Debbie O’Brien - Casting Director

Theatre includes: in the West End, Thriller Live (Lyric), The Harder They Come (Playhouse), Grease (Piccadilly and Victoria Palace), Show Boat (Royal Albert Hall), Dancing in the Streets (Playhouse), The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas (Savoy), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Palladium), Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria), The Snowman (Peacock), Fame (Aldwych), Peter Pan and The Pirates of Penzance (Savoy), Mum’s the Word (Albery), Daisy Pulls It Off (Lyric), The King and I (Palladium), Napoleon (Shaftesbury), Madame Melville (Vaudeville), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Playhouse), La Cava (Piccadilly). Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Prince of Wales), The Rocky Horror Show (Queen’s, Piccadilly, Duke of York’s, Victoria Palace), Soul Train (Victoria Palace), Rent (Shaftesbury), Always (Victoria Palace), Steaming (Piccadilly), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Apollo) and Disgracefully Yours (Comedy).

UK tours: Flashdance, Thriller Live, Defending the Caveman, Dancing in the Streets, The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas, Mahabharata, Bratz Passion for Fashion, Sweet Soul Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Starlight Express, Anything Goes, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, What a Feeling, Dirty Dusting, Mack and Mabel, Fame, Mum’s the Word, The King and I, The Misanthrope, The Threepenny Opera, A Chorus Line, A Tribute to the Blues Brothers, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, The Rocky Horror Show, Soul Train, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Othello, Trafford Tanzi and Wild Animus (UK/European tour/site specific/multimedia project).

Overseas: Blues Brothers Revival, Menopause the Musical, At Peace, Talking to Terrorists, Rent, The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas, Fame, Magical Rhythms of Ireland, Starlight Express, An Immaculate Misconception, Footloose, A Tribute to the Blues Brothers, Steaming, The Rocky Horror Show, Private Lives, Fire of Dance, Musical Starlight, Yehenara and I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document. Regional: Cinderella (Southampton, Ipswich, Clwyd), Aladdin (Stafford), Puss in Boots (Bury St Edmunds), Oklahoma!, The Pirates of Penzance (Kilworth House), Little Shop of Horrors, Laurel and Hardy, Blues in the Night (Ipswich), Jack and the Beanstalk (Stafford and Wakefield), Beauty and the Beast (Ipswich and Wakefield), White Christmas (Edinburgh, Cardiff, Plymouth and Southampton), Cinderella (Wakefield), The Snowman (Salford, Birmingham and Edinburgh), Side by Side by Sondheim (Stevenage), Santa Claus, the Musical (Birmingham, Liverpool and Southampton), Only You Can Save Mankind and 100% Sex Therapy (Edinburgh Fringe), Around the World in 80 Days, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, They’re Playing Our Song, Stepping Out, Mephistopheles Smith, An Inspector Calls and Romeo and Juliet. Also, The Harder They Come (Barbican), Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall), Poison and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (both Tricycle), Dick Whittington (Sadler’s Wells), workshops of Grim, Artie,Gwen and Lance, Time’s Up, In the Red, Only You Can Save Mankind, Nelson, Mahabharata and Little Women, and The Mikado. In production: Crazy for You (Kilworth House) and The King and I (Royal Albert Hall).

Recorded Media: Waybulloo (RDF/BBC), Grandpa in My Pocket (Adastra/Cbeebies), What’s Your News? (TT Animation/Nick Jnr), Grease Is the Word (Talkback Thames), Upbeat, Mobile, Sky, Success! and Challenges (Pearson Education), How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? (BBC), Amahl and the Night Visitors (BBC), Planet Cook (BBC/Platinum Films) and Energy (Max Media/Pearson).