Cast

  • Katie Elin-Salt comes to Are You As Nervous As I Am? having recently premiered her first play, “Celebrated Virgins” which received glowing reviews. She is an actress, singer and playwright, and during lockdown delighted viewers with her own songs and covers on Instagram and other social media.

    Stage credits include: The Rise And Fall of Little Voice (Bolton Octagon); Out of Love, Black Mountain, How To Be A Kid (Paines Plough Roundabout/Orange Tree); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Comedy of Errors (National Theatre); Crouch Touch Pause Engage (Out of Joint/National Theatre of Wales); Symphony (Nabakov/Soho Theatre); Under Milk Wood (Theatr Clwyd); Season’s Greetings (Theatr Clwyd); Educating Rita (Theatr Clwyd); Cinderella (Leeds City Varieties); The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Bolton Octagon); As You Like It (Theatr Clwyd);, Holly And Ivan’s Christmas Adventure (Lyric Hammersmith); Stealing Sweets and Punching People (Nu-Write); and Love Steals Us From Loneliness (National Theatre of Wales).

    Katie’s screen credits include: The Tuckers (BBC Wales); Stella (Tidy Productions/Sky 1); Doctors (BBC TV); Flash Prank (Splash Media/MTV); Tissues and Issues (BBC); and Perfect Summer (Fiction Factory)

  • Emma Thornett joins the cast from the national tour of Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks playing Angela and understudying the lead role of Eglantine for which she received glowing reviews.

    Theatre credits include: Baby Joey/Paulette in War Horse; U/s Belinda/Millie in South Downs and The Browning Version and Donna Marie in Blood Brothers, all in the West End. Hold Me, Touch Me/Shirley Markowitz/Puppet Captain in The Producers for Manchester Royal Exchange; Puppeteer in The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne Opera; Ursula in The Little Mermaid and MC in Us Against Whatever with Middle Child Theatre Co; Soloist in An Evening with Tim Rice and Friends; U\s Queen Marguerite in Exit The King at the National Theatre; Missus/Puppet Captain in 101 Dalmatians for Birmingham Rep; For Nottingham Playhouse; Jill Haynes in Darkness Darkness, Diane in Pal Joey (also at Ipswich New Wolsey) and Mum/Louise in Tracy Beaker Gets Real The Tracy Beaker Musical (also UK tour). Emma also created the role of Mary in David Essex’ musical All The Fun Of The Fair original UK tour; Marian in Robin Hood at New Theatre, Cardiff; Mrs Dearly/Sheepdog in 101 Dalmatians, Northampton Theatre Royal; Princess Aouda in Around The World in 80 Days, Liverpool Playhouse and UK tour; Comedienne in Revolution and Newsrevue, Edinburgh Festival and title roles in Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk for Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.

    Emma is the voice of Roxy in Disney’s Lego Friends-Girls on a Mission and Claire in Netflix Series Love Death and Robots – Zima Blue.

    Her television credits include; Nora Martin in ITV’s Grantchester, Wardrobe Lady in Extras (BBC) and Catherine Zeta Jones in Double Take.

  • Bill Ward is a multi-award winning actor and photographer, born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. An actor for over 20 years, he has performed in over 30 Television shows and Films, and over 50 Plays since turning professional in 2000.

    He is probably best known for his work on two of the country's leading Soaps, Coronation Street (Charlie Stubbs) and Emmerdale (James Barton), in which he appeared for over 750 episodes, and for which he won numerous awards (Inc Best Exit and Best Storyline, nominated Best Actor/Best Dramatic Performance/Best On Screen Partnership, at the British Soap Awards). His leaving episode on Coronation Street in January 2007 was the third most watched TV Programme on British Television that year.

    Additional television includes: The Hunt for Raoul Moat, Before We Die, After Life, Vera, Silent Witness, Robin Hood, Midsomer Murders, Jonathan Creek, Footballers’ Wives, Rose and Maloney, In Deep, Heartbeat, Cold Blood, Fallen, True Crime, Casualty (twice), Tangled (CBC Canada), Doctors (twice), The Bill (twice), Holby City, EastEnders, Swag, Seven Stories, Make My Day.

    Film includes: To A Cinder, A Dark Reflection, The Great Ghost Rescue, The Haunting of Ellie Rose, Practice Makes Perfect, Adam and Steve.

    Though well known for his TV work, Bill's theatre work encompasses everything from Sophocles to The Spice Girls in London's West End and theatres across the country.

    West End Productions include: Loco Chanelle in Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre), Viva Forever (Piccadilly Theatre), Million Dollar Quartet (Noel Coward Theatre), Spamalot (Palace Theatre) and Japes (Theatre Royal Haymarket).

    UK Tours include: The Glee Club (Out of Joint), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Tilted Wig), Shakespeare in Love (Bath Theatre Royal), Legally Blonde (UK Productions), Not Dead Enough (Josh Andrews), Look Back In Anger (Northern Stage).

    Additional Theatre includes: The Lady From The Sea (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Hairy Ape (Southwark Playhouse), The Tempest (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Edward II (BAC), Harriott And I (Manchester Royal Exchange Studio), Destiny (BAC), Oh! What A Lovely War (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), A Chorus Of Disapproval (Bristol Old Vic), The Beggar’s Opera (Bristol Old Vic), Antigone (Bristol Old Vic), Stalin! The Musical (Pleasance), Around The World In Eighty Days (BAC), Uncle Ebenezer- A Christmas Carol (BAC).

    Bill has been an Ambassador for the domestic violence charity Women’s Aid since 2006, and has played jazz clarinet in various bands for over 40 years.

    He is also a multi-award winning landscape photographer, and was honoured to be a judge at UK Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022. He raised thousands of pounds for the Theatres Trust during the pandemic with his photography book #TheatresInDanger. You can follow his work on Instagram @billwardphotography, or via his website www.billwardphotography.co.uk.

  • Daniel Abbott trained at LAMDA.

    His professional theatre credits include Archie in GROAN UPS (Mischief UK Tour), Multiple Roles in RICHARD II, HENRY IV PART ONE, HENRY IV PART TWO and HENRY V (Royal Shakespeare Company), Mr Wickham in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Claudio in MEASURE FOR MEASURE and Ferdinand in THE TEMPEST (Guilford Shakespeare Company), King Phillip II of France in THE LION IN WINTER (English Theatre Frankfurt), Danny in WASTED (Orange Tree Theatre), Noah in GIRL (Women’s Writes Festival Arcola Theatre), Heathcliff in WUTHERING HEIGHTS and Antipholus of Syracuse in THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Red Rose Chain), Robert Dudley in PROGRESS (The Avenue Theatre)

    His television credits include Sam Cummings in HOLBY CITY (BBC) and Isambard Grey in MARCELLA (ITV)

  • Simon Furness is a graduate of Exeter College Oxford and Guildford School of Acting. Simon has recently filmed for Netflix's 'Wednesday' directed by Tim Burton.

    Theatre includes: 'The Cleaner' (Arcola); 'Uncle Vanya' (Old Red Lion) 'Look Back in Anger' (Memorial Hall, Clun); 'Red Light Soho' (Greenwich Theatre); 'Hamlet' ('St Andrew's, Holborn); 'Antony and Cleopatra'; 'Pygmalion' (New Triad, tour); 'The Taming of The Shrew' (Theatre Set Up, tour), 'The Beaux' Strategem' (King's Head).

    Screen includes: 'Wednesday' (Netflix/Tim Burton); 'Timebus' (Deuce Films).

  • Sarah's many theatre credits include: Charlotte in A Little Night Music ( Buxton Opera Festival) Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre, Frankfurt and Munich),Janie in Floyd Collins (Wiltons) Paulette in Legally Blonde ( Monte Carlo/South Korea) Stella in Follies (Opera de Toulon), Josie in Taboo (Brixton Club House), Mrs Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank (York Theatre Royal and Tour), Miss Hannigan in Annie (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Road Show (Menier Chocolate Factory), Hannah Owens in Flashdance (Shaftesbury Theatre, West End), Miss Adelaide in Guys & Dolls (Kilworth House Theatre, Leicester), Mrs Blair in Inherit The Wind (Old Vic Theatre), Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Sarah/Naomi in Imagine This (New London Theatre & Plymouth Theatre Royal), Mrs Pearce in My Fair Lady (Singapore/Kuala Lumpa), Lina Lamont in Singing in the Rain (Hereford Court Yard), Marge McDougal in Promises Promises (Sheffield Crucible), Mrs O'Brian in Showboat (Royal Albert Hall), Felicia in Murderous Instincts (Savoy Theatre), Dinah Murphy in South Pacific (Royal National Theatre), Sonia Walsk in Neil Simons' They're Playing Our Song (The English Theatre of Frankfurt), Therese Talien in the original West End production of Napoleon (Shaftesbury Theatre), Mrs Cratchitt in A Christmas Carol (Derby Playhouse), Maddie in Women Laughing (Not The National Theatre Tour), Sarah's own one woman show Portrait of a Lady (New End Theatre, Hampstead), The Dressmaker in Spin (Royal National Theatre Studio), Sylvie in Oklahoma! (Royal National Theatre and Lyceum Theatre), Anya in A Brief Affair (The Bridewell Theatre), Catherine in Martin Guerre (Prince Edward Theatre), Mona in Chicago (Leicester Haymarket), Maggie in Yakety Yak, and Rosie in Cabaret (The Sheffield Crucible).

    National tours include Scrooge with Anthony Newley, Minnie Faye in Hello Dolly with Dora Bryan, Alternate Laurey in Oklahoma! and Anytime Annie in 42nd Street.

    Film and television credits include: Barbara in BBC’S Father Brown, Teresa Norris in ITV’S drama Stephen, Daphne in Open Air, Come Home Ginger for Mentorn Films, Sylvie in the film of the Royal National Theatre's production of Oklahoma! and Sarah/Naomi in PBS’s production of Imagine This.

  • Ian Houghton’s work in Theatre includes the National Theatre’s War Horse (New London Theatre); This House (Garrick Theatre and national tour); The Audience and Yes, Prime Minister (Gielgud Theatre); One-man show Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (National Tour & Edinburgh Fringe); Looking Good Dead (National Tour); The Best Man (National Tour); Boeing Boeing (National Tour); The Wider Earth (Natural History Museum); Elizabethan Christmas (Hampton Court Palace); The Fastest Clock in the Universe ( Old Red Lion); Unrestless for Old Vic New Voices; What’s Wrong with Angry? (The King’s Head); Dent (Arcola Theatre); Reserves (Criterion Theatre); Moonlight and Magnolias (Hertford Theatre); Woman in Mind and Oliver! (Gordon Craig Theatre); Decade (Theatre503); Pressure, Art, Gagarin Way, Journey’s End, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The Government Inspector, Incorruptible, Absurd Person Singular and Noises Off for The Company of Players.

    Television includes Harley and the Davidsons, Mr. Selfridge, Eastenders, Call the Midwife, The Great Outdoors, Waking the Dead, MI High and Moving Wallpaper.

    Film includes RocknRolla, Breaking and Entering, This is Not Happening and The Mirror

  • Christopher trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

    Theatre Includes: Liberame/1st Cover Jagwire in Bat Out Of Hell (Dominion Theatre, West End), Gary Coleman in Avenue Q (Beck Theatre), Best of Musical Starnights (German Tour), The Pirate Queen in Concert (London Coliseum), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella in Concert (Cadogan Hall), A Christmas Carol in Concert (Lyceum Theatre) and Sleepy in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Glasgow SECC).

    Film: Townsperson in Walt Disney’s Aladdin directed by Guy Ritchie.

  • Emily-Mae trained at the Arts Educational Schools.

    Theatre Credits include; Bulda in Disney’s Frozen (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) Cover Donna/Oolie in City of Angels (Garrick Theatre) Pippi Longstocking in Pippi Longstocking (Royal and Derngate) Paradice in Brooklyn (Greenwhich Theatre) Ronnete in Little Shop of Horrors (Storyhouse Chester) Ulla in The Producers (Royal Exchange, Manchester) Dynamite, Cover Motormouth in Hairspray (UK Tour)

    Emily-Mae would like to thank her family and friends for their continued support, love and patience.

  • Darcey trains full time with Sylvia Young Theatre School. She has been represented by the Sylvia Young Agency since she was 5 years old.

    Theatre - Darcey played Brigitta in the UK and Ireland Tour of The Sound of Music (Bill Kenwright LTD / Martin Connor)

    Film - Dumbo (Tim Burton)

    Commercials - Darcey played the part of Kirsten for IKEA Austria plus their Bill Board Campaign. She was also in commercials for Shelter Charity (Andrew Guy) and for Respimat.

    Presenting / Voice overs - Darcey was a toy presenter for Flair, and she has played voice characters for ELT, Pearson and RBA Productions. Darcey has recently been in a promotional video for Amazon.

  • Jenny has been involved in ‘Nervous’ since it’s early workshop days and is delighted to be involved in this production. She trained in London at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and previous theatre credits include Janet in The Rocky Horror Show (European Tour), as well Phantom and cover Janet/Magenta/Columbia in previous tours, Belle in Beauty & the Beast (Halifax), the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (UK tour), Aladdin in Aladdin, Dandini in Cinderella and Fairy Moonbeam in Snow White (all at the Queens Theatre, Barnstaple), principal singer in Musical Starnights – the Best of Musicals (European tour), Bunny Byron in Babes in Arms (Union Theatre, London), ensemble in Carmen (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and Buxton Opera House), Rapunzel in Into the Woods (Landor Theatre, London), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Miranda in The Tempest (UK tour), Liesl in The Sound of Music (Larnaca International Festival, Cyprus), and Babe in Raindogs (Trafalgar Studios, London).

    Television includes Popstar to Operastar and Ant and Dec’s Push the Button (both ITV). Jenny has also featured in various films, commercials, recordings, cruises, workshops and concerts, has directed several childrens’ productions and is a choreographer for the Dorset Opera Festival.

  • Eva trains at the Young Actors Theatre Islington and has performed at Finchley Arts Depot with a local drama group. She loves all animals and has a dog called Margot. She also enjoys Lego!

    Eva is delighted to be making her professional debut as Young Peggy in Are You As Nervous As I Am? at Greenwich Theatre.

 
 
 
  • Megan attends the Sylvia Young Theatre school as a full-time student which she loves. She also trains at MV Academy in South West London where her teacher Hannah McKenna Vickerstaff discovered her special singing talent when she was eight. She is a now member of the MV Academy musical theatre and dance competition teams.

    Megan made her West End debut in 2021 as Jane Banks in “Mary Poppins” at the Prince Edward theatre (2021 - 2022)

 
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CREATIVE TEAM

 
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SIMON SPENCER

Book Writer & Producer

Simon Spencer is a three times BAFTA-nominated TV producer and director. Are You As Nervous As I Am? is his first venture into musical theatre. Not only has he written the book for the play, he is also drawing on his extensive production experience to help bring this new show to the stage. This is Simon’s debut as a book writer and his first theatrical venture as a producer.

However, Simon is going back to his roots. He started his career in theatre before moving to BBC Television where he directed primetime entertainment music and comedy shows – including co-directing The Laurence Oliver Awards.

In recent years Simon has specialised in producing preschool programming featuring live action, puppets, animatronics and animation, for leading companies such as The Walt Disney Company, HIT Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company.

This exciting musical journey is the new step but steeped firmly in the creative playground Simon has previously inhabited.

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SHAUN MCKENNA

Lyricist

Shaun McKenna is an award-winning British dramatist, lyricist, screenwriter and adaptor. His credits include theatre plays, primetime TV, West End musicals, documentaries, arena spectacles and a host of radio dramas including the current Home Front and The Forsytes.

For the musical theatre, Shaun has written four West End shows, most notably the stage version of The Lord of the Rings (DORA Award Best Musical, Olivier nomination, SOBOM Outstanding Achievement in Theatre award). The recent 20th Anniversary reissue of the Original London Cast recording of his first show, Maddie, has been exceptionally well reviewed. With Stephen Keeling he wrote Heidi (Prix Walo nomination) which proved such a success in Switzerland and Germany over four years that it produced two sequels. Last Dance, a disco fable, played at the York Theatre off Broadway. He has written the forthcoming Glenn Miller musical Feelin’ In The Mood and is developing The Last Scrapbook: The Jack Cole Story with Broadway legend Chet Walker.

Plays include three Peter James adaptations, The Perfect Murder, Dead Simple and Not Dead Enough; Ladies in Lavender (Broadway World Best Regional Play award) and Ruling Passions. TV includes Like Father Like Son, The Crooked Man, Doctors and Heartbeat, his first episode of which won a RTS award.

In Are You As Nervous As I Am? Shaun McKenna and Leighton James House are rekindling the creative collaboration they began with Terry Pratchett’s Only You Can Save Mankind, which was seen at the Edinburgh Festival.

http://www.shaunmckenna.net

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JOSH COTTELL

Musical Director, Orchestrator/Arranger

Josh is a first-class graduate of Oxford University and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and works primarily as a musical director and multi-instrumentalist.

​Josh was most recently the Assistant Musical Director of Billy Elliot (Leicester Curve). Recent credits also include MD for Sweeney Todd (Bath Theatre Academy) and Spring Awakening (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), Associate MD/Keys 1 for the world-premiere of Vanara: The Legend (Hackney Empire), and Associate MD for Zorro! (Charing Cross). He is also the MD for the concert series Spotlight on New Musicals at the Union Theatre.

Josh is also an experienced arranger/orchestrator with particular interest in adaptation for actor-musicians.

https://www.joshcottell.co.uk

KEVIN JENKINS

Designer

Kevin trained on the Motley Theatre Design Course and has been designing for theatre for 16 years. He previously obtained a Masters in Engineering from the University of Durham.

He has designed numerous productions for Sir Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. Productions include Family Album, The Girl Next Door, Season’s Greetings, Birthdays Past Birthdays Present, Taking Steps and A Brief History of Women which transferred to E59E59 Theaters, New York.

He regularly works at Sheffield Theatres and has designed for the Crucible Theatre mainstage, studio and site-specific work. Productions there include How a City Can Save the World, What We Wished For, A Dream, Hospital Food, The Beauty Inspector, Confessions of a City, Warrior Square, Topdog/Underdog and Hearts.

Other theatre work includes Coram Boy (Nottingham Playhouse),The Frontline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shiv (Curve) Alice in Wonderland (Wise Owl), Far Gone (Roots Mbili Theatre Co), Jane Hair (Buglight),1936 (Lilian Baylis Studio, Arcola Theatre), Hamlet (Blue Apple Theatre Co), Hypothermia, Colony (Dark Horse), The Pendulum (Jermyn Street).

http://kjenkinsdesign.com

DENNI SAYERS

Movement Director

Denni has choreographed for many regional repertory theatres, including, Octagon Bolton, Derby Playhouse, Victoria Theatre Stoke–On-Trent, Leicester Haymarket, Birmingham Rep., Chichester Festival Theatre and The National Theatre. Working on diverse productions, e.g Oliver ( Leicester Haymarket) Kip’s War, a new music theatre piece by Carl Davis with a cast of 75 children, alongside professional actors, ( Leicester Haymarket), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Birmingham Rep), Sweeney Todd, and Private Lives (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Oedipus, and Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre).

Her work in opera has taken her across the world, from The Metropolitan Opera New York, The Royal Opera House London, La Scala Milan, Sydney Opera House, and many places in between.

Denni has staged and directed many BBC Proms productions, including the Dr Who Proms, where she had the daunting task of bossing the Daleks around.

 
 
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LEIGHTON JAMES HOUSE

Composer

Leighton James House made his presence as known as a composer in 2004, when his score for the musical based on the Terry Pratchett novel Only You Can Save Mankind hit the Edinburgh Festival to great acclaim, after showcasing at London’s Soho Theatre.

“Song after song the wonderful music soars…” (Ned Sherrin), “A brilliant musical” (The Guardian) & “A virtual hit” (The Telegraph) was some of the praise the show received. Most rewarding for Leighton, Terry Pratchett declared: ‘If I’d have known it was going to be so good I’d have written a better book’.

A special studio album of Only You Can Save Mankind was released in 2009.

Leighton’s first complete musical Lifts was written whilst still studying at college and performed at the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning Best New Musical at the inaugural Ken Hill Awards.

Following his first London showcase of new material at The Bridewell Theatre entitled A Brief Affair, Leighton was commissioned by the Birmingham Stage Company to write original music for their hugely successful National touring production of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine.

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PHOEBE BARRAN

Director

Phoebe has been a leading member of the “Nervous” Creative Team since 2018, crafting and honing the show through a series of dramatic and musical workshops.

Directing in theatre since 2003, Phoebe was staff director on “The History Boys” (National Tour & West End). She has most recently directed “Tryst” at The Chiswick Playhouse (2020). In addition, Phoebe worked as an assistant director at the Royal Court, National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2019, Phoebe made her debut as a film director with the short “Snapshots”. Already the recipient of two awards (including Best Experimental Short), the film continues to be featured in festivals across the UK, US and Europe.

Other theatre directing credits include: “An Evening with Noel Fielding (UK and International tour), “Scenes from A Separation” (“Beautifully staged” – Time Out) and “The Merchant of Venice” both at The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. “Us and Them” at The Bridewell and “Heart’s Desire” at The Gateway, Edinburgh. She has also worked as an Associate Director at The Trafalgar Studios.

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DR MATTHEW MALONE

Arrangements and Orchestrations

Matthew has been working as a theatre musician since 2014 and is responsible for our stunning new musical arrangements.

Matthew’s recent credits include: Assistant Musical Director on Carousel at Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Treasure Island (Octagon Theatre, Bolton; Musical Director and Arranger), The Boy In The Dress (Swan Theatre, RSC; Additional Orchestrations), Standing At The Sky’s Edge (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; Assistant Musical Director), Jack & The Beanstalk (EM Forster Theatre, Tonbridge), Songs From The Seven Hills (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; Musical Director & Arranger) and Alice In Wonderland (Harlow Playhouse, Harlow).

In 2014, Matthew composed his first full-length musical, Departures: A Song Cycle with lyricist Joe Bunce, which played at the Edinburgh Festival the same year. Subsequently, the musical won the 2016 Cameron Mackintosh Award and transferred to the Pleasance Theatre (London) for a limited run.

MIKE ROBERTSON

Lighting Designer

An Olivier Award Winner, Bibi Ferreira Award Winner and What’s On Stage, CATS and Olivier Nominee Mike is a graduate of The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Based in London his work thankfully takes him all over the world designing lighting for plays, musicals, opera's and concerts together with events, architecture and special projects. He has many credits in the West End, New York, on tour and in regional rep. On foreign shores he has lit stage shows in Brazil, France, Monaco, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong, Macau, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Cuba and the USA.

In the theatre recent acclaim came for Jarmen, Dazzling Divas, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Riot Act, A Christmas Carol, Trolle, School of Rock, Sex Crime, Fascinating Aida, Macbeth, Billy Elliot, Girlfriends, Annie, Privacy, The Rubenstein Kiss, The Philanthropist, Honeymoon In Vegas, Monstrous Bodies, The Owl & The Pussycat, A Princess Undone and classics Much Ado About Nothing, Camelot, State Fair, When We Were Women, Art, The Sisterhood, Great Expectations and Toast.

Outside of the theatre his team have lit hundreds of concerts and events even designing the interior lighting for Aircraft including Virgin Atlantic J2000 fleet and the concept for the Airbus A380. Mike recently created the New Colour Blue series for global giant Lee Filters, immodestly one of them is called Robertson Blue!