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| MBA | Creative Gerry Tebbutt Gerry Tebbutt began his career as an actor in weekly rep at Shanklin Theatre performing in seventeen plays in eighteen weeks! He followed this working with repertory companies up and down the country before embarking on a career in musical theatre. In London’s West End he appeared in many long running musicals such as "The Canterbury Tales" (Phoenix) "Billy" (Drury Lane) "Irene" (Adelphi) “Annie” (Victoria Palace) "Strike A Light" (Piccadilly) "The Wizard of Oz" (Victoria Palace) "Gypsy" (Piccadilly) "Mack & Mabel In Concert" (Drury Lane) "The Wombles" (Shaftesbury) and two Royal Variety Performances from The London Palladium. Gerry was Associate Director of the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich from 1980 – 1993 where he directed fifty percent of Main House plays and musical productions and was also responsible for the running of the Wolsey Youth Theatre - a training programme for young performers. He was a regular guest director at the Palace Theatre Watford, Playhouse Theatre Derby, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Mercury Theatre Colchester and Pitlochry Festival Theatre. He is a freelance lecturer on Musical Theatre and has lectured and given masterclasses at many arts institutions including the Bernstein Musical Theatre Academy, Bologna, The Beit Zvi Drama School, Tel Aviv and annually at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. London as part of their Masterclass series. Gerry has run courses on “Directing Musicals” at the University of Warwick and the University of Lancaster for The National Operatic and Dramatic Association. He annually delivers a three week course on Musical Theatre for the University of Westminster’s London Liberal Arts Programme and lectures on musicals for the Leadership and Development Programme for Hong Kong University. Gerry was Overseas Director for the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi where he directed and choreographed "West Side Story, Godspell and Stepping Out” with a multi racial company and has directed and choreographed musicals such as "Grease, How To Succeed...." and “West Side Story” for the Academy for Performing Arts at the Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong. He has also directed in Hungary and Vienna (The Rocky Horror Show), Holland (Godspell), Norway (Winnie The Pooh), Jordan (Old Time Musical Hall), America (Darling Of The Gods) and Israel (British Week). For ten consecutive years he has directed and choreographed the annual pantomime for the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford working with international theatre luminaries such as Kate O’Mara, Stephanie Beacham, Bonnie Langford, Nigel Havers and even Neil and Christine Hamilton! He directed and appeared as an Ugly Sister in the 2009/10 pantomime Cinderella which starred Gethin Jones. Gerry has written several compilation musicals - "The Master's Voice" based on the life of Noel Coward which he toured through Africa and which has played at many theatres in the U.K. "By George" the life of George Gershwin which he directed and performed on the QE.11 crossing from New York to Southampton along with Simon Williams and Gemma Craven and "Darling Of The Gods" the life and times of Ivor Novello which he directed and starred with Tony Award winner Elizabeth Seal. Gerry was overseas director for the New York based company “Broadway Bound” for whom he wrote and directed compilation musicals that were premiered on board the QE 2. As a freelance director in drama schools he has worked for Mountview, Guildhall and Italia Conti and for sixteen years was Head of Musical Theatre and Performance at Guildford School of Acting where he was responsible for the leadership of the three year musical theatre degree programme as well as being artistic director for the summer courses. Dramatic Lines recently published his book “Musical Theatre” which explores training for a career in the performing arts and he has contributed to “British Pantomime Performance” by Dr. Millie Taylor and “Producing Musicals” by John Gardyne. Future productions
include directing and choreographing Fiddler on the Roof
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