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Production Manager

Simon has worked extensively in theatre for over 25 years. He started as a technician at the Bristol Hippodrome Theatre becoming head of department at the Theatre Royal, Bath. He then went on to work as master carpenter on many touring and West End productions whilst also running his own scenery and furniture workshop. After being asked to production manage Great Expectations for Apollo Leisure UK in 1994, Simon production managed numerous touring productions including Summer Holiday, Tommy Steele’s What a Show, Buddy, The Rocky Horror Show, Smokey Joe’s Café and the Aldeburgh Opera Festival. In 1998, he joined CoOrdination as Senior Production Manager.

Productions include: Smokey Joe’s Café, Sesame Street Live, Soul Train, Jim Davidson’s Dick Whittington and Cinderella, Songs for a New World, Rosie and Jim’s Music Party and three world premiere stage musicals of Casper, The Mask and Spiderman.

In 2002, Simon returned to freelance production management providing services to shows including The Rocky Horror Show, My One and Only, White Folks, Sesame Street Live in Bahrain, Nixon’s Nixon, Vincent in Brixton, The Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas, A Little Night Music, The Baker’s Wife, Money to Burn, The Holy Terror, Simply Heavenly, The Witches, Love Shack, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Footloose, The Rocky Horror Show (new production and tour), The New Statesman, the move of Chicago from the Adelphi to the Cambridge Theatre, Guys and Dolls, and most recently Grease.

Simon occasionally works for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art assisting in the training of future technicians, provides production management for themed corporate event companies and is production consultant for European Events Ltd.