlum

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Nandi Bhebhe

Job Titles:
  • Associate Choreographer

Natalie Gallacher

Job Titles:
  • Casting Director

Natalie Toney

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Stage Manager
  • Deputy Stage Manager

Nicholas Goode

Job Titles:
  • Nicholas Goode Captain Smollett

Nick Humby

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Patrick Driver Long John Silver

Job Titles:
  • Nicholas Goode Captain Smollett

Paul Hart

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Staff and Board
  • Artistic Director and Joint CEO

Ralph Bernard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board

Richard Evans

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robin Colyer

Job Titles:
  • Fight Director

Rosanna Jahangard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Rose Burston

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Stage Manager

Sean Foley

Job Titles:
  • Writer and Director

Simon Parsonage

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Sir Cameron Mackintosh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board

Steve Watts

Mr Brownlow Theatre includes: For The Watermill Pinafore Swing, Mack & Mabel, Plunder, Merrily We Roll Along and The Wind in the Willows; As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl); Into the Woods (Theatre Royal, York) ; Jumpers (National Theatre and Piccadilly); A Midsummer Night's Dream and Lady Be Good (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park); My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and on the UK tour, where Steve took over the role of Henry Higgins); Relatively Speaking (The Wyndham's); Chariots of Fire (The Gielgud); The Mikado (The Charing Cross Theatre). ‘the perfect space to stage a fresh, powerfully intimate interpretation of Lionel Bart's classic musical…' The Stage ★★★★ ‘Intensely atmospheric, this staging of Oliver! reinterprets a classic with flair and intelligence' The Stage ★★★★

Sunny Bansal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Timothy West

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board

Tom Attwood

Job Titles:
  • Musical Supervisor

Tom Wentworth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Tony Ayers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Staff and Board