Team
Adapted by the company from the picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Current company
- Mouse
- Lauren Scott-Berry
- The Gruffalo
- Aaron Millard
- Predators
- Neil Jennings
- Company Stage Manager
- Alyssa Tuck
Production
- Director
- Olivia Jacobs
- Creative producer
- Toby Mitchell
- Designer
- Isla Shaw
- Lighting designer
- James Whiteside
- Choreography
- Morag Cross
- Associate Director
- Sam Conway
- Musical director
- Jon Fiber
- Music and lyrics
- Jon Fiber
- Robin Price
- Olivia Jacobs
- Andy Shaw
- Music production
- Jon Fiber and Andy Shaw for Shock Productions
- UK tour general managers
- Kenny Wax Family Entertainment
- UK production manager
- Nick May
- West End press and publicity
- Kate Morley PR
- Thanks to
- Julia Donaldson MBE, Axel Scheffler and all at Macmillan Children’s Books; our initial devisers Tom Banks, Felix Hayes and Sharon McArdle, and all previous Gruffalo casts; all at Jacksons Lane; all at our tour venues and rehearsal rooms; Clare Fischer; all at CPT (especially Shaun Glanville) and at the Diorama; the Tall Stories board members; Dan, Joe, Jessica, George and their parents. 'The Gruffalo' is for Mia.
Previous team members
- Mouse
- Sharon McArdle (original production), Claire Knight, Hilda Gardner, Alice Parsloe, Samantha Barron, Emma Manton, Michaela O’Connor, Becky Kitter, Abbey Norman, Karina Garnett, Sharon Thompson, Louise Mai Newberry, Caroline Garland, Naomi Said, Crystal Hegedis, Alex Tregear, Josie Cerise, Susanna Jennings, Luanna Priestman, Ellie Bell, Angela Laverick
- The Predators
- Tom Banks (original production), Robert Evans, Michael Lambourne, Andrew Hoggarth, Gareth Farley, Sean Kempton, Alex Perkins, Austin Mitchel Hewitt, Joseph Carey, Jonathan Race, Alex Scott Fairley, Tim Stedman, Rob Copeland, Paul Lancaster, Napoleon Ryan, Stephen Anderson, David Garrud, Daniel Foxsmith, Will Towler, Tim Richey, Charlie Guest, Alastair Chisholm
- The Gruffalo
- Felix Hayes (original production), Scott Ironside, Ben Phillips, Colin Adrian, Derek Elroy, Nick Ash, Mark Peachey, James Gitsham, Duncan Foster, Ross Hugill, Alan Park, Tamlyn Henderson, Scott Armstrong, Tom Crook, Tim Hibberd, Owen Guerin, Aaron Millard, Steve McCourt
- Understudy
- Paul Matania, Jeremy Randall, Alastair Chisholm
- Company Stage Manager
- Benjamin Luke, Jules Millard
- Associate/assistant director
- Luanna Priestman (associate), Joe Hancock (assistant)
- Original design/construction
- Zahra Premji, Katie Avis, Neil Gavin and Gus Houssein