Creative Team for Three Sides at the 45th Street Theatre.

 
   
 

Grant Olding - book, music, lyrics
Grant, who has been hailed as "one of the UK's leading contemporary musical theatre writers", trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama and was resident composer at the Bridewell Theatre, London's premier venue for new musical theatre writing. As a composer/lyricist his work includes "Spittin' Distance" (Stephen Joseph Theatre, and National Theatre Studio), "Yeti - an abominamusical" (Edinburgh Festival), "A Celebrity Chef Ate My Hamster!" (Bridewell and Chichester), "Beyond the Sea" (Bridewell), "Born of Glass" (NYMT, Lyric Belfast) and "Three Sides". He has composed songs and scores for "Tracy Beaker Gets Real" (Nottingham Playhouse and tour), "Southwark Fair", "The Alchemist" (National Theatre), "All in the Timing" (Bridewell), "Romeo & Juliet" (Southwark Playhouse), "The Blue Diamond of Azkabar" (Hazlitt and tour), "Reunion" (Bridewell),

 
   
 

Grant has just won the NYMF award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing (lyrics) for THREE SIDES, and received an honourable mention in the music category.

     
"Macbeth", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Much Ado About Nothing", and "Twelfth Night". In March 2006 a concert of his work "Not(es) From New York" played to a full house and critical acclaim at the Duchess Theatre, this was the first time his work had been heard in a West End theatre. For more info go to www.grantolding.co.uk  

Three Sides was presented in NYC by Sharon Fallon, Daniel Wallace and Trish Whitehurst. Clive Paget directed, Morgan Large designed, Jeff Croiter designed the lighting, & Mark Collins was the musical director.
 

Toby Davies - book
Toby studied Drama at the University of Leeds, and has since become well established as a writer of theatre, musical theatre, and TV and Radio comedy.  His first play - 'The Way Home' was directed by Noel Greig in 2000.   Since then he has continued to write straight theatre - 'Even After All' (Hazlitt Theatre, and tour), 'Changeling Rooms' (C too, Edinburgh Festival), 'Lost and Found' (BYTF and Hazlitt Theatre), '21 Nights' (BYTF and Tour), 'The Blue Diamond of Azkabar' (Directed by Paul King) - in which he also performed, and first wrote songs with Grant Olding. His musical theatre credits include 'Spittin' Distance', with Grant Olding, commissioned by the Stephen Joseph Theatre, and subsequently developed at the National Theatre Studio, 'The Magnets - Magnetude' (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh), 'Yeti', which he and Grant are currently writing - to be performed by the

 
RSAMD at the Edinburgh festival this year. He has also contributed regularly to such Radio 2 comedy shows as 'It's Been a Bad Week', and Richard Herring's 'That Was Then, This Is Now'. He has contributed to many TV sketch shows - most recently the Channel 5 show - 'Swinging'.   He is currently working on the new BBC1 sketch show 'That Mitchell and Webb Look'. His sitcom - '55 Half Moon Road' is in development with the BBC, and Pozzitive Productions.  
   
  Clive Paget - director
Clive Paget is a director and dramaturge. Since 2003, he has been Music Theatre Consultant to the National Theatre where he is responsible to Nicholas Hytner for the development of new musical theatre work. From 2003 to 2006 he was the Artistic Advisor to the English Theatre Frankfurt where he directed acclaimed productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Closer and Talking Heads in their new theatre. In 2004 Clive was a judge on Channel 4's Musicality. Most recently, Clive directed The Next Big Thing at the New Players Theatre nominated for 2005's Best New Musical by What's On Stage. Artistic Director of London's Bridewell Theatre from 		 
2000 to 2003, Clive was an original co-founder of the venue and Associate Director from 1997 until 1999. As such, he was involved in all aspects of programming, management, production, funding and planning for one of the UK's most imaginative and highly regarded small theatres, while also directing many of its most successful productions. Clive directed the European premieres of Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again, Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World and Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins (listed among The Observer Top Ten Theatre Productions for 1999) as well as co-directing the World premiere of Stephen Sondheim's first musical, Saturday Night. He devised and directed The Cutting Edge, which brought together the talents of Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel and Michael John LaChiusa and played at the Donmar Warehouse and the Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre. In 2002, Clive devised and directed There's Always a Woman and The Road You Didn't Take, two shows exploring Sondheim's writing for women and men respectively. He also directed Greg Lyon's play Correspondent at the Edinburgh Festival (Assembly Rooms). Other directing credits for the Bridewell include: the premiere of Higher Than Babel (Andrew Caldecott), the premiere of Eyam (Stephen Clark & Andrew Peggie), the premier of A Celebrity Chef Ate My Hamster! (Grant Olding & Nick Barnes), Marry Me A Little (Sondheim), LalalalaChiusa, On the Wings of a Dream, Hot Ice, The Best of British, All the Way from America (devised and directed), All in the Timing (Ives), An Englishman Abroad (Bennett), The Blue Hour (Mamet), Trouble In Tahiti (Bernstein), Doris & Doreen (Bennett), Noon (McNally) Talking Heads (Bennett), A Visit From Miss Prothero (Bennett) and A Grand Wee Game (Greg Lyons). Other directing credits include: The Night Before Christmas (Anthony Neilson) for Cassandra Theatre Company, Sweet Charity (Assistant Director) for the Victoria Palace, Trouble In Tahiti (Bernstein) and the European premiere of A Childhood Miracle (Rorem), Hogarth, Some Enchanted Evening, the London premiere of Closer Than Ever (Maltby & Shire), La Belle Helene (Offenbach), The Beggar's Opera (Britten), Paul Bunyan (Auden & Britten), Acis and Galatea (Handel), The Wandering Scholar (Holst).
 
Mark Collins - musical director
Mark trained in voice and composition at Cardiff University, and gained his MA in Composing for Film, Television and Theatre from the University of Bristol. A professional Musical Director, pianist and vocal coach, he is also a published composer of film scores and audio books under his company newSense Music Productions. In March 2004 he made his West End debut at the Donmar Warehouse playing for 'Notes From New York', the hugely popular West End platform for contemporary US musical theatre, and appeared in all four subsequent productions at the Arts Theatre, Trafalgar Studios and, only last month, the Duchess Theatre in a highly acclaimed showcase of UK composers. Recent productions as
Musical Director include 'Side Show' (UK Premiere), 'Seussical', 'Parade', 'Les Miserables', 'Fame', 'My Fair Lady' and 'The Sound Of Music'. Most recently he was MD for Nikolai Foster's production of 'Oliver!' at the Courtyard Theatre, Hereford and 'The Witches Of Eastwick' at the Bristol Hippodrome. He has worked with such performers as Josie Walker, Rebecca Thornhill, Paul Spicer, Julie Atherton, Jon Lee and Amy Nuttall. For more info go to
www.new-sense.co.uk