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NEW LONDON ENTERTAINMENT
New London Entertainment was established in 2000
by Matthew Gould and Peter McCarthy, and specialises in producing high
quality musical entertainment, using leading singers from West End shows.
NLE have produced shows for The Wellcome Trust,
Champneys, Henley Festival, Newbury Festival, Home House, many Livery
Banquets and for The Queen of Jordan and HRH Princess Alexandra at the
Foreign Office Midsummer Ball. Their theatre shows have been touring the
UK since August 2001 and in the first year alone have played to over twelve
thousand people.
| Matthew Gould - Director |
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Matthew is from Bristol, where he trained
as a musician before moving to London to study Performing Arts.
Theatre: Cats (Skimbleshanks), Les Miserables, Damn Yankees, Martin
Guerre, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Tommy, Hot Stuff,
Pirates of Penzance (Frederick), The Hot Mikado.
Concerts: Beyond the Barricades, The Lost Musicals, Friday Night is
Music Night, Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert (Albert Hall).
Directing & Choreographing: You 're a Good Man Charlie Brown,
"Working, Charlie's Angel, Wild Wild Women (Assistant).
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| Peter McCarthy
- Musical Director & Arranger |
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Peter is originally from Belfast, and studied
piano and violin at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He graduated
with an Honours Degree and Advanced Certificate, winning the Louise
Child Prize.
Theatre: Les Miserables, Cats, Mack & Mabel, Kiss of the Spider-woman,
Great Expectations, Grand Hotel, Glamorous Nights at Drury Lane, with
Evelyn Laye.
Concerts: Purcell Room, Live Music Now!, Windsor Castle, Al Bustan
Palace (Oman), Verdi's Nabucco (Albert Hall).
Television & Radio: Japanese Top of the Pops, Pebble Mill, GMTV,
This Morning, Star For a Night and Radio 4's Morning Service. |
| Samantha Lavender |
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Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera,
Les Miserables, Chess, The Sound of Music, Which Witch, Into the Woods.
Royal National Theatre: Candide, Troilus and Cressida, The Villains
Opera.
Samantha's proudest production so far is Joseph James, at the Royal
Middlesex Hospital in May 2001. |
| Nick Pound |
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Nick is a keen vegetarian cook, and was
a contestant on BBC's 'Masterchef competition. He enjoys DIY, especially
carpentry, having designed and built his own kitchen in his Hertfordshire
house.
Theatre: Cats (Old Deuteronomy), Notre
Dame de Paris, Chess, Evita (Peron), Les Miserables (Jean Valjean),
P&O Cruises (Canberra and Sea Princess).
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| Helen Goldwyn |
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Along with theatre work Helen has also found
herself writing and directing her own shows (Seriously Single, Charlie's
Angel), singing with the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra, playing various
aliens on Dr Who (Audio Dramas) and can be seen hiding in a cupboard,
scantily clad, in an advert for UK Living.
Theatre: Personals (Lyric Theatre), My Fair
Lady (Crucible Theatre), High Society.
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| Frederick Rubin |
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Born in Paris, Frederick originally trained
as an actor, before moving to London to study singing. Frederick
currently spends his time between London and Province, in the south
of France.
Theatre: Marius in Les Miserables, and Jacques in Bless the Bride
at the King's Head Theatre.
Television: Eastenders.
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| Helen Anker |
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Helen is from Banbury, Oxfordshire, and
studied at White Lodge Royal Ballet School, and the Doreen Bird
College of Performing Arts.
Theatre: Crazy for You, Cats, Oklahoma!
(Royal National Theatre and The Lyceum), Hard Times, Fame, A Little
Night Music (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester) and Susan Stroman's new
show Contact (Queen's Theatre).
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| Charles Shirvell |
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Charles trained in Los Angeles with Elizabeth
Sabine and in London at The Actors Centre. He is currently Resident
Director on Chicago at The Adelphi Theatre, London.
Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera (Monsieur
Andre), Les Miserables, Carousel, Chicago (Mary Sunshine, Billy
Flynn), Miss Saigon, Metropolis.
Concerts: Elizabeth Taylor Aids Trust Gala (Albert Hall), From A
Distance (UK tour) with Cliff Richard.
Television: Brush Strokes (BBC), Death of a Son (Central Television),
Doctors (BBC), Laurence Olivier Awards.
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| Erika Rundberg |
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Erika is Swedish by birth and British at
heart, and hence did her Training at Mountview Theatre School, London
and then continued at Kulturama, Stockholm. Erika is a passionate
lover of August Strindberg and.. .ice-cream!
Theatre: "... Who do you think you are ? " (Stockholm),
Judinna (Stockholm).
Radio: Life According to Eve (Radio Stockholm)
Concerts: An Evening With... (Pizza on the Park), A Celebration
of Performing Arts (Albert Hall).
Writing & Directing: Life According to Eve (radio play. Radio
Stockholm), "... Who do you think you are? " (Stockholm).
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| Nikki Ankara |
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Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera (Christine),
Miss Saigon (Ellen), Carousel (Julie), Cats (Grizabella, Jellylorum),
Aspects of Love (Giuletta), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
(Narrator), Jesus Christ Superstar (with Paul Nicholas).
Concerts: Les Miserables (Paris), Venezuelan Festival of Arts.
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| Samantha Shaw |
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Sam is married to Graham, and their son,
Oscar Samson Browne was born on 31st January 2002 and keeps them
very busy!
Theatre: Les Miserables (Fantine), Chess,
The Beggars Opera (Jenny Diver, Royal Shakespeare Company), Oliver!,
Aspects of Love (Rose), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), The Wizard
of Oz (Dorothy), Starting Here, Star ting Now (London cast recording).
Television: Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, Soldier, Soldier, Let's
Pretend.
Radio: Anything Goes with David Soul and Tyne Daly, Sondheim 's
First & Last (Covent Garden Festival 2000 and BBC Radio 3).
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| Andrea Duncan - Technical Co-ordinator |
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Andrea began her career as an actress, but
in 1989 decided to swap the onstage action for the offstage action,
and has since stage-managed.
The Phantom of the Opera, Crazy For You, The Rocky Horror Show and
Cats.
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| Michael Shaw - Sound Engineer |
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Michael trained at The Guildhall School
of Music & Drama, London, studying Stage Management and Technical
Theatre and is currently the Technical Manager at the Royal Academy
of Music, London.
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