Directing credits include: The King and I (Royal Albert Hall, June 2009); The Sound of Music (currently running at the London Palladium and at the Princess ofWales,Toronto); 13 the Musical (Broadway); Donkeys Years (Comedy Theatre); Little Britain Live (UK tour); Noises Off (RNT,WE and Broadway); Passion (WE);Wild Oats (RNT); Marat/Sade (RNT); TheWind in the Willows (Tokyo,OldVic); Two Pianos, Four Hands (Birmingham Rep,WE); Spend Spend Spend (Olivier-nominated) (Plymouth,WE and tour); and Benefactors (tour,WE).

Lyrics: Amour (Tony-nominated); Ghetto (Broadway).

Translations: Les Parents Terribles, Indiscretions,The Miser and Mary Stuart (RNT); The Rehearsal, Becket, Figaro’s Wedding, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Wagner’s Ring Cycle (ENO); and The Merry Widow (Covent Garden).

As composer, he has written arranged and directed music for over 50 shows for theatre,TV and radio, including: The Wind in theWillows, Arcadia (RNT); The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); The Mother (BBC); Enduring Love (Pathé), for which he won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Score and Jane Austen’s Persuasion (BBC Films), for which he won a BAFTA.

As adaptor, his credits include the book of the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which has successfully run in London and New York (Olivier-nominated).