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Avgoustos Psillas Sound Designer for Autograph Avgoustos joined the Autograph sound design team in 2008. Autograph is a leading British sound design and equipment hire company, responsible for numerous theatre productions at home and abroad including: Les Misérables, Wicked, Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia!, Shrek, The Wizard of Oz, Dirty Dancing, The Lion King, Rock of Ages and many others. Avgoustos started his career in the world of sound as an assistant recording engineer and producer in Cyprus. Alongside his studio work he toured Europe with the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Diastasis as a sound designer and operator. His career continued in the UK at the MTV Broadcast Services and later at the Royal College of Music in London, as the studio manager. During his five years there, he also designed and taught the music technology course at Imperial College. Since joining Autograph, Avgoustos’ theatre work includes: Monty Python’s Spamalot (UK tour); Legally Blonde (UK tour); Sondheim at 80 concerts of Merrily We Roll Along and Company (Queen’s Theatre); Holding the Man and Being Shakespeare (Trafalgar Studio 1); Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre); Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella (Hackney Empire); Laurence Olivier Awards in 2009, 2010 and 2011. As an associate designer he has worked on Jerusalem (Shaftesbury Apollo); Top Girls (Trafalgar Studio 1); Passion (Donmar Warehouse); Imagine This (New London Theatre); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour); Too Close to the Sun (Comedy Theatre); and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Vaudeville Theatre). Avgoustos has had the privilege to work closely with artists such as Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Helmut Lachenmann and Simon Callow, and directors such as Ian Rickson, Tom Cairns, Philip Prowse and Susie McKenna. Future work includes: Being Shakespeare, South Downs/The Browning Version and the Olivier Awards ceremony 2012. Gary Adler Incidental Music Gary received his degree in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan, where he also studied music composition under William Bolcom. Gary is currently the Conductor/Musical Director of Avenue Q on Broadway. Other New York shows that he has conducted include: Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Urinetown and The Fantasticks. As a composer, he contributed to the score of the Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz, for which he received two 2005 Drama Desk nominations for both his music and lyrics. The show itself won the 2005 Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. Gary has also written songs for the television show Johnny and the Sprites on the Disney Channel (starring Avenue Q’s John Tartaglia). Evan Ensign National Tour Staging Evan has been the Associate Evan directed Richard Thomas’ Wrong Songs for Summer in London; Rent in Montreal and the Far East; Womyn in Three and Out of the Reach of Children in New York. He has served as Associate Director for Avenue Q (Broadway, West End, Vegas, US tours and UK tours); Rent (Broadway and US tours); Les Misérables (US tour) and Shrek (Broadway and US tour). As Production Stage Manager on Broadway: Exit the King, Avenue Q, Jerry Springer - the Opera, Imaginary Friends, Barbara Cook - Mostly Sondheim, Chicago and Annie Get Your Gun. Nick Finlow Musical Supervisor Nick Finlow graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Instrumental Studies (Piano). Musical director: currently Jersey Boys (Prince Edward); Avenue Q (Noël Coward); Victoria Wood’s musical Acorn Antiques (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Tonight’s the Night (Victoria Palace); Tell Me on a Sunday (Gielgud); The Full Monty (Prince of Wales); Rent (Shaftesbury); Stairway to Heaven (King’s Head); Kiss Me, Kate (Norwich Playhouse); Saturday Night with Johnny and Denise (BBC1) and the BAFTA-nominated film Tomorrow La Scala! Musical Director for the workshop productions of Gone with the Wind, Urinetown and Zorro. Associate Musical Supervisor for Mamma Mia! (worldwide) and Musical Supervisor/Arranger for Dancing Shadows (Seoul, South Korea).
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Avgoustos Psillas Sound Designerfor Autograph
Avgoustos joined the Autograph sound design team in 2008. Autograph is a leading British sound design and equipment hire company, responsible for numerous theatre productions at home and abroad including: Les Misérables, Wicked, Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia!, Shrek, The Wizard of Oz, Dirty Dancing, The Lion King, Rock of Ages and many others. Avgoustos started his career in the world of sound as an assistant recording engineer and producer in Cyprus. Alongside his studio work he toured Europe with the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Diastasis as a sound designer and operator. His career continued in the UK at the MTV Broadcast Services and later at the Royal College of Music in London, as the studio manager. During his five years there, he also designed and taught the music technology course at Imperial College. Since joining Autograph, Avgoustos’ theatre work includes: Monty Python’s Spamalot (UK tour); Legally Blonde (UK tour); Sondheim at 80 concerts of Merrily We Roll Along and Company (Queen’s Theatre); Holding the Man and Being Shakespeare (Trafalgar Studio 1); Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre); Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella (Hackney Empire); Laurence Olivier Awards in 2009, 2010 and 2011. As an associate designer he has worked on Jerusalem (Shaftesbury Apollo); Top Girls (Trafalgar Studio 1); Passion (Donmar Warehouse); Imagine This (New London Theatre); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour); Too Close to the Sun (Comedy Theatre); and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Vaudeville Theatre). Avgoustos has had the privilege to work closely with artists such as Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Helmut Lachenmann and Simon Callow, and directors such as Ian Rickson, Tom Cairns, Philip Prowse and Susie McKenna. Future work includes: Being Shakespeare, South Downs/The Browning Version and the Olivier Awards ceremony 2012.
Gary AdlerIncidental Music
Gary received his degree in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan, where he also studied music composition under William Bolcom. Gary is currently the Conductor/Musical Director of Avenue Q on Broadway. Other New York shows that he has conducted include: Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Urinetown and The Fantasticks. As a composer, he contributed to the score of the Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz, for which he received two 2005 Drama Desk nominations for both his music and lyrics. The show itself won the 2005 Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. Gary has also written songs for the television show Johnny and the Sprites on the Disney Channel (starring Avenue Q’s John Tartaglia).
Evan EnsignNational Tour Staging
Evan has been the Associate Evan directed Richard Thomas’ Wrong Songs for Summer in London; Rent in Montreal and the Far East; Womyn in Three and Out of the Reach of Children in New York. He has served as Associate Director for Avenue Q (Broadway, West End, Vegas, US tours and UK tours); Rent (Broadway and US tours); Les Misérables (US tour) and Shrek (Broadway and US tour).
As Production Stage Manager on Broadway: Exit the King, Avenue Q, Jerry Springer - the Opera, Imaginary Friends, Barbara Cook - Mostly Sondheim, Chicago and Annie Get Your Gun.
Nick FinlowMusical Supervisor
Nick Finlow graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Instrumental Studies (Piano). Musical director: currently Jersey Boys (Prince Edward); Avenue Q (Noël Coward); Victoria Wood’s musical Acorn Antiques (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Tonight’s the Night (Victoria Palace); Tell Me on a Sunday (Gielgud); The Full Monty (Prince of Wales); Rent
(Shaftesbury); Stairway to Heaven (King’s Head); Kiss Me, Kate (Norwich Playhouse); Saturday Night with Johnny and Denise (BBC1) and the BAFTA-nominated film Tomorrow La Scala! Musical Director for the workshop productions of Gone with the Wind, Urinetown and Zorro. Associate Musical Supervisor for Mamma Mia! (worldwide) and Musical Supervisor/Arranger for Dancing Shadows (Seoul, South Korea).
