Joey McKneely
Director and Choreographer
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Joey McKneely
The Original Broadway Classic
Director and Choreographer
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Joey McKneely
Associate Director / Choreographer
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Brendan Yeates
Musical Supervisor
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Donald Chan
Associate Musical Supervisor
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Anthony Barnhill
Anthony is a versatile Australian conductor, pianist, and composer. His performances have been described as ‘heroic’ (Wilma Smith, concertmaster MSO), ‘sensitive and intelligent’ (ArtsHub), and displaying ‘incredible showmanship’ (Tina Arena). Anthony’s credits span radio, national television, and as guest soloist with symphony orchestras.
Anthony worked on the 2019 international tour of West Side Story (Opera Australia, GWB entertainment, BB group), conducting performances at renowned opera houses around the world, including Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and the Sydney Opera House. Other musical theatre credits include Chicago (GFO), Evita (OA), and Oklahoma! (The Production Company). As Musical Director for Australian International Productions, Anthony led concert performances in twelve cities throughout China.
As pianist, Anthony has worked for the Victorian State Schools Spectacular, Monash University, Opera Scholars Australia, and US artist Mario. He served as Composer in Residence for Creative Innovation Global 2017-2019.
Anthony studied at Monash University where he won numerous awards including the flagship Concerto Competition, while also achieving the university’s highest performance result in each year of study. He was winner of the prestigious Rob Guest Endowment Musician Award.
Anthony is the Musical Director for the upcoming production of The Phantom of the Opera at the Sydney Opera House.
Musical Director
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Isaac Hayward
Isaac is an award-winning music director, multi-instrumentalist and arranger who has worked on a wide range of projects across Australia and internationally.
Since making his professional debut at age seventeen as the co-creator, music director, arranger and multi-instrumentalist for The Rock Show, Isaac’s music direction credits have included Ladies in Black (QTC), for which he was nominated for a 2016 Helpmann Award, The Rabbits (Opera Australia), The Secret River (STC), Rapture (Sydney Festival), Beating the Blues (MTC), and The Mikado (New Zealand Opera).
In 2018 Isaac won a Helpmann Award for Best Music Direction for Muriel’s Wedding the Musical (STC & Global Creatures), for which he also orchestrated, arranged and wrote additional music. He then became music supervisor for the 2019 Australian tour and the 2020 New York City workshop.
His other USA credits include assistant conductor, keyboard and co-electronic music designer on King Kong (Broadway), electronic music consultant on Beetlejuice (Broadway), associate conductor for Little Shop of Horrors (ACT of CT), and associate conductor, keyboard and guitar on Unmasked (Paper Mill Playhouse / RUG). In the UK, Isaac was the music director, cellist and pianist for the 2019 production of The Secret River at the Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre London.
Isaac is also highly in demand as an arranger and orchestrator, having written for Ladies in Black, ABC TV, Ambience Entertainment, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, New York University, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and has also co-orchestrated with Alex Lacamoire for the USA Hamilton casts, Vivo (Sony Pictures), In the Heights (Warner Bros) and Message in a Bottle (Sadler’s Wells Theatre).
IG: @isaac.hayward
Assistant Musical Director
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Katie Robinson
Lyrics
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Stephen Sondheim
Book
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Arthur Laurents
Music
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Leonard Bernstein
Idea, conception, direction and choreography
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Jerome Robbins
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BB Group
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GWB Entertainment
Producer
With operations in the United Kingdom and Australia as well as local presence in mainland China, GWB Entertainment is an internationally recognised theatrical producer and presenter specialising in conceptualising, producing and managing first class theatrical productions.
Recently in Australia, GWB has produced the headlong/Nottingham Playhouse and Almeida production of George Orwell’s 1984 and The Rocky Horror Show. Other recent credits include Ghost The Musical, Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth at the Sydney Opera House and Britney Spears the Cabaret at The Other Palace in London. In Asia, GWB has toured Disney’s High School Musical, West Side Story, Ghost the Musical, Avenue Q and Jesus Christ Superstar. GWB provides General Management for numerous first-class tours including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. Later this year GWB will launch the international tour of Matilda the Musical, which opens in South Africa before transferring to Asia, as well as the Australian premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne.
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Opera Australia
Producer