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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
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).

 

Peter McCarthy - Musical Director & Arranger
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
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

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).

 

Helen Goldwyn

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.

 

Frederick Rubin

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.

 

Helen Anker

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).

 

Charles Shirvell

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.

 

Erika Rundberg

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).

 

Nikki Ankara

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.

 

Samantha Shaw

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).

 

Andrea Duncan - Technical Co-ordinator

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.

 

Michael Shaw - Sound Engineer

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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