PHILIP BATEMAN (Musical Director)

Phil grew up in Camberley, Surrey, and studied Music at Birmingham University. He has worked as an MD, singing coach, composer and performer.

Phil has spent the last two years working as a Musical Supervisor on the West-End hit Our House by Tim Firth/Madness, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical 2003. Alongside Tim, director Matthew Warchus and choreographer Peter Darling he helped create the show, writing all vocal arrangements, underscore and dance arrangements. A UK tour is planned for 2005.

Other theatre credits include: Piaf (Sheffield, Crucible), Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic), Return to the Forbidden Planet (National Tour), Wild, Wild Women (Orange Tree), Canterbury Tales (National Tour), Winnie the Witch (Birmingham Rep), Love in a Maze and Cabaret (both Watermill, Newbury), Pirate Jenny (Basingstoke Haymarket) and Grand Night for Singing (Latchmere and East Africa Tour).

Composing credits include: Body Story 2 (Channel 4), La Maison Suspendue (RSC), The Clandestine Marriage (Watermill), Faithful Dealing (Soho Theatre) and five tours of BBC2's Polka Dot Shorts and ITV's animation series The Wheels on the Bus.