Senior Management
Emma Stephenson
Finance & Operations Director and Joint Chief Executive
Kelly Johnson
Development and Marketing Director and Joint Chief Executive
Martin Berry
Creative Director and Joint Chief Executive
Creative
Martin Berry
Creative Director and Joint Chief Executive
Cait Laws
Programme Producer
Marieke Keenan
Programme & Productions Administrator
Creative Engagement Team
Jacob Blackburn
Youth Development Producer
Sam Parker
Artist Development Producer
Grace Plant
Community Engagement Producer
Lizzie Wrigley
NYC Facilitator
Becki Breakwell
Creative Engagement Administrator (Assemble)
Thea Mackney
NYC Facilitator
Communications & Development Team
Kelly Johnson
Marketing & Development Director
Laura Van Wymersch
Head of Marketing & Press
Drishti Chawla
Senior Marketing Officer
Elly Fitzpatrick
Senior Marketing Officer (Currently on Maternity Leave)
Lillie Sherry
Marketing & Visual Content Assistant
Rachel Sved
Marketing Assistant
Sales & Ticketing Team
Katherine Morrant
Data and Ticketing Manager
Amanda Baulch
Deputy Sales and Ticketing Manager
Charlie Brown
Sales Officer
Finance & Operations Team
Emma Stephenson
Finance & Operations Director
Kelly Twydale
Head of People
Harry Richardson
Head of Finance
Meddie Joyce
Finance Officer
Ben Wilson
Finance Assistant
Production & Technical Team
Tom Welch
Technical Manager (Stage)
Marcus Bartlett
Technical Manager (Lighting & Sound)
Sam Jones
Senior Technician
Dan Timmins
Senior Technician
Jay Seldon
Senior Technician
Ryan Gardner
Senior Technician
Jess Brind
Interim Senior Technician
Joel Sawyer
Technician
Rosie Haigh
Technical Apprentice
Front of House Team
Mark Gambrill
Theatre Manager
Ross Carlino
House Manager
Jon Smith
Assistant House Manager
Chris Marklew
Food & Beverage Manager
Board of Trustees
James Anthony-Edwards
Tom Begbie
Lauren Berry
Paul Clay
Sarah Elghady
Ellie Fitz-Gerald
Patrons
Lucy (Lady) Studholme
Lucy, Lady Studholme served as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Exeter Northcott Theatre from 2013 to June 2021. An alumna of the University of Exeter, she was a Trustee of the University Foundation, a Governor on the University’s Council, and involved with the original donation that became the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, and has contributed to the life of the University for over 25 years. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2017.
Lucy studied English with American & Commonwealth Arts, following qualifying as a general and paediatric nurse at The Westminster Hospital. She was active in the University’s Guild of Students Theatre Society, and brought the first student drama production into the Northcott Theatre in 1984, starting a tradition which has been an annual event ever since.
She co-owns and runs a rural family business, including holiday, residential and light-industrial lettings, an overseas holiday let, and providing the High Court Judges’ Lodgings for Exeter Crown and County Court. She sits on the Liveable Exeter Place Board.
Nicholas Allott OBE
Non-Executive Vice Chairman (previously Managing Director) of Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, a worldwide theatrical production group which includes Music Theatre International (the world’s largest licensing company for musicals) and Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, owners of eight West End theatres.
Nick worked with Cameron for over forty years and was Executive Producer for the original, iconic productions of Cats, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins, and the London production of Hamilton. Among many award-winning television and DVD versions of the company’s productions, he was Executive Producer for Tom Hooper’s Oscar-winning film adaptation of Les Misérables.
A former long-standing Chair of Soho Theatre, Nick has been a trustee of English National Ballet, The Oxford School of Drama, and The Theatres Trust. He was recently a Patron of the UK/Australia Who Are We Now Festival and has been a trustee of the iconic Roundhouse in Camden for nearly 20 years. He also served as a Board Member for the London 2012 Olympic Festival and as a panellist selecting the UK City of Culture in 2017.
As Managing Trustee of the Mackintosh Foundation, he is an ambassador for the Government’s GREAT campaign and was awarded an OBE for services to theatre and charity in the 2014 New Year Honours.
Stiles and Drewe
Stiles and Drewe are a multi-award-winning writing partnership who have been working together for over 40 years, since meeting at Exeter University. Their musicals have been performed all over the world and translated into many languages.
They were responsible for the new songs and additional music and lyrics for the international smash hit Mary Poppins, which is about to embark on a new tour at the Bristol Hippodrome. Their scores include the Olivier Award-winning Honk!, which has been seen by more than seven million people in over 9,000 productions, and the recent West End productions of Half a Sixpence and The Wind in the Willows — both with books by their Mary Poppins collaborator, Julian Fellowes. Their other shows include Betty Blue Eyes, Soho Cinders, Just So, Travels with My Aunt, and Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure. They have also written a trilogy of 50-minute musicals for younger audiences: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and The Three Little Pigs.
Their most recent musicals include Becoming Nancy, with director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell, soon to open at Birmingham Rep, and Identical, a new musical adaptation of Erich Kästner’s iconic novel The Parent Trap, which premiered at Nottingham Playhouse in 2022.
Independently, as a composer, George’s credits include three musicals with lyricist Paul Leigh — Moll Flanders, The Three Musketeers and Tom Jones — as well as scores for Sam Mendes’ stage productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya. His score for Troilus and Cressida at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater was nominated for a Jefferson Award. George is also a co-producer of the hit musical SIX by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, currently running in the West End, on Broadway, and on tour in the UK/Ireland, Australia/New Zealand, and North America. This year he is also co-producing Marlow and Moss’s new musical Why Am I So Single? in the West End.
Independently, as a lyricist, Anthony’s credits include The Card, with music by Tony Hatch, and A Twist of Fate, with Singaporean composer Dick Lee. His most recent musicals are Freak the Mighty, based on the novel by Rodman Philbrick, due to premiere in the USA in 2025, and The Good Hair Day, both with music by Ryan Fielding Garrett.
Honk! has won many international awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical, while Mary Poppins has collected 45 major theatre awards around the world, including Tony, Olivier, Helpmann and London Evening Standard Awards. Stiles and Drewe were nominated for Best New Musical at the 2016 WhatsOnStage Awards for Half a Sixpence, and Betty Blue Eyes was nominated for the 2012 Olivier Award. Other awards include the TMA Best Musical Award for Moll Flanders and the Straits Times Award for Best Musical for A Twist of Fate.
Stiles and Drewe’s support for new musical theatre writing is recognised through the annual Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) Stiles and Drewe Prize for Best New Song, and their Mentorship Award, supported by Music Theatre International (Europe). They are founding board members of MMD, Associate Artists at The Watermill Theatre, and Patrons of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra.
