Creative Team

Bill Deamer

Director/Choreographer 

Bill Deamer is one of Britain’s leading Olivier Award Winning Choreographers and Directors, having just completed the critically acclaimed revival of HELLO DOLLY starring Imelda Staunton at the Palladium. Previous West End musical project include FOLLIES at the National Theatre with his Oliver Award as Best Choreographer of TOP HAT at the Aldwych Theatre.

Bill started his West End career in a production of Cabaret (choreographed and directed by his mentor and lifelong friend Dame Gillian Lynne OBE). He choreograph his own version of Cabaret at Salisbury Playhouse and has never looked back. Reunited with Gillian Lynne he was invited by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Trevor Nunn to create the new tap choreography for the critically acclaimed revival of CATS at The London Palladium in 2014 (which has subsequently run worldwide)

Notable Theatre productions include: 42nd Street – (Sadler’s Wells, UK and international tour); The Corn is Green – (National Theatre) and the critically acclaimed Follies – For which Bill was nominated for the Olivier award for Best Choreographer (National Theatre); The Osmonds – A New Musical (UK Tour); The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory); Top Hat- For which Bill won the Olivier Award for Best Choreographer – (The Aldwych Theatre); Sondheim on Sondheim (The Royal Festival Hall); The 50th Anniversary UK tour of The Sound of Music and Evita (The Dominion Theatre); Saturday Night Fever (West End & UK Tour).

Bill is also a very successful choreographer for film and television – recent credits include: Christmas Carole (SKY); The Real Full Monty; So You Think You Can Dance; ITV’s All Star Musicals and the hit BBC series Strictly Come Dancing.

Robert Neal Marshall

Book & Lyrics

Robert Neal Marshall has a BFA in film from NYU and began in the West End of London with late producer Richard Armitage on several hit shows, including the Olivier Award Winning ME AND MY GIRL with Robert Lindsay and Emma Thompson, HIGH SOCIETY with Natasha Richardson, THE ENTERTAINER with Peter Bowles, and Rowan Atkinson’s one man show A NEW REVUE.

As a playwright and Independent Producer, Marshall has mounted productions in the West End at the Donmar Warehouse and at the famed Edinburgh Festival. His documentary MR OCEAN LINER premiered on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and screened at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center.  As Casting Associate with Pat Moran, CSA (HAIRSPRAY, THE WIRE) Marshall was a member of the team to win an Emmy® award for casting GAME CHANGE and an Emmy® nomination for casting season 1 of VEEP, both for HBO. Apart from Feature Production Management, other projects include After All starring Tony Nominated actress Anita Gillette and his play 41N 50W based on the 1912 RMS Titanic US Senate hearings.

Tim Battle

Music

Tim was a former music conductor and producer and was very instrumental with the world-renown Boys’ Choir of Harlem which has performed on Broadway and as such was recognized by the City of New York with the Outstanding Dedication and Service to Youth Award.  His work with the Boys’ Choir of Harlem was showcased during his World Tour.

Event having performed with the Boston Pops, to the Rosie O’Donnell Show, the Today Show, the Late Night Show with David Letterman, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, and for the special Wizard of Oz in Concert which was broadcasted on both TNT and PBS. Tim produced the CD Magic for Johnathan Lee Iverson, of the world-renowned Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and the first African-American to wear the famed top hat. Magic features the Boys Choir of Harlem and is a “Celebration of Children’s Music” including the title track Magic from Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter! Tim also recorded and composed tracks for a fundraising album for Aids in Africa, also with Boys Choir of Harlem, Patti LaBelle, and Judy Collins.

Brian Pamphilon

Additional Music

Brian Pamphilon’s career on and off stage as an artist has made him into one of the busiest artists in 2017, on stages across the area.

Brian was nominated to two Palmies, the Gold Coast Theatre Awards this year: Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Community Theatre Play for his portrayal of Seymour Krelborn in Little Shop of Horrors (by Bangalow Theatre Company), and Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Community Theatre Musical for his role as Mary Sunshine in Chicago (by Bangalow Theatre Company). The singer and actor was born near Mildura in Victoria and moved to the Northern Rivers in 2001.

Besides being a well-known name among music theatre aficionados in the area, he is also a music teacher at Xavier catholic College.

Jason Brown

Original Music Director

Jason Brown is a concert pianist, composer, and music director whose career spans live performance, film scoring, and theatrical collaboration. A recipient of the prestigious Van Cliburn Scholarship and Presidential Scholarship at Baylor University, Brown developed his reputation early through national piano competitions before launching an international performance career.

His work has taken him around the world as a touring pianist and collaborator with artists across multiple genres.In addition to his concert career, Brown has worked extensively in entertainment and media, including composing film scores for independent productions and serving as a musical collaborator and accompanist to performer Rain Pryor, daughter of legendary comedian Richard Pryor. His diverse musical background combines classical training with theatrical storytelling and contemporary composition. Brown’s versatility as a performer and composer is combined with decades of experience in live performance and music production.

Diane Stanley

Original Illustrated Book Author

Ms. Stanley is a highly respected award-winning author and illustrator with a twenty-year history of success after success. She was born in Abilene, Texas, into a remarkably creative and adventuresome family, notable for its strong women. Perhaps that’s why the story of Rumpelstiltskin troubled her as a child. Why would that miller’s daughter marry the king who had been tormenting her all along?

Diane’s first book, Farmer In The Dell, was published by Little, Brown in 1978. Since then she has published more than forty books for children, including a series of picture-book biographies that have been showered with awards and honors. These include Peter the Great; Shaka, King Of The Zulus; Bard Of Avon: The Story Of William Shakespeare; The Last Princess; Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations; Good Queen Bess: The Story Of Elizabeth I Of England; Cleopatra; Joan Of Arc; Michelangelo; and Leonardo Da Vinci. She expresses her funny side in books like Saving Sweetness, Raising Sweetness, and Goldie.