George Maguire

Captain Jack Sparrow

George is the winner of the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his performance of Dave Davies in Sunny Afternoon.

Theatre Includes: What I Am (Edinburgh Fringe), Midnight (Sadler’s Wells), To Sir, With Love in Concert (Gillian Lynne), Burlesque (Savoy Theatre, Manchester Opera House), Death Note in Concert (Lyric Theatre), Tarantino Live (Riverside Studios), Buck Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick Theatre / Arts Theatre / Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Cratchit/Marley in Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol (Southbank Centre), The Wicker Husband in The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre), Alan Dangle in One Man, Two Guvnors (New Wolsey Theatre / Nuffield Theatre), Orsino/Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Bridge House Theatre), Marc Bolan in 20th Century Boy (UK Tour), 35mm (The Other Palace), The Buskers Opera (Park Theatre), Dave Davies in Sunny Afternoon (West End), Lift (Soho Theatre), Tad in Bright Lights Big City, Berger in Hair (Piccadilly Theatre), Joe Vegas in Fame (West End), Angel in Rent (European Tour).

Film and TV Credits Includes: Nick in Tomorrow Morning (Visualize Films), Felix in EastEnders (BBC), Duke in Prime Suspect (ITV) and Ferrante D’Este in Borgia (Lionsgate).

Stuart Burt CDG CSA

Casting Director

Stuart is the recipient of 5 CDG Awards for best casting in theatre and has been included three times in the Stage 100.

Theatre credits includes: Into The Woods (Noël Coward Theatre/Bridge Theatre); Oh, Mary!, Clarkston, The Maids, The Homecoming, The Hothouse, The Ruling Class, Richard III, Macbeth, The Spoils, Buried Child, The Pride (Trafalgar Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Barbican Theatre/Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/UK Tour); Cabaret (Kit Kat Club/Playhouse Theatre); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre of Scotland); Thelma and Louise (Young Vic); Fame (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Once (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); My Fair Lady (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Fifth Step (@sohoplace); Just For One Day (Shaftesbury Theatre/Mirvish Theatre, Toronto/Old Vic); Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Sing Street (Lyric Hammersmith); Sunset Boulevard (Broadway/Savoy Theatre); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre/National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres); Romeo and Juliet (Duke of York’s Theatre); Sister Act (Dominion Theatre/Eventim Apollo/UK Tour); Make It Happen (National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival); The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Kiln Theatre); Muriel’s Wedding (Leicester Curve); Sylvia (Old Vic/UK Tour); Mrs Doubtfire (Shaftesbury Theatre/UK Tour); The Seagull, Pinter at the Pinter (Harold Pinter Theatre); & Juliet (Shaftesbury Theatre/UK Tour); Chariots of Fire, White Christmas, Miss Saigon, She Loves Me (Sheffield Crucible); Here You Come Again (Leeds Playhouse/Riverside Studios/UK Tour); Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse Theatre/BAM); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium/UK Tour); East is East (National Theatre/Birmingham Rep); Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre/Broadway); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); Sherlock Holmes, Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Doctor Faustus (Duke of York’s).

Film & TV credits includes: The Ashley Madison Affair (Hulu); Dance 100(Netflix); Locked Up Abroad (National Geographic); Dr Seuss’ The Grinch Musical! (NBC/Sky); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Ballroom Dancer Casting, Warp Pictures).

Susan Kulkarni

Costume Designer

Susan Kulkarni is an award-winning Anglo-Indian Costume Designer based in London. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and Costume Design at RADA, and has spent more than two decades shaping distinctive visual worlds across theatre, film, television, immersive entertainment and global live events.

Her theatre work spans major new productions and celebrated revivals, including Disney’s flagship Cruise Line musical Remember; the Opening Ceremony of The Valorant Games (Done+Dusted, Paris); The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Riverside Studios); Elvis Evolution (Layered Reality, London); Fame Factory (Done+Dusted, London); Indigo (Curve, Leicester); Come Alive! The Greatest Showman (London, with a 2026–27 Australian tour); Disney/Pixar’s We Belong Together (Disneyland Paris); and the acclaimed East is East (National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and Birmingham Rep). Additional credits Includes: Steel Magnolias (UK Tour); Herding Cats (Soho Theatre); United Queendom (Kensington Palace, Les Enfants Terribles); Detroit, More Light and Prince of Denmark (National Theatre/West End); The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute (Central City Opera, Colorado); and Jeff Wayne’s Immersive War of the Worlds (London). She also recently designed the Elves for Lapland UK (Les Enfants Terribles) and is working on a project for Hunnenkönigin in Worms, Germany for Les Enfants Terribles (July 2026).

Susan’s screen work is equally wide-ranging. She recently styled Usher and his band at The Box and is the Costume Designer for Ricky Gervais’s BBC film 7 Minutes. She has styled Stanley Tucci for Cards on the Table and for campaigns with N.Peal and Tanqueray. Her credits also Includes: ITV’s six-part comedy-drama Count Abdulla; Wayne Sleep’s Big Ballet (Channel 4); Mrs Dickens’s Family Christmas (BBC); and two English National Ballet films: An Evening with Taglioni and Cinderella Games. She served as Assistant Costume Designer on Amazon’s futuristic drama The Peripheral and on Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated Silence. Further costume team credits Includes: The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Spy, Downton Abbey and Wolf Hall.

Her large-scale and stadium work Includes: designing for Miami’s immersive tour in Kuwait and AlUla, Saudi Arabia; more than 2,000 bespoke costumes for UAE National Day 48 in Abu Dhabi; and 2,000 costumes for the Closing Ceremony of the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Susan is also the long-standing Head of Costume for Secret Cinema. Since its inception, she has led the costume vision for many of the company’s landmark immersive worlds, including Bridgerton, Dirty Dancing, Guardians of the Galaxy, Bond in London and Shanghai, Stranger Things in London and LA, and Grease: The Movie Musical.

Helen Keane for Campbell Young Associates

Wigs, Hair and Makeup Designer

Helen Keane is a Hair, Wigs & Make-up Designer. Credits Includes: West End/UK – The Standard of Living (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (@sohoplace), How The Other Half Loves (The Old Vic), Death Note (Barbican Theatre), Sinatra (Aldwych Theatre), Glengarry Glen Ross (The Old Vic), Pride – The Musical (Sherman Theatre, National Theatre and Bridge Theatre), Atonement (Chichester Festival Theatre), High Society (Barbican Theatre), Magic (Chichester Festival Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Harold Pinter Theatre), High Noon (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Last Ship (Theatre Royal Drury Lane and International Tour), Paddington – The Musical (Savoy Theatre), Miss Saigon UK Tour (Various UK venues), Sing Street (Lyric Hammersmith), Hercules (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Come Fall In Love (Manchester Opera House), Mrs Warren’s Profession (Garrick Theatre), A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House), Muriel’s Wedding (Curve, Leicester), Kinky Boots (UK Tour), Calamity Jane (UK Tour), The Fear Of 13 (Donmar Warehouse), Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s Theatre), Juno and the Paycock (Gielgud Theatre), The Devil Wears Prada (Dominion Theatre), Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre), Groundhog Day (The Old Vic), 42nd Street (Sadler’s Wells and UK Tour), Aspects of Love (Lyric Theatre), Guys & Dolls (Bridge Theatre), The King & I (London Palladium and UK Tour), As You Like It (@sohoplace), Good (Harold Pinter Theatre), Eureka Day (The Old Vic), Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre and UK Tour), Get Up Stand Up (Lyric Theatre), The Drifters Girl (Garrick Theatre), Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre), All About Eve (Noël Coward Theatre), St. Joan (Donmar Warehouse), One Night in Miami (Donmar Warehouse), City of Angels (Donmar Warehouse and Garrick Theatre), The Young Chekhov Trilogy (Chichester Festival Theatre and National Theatre), Gypsy (Chichester Festival Theatre and Savoy Theatre).

Broadway – A Beautiful Noise (Broadhurst Theatre), The Music Man (Winter Garden Theatre), Carousel (Imperial Theatre), Head Over Heels (Hudson Theatre), Three Tall Women (John Golden Theatre), Hello, Dolly! (Shubert Theatre), The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theatre), Misery (Broadhurst Theatre), Sylvia (Cort Theatre), A Delicate Balance (John Golden Theatre), Les Misérables (Imperial Theatre). (Broadway/West End) – Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis Theatre and Phoenix Theatre), The Hills of California (Broadhurst Theatre and Harold Pinter Theatre), Back to the Future (Winter Garden Theatre and Adelphi Theatre), Funny Girl (August Wilson Theatre and Savoy Theatre), To Kill a Mockingbird (Shubert Theatre and Gielgud Theatre), Company (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and Gielgud Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Lyceum Theatre and The Old Vic), Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and Aldwych Theatre) (Drama Desk Award – Outstanding Wigs and Hair), The Ferryman (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and Gielgud Theatre), Girl from the North Country (Belasco Theatre, The Old Vic, Noël Coward Theatre and Gielgud Theatre), Farinelli and the King (Belasco Theatre, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and Duke of York’s Theatre), Groundhog Day (August Wilson Theatre and The Old Vic), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Cort Theatre and Noël Coward Theatre), Matilda (Shubert Theatre and Cambridge Theatre), Ghost (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre), Billy Elliot (Imperial Theatre and Victoria Palace Theatre).

Opera – Anna Nicole (BAM).

Alex Payne

Fight Director

Alex Payne is a fight director and stunt performer who creates bold, character-driven action for stage and screen. Originally trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School, he brings a performer’s eye and playful precision to every punch, fall and near miss. His work spans West End productions and screen projects including the award-winning series Vikings. Beyond the battlefront, Alex’s artistic endeavours extend to Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he lends his directorial talents to Shakespearean productions for the non-profit organisation Youth Bridge Global.

Theatre Includes: Teeth ’n’ Smiles (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Last Ship (International Tour), Macbeth (RSC), The Estate (National Theatre), As You Like It (Theatre Royal Bath), Brace Brace (Royal Court Theatre), Opening Night (Gielgud Theatre), An Enemy of the People (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Seagull (Barbican), Only Fools and Horses (UK Tour), Praise of Love (Orange Tree Theatre), Saxon Court, A Lie of the Mind (Southwark Playhouse), Echo (King’s Head Theatre), The Armour (The Langham), A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre), Titus Andronicus, Macbeth (Wimbledon Studio), Excluded, Love Me to Death and Rise and Fall (Intermission Theatre).

Theatre as associate: High Noon (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre) and Macbeth (Liverpool / Edinburgh / London / Washington).

Live performance Includes: Saturday Night Fever, Victoria, Bridgerton, Star Wars, Stranger Things (Secret Cinema), LEGO City Live: Ultimate Stunt Showdown (Legoland Windsor / RWS), Rumble in the Jungle (Rematch Live), Lights Camera Action, Celebration of Superheroes (Warner Bros. Abu Dhabi), SeaWonder (SeaWorld Abu Dhabi), Musketeers (BBC Worldwide), Project Martini and Project Temple (Immersive Octopus).

Opera Includes: Il tabarro (Royal Opera House) and The Magic Flute (Nevill Holt).

TV/Film Includes: Vikings: Bloodaxe (Amazon Studios), Vikings (MGM / Amazon), Vikings: Valhalla (Netflix) and Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features / Universal Pictures), all as a stunt performer.

Music videos Includes: Wolf Alice (Academy Films), Ardee (Grade A), Bandokay ft. Headie One (Cellar Door), Brian Fallon, The Last Dinner Party, Rak-Su (Kode) and Nafe Smallz (Don Prod), as Fight Coordinator / Stunt Coordinator.