- Andrew MacBean
Andrew MacBean is a theatre director and writer based in
New York City, New York andLondon, England .He was born in
Toronto, Ontario on February 7, 1963, grew up in Pickering and Toronto, and attendedQueen's University, Ontario , where he received a B.A. in Drama and Music. He then studied directing as an intern at Playwright's Horizons, in New York City, and was a senior member of the BMI musical theatre workshop, first under Lehman Engel, then Maury Yeston.He is known in Canada as Gilbert Blythe on the original cast recording of Anne of Green Gables, a role he performed for three years, as well as creating the awarding winning musical Sleeping Arrangements, which premiered at the Charlottetown Festival and ran for three years.
He founded Theatreworks in London, England in the 1990's. He was associate director with
Trevor Nunn onAndrew Lloyd Webber 's "Aspects of Love " and "Sunset Boulevard ". He then worked as Trevor Nunn's associate director on "Anything Goes " at theRoyal National Theatre andTheatre Royal, Drury Lane .He works extensively in the corporate world, bringing business ideas to life in a stage environment. His most extensive corporate work is with
Coca-Cola worldwide.He has since started work on a new musical, Raindogs which received a showcase in London in 2007 and was featured at the MAD Fringe Festival at the Trafalgar Studios in Aug 2008. It features additional music by Paul Chant and Boko Suzuki. As a freelance director, he directs plays and musicals- in 2007 he directed a 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story, and recently directed The Sound of Music with a London cast taken to Cyprus. This year, he worked with William Finn directing the West End premiere of Finn's Make Me A Song, featuring West End stars Sally Ann Triplett, Frances Ruffelle, Simon Thomas, Gareth Snook, Louise Dearman and Ian H. Watkins.
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