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Robbie trained in Brisbane, Australia and made his debut in the Australian version of So You Think You Can Dance for television. From there he performed with the Paris Opera Ballet as part of their Australian tour. He was part of the Expressions Dance Company in Brisbane before performing on a number of cruise ships including Norwegian Cruise Line, Princess Cruises and the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.

After moving to the UK, he went on to perform in shows such as the international tour of Cats  playing Mistoffelees, the UK, Ireland and Turkey tour of Strauss, Chess at the London Coliseum, the UK, Ireland and Swiss tour of Flashdance, White Christmas at the Leicester Curve, Guys and Dolls at the Theatre Marigny, Paris.

He reprised his role as Mistoffelees in Cats at Kilworth House in 2019–2020 and also performed again in White Christmas, this time at the Dominion theatre in London's West End.

Robbie is currently appearing with Sutton Foster, Robert Lindsay, Felicity Kendall and Gary Wilmot in Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in London.

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Kevin Wilson Public Relations is a small boutique West End PR agency that punches BIG!

Kevin Wilson has a journalist’s instinct for a great story and how to sell it in a rapidly changing media landscape. An award-winning publicist (West End Publicist of the Year – Fringe Report Awards) he moved into PR 26 years ago after 18 years as a print journalist working in London and Hollywood. He launched Kevin Wilson Public Relations in 1995 and since then he has worked constantly in the West End, representing some of the biggest and most successful productions, including Thriller Live (for 11 years at the Lyric theatre), SIX the musical, The Kite Runner, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, the UK premiere of the Broadway production of Green Day's American Idiot, long-runners The 39 Steps, Avenue Q, The Rocky Horror Show, The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas, Debbie Reynolds – Alive and Fabulous, and Joan Rivers' A Work in Progress By a Life in Progress.

KWPR stages more than 70 press nights a year, oversees several major national tours and represents one-off events including The Critics Circle Awards and the annual charity gala, West End Eurovision. Pre-Covid, 2020 would have seen KWPR celebrating our 20th year as one of the top agencies working at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

KWPR is also one of the most sought after agencies working on the London Fringe where our productions in 2019 received more than 30 Off West End Awards Offie nominations.

KWPR has also provided PR support to major celebrities, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, John Travolta, Patti LuPone, Joan Collins, Joan Rivers, Sandra Bernhard, Roseanne Barr, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Leguizamo and Eatha Kitt.

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Acclaimed entertainer Hilary O’Neil has become renowned for her laugh-out-loud comedy and her incredible impressions. 

Starting out as a dancer with Ken Dodd at the London Palladium, she quickly moved on to join close harmony group “Stutz Bear Cats”, before leaving to pursue a solo career. She has worked all over the world and with such household names as Hale & Pace, Jim Davidson, Brian Conley, Bobby Davro, Joe Longthorne, Richard Digance, Freddie Starr and Joe Pasquale. 

As well as the Palladium, her West End appearances have included “Acorn Antiques”, Directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, in which, as well as playing several roles, she understudied both Dame Julie Walters and Celia Imrie; “Summer Holiday”, “Shout” and “Animal Crackers” at The Lyric. 

She has also appeared many times on TV. Hilary is currently touring the UK with “Menopause the Musical” and will return to plying her trade upon the high seas later in the year, performing on some of the world’s greatest Cruise Liners including P&O’s Aurora and Cunard’s flagship, Queen Mary 2.

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In this week's podcast, Craig looks back at some of his guests who helped make season 3 and he also looks to the future and highlights some of the great shows that have just opened or are due to open this year. He also highlights Amelie which he saw and loved and he shares his delight of this production with his listeners. 

Enjoy and we look forward to brining you a whole new set of guests for season 4.

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Craig is live from the Ibstock Novice Festival in Leicester this week, talking to a past student from Starquest Performers College, some of the young competitors and also owners of some of the school that have entered.

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Charlotte trained professionally at Laine Theatre Arts. 

Theatre credits include; Alex Owens in Flashdance (International Tour) Tina Sparkle in Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre London, The West Yorkshire Playhouse and The Princess of Wales Theatre Toronto) Dale Tremont in Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre London and UK Tour), Penny Johnson in Dirty Dancing (First-ever National Tour, West End revival at The Piccadilly Theatre London and the original German production at The Theater am Postdamer Platz Berlin), Margot in Legally Blonde (Deaugu Opera House, Korea) Bombalurina in CATS (European Tour) Patty Simcox and also understudying/playing Sandy in Grease (UK Tour), The Golden Age Of Dance (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) Fly With The Stars (London Palladium), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre, London),

Television credits include; Strictly Come Dancing (BBC), Len Goodman’s For the Love of Fred Astaire (ITV), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), All Star Musicals (ITV), Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV) and Children in Need (BBC).

When not performing Charlotte teaches dance at some of the countries leading Performing Arts Colleges including Guildford School of Acting, London Studio Centre, Central School of Ballet and The International College of Musical Theatre.

www.charlottegooch.com

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A short personal viewpoint on current procedure from Craig on theatres opening up.

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Adam Blanshay Productions is a London based theatre production company which produces, co-produces and manages a wide range of plays, musicals, comedies, digital content, and live event theatre across the UK, West End, Broadway and Australia. 
 
Produced over 60 productions worldwide. Winner of six Tony Awards, eight Olivier Awards, and one Helpmann Award. Adam is a 2023 EMBA Candidate of Saïd Business School, and received The Linbury Scholarship for his studies.
 
Current productions include:  Pippin (Charing Cross Theatre), The Theatre Channel (webseries), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (West End), Moulin Rouge! (Broadway, West End, US Tour, Melbourne), Notre Dame de Paris (David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center), Come From Away (West End, Broadway, Toronto, North America, Australia).
 
Recent productions include: La Cage aux Folles [The Play] (Park Theatre), What’s In A Name? (UK Tour), City of Angels (West End), Waitress (West End), Lucie Jones-Live at the Adelphi, The Inheritance (Broadway), Kinky Boots (UK Tour) Fiddler On The Roof (Menier & West End), Network (Broadway), Edmond de Bergerac (Birmingham Repertory Theatre & UK Tour), Intra Muros (Park Theatre), Notre Dame de Paris (London Coliseum), Consent (West End), Angels In America (Broadway), The Color Purple (US Tour).
 
Full biography: www.adamblanshay.com | Social Media: @AdamBlanshayPro

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Terry started dancing aged 6, won a 5 year scholarship to the RAD aged 10. He attended the Royal Ballet’s Upper School, joining the Royal Ballet at age 18.  To expand his character work, he joined London’s Festival Ballet (now ENB) as a soloist, playing roles such as, Dr Coppelius in Coppelia, Sancho Panza in Don Quixote and The Headmistress in Graduation Ball. Terry left the ballet world to explore other artistic genres, and performed in musicals in London’s West End, in Film and on TV.

On retiring from performing, Terry set up as a Business Manager for people in show business. His clients included a number of well-known performers and many ‘jobbing’ dancers, singer and actors.  On selling the business 15 years later, and inspired by the realization that many of the people he’d worked with also sought his advice on personal issues, he retrained as a psychotherapist attaining a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy & Healing Practice validated by Middlesex University in 2012.

After working with an ex-ballet dancer suffering with bipolar disorder, Terry recognized that there was a very special niche that he could fill within the world of dance. He’s now combined his two passions, dance and psychotherapy bringing his ‘insider knowledge’ about life as a dancer into the realm of counselling. He founded www.counsellingfordancers.com in 2017 and has been working to support the unique needs of dancers in relation to their mental health ever since.  In 2021 Terry created the Help4Dancers App which can be downloaded for free from the Apple store.

Terry presents interactive Mental Health Self-Care Workshops for Dancers both in person and virtually.  These proactive workshops are to help support dancers’ mental wellbeing, teaching them resilience and how to be mentally fit and emotionally strong.

He now offers one to one therapy sessions available via video-link worldwide.

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Ryan has worked in every area of the entertainment industry, most recently as creative director working with the government to represent the UK for British National Day at the Milan Expo 2015. He has worked with the biggest creatives in the world including; Matthew Bourne, Arlene Philips, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joel Schumacher, Peter Darling, Richard Marcel. He has also shared the stage with stars such as; Kerry Ellis, Idina Menzal, Adam Cooper, Miriam Margolyes, and Adam Garcia.

Ryan has worked for Simon Cowell – SYCO entertainment as a talent scout for Britain’s got talent and a new BBC show, The Greatest Dancer.

The only teacher in the world to have taught the dancers from the hit US T.V show Dance Moms for Abby Lee Miller and UK for Jennifer Ellison.

Most notably known for appearing as a finalist in the top 20 of series 2, So You Think You Can Dance and Got to Dance, before this he had a flourishing career in London’s West End but not before gaining his first job at 19 in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Ryan was appointed as Dance Captain for Grease The Musical UK and European Tour, choreographed by Arlene Philips. Original London cast of Wicked, for ENO (English National Opera) - Kismet, London Coliseum, Cabaret, Lyric theatre, by Javier de Fructos. Featured dancer – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera the movie, directed by Joel Schumacher and choreographed by Peter Darling.

He has also worked as a choreographer with the Lebanese and Vietnamese Governments to introduce Musical Theatre to their countries and working alongside an 80 piece Orchestra and their biggest pop star, Duc Tuan.

Founder of ID-Company – A dance examination board offering a syllabus in Contemporary and Street Dance styles with a revolutionary new teacher training programme that manages over 300 schools throughout Europe and supported by many of the UK’s leading dance colleges – www.iD-Company.co.uk

He is fast becoming one of the country’s most sought after choreographers creating in theatre, T.V, film, live events, cruise’s, pop videos to teaching at some the top dance colleges in the United Kingdom and many dance schools nationwide. Ryan has gained extensive knowledge about the needs and wants for the ever-changing world of show biz.

He is artistic director for Prince Charming events working with and covered by Fashion T.V and OK! magazine. Creative director for Celebrity Gleex, a cast of ex reality T.V stars from, X-factor, Grease is the Word, SYTYCD as support act for Peter Andre and Lulu performing to crowds of 10,000 people.

Choreographer credits include: Mt4uth, channels 5 Don’t Stop Believing, Shine TV, G*Mania,  London Fashion Week shows,  Bloodbath musical Edinburgh, Ripper musical directed by Vernon Mound, Anthology for Irish composer Conor Mitchell. Annie Get Your Gun, market place theatre, Ireland, Godspell Grand Opera House, Belfast and Rose Theatre, Kingston, London. Fashion Victim musical at London Cinema museum. Two cruise productions for 2entertain and Scandinavia. Assistant choreographer for Michael Flatley and Molly Molloy stadium tour Celtic tiger.

Ryan is an international judge/adjudicator for Encore events, Dance show live, Disney camp and many established UK dance festivals.

He is a patron to Starlight Dance Academy and creative consultant to many dance companies.

Ryan actively works, giving his time to create or teach for many charity’s including, Music theatre for Youth, Ireland, Autism got Talent with Pineapple Performing Arts, Prince’s trust, London Taxi drivers fund for children and many smaller local fundraisers.

For more information please visit www.ryanjenkins.co.uk