Fenton Gray
Director
DIRECTING CREDITS:
The Pleasure Garden (Above The Stag, Winner Best Musical 2022 Off-West End Awards); The Mikado (Royal Festival Hall); Madama Butterfly (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Iolanthe (National Tour); When Midnight Strikes (Finborough Theatre); Brenda Bly: Teen Detective (Bridewell Theatre); Follies (The Dome, Brighton); Tosca and La Boheme (both Holland Park Theatre).
Pantomimes:
For QDOS: Cinderella starring Julian Clary (Brighton & Richmond)
For First Family Entertainment: Peter Pan starring Simon Callow & Bonnie Langford (Brighton & Richmond); Cinderella starring Mickey Rooney (Sunderland); Sleeping Beauty starring Anita Dobson & Tim Vine (Richmond)
For Regency Opera at Theatre Royal, Brighton & tours (1983-1989):
Carmen; The Mikado; La Traviata; Iolanthe; Turandot; Albert Herring
For London School of Musical Theatre (2000-2007) – Full Time Course Director:
When Midnight Strikes; Brenda Bly: Teen Detective; Hope; RSVP ASAP
SELECTED PERFORMING CREDITS
West End credits include Herr Schultz in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre); The Rabbi in Fiddler On The Roof (Playhouse Theatre); Manfred in Sunset Boulevard (London Coliseum); Gus The Theatre Cat in Cats (New London Theatre); Pimp/Clacquesous in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre)
He has played Ko-Ko in The Mikado numerous times over the last 25 years, for The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (Sadlers Wells, UK Tour, BBC2) and The Carl Rosa Opera Company (Gielgud Theatre, UK & USA Tours). Other G&S roles on national tour include Jack Point in The Yeomen Of The Guard for the D’Oyly Carte, Bunthorne in Patience and Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore for the Carl Rosa Opera Company, and the title role in The Sorcerer for Opera Della Luna.