Currently: Assistant Musical Director of Six the Musical (West End)
Music Supervisor: ‘No Limits’ (Turbine Theatre)
Musical Director: ‘No Limits’ (Turbine Theatre) - keys conduct; ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’ (All Saints Church, Aston) -keys conduct; ‘Kipps Half a Sixpence’ (Bob Hope Theatre) - stick conduct; Trinity Laban ‘Time’ Showcase (St Alfege Church); Trinity Laban ‘Forbidden Love’ Age Exchange Concert (The Old Bakehouse Theatre, Blackheath); ‘Summer Survival’ – a new musical: opening number - music video; ‘Curtain Up’, a graduate showcase (Albany Theatre); Trinity Laban showcases: ‘Theatre Turns Tango’, ‘The Life of a Swing’
Assistant Musical Director: ‘Titanic’ (Wermland Opera, Sweden, MD: Jonas Nydesjö); ‘Curtains;, Trinity Laban, MD: Verity Quade; ‘Big Fish’, Trinity Laban, MDs: Jody Ellen Robinson, Samuel Wilson; ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ – NYMT, MD: Jordan Li-Smith (2021)
Musical theatre playing:
Audition piano: ‘Gypsy’ The Mill at Sonning (MD: Francis Goodhand) (2022), ‘Anything Goes’ UK Tour (MD: Stephen Ridley) (2021/22); ‘The King and I’ UK tour (MD: Stephen Ridley) (2021/22)
Rehearsal piano: ‘Bat Out of Hell’ UK Tour (2022), ‘Titanic’, Wermland Opera (2022)
Keys 1: ‘The Little Mermaid’ MD: Pete Lack (2022), ‘Big Fish’ (2022), ‘Legally Blonde’, The Harrodian School, MD: Issie Osbourne (2022); ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ (NYMT, 2021); ‘Curtain Up’ showcase (2021); Trinity Laban Musical Theatre Orchestra Play-through (2020)
Keys 2: ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ West End depping, Garrick Theatre; ‘Bat Out of Hell’ West End depping, Peacock Theatre; ‘Curtains’ Trinity Laban, ‘Sister Act’, Highfields School (MD Kris Rowley), ‘Calendar Girls’, Bob Hope Theatre (MD: Nicole Johnson); ‘Merrily We Roll Along’, Trinity Laban (MD: Verity Quade) (2021); ‘Legally Blonde’ (2019); ‘Ali Baba Pantomime’ (2018); ‘Footloose’ (2018); ‘Whodunnit’ (original murder mystery musical – 2018); ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ (2017); ‘High School Musical’ (2016)
LMTO playthroughs: Titanic (Conducted by Jordan Li-Smith)
NMTO playthroughs: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (2021), ‘Singing in the Rain’ (2018)
CREDITS
No Limits
In February 2023, Ella made her off West End musical direction debut, piano conducting the new song cycle ‘No Limits’. The show ran at the Turbine Theatre for 2 weeks.
Produced by Paperhouse Productions, Sam Caldwell
Direction by Dean Johnson
Movement direction by Rhys Wilkinson
Titanic
Summer 2022, Ella spent 7 weeks in Karlstad, Sweden, playing rehearsal piano for Wermland Opera’s production of ‘Titanic The Musical’
It was surreal to be working in Sweden alongside such a talented company, topped off with getting to play Maury Yeston’s gorgeous score.
She will return to Sweden the summer of 2023 to play rehearsal for their next production, The Hundred Year Old Man.
Lockdown Project
In the height of the COVID pandemic, Ella co-created the ‘Theatre Turns Tango’ video!
Showing the depiction of Latin American genres in musical theatre through time, the video cycles through lots of well-known theatre songs, as well as some more niche gems.
A collaboration of music and dance, the singing is paired with choreography, showing how we can all come together in times of struggle.
So many people turned to the arts during the pandemic, proving its importance in mental health, and therefore highlighting the need to keep arts funding alive.