9 to 5 the Musical

Paul Jepson is the Creative Director and CEO of Landmark Theatres. Previously he has been the Artistic & Executive Director of the Exeter Northcott Theatre and the Joint Artistic Director of Fireraisers TC. 

He has directed at the National Theatre, in the West End, in most regional producing theatres, at the London New Writing Theatres and his productions have toured on the number one circuit. He is a published playwright. 

CREDITS: Rent – Landmark Theatres; The Beggar’s Opera & A Christmas Carol – Queen’s Theatre Barnstaple; The Railway Children (National Tour), Don Carlos, Betrayal, This Is My Body (Tour) – Exeter Northcott; The Incomers – The Pleasance Theatre & tour; Manchester Sound the Massacre & I Ought to Be in Pictures – Manchester Library Theatre; Good Creatures & the Jeweller – Ten Ten Theatre; Telstar – National Tour & West End; Haunted – Arts Theatre; Fame: The Musical (Associate Director) – West End; Life After Life (written & directed), National Theatre; Rats Buckets & Bombs & Anatol – Nottingham Playhouse, The Idiot – West Yorkshire Playhouse; A Doll’s House – Salisbury Playhouse; Charley’s Aunt – Norwich Playhouse; 15 Minutes – New Vic Workshop; The Provoked Wife – Southwark Playhouse; Bright – Soho Theatre ; Teenage Vitriol – Finborough Theatre; Three Men In A Boat – National Tour; Gasping – National Tour; Things The Go Bump, Loaded, International Writers’ Festival (With Hampstead Theatre), Car Thieves – Fireraisers TC; The Escape from the Seraglio, Orpheo – Opera Spezzata & Theatre Royal Plymouth; The Fool, Quartermaine’s Terms & Innocent as Charged – RADA; Alfie, Anatol, Present Laughter, As You Like It – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; Machinal – Rose Bruford College; Judgement, As You Like It, A Doll’s House – Spire Productions 

AWARDS: Anti-slavery media awards best stage production winner for This Is My Body Manchester theatre awards nominee Manchester sound: The Massacre, Gasping; Wellcome Trust, Science on Stage & Screen & Impact Awards – winner The Idiot; What’s On Stage nominee – East & Telstar. 

Mark provides services for Music Theatre and TV.  As such is a freelance composer, arranger, conductor, musical supervisor and orchestral manager.

TV/Film:

As Music Supervisor and Composer Mark has worked on – Penny on MARS (seasons 1, 2 and 3 – Disney TV), Alex and Co (3zero2). On The Sound of Musicals (BBC1) Mark composed the theme tune as well as being an arranger and copyist.  He was the arranger on the film Another Mothers Son (BK Films) and composed for the shows Singled Out (MTV/Channel 5) and Dating Hell (Sky One).  The latter he was featured as a member of the House Band; something he also did on Lorraine Kelly’s Friday Fever (ITV).  Mark has also worked musically on the following shows; John Barrowman Show, This Morning and Saturday Night Takeaway (all ITV), The One Show (BBC1) plus composed various jingles.  He is also working with Factory Films on a project aimed for Sky Arts 2022 alongside working on a feature film called Dartmoor Escape with Amoux Films.  Mark has also composed for 2 children shows Polka Dot Shorts and Wheels on the Bus both of which toured the UK.

Theatre Supervision/Arranger: 

I’m Every Woman (Peacock Theatre, London), Midnight (Sadlers Wells, Stratford), Get Down Tonight (Charing Cross Theatre), The Friends Musical Parody (UK Tour), Who Do Ya Love (Toronto Workshop and Edinburgh), Now Musical (UK Tour), Rent (New Theatre, Peterborough), The SpongeBob Musical (London Southbank Centre and UK Tour), 9 to 5 (Savoy Theatre, UK Tour, Australian Tour and South Korea), We Will Rock You (World Tour), Madagascar (UK, US, Australia and New Zealand Tours)Trump L’Oeil (The Other Palace, London), Bring It On (London Southbank Centre and UK tour), Footloose (Peacock Theatre, London, Uk and European Tour), A Christmas Carol (Queens Theatre, Barnstaple), Falsettos (The Other Palace, London), Jersey Boys (World Tour), Little Miss Sunshine (Arcola Theatre, London and UK Tour), Avenue Q (UK Tour), Fame (Peacock Theatre/Troubadour Theatre, London and UK Tour), Flashdance (UK Tour and South Korea), Wizard of Oz (Blackpool Opera House), Our House (UK Tour), Spamalot (UK Tour), The Producers (UK Tour), High School Musical, 2 (UK Tour),  Annie (UK tours, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand), Little Shop of Horrors (UK Tour), The Snow Gorilla (The Rose, Kingston, London), Hello Dolly (UK Tour),  Oliver (Lincoln Theatre Royal and Kuala Lumpa), Electric Lipstick (UK Tour), Miracle on 34th Street (UK Tour), Teen Scream (Lincoln Theatre Royal and Edinburgh Fringe), Bor Productions for MSC,  CMC for P&O plus, various Pantomimes.

Theatre MD: 

(West End) Heathers, War of the Worlds, Dance Til Dawn, American Idiot, Carrie, Knights of the Rose, Stripped, Altar Boyz, Batboy, From a Jack to a King and Return to the Forbidden Planet.

(UK Touring Theatre’s) Rent, 9 to 5, La Cage au Folles, Sister Act, Hairspray, High School Musical 1 and 2, Seussical, Annie, The Roy Orbison Story, Thank you for the Music, Elvis the Musical, All you Need is Love, Blues Brothers meet Soul Sisters, Harrys Web, Phantom of the P’Opera and Rock N Roll Heaven

He is currently writing two new musicals which will hopefully be seen soon.

Amanda Stoodley is an award-winning set and costume designer working in theatre, music, installation & exhibition. Credits include: RENT (Landmark Theatres); CYRANO (Traverse & Park Theatres); JEKYLL & HYDE (National Theatre); NORA: A DOLL’S HOUSE, BLOODY ELLE – A GIG MUSICAL, (& Lyric, Soho & Traverse Theatre), QUEEN MARGARET, MOMENTS THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD, HAMLET, BLACK ROSES (& UK Tour), ALL I WANT IS ONE NIGHT (& Wilton’s Music Hall), TWO, WINTERLONG (& Soho Theatre) (Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre); ANTIGONE (Guildhall School of Music & Drama); THROUGH IT ALL TOGETHER, DECADES – STORIES FROM THE CITY, EUROPE, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, BE MY BABY, UNTOLD STORIES (Leeds Playhouse); THE LAST TESTAMENT OF LILLIAN BILOCCA (Hull UK City of Culture 2017);  HERE’S WHAT SHE SAID TO ME, TRIBES, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, THE EFFECT (Sheffield Theatres); THE PATIENCE OF TREES, THE MASQUE OF ANARCHY (Manchester International Festival); FIREFACE (Young Vic Theatre); MANCHESTER SOUND: THE MASSACRE, MANCHESTER LINES (Manchester Library Theatre); ANON (Welsh National Opera); RENT (Landmark Theatres); KINKY BOOTS (New Wolsey Theatre & Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); THE MAW BROON MONOLOGUES (Tron Theatre, Glasgow); FAITH HEALER, NORTH & SOUTH, BEFORE THE PARTY (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A LITTLE PRINCESS (Theatre By The Lake); THE RISE & FALL OF LITTLE VOICE, SUMMER HOLIDAY, THE BIG CORNER, EAST IS EAST,  JANE EYRE, WINTER HILL, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, PRIVATE LIVES, DUET FOR ONE, SEPARATION, (Bolton Octagon Theatre);  DR BLIGHTY (Nutkhut, 14-18 NOW, Brighton Festival).