James is a theatre director, playwright and facilitator. He was a trainee director at the Kings Head Theatre, London.

Directing credits include: The Flat Earthers (Lion & Unicorn Theatre), All That (Kings Head Theatre), Are You Being Murdered? (Pleasance, edfringe), Will Pickvance: Half-Man Half-Piano (Assembly, edfringe), Kissed By A Flame (Pleasance, London), Positive (Waterloo East Theatre), Wonder of the World (RWCMD), Punkrock Buckets (Court Theatre Training Company) and Deadline Day (Theatre N16).

As an Associate Director he has worked predominantly with Michael Fentiman. Their work together includes The Lion The Witch And The Wardobe (UK-Ireland Tour/ West End / Birmingham Rep Company), Amelie The Musical (UK-Ireland Tour / Other Palace / West End), The Importance Of Being Earnest (West End), Loot (Park Theatre), and The Fall Of Anne Boylen (Tower of London).

As an Assistant Director: A Christmas Carol (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Ruffian On The Stair (Hope Theatre).

James founded Speechless Theatre Company devising original plays-with-no-words based on clowning, mime, and physical theatre. Productions included: Hamlet… With No Words (Voila Festival), Drawn In (Kings Head Theatre) and All Or Nothing? (Greenside, edfringe)

He is a Creative Facilitator at Peer Productions.

Sean trained at SA Performing Arts in Newcastle upon Tyne in Musical Theatre before continuing to develop his skills at studios across the UK and internationally. Over the years, he has built a wide-ranging vocabulary across musical theatre, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, ballet, tap and commercial dance, as well as partner and social styles including latin and ballroom, swing (Charleston and Lindy Hop) and salsa.

As a performer, Sean worked across theatre, television and live events before transitioning fully into choreography and movement direction. A fluent British Sign Language user and the son of deaf parents, he has also worked with both deaf and hearing performers on a variety of projects throughout his career. His movement practice draws on an instinctive understanding of physical expression, clarity, rhythm and emotional truth.

Recent credits include Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One), Changing Ends (ITVX), Stuffed (BBC One), Frank & Percy (BK Studios), Everybody Dance feat. Claire Richards (Fiery Entertainment), and numerous development projects for stage and screen.

Declan Flannery is a classical pianist, conductor, composer, and teacher, from and based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Declan studied classical piano with David Owen Norris and Samantha Carrasco, conducting with Robin Browning, and composition with Ben Oliver and Michael Finnissy.

Declan is a prolific performer, regularly giving in excess of a hundred performances per year, including local recitals across the North East, as well as national and international tours.

As a performer, Declan is known for the variety of his programmes, combining classical favourites with lesser known contemporary works, and often stepping outside the boundaries of traditional classical music.

During his first year of music college, Declan was identified as one of the keyboard department’s outstanding talents, and was selected to perform Mozart’s D Major Piano Concerto after J. C. Bach with the Hartley Loop Orchestra.

He is the musical director of The Gibside Singers and the resident accompanist for the North East Stage and Screen Orchestra and Choir, and the Wallsend Community Choir, in addition to being a frequent visiting artist with a plethora of other ensembles, and the resident musician at several venues across Newcastle.

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Aidan Tulloch was born in Newcastle and now lives in London. He plays the violin and piano, and produces scores that bring together folk, classical, and contemporary musical styles. He has worked with Gerry & Sewell since it began in Whitley Bay, and looks forward to bringing the spirit of the Geordie hornpipe and the North Sea air to the West End.

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Georgia Hill is a puppet designer and maker based in Newcastle Upon Tyne.  Georgia has designed and created puppets for theatres including Northern Stage, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Opera House and has created props for children’s television Cbeebies / CBBC. In 2023 she was nominated for an Offie Award in the Design for young audiences’ category for her work on Kitchen Zoo’s production- Tortoise and the Hare.  

Recent credits include: Gerry & Sewell (Newcastle Theatre Royal), Palace Of Oz by Culture Creative (Blenheim Palace), Little Red Riding Hood by Triple Treat Theatre (Queens Hall Hexham), Bearly There by Theatre Sprout (Arc Stockton) , Raven (Northern Stage/ Alphabetti Theatre). 

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Richard Power, Rosie Power and Joe Power are set designers and makers based in the North East.

Previous credits include Big Ange (Live Theatre), Gerry & Sewell (Newcastle Theatre Royal, Live Theatre, Laurel’s) and Subterranea (Laurel’s)

They are long-term collaborators with Jamie Eastlake and are buzzing to bring their designs to London’s West End.

Drummond has over 40 years’ experience as a theatre electrician, technical manager, lighting designer and production manager. In that time, he has toured nationally and internationally.

Lighting design credits include: ‘Motherland’, ‘Captain Amazing’ (Live Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); ‘Cilla and Me’, ‘Iris’, ‘My Romantic History’, ‘Tyne’, ‘The Prize’, ‘Nativities’, ‘Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing’, ’The Cold Buffet’, ‘Three Acts of Love’, ‘Saint Maud’ (Live Theatre); ‘The Bounds’ (Live Theatre/Royal Court); ‘The Red Lion’ (Live Theatre/Trafalgar Studios); ‘Cooking With Elvis’ (Live Theatre/Assembly Rooms); ‘Wet House’  (Live Theatre/Hull Truck/Soho Theatre); ‘A Walk On Part’ (LiveTheatre/Soho Theatre/Arts Theatre); ‘The Girl in the Yellow Dress’ (Market Theatre, Johannesburg/ Grahamstown Festival/Baxter Theatre, Cape Town/Citizens, Glasgow); ‘Educating Rita’ (Theatre by the Lake/David Pugh and UK Tour).

Programme, Match Of The Day, GMTV, This Morning, Countdown, Chain Letters, Ibiza Uncovered , Crimefighters, Airline, Grundy’s Wonders, Regional and National News programmes.

Stuart moved into theatre in 2001 working as a sound assistant on a new production of Sunset Boulevard at Newcastle Theatre Royal.

His theatre credits include working as a front of house engineer for artists such as, Derren Brown, Dave Gorman, Jimmy Carr, Sue Perkins, Beverly Knight, Jason Manford, Al Murray, Russell Howard, Lee Mack, Pam Ayres, Ken Dodd, Harry Hill, Stewart Lee and Russell Kane.

Stuart has worked as a sound designer on The Three Phantoms, Dirty Dusting, Alf Ramsey Knew My Grandfather, Exile Dance Project (Lindisfarne Gospels), Hadaway Harry and amateur versions of The Producers, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd Street, Oliver, The Full Monty, South Pacific, Fiddler On The Roof, The King And I, Annie, Jekyll and Hyde, The Sound Of Music, Grease, Sister Act, West Side Story, Wizard Of Oz, and working with Pete Peverley as a sound designer and operator on The Bobby Thompson Story. regional tour, and transferring Gerry and Sewell to the Newcastle Theatre Royal Stage.

Stuart has been the front of house engineer and Associate Sound Designer for the record breaking Crossroads pantomime seasons at Newcastle Theatre Royal for the last 18 years.

Jade Young worked as tech supervisor at Laurel’s in Whitley Bay. Jade has worked as a Stage Manager on Big Ange and Live Writes (Live Theatre), Geordie Gaol Girls (Workie Ticket Theatre Company), Gerry & Sewell (Newcastle Theatre Royal) and Assistant Stage Manager on Public Record (National Theatre, The Fire Station).

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Matthew is a Stage Manager and Theatre Technician from the North East. After studying Technical Theatre at Gateshead College, he is now training at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He made his professional debut as Deputy Stage Manager on Gerry & Sewell at Newcastle Theatre Royal in October 2024.

He has worked across many venues (including Tyne Theatre, Sunderland Empire and Phoenix Theatre Blyth) on a variety of productions in lighting, sound, and stage management roles. He has also worked with Northern Star Theatre Arts for many years, supporting all of their productions.

Matthew is delighted to be continuing his work with Eastlake Productions as Gerry and Sewell transfers to the West End.

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Carl is a theatre maker, illustrator, performer, and Assistant Stage Manager with over 13 years working professionally across all areas of production, both onstage and backstage. In 2025, he worked as Assistant Stage Manager on Big Ange and is currently delighted to be ASM on Gerry & Sewell, representing his love of Newcastle after moving there from Belfast, 12 years ago.

As one half of Peachplant, he co-created Whale of a Time (2022) and Subterranea (2024), both named Guardian Readers’ Choice of the Year. Alongside his stage work, Carl has illustrated for the NHS and Tiny Lives UK and is the published illustrator of Santa Lives in Boro by David Tufnell. His wide-ranging practice brings strong storytelling, calm collaboration, and creative problem solving into the rehearsal room and beyond.

Jake is a Stage and Production Manager from Newcastle who has a longstanding relationship Eastlake Productions, mainly figuring out how to make Jamie’s wild ideas physically possible!

Previous credits include: Waitress the Musical (UK Tour), The Drifters Girl (UK Tour), Giulio Cesare (English Touring Opera, UK Tour), Yeomen Of The Guard (Charles Court Opera/Opera Holland Park), Edgar (Opera Holland Park) Bat Out Of Hell (UK Tour and West End), and Pantomime seasons across the UK with Crossroads Pantomimes for the last five years, alongside being the founding Technical Manager of Laurels, Whitley Bay, and working closely with the stage teams of Theatre Royal Newcastle and the Tyne Theatre and Opera House.

Jake is delighted to be taking Gerry & Sewell to the Big Smoke and wishes to thank his parents and long suffering partner Megan for their unwavering support!

@jakerobson

Megan Jepson is an award-winning British visual creative based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. She is known for her work with global brand powerhouses like Adidas, Amazon Prime, BAFTA, Netflix, Greggs, Pinterest, Levi’s, and Balenciaga. Megan has carved out a name for herself as the region’s go-to creative talent with her distinctive perspective and artistic vision in photography, directing and editing.

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