CREATIVE TEAM
LAURA SIMPSON
Concept, Books & Lyrics
Laura is a playwright, director and former primary school teacher. She trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).
As a writer, Laura has created several short musical plays for young people, two of which Caterpillar and Spyder, toured nationally.
Laura is currently working on a full length musical, Radio Silence, which explores the impact of WW2 on the inhabitants of Guernsey. Her new play, Homecoming is due to premiere in 2022. She is also looking forward to the premiere of her first feature film, A La Perchoine, for which she wrote the screenplay.
As director, Laura has created many pieces with her company Playworks, which specialised in theatre for children, as well as working for LiveNation’s education team on a number of national tours.
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RICKEY LONG
Music & Orchestrations
Rickey trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), and later received a place on the postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music, specialising in Musical Direction.
Since graduating Rickey worked on a number of smaller productions including Holy Crap, NewsRevue and workshops at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East as well as working on several professional UK and Ireland touring productions, including Avenue Q, Hairspray and most recently Motown the Musical.
Rickey was the musical director for the professional European premiere of Little Women the Musical. Rickey has also worked as vocal coach for a number of clients including Louise Redknapp, Kevin Clifton, Saara Aalto, Anton Stephens and Tyrone Huntley.
Rickey is currently on UK tour with Grease the Musical as Assistant Musical Director.
STEPHEN HANSMANN ROUXEL
Producer
Stephen graduated from Queen Margaret University with a degree in arts management.
Taking advice from his tutor to seek experience in running a business before moving into commercial theatre, he went into finance. As a result, Stephen is currently the Managing Director of one of Guernsey’s largest fund management companies and sits on various industry forum committees including the Chamber of Commerce and the Guernsey Investment Fund Association.
This has not stopped him continuing to produce plays since graduating both in Edinburgh and Guernsey as well as being the Chairman of Tin Whistle, a professional theatre company based in Guernsey.