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Newsflash: 1916 The Musical welcomes a trio of new creatives

Sean Ferris:
Biography & Vision
Sean's aims and vision for the production

Martin Cox:
Biography & Interview
Getting to know Martin

1916 Seachtar na Cásca: Documentary
Documentary on TG4

What's happening now!Now is a very exciting time for the 1916 Musical production team and development, with the Industry Show and Tell just before Christmas. 1916 The Musical also welcomes Jane Robinson onboard.

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John Cameron We are proud to announce that OSCAR, EMMY and OLIVIER  nominated composer, John Cameron has joined the 1916 family as the new Composer & Orchestrator!

Welcome to the team
John Cameron: Biography
John Cameron is an acclaimed Composer, Arranger and Conductor; the creator of the original orchestral score of Les Misérables from it’s inception in Paris 1980, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, Broadway, and concert versions to the production still playing at the Queen’s Theatre in London’s West End today.

On joining the team, we asked John Cameron what attracted him to the project: 
“I have been involved in a variety of projects involving Celtic music, including film scores for ‘To End All Wars’ and ‘Driftwood’, my cantata ‘Missa Celtica’ and a string quartet ‘Tara’s Brooch’, and so Celtic music is certainly in my blood. Furthermore as a historian, the subject of Irish Independence has always been for me one of the key issues of the last four hundred years. When I was approached about writing music for 1916, the subject already excited me, and the story that Sean and Simon had woven around the events of 1916, by turns heroic and tragic, funny and romantic was enough to make me want to start writing straight away.”

Everyone involved in 1916 The Musical is very excited about having John Cameron on board, and would like to take this opportunity to express to John a very warm welcome!

John Cameron is best known in the theatre for his orchestral score for Les Misérables for which he was awarded the New York Drama Desk Award and the National Broadway Theatre Award.

As well as Les Misérables, some of Cameron’s arranging/orchestrating theatre credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor© Dreamcoat, Honk and Spend Spend, Spend. As a Composer, Faust (Parts I and II with the Royal Shakespeare Company) and the National Theatre's production of Hamlet with Simon Russell Beale in the title role, are among many of his credits.  Recently he was nominated for an Olivier Award as Co-Composer of Zorro the Musical on which he collaborated with the Gipsy Kings.

John has also composed the original music scores for over forty movies and television films and has been nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) for A Touch of Class, and for an Emmy for Path To 9-11.  Other notable films he has scored include Kes, The Ruling Class, The Mirror Crack’d,  Jack the Ripper, and To End All Wars.

In his diverse career, John Cameron has not only worked on stage and screen productions, but has written, produced and arranged hit songs in an array of musical genres. Artists he has worked with are as varied as his song writing, from Hot Chocolate to José Carreras, Donovan & Heatwave to The Choir of New College Oxford.

Andy Wilson Andy Wilson has been appointed to direct 1916 Productions Ltd’s first industry showcase performance of 1916 The Musical. Once again, 1916 are very excited to welcome such an acomplised new member to the team!

Andy Wilson, Director: Biography
Wilson started his theatre career when he co-founded the theatre companies, Rational Theatre and Hidden Grin, who both toured extensively throughout Europe.  He was also a performer with two celebrated Circus companies Circus Lumiere in the UK and  the French troupe Archaos.

As a director, Wilson has directed TV and film projects which have appeared on all three of Britain’s major channels, BBC, ITV and Channel 4, and has worked for production companies  which include Granada, TalkbackThames, NBC and America’s ABC.

Among many others, Andy Wilson’s directing credits include Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, with Jonathan Rhys Myers and Christopher Lee, which was the BBC's Millennial celebration drama. He also directed Cracker with Robbie Coltrane, The Forsyte Saga with Damian Lewis, Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, the Disney/Touchstone feature Playing God, staring David Duchovny and Angeline Jolie, Hotel Babylon, Spooks, numerous Miss Marple mysteries,  Poirot:Death On The Nile, Theatre De Complicite's Anything For A Quiet Life and the film adaptation of the stage hit An Evening With Gary Lineker. 

Andrés Atkinson Andrés Atkinson has had a diverse career as a lighting designer, his projects varying from theatre and dance to television and live music events.

Andrés Atkinson, Lighting Designer: Biography
Within the theatre, Atkinson was the Chief Lx of The Roundhouse theatre and he has worked with the RSC at the Barbican. He has also designed lighting for shows choreographed by Matthew Bourne.

Theatre credits include the stage production of The Ballet Boyz, which went on to become a popular television series for Channel 4, Six Degrees of Separation, Hard Times, Wuthering Heights, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, Being Gertrude Stein and Aslan Doesn’t Live here Anymore to name a few.

Atkinson’s has been involved in many high profile live and recorded events which include the BBC Electric Proms, X Fm’s Winter Wonderland, and Chemical Brothers at Trafalgar Sq. He has also been involved in lighting design for music festivals including Reading, Latitude and Resolution Festival’s. Artists that he has worked with include Florence and the Machine, Marina and the Diamonds, Little Boots and Example, to name but a few.

Atkinson enphasises his dedication to each individual project: “What matters to achieve somebody’s design, is to create, help and collaborate in order to make more of what we originally had. Regardless of how unreasonable, what matters is to look at something and try to tackle it with no preconceptions. Only then amazing things are allowed to happen. That is what I strive to achieve and ascertain from the projects I get involved with”.