Stephen Mears

CHOREOGRAPHER

Productions include:
Sinatra (London Palladium), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Chichester Festival Theatre), choreographed the Music-Video for Goldfrapp ‘Number 1’ and for Oasis The Importance of Being Idle, on the Town (English National Opera, Coliseum), ACorn Antiques (Theatre Royal Haymarket & UK Tour), joint choreographer with Matthew Bourne on Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre & New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway, Olivier Award for ‘Best Choreography’) JUST SO (Chichester Festival Theatre), Tonight's the Night the new Rod Stewart musical (Victoria Palace Theatre), Anything Goes (Royal National Theatre & Theatre Royal Drury Lane) Winner of Olivier Award 2003 for Outstanding Musical Production, The Three Musketeers (Rotterdam), Honk! (Japan & Singapore), Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House), joint choreographer with Bob Avian on The Witches of Eastwick (Prince of Wales Theatre London & Australian Tour), Putting it Together (Chichester Festival), Stepping Out (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Half a Sixpence (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Dir. Jude Kelly), Singin' in the Rain (West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Royal National Theatre & Tour, Dir. Jude Kelly) Nominated for an Olivier Award ‘Best Choreographer’, Just So for the North Shore Music Theatre U.S.A., Soul Train (Victoria Palace Theatre & Tour, Dir. Mark Clements) Nominated for an Olivier Award ‘Best Choreographer’, Of Thee I Sing (Bridewell Theatre), A Little Night Music (Oripro for Martin Naylor Hara in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan), Bouncers (Derby Playhouse, Dir. Mark Clements), SHakers (Northampton Theatre Royal/Basingstoke/Windsor, Dir. Michael Vivian), Love Off the Shelf (Harrogate Theatre/Nuffield, Dir. Patrick Sandford), SNOOPY (Watermill Theatre Newbury, Dir. Antony Drew), Grease (Athens Greece, Dir. David Gilmore), Grapevine (World Premiere, Derby Playhouse, Dir. Mark Clements), Follies (Concert for BBC, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Ruthie Henshall (Concert Tour 1997, Royal Festival Hall), Anything Goes (BBC Radio 2, Opera House, Manchester), Megamaths (2 Series 20 Episodes, BBC TV, Neil Benn), She Loves Me (Canada, Dir. Nigel West), Gary Wilmot's Showstoppers Tour (Keystone Productions), A Handfull of Keys (Prince Edward Theatre, Dir. Julia McKenzie), Monster Café (Series 1, BBC TV), Ruthie Hensall in Concert (Royal Festival Hall), WOMEN IN LOVE (Derby Playhouse), Hanger 17 (BBC TV), The White Light Trade Show (Earls Court) and most recently for BBC TV Showtime at the Stadium.