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1997 Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker

1998 A Night at the West End | Various

1999 Annie | Thomas Meehan

2000 Wizard of Oz | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jeremy Sams

2001 Thumbelina | Hans Christian Andersen

2001 Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman, Alan Menken

2002 Me and My Girl | Noel Gay

2002 Gold | Timothy Mason, Mel Marvin (National Theatre Connections Project)

2002 Jabberwocky | Andrew Kay, Malcolm Middleton, Peter Phillips

2003 Return to the Forbidden Planet | Bob Carlton

2003 Myths and Models (Devised by company for The National Trust)

2004 Oliver | Lionel Bart

2004 A Slice of Saturday Night | Heather Brothers

2005 Guys and Dolls | Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows

2005 The Sound of Music | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II

2005 Fame! | Jose Fernandez (Edinburgh Fringe)

2006 Barnum | Mark Bramble

2006 Aladdin | Chad Beguelin, Alan Menken

2006 Back to the ’80’s | Neil Gooding (Edinburgh Fringe)

2007 Thoroughly Modern Millie | Jeanine Tesori, Dick Scanlan, Richard Morris

2007 The Wiz | William F. Brown

2007 Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman, Alan Menken (Edinburgh Fringe)

2007 Blood Brothers | Willy Russell (Edinburgh Fringe)

2007 Habeas Corpus | Alan Bennett

2008 Calamity Jane | Phil Park, Ronald Hanmer, Sammy Fain

2008 Annie | Thomas Meehan

2008 A Slice of Saturday Night | Heather Brothers (Edinburgh Festival)

2008 Blithe Spirit | Noel Coward

2008 Steel Magnolias | Robert Harling

2009 Les Miserables | Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg

2009 Gypsy | Arthur Laurents

2009 The Buddy Holly Story | Alan Janes (Edinburgh Festival)

2009 Hobson’s Choice | Harold Brighouse ★ NODA Regional Award Winner ★

2010 Disney’s Beauty and the Beast | Linda Woolverton, Alan Menken

2010 Godspell | John-Michael Tebelak

2010 Outside Edge | Richard Harris

2010 The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde ★ NODA Regional Award Winner ★

2011 West Side Story | Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein

2011 High School Musical | David Simpatico

2011 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change | Joe DiPietro (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

2011 The Ark (Helen Griffin) 2011 – ★ Haverhill Drama Festival Award Winner for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Set and Best of the Festival ★

2011 Prime Time Murder | Michael Burrell

2012 Smike the Musical | Roger Holman, Simon May

2012 Fame | Jose Fernandez (New York)

2012 Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare

2012 Stepping Out | Richard Harris

2013 The Sound of Music | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (The Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral)

2013 Grease the Musical | Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey

2013 Footloose the Musical | Dean Pitchford, Walter Bobbie

2013 Bouncers – The Viva Remix | John Godber ★ Haverhill Drama Festival Winner for Best Director and Adjudicators Award / Third Place at the Cambridge Drama Festival 2013 ★

2013 The Ghost Train | Arnold Ridley

2014 The Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe

2014 Les Miserables | Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg

2014 Pride and Prejudice | Simon Reade

2014 Acorn Antiques the Musical | Victoria Wood

2015 Oliver | Lionel Bart (The Shaw Theatre, London)

2015 Half a Sixpence | Beverley Cross (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

2015 The Vagina Monologues | Eve Ensler

2015 Abigail’s Party | Mike Leigh ★ NODA Award for Best Play ★

2015 Avenue Q | Jeff Whitty (Touring: Soham, Ely, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ADC Theatre, Cambridge)

2015 A Christmas Carol | Shaun Sutton

2016 Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice

2016 The Little Mermaid Disney JR | Doug Wright, Alan Menken

2016 Educating Rita | Willy Russell

2016 Sweeney Todd | Patrick Quentin, Stephen Sondheim

2016 Made in Dagenham the Musical | Richard Bean

2016 The Lady in the Van | Alan Bennett

2017 Shakers | John Godber, Jane Thornton

2017 Legally Blonde the Musical | Heather Hach

2017 Dad’s Army | Croft and Perry

2017 The Dreaming | Charles Hart, Howard Goodall (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

2017 The Bakewell Bakeoff | The Baking Committee (Edinburgh Festival)

2017 Departure Lounge | Dougal Irvine (Edinburgh Festival)

2017 Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Junior | Linda Woolverton, Alan Menken

2017 God of Carnage | Yasmina Reza

2017 Brassed Off | Paul Allen and Mark Herman

2018 Bazaar and Rummage | Sue Townsend

2018 Hairspray | Mark O’Donnell, Thomas Meehan

2018 The Vicar of Dibley | Richard Curtis

2018 Grease: School Edition | Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey ★ NODA Award for Best Youth Production ★

2018 My Fair Lady | Lerner and Loewe

2018 Goodnight Mister Tom | Michelle Magorian ★ NODA Award for Best Drama ★

2018 Fiddler on the Roof | Joseph Stein

2019 Separate Tables | Terrance Rattigan

2019 Peter Pan JR | Morris “Moose” Charlap and Jule Styne

2019 Chicago: School Edition | Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, John Kander ★ NODA Award for Best Youth Production ★

2019 Brassed Off | Paul Allen and Mark Herman (ADC Theatre, Cambridge) ★ NODA Award for Best Drama ★

2019 Hi De Hi | Croft and Perry

2019 A Slice of Saturday Night | Heather Brothers (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

2019 Sister Act | Bill Steinkellner, Cherie Steinkellner (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

2019 The 39 Steps | Patrick Barlow, John Buchan

2020 Shrek the Musical | David Lindsay-Abaire

2021 Frankenstein | Philip Grecian (Lockdown Digital Project)

2021 All Together Now | Various

2022 We Will Rock You | Ben Elton

2022 Sense & Sensibility | Adaptation by Kate Hamill

2022 Matilda JR the Musical | Dennis Kelly & Tim Minchin

2022 Morecambe | Tim Whitnall (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

2022 Calendar Girls the Musical | Gary Barlow and Tim Firth (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

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2022 The Addams Family Musical | Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman, and Rick Elice (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

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2022 Shirley Valentine | Willy Russell

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2022 Cinderella | Daniel Schumann

2023 Seussical Jr. | Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty & Eric Idle

2023 The Darling Buds of May | H.E. Bates

2023 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Ian Fleming

2023 Murder on the Nile | Agatha Christie (The Viva Theatre and Thorington Open Air Theatre)

2023 Legally Blonde: The Musical | Heather Hach, Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin

2023 Dick Whittington | Daniel Schumann DL

2024 Stranger Sing! the Parody Musical | Jonathan Hogue

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