Matthew White
Matthew’s writing credits include: Top Hat (Concord Theatricals); Far From The Madding Crowd (Samuel French), Staging Musicals (Bloomsbury), Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, and The Night Before Christmas (Harper Collins). He also adapted and directed David Walliams’s Mr Stink for Leicester Curve and a subsequent national tour. Matthew has just completed his first full-length play, The Variations.
His directing credits include: Pacific Overtures (Nissay Theatre, Tokyo/Menier Chocolate Factory), Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre), which won three Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Best Night Out Award, Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), Little Shop of Horrors (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Addams Family (The London Palladium and two UK tours), The Boy Friend, She Loves Me, Candide, and The Last Five Years (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Producers (UK tour), West Side Story and Kiss Me, Kate (Kilworth House), Carousel (Blackpool Grand and UK tour), The Magic Flute(Peacock Theatre), Maria Friedman - By Special Arrangement (Donmar Warehouse), Far From The Madding Crowd (Watermill Theatre), and The Demon Headmaster (UK tour). Other international work includes Top Hat (Tokyo), Little Shop of Horrors (Toronto), Cabaretand Rent (Frankfurt), The Addams Family (Singapore), and The Woman in Black and Perfect Wedding (Vienna).
His West End acting credits include: Chicago (Adelphi Theatre), The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Les Misérables (Palace Theatre), Kiss of the Spider Woman(Shaftesbury Theatre), Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre), for which he received an Olivier nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Children of Eden (Prince Edward Theatre), Cinderella(Old Vic Theatre), and The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre). Other theatre work includes Midnight Cowboy, Batboy, and Company (Southwark Playhouse), Legacy (Menier Chocolate Factory),
Awaking Beauty (Stephen Joseph Theatre), and The Glee Club (New Vic Theatre, Stoke).
His film and television credits include: The Night Manager 2 (BBC); Doctor Who (BBC); Law and Order (ITV); Judge John Deed (BBC); A Christmas Carol (Hallmark/CBS) and Be Happy (Els Films de la Rambla).
For further information please visit his website; matthewwhitedirector.com
Howard Jacques
Howard Jacques co-wrote the book for the original stage production of Top Hat at the Aldwych Theatre. Nominated for seven Laurence Olivier Awards in 2013, it won in three categories including Best New Musical, as well as garnering the prestigious Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out. After its West End run, it was seen on two major national tours, two productions in Japan and a production at the Malmo Opera in Sweden. He also conceived and wrote Something Wonderful (Savoy Theatre and tour) and co-wrote the lyrics for Julia Donaldson’s and Lydia Monks' picture book What the Ladybird Heard, which has played several times in the West End and on numerous UK tours.
