Creatives

Richard, who was born in 1942, began his life in the world of entertainment in 1965, when, at the age of 23, he rode horses in British-made movies. He had no desire to become a full-time stuntman and, wisely, took himself off to an evening drama school which claimed to adhere to the teaching principles of Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and anyone else that had decided to embrace the more ‘naturalistic’ approach to acting, commonly known as The Method. In 1967, Richard became an ASM and understudy in a musical touring version of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, retitled as Robert and Elizabeth. He worked backstage in many West End theatres, most notably the Cambridge Theatre at Seven Dials, where, among other duties, he shone a Lime Light upon John Hanson, who at the age of forty-six, may well have been the oldest Student Prince that the world had ever laid eyes upon.

In 1969, Richard joined an ensemble group in a joyous production of Gulliver’s Travels at the Mermaid Theatre. This show was designed and directed by Sean Kenny. The choreographer was a young Japanese Canadian called David Toguri and the following year, Richard auditioned for him once again and joined the cast of the British touring production of the American ‘hippie’ musical Hair. After Hair came Jesus Christ Superstar, which was directed by Jim Sharman. The following year, 1973, Jim cast Richard in a Sam Shepard play at the Royal Court Theatre’s Theatre Upstairs. It was here that he met Richard Hartley, his music partner of more than 40 years. The Rocky Horror Show opened in July of the same year and, slowly but surely, became the biggest cult musical of all time.

Other highlights of Richard’s career are, of course, The Crystal Maze, a game show that warmed the autumn nights for Channel 4. The Child Catcher in the first stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Performing for the Queen in the gardens of Buckingham Palace upon Her Majesty’s 80th birthday and playing Fagin in a New Zealand production of Oliver!. In a career that has spanned 50 years, Richard has acted with some of the biggest and best known names in the industry and, lately, he has won over a new and younger crowd of fans as the voice of Lawrence Fletcher, the father of Phineas and Ferb, in the Disney cartoon series of the same name. Although now in his late seventies, Richard still refuses to make eye contact with the grim reaper.

Sam Buntrock is a Tony, Olivier and Drama Desk nominated director, artist and writer. Directing credits include Sunday in the Park With George (Broadway, West End, Menier and 5th Avenue Seattle – 5 Olivier Awards including Outstanding Musical Production, Olivier Nomination for Best Director, 9 Tony Nominations including Best Director and Drama Desk Nomination for Best Director), Turn of the Screw at BAM (New York City Opera), the current European tour of The Rocky Horror Show (now in its 13th year), the World Premiere of John Guare’s Are You There, McPhee? and Travesties (both McCarter, as Director in Residence), The Wildness (Ars Nova, Lortel Nomination for Best New Musical), The Who’s Tommy, the World Premier of Ed, Downloaded by Michael Mitnick and the US Premier of Nick Dear’s Frankenstein (all at Denver Center), Taking Steps (Barrington Stage), The A to Z of Mrs P (Southwark Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (Two River), A Maze (New York Stage & Film), Cradle and All (MTC), McReele (Juilliard), Cradle to Rave (UK & Australian National Tours), God Collar (Edinburgh, UK National Tour and West End), the World and American Premieres of Take Flight (Menier and McCarter), the first London revival of Assassins (New End), Get a Life and Help Yourself (both Edinburgh and UK tour).

In 2018 Sam joined the creative team of The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, directing and conceiving the new finale, Christmas Lights, a synthesis of traditional stage craft, animation and cutting edge technology. He also served as their Creative Director of New Digital Content, collaborating with the projection pioneers Obscura Digital on new enveloping sequences and scenes.

He has also worked as an Animation Director on numerous projects, including the feature film „Stuart, A Life Backwards“ (starring Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch) for Neal Street Productions, HBO and the BBC. His multi-award winning live action short „Recursion“ (Director, Editor & Producer) screened at 24 international film festivals throughout 2014 (including 2 Oscar qualifiers). His second live action short, „Fetch“, is currently in post-production.

In addition to directing Sam also works as a writer, an artist and a games master. Plays include „Playing Down (or In Case Of Emergency Don’t Break Glass)“ and „Her Life as a Story“. In 2016 he designed/illustrated New York City’s tribute to Muhammad Ali. Sam trained at Bristol University and as Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse.

Matthew Mohr studied dance at the Juilliard School and graduated from SUNY Purchase College in New York with a BFA in Dance and Choreography. He also completed internships at the La Jolla Playhouse and The Old Globe in San Diego. From 1993 to 2000, he was one of the principal members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In 2006, he participated in Martha Clarke’s workshop Kaos in New York and performed in The Show Must Go On by Jérôme Bel at the Museum of Modern Art in 2012. That same year, he created the choreography for Tom Stoppard’s Travesties at the McCarter Theater Center. He was also responsible for the choreography of Canopy, a multimedia children’s theater piece at the Stepping Stones Museum in Norwalk, which is currently on tour. In 2008, he choreographed 7 Days, directed by Geula Jeffet Attar and Victor Attar, at La Mama Experimental Theater in New York. Since 2006, Sam has directed solo performances by burlesque artist Melody Sweets, including in the production Absinthe at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. In 2010, he also created the choreography for her music video Slice of Heaven and continues to serve as an advisor for her recent video releases. Additionally, he directed the acclaimed performances of Ms. Rose Wood, with whom he continuously develops new acts, captivating audiences at The Box club in New York and London, and at the Vienna Life Ball. Sam has produced and created special acts and events for Sony Music, the MTV Awards, Bloomberg, Marc Jacobs, Kipling Bags, Fergie, Axe Body Spray, Valentino, Ferré, and Arista Records. He has also staged spectacular performances at the Vienna Life Ball, Wigstock, The Box, and for Bloomberg corporate events. His choreography for Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show has been featured in Europe since the German premiere in 2008.

Martin Flohr’s passion for music and theater has been a lifelong journey. Alongside his business studies, he gained valuable experience in the entertainment industry at Broadway in New York and the West End in London, and traveled the world as the tour manager for Stomp. He joined BB Promotion in 2006, initially serving as Head of Project & Booking, where he managed in-house productions and international guest performances such as CATS, Evita, Porgy & Bess, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Tanguera, and many more.

From 2014 to 2024, Flohr utilized his unique talent for blending creative and organizational processes as Artistic Director of the company. As Executive Producer, he has been responsible for tour productions of Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show, West Side Story, We Will Rock You, and Dirty Dancing. He successfully brought four German premieres to the stage: Bodyguard – The Musical, Carmen La Cubana, Berlin Berlin – Die große Show der goldenen 20er Jahre, and Abenteuerland – Das Musical mit den Hits von PUR.

Training: The Dance School of Scotland, and the Arts Educational Schools London.

Theatre Credits include: Ensemble & Understudy Ermengarde & Ernestina in Hello Dolly! (London Palladium); Mae McGann in Street Scene (Opera National de Paris); Associate Choreographer on Berlin Berlin (European Tour); Swing & Dance Captain on Sinatra (Birmingham Rep); Understudied and played Katherine Plumber in Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Associate Choreographer on Fisherman’s Friend’s (Tour); Co-Choreographer on Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show (European Tour); South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre); Ensemble & Dance Captain in Berlin Berlin (European Tour); Vivian/ Ensemble in Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Young Carlotta in Follies (National Theatre); Ensemble/1st cover Alex in Flashdance (International Tour;) Tammy/ 1st Cover Penny Pingleton in Hairspray (UK Tour); Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); 1st Cover Rumpleteazer/Jemima in CATS (London Palladium/Blackpool Winter Gardens); Zelda Zanders in Singin’ In The Rain (Upstairs At The Gatehouse); Golda Linska in Korczak (Rose Theatre, Kingston).

Other Credits Include: BBC Big Night of Musicals; Post H (Short Film-Bloody Hands Production); the 2013 Olivier Awards (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Kerry Ellis In Concert (London Palladium); Friday Night Is Music Night (BBC Radio 2).

David designs Sets and Costumes for Theatre, Opera and Live Events and has worked on shows across the UK, Europe, U.S.A., Canada, Korea and Japan. He represented the UK at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and was part of the Society of British Theatre Designers Staging Places exhibition at the V&A.

Credits include Sunday in the Park with George in New York and the West End, which won Olivier Awards for best design and best musical production at the Wyndhams and was nominated for costume design and set design at the 2008 Tony Awards. His credits in the West End include; The Comedy about a Bank Robbery, McQueen, Daddy Long Legs, A Little Night Music and Little Shop of Horrors, and A Little Night Music and 13 on Broadway.

Other theatre credits include; Cluedo, the play (U.K. Tour); The Snow Queen (Kingston Rose); Flood (Hull, Victoria Dock Half Tide Basin with Slung Low); Million Dollar Quartet (U.K. Tour); A Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Mischief Theatre Co., West End, UK Tour & Russia; The Fairy Portal Camp (RSC Stratford Avonbank Gardens, with Slung Low); Crush (U.K. Tour); Camelot: The Shining City (Slung Low for Sheffield Crucible); Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show (European Tour); The White Whale (Slung Low); Snapshots (Goodspeed CT/ Seattle/ Arizona, US); Take Flight, Travesties, Are You There, McPhee? (McCarter Theater, US); Daddy Long Legs (New York/ London/ Rubicon CA/ Cincinnati/ Arizona/ Detroit/ Chicago/ Florida); Kiss Me, Kate (Stratford, Ontario); Terrible Advice, Aspects of Love, Take Flight, The Last Five Years (Menier Chocolate Factory); Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm); Oklahoma! (Chichester); Corpse (Salisbury); Sweeney Todd (Gate Theatre).

Opera credits include The Phoenix (Houston Grand Opera); La Bohéme (San Francisco Opera/Houston Grand Opera/Canadian Opera Company) and The Turn of the Screw (New York City Opera/BAM).

David Howe has created the lighting design for countless productions, including London West End shows such as The Mind Mangler, Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol, Magic Goes Wrong, Mischief Movie Night, Mischief Movie Night In (streaming seasons), A Comedy About a Bank Robbery, McQueen, Quartermaine’s Terms, Bette and Joan, Birdsong, My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, Sweet Charity, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Private Lives, A Christmas Carol, The Norman Conquests, The Last Five Years, Tick Tick Boom!, Maria Friedman Re-Arranged, Rent, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Pageant, Forbidden Broadway, and La Cage Aux Folles.

On Broadway, his lighting designs include The Mind Mangler, Private Lives, The Norman Conquests Trilogy, and Primo. In the UK, he worked on productions such as Good Luck Studio, The Mind Mangler, The Dance of Death, Magic Goes Wrong, A Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Mischief Movie Night, Finding My Voice, Million Dollar Quartet, Dead Sheep, Bette and Joan, Chin Chin, 42nd Street, The Man from Stratford, Oklahoma!, Little Shop of Horrors, Singin’ in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Our House, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Me and My Girl, and Carousel.

His work has also been seen at the National Opera Beijing, the Philadelphia Opera, the British Youth Opera, and the Royal Opera, as well as many other European venues. With the Scottish Ballet, he worked on The Scandal at Mayerling. His recent international projects include Terrible Influence (YouTube World Tour), Sister Act, Miss Saigon, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver in Copenhagen, All My Sons (Hong Kong Festival), The Sound of Music (Cairo and Beirut), Private Lives (Toronto), A Chorus Line (New Israel Opera), Chicago, Evita, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Hair (Ljubljana Festival), Spring Awakening, The Full Monty, Cabaret (Frankfurt), Fame (Monaco), The Sound of Music Stars of the Musicals and Chicago (Malaysia), Woyzeck and The Roundabout (New York).

Vanessa White began her career at the BBC, where she was responsible for make-up design on television comedies, TV dramas, feature films such as Bridget Jones’s Diary, as well as entertainment and reality shows. Her work for British television has been recognized with numerous awards, including a BAFTA and three Royal Television Society Awards, alongside many other nominations. In addition to her television work, she has frequently taken on theatrical assignments, such as for All About My Mother at the Old Vic Theatre in London.

With her boundless creativity and skill, Vanessa has specialized in bringing characters to life using a combination of make-up, wigs, prosthetics, false teeth, colored contact lenses, and any other tricks that come to mind. In some of her earlier productions, all she had to work with were glue and tape to create her characters, but for her designs for The Rocky Horror Show, she employed more sophisticated technical methods… although a bit of tape still couldn’t be completely avoided. Her goal is to design looks that emphasize the show’s quirkiness, while creating a new, unique, and captivating design for each of her characters. She is delighted to have rejoined the creative team for the current tour, tasked with giving the show a completely fresh make-up design.

Born in 1969 in Bristol, Jon Pitt discovered his passion for music and technology early on. In 1996, he graduated from Bridgwater College in Somerset with a BTEC National Diploma in Sound Engineering. He furthered his studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where he graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies and a Diploma in Stage Management and Technical Arts, both with distinction.

Jon began his career as a sound engineer in London’s West End with the musical Rent. Over the next ten years, he worked on productions such as Blood Brothers, Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins, and Sinatra. He also frequently collaborated with Autograph Sound London. In 2008, Jon took the leap into the European touring scene with Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show. In 2009, he was hired for Hairspray in Cologne, and what began as a leap of faith became a passion! Jon was again responsible for the sound design of The Rocky Horror Show in 2011 and 2014. Between 2011 and 2014, he also worked as a programmer and mixer for productions including the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele and the musical Ich war noch niemals in New York. Additionally, he handled the sound design for the musical Fame at the Graz Opera House.

Jeff Frohner, a native of Lower Austria, was already active as a keyboardist and pianist in various rock/pop formations before studying at the Jazz Conservatory in Wiener Neustadt. Later, he performed on stage with artists such as Georg Danzer, Andy Baum, The Rounder Girls, Ludwig Hirsch, and Günter Mo Mokesch. Soon, he discovered his passion for musical theater and took on the preparation and musical direction of his first musicals.

In addition to composing TV jingles and commercials, he wrote the music for Peter Pan, Pinocchio, William Tell, and Torquato Tasso. His creativity found expression in his orchestral arrangements for Jesus Christ Superstar, Fame, Singin’ in the Rain, My Fair Lady, and The White Horse Inn, where he often served as conductor. As a musical supervisor, he oversaw productions of We Will Rock You in Utrecht, Oslo, Antwerp, as well as the touring production through Germany and Switzerland. Other productions included Evita, Blood Brothers, The Rocky Horror Show, The Count of Monte Cristo, Hairspray, Priscilla, Berlin-Berlin, Artus-Excalibur, The Bodyguard, Sherlock Holmes, Into the Woods, Hair, Some Like It Hot, Anything Goes, and Sweeney Todd. Most recently, he arranged and conducted a Barbra Streisand tribute concert with Maya Hakvoort at the Wiener Konzerthaus, and he serves as musical director and co-arranger for Abenteuerland – Das Musical mit den Hits von PUR at the Capitol Theater in Düsseldorf.

Founded in Vienna in 1990 by Martin Böhm and Ludwig Coss, MG-SOUND has grown into one of the most prominent recording studios worldwide. Their success is primarily due to their commitment to offering technical and creative all-round solutions rather than specializing in a narrow market segment. Renowned artists such as U2, Pearl Jam, Celine Dion, The Rolling Stones, and Queen have worked with them, as have opera legends José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Edita Gruberova, and Anna Netrebko. Even film composer Hans Zimmer relies on MG-SOUND for orchestral recordings.

The international prestige of the studio is reflected in their invitation to join the World Studio Group, which annually ranks the 25 best recording studios in the world. Since 2000, MG-SOUND has operated the “HitSquad” label, releasing musical recordings in collaboration with Vereinigte Bühnen Wien, including the platinum-selling Elisabeth musical DVD. They also established their own distribution network in Austria, MG-SOUND Music Supply.

As a full-service studio, MG-SOUND works with nearly all major advertising agencies and has been recognized with awards, including three Gold Awards from the New York Festivals, six Cannes Shortlist entries, and accolades from the German Art Directors Club. Multimedia installations and events form another important segment of their services.