Alice Brown
Musical Director | Accompanist | Multi-Instrumentalist
Current Projects
'The School For Scandal' (Keys), Royal Shakespeare Company. July - Sept 2024.
'Pericles' (Cover MD) Royal Shakespeare Company. Aug-Sept 2024.
'The Jungle Book' (Musical Director), Bolton Octagon. Nov 2024 - Jan 2025.
Auntie Alice - like Captain Hook - RETURNS! Floral Pavilion, UK Productions. Nov 2024-Jan 2025.
'Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist' (Keys 2, Deputy). The Other Palace, select dates Sept-Oct 2024.
'The SpongeBob Musical' (Musical Director) Chichester Conservatoire, March-Apr 2025.
If you would like to get in touch regarding future projects please use the contact page.
Originally from the Midlands, Alice studied at the University of Birmingham, specialising in music performance and performance practice. She now works extensively as a musical director for theatre, and has a breadth of experience in musicals, plays and pantomime. She is particularly interested in new writing and is always keen to collaborate on new projects.
Alice has had the privilege of being a lecturer and visiting practitioner at several UK drama schools, including Performers College Birmingham, Emil Dale Academy, Institute of Contemporary Theatre Brighton, Trinity Laban Conservatoire and Guildford School of Acting.
She has eclectic and unique musical experience in a variety of disciplines including early music, electroacoustic live performance, folk, orchestral, pop/function, and of course, theatre. She holds a Master’s degree on the recorder and is a versatile instrumentalist.
Credits
Musical Director: The SpongeBob Musical (dir. JamesSquared2. Chichester Conservatoire, 2025); The Jungle Book (dir. Sarah Punshon. Bolton Octagon, 2024); The Further Adventures of Peter Pan: The Return of Captain Hook (dir. Andrew Margerison. Floral Pavilion. UK Productions Ltd, 2024/25); Hamnet (dir. Erica Whyman. Royal Shakespeare Company, 2023/24); Footloose (dir. Julian Woolford. GSA, 2024); Head Over Heels (dir. Conor Baum. ICTheatre, 2024); Jack & The Beanstalk (dir. Andrew Margerison. Floral Pavilion. UK Productions Ltd, 2023/24); Into The Woods (dir. Norma Atallah, Emil Dale Academy, 2023); Music and Freedom (dir. Grace Taylor, Oxford Playhouse BEAM23); Pieces of String (dir. Ryan McBrade. Perfect Pitch, 2023); Cinderella (dir. Jill Williams. Floral Pavilion. UK Productions Ltd, 2022); Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (dir. Nigel West, GSA, 2022); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (dir. Robin Belfield. ICTheatre 2022); Beyond The Stars Showcase (The Other Palace, 2022); Jack & The Beanstalk (Armonico Consort, Albany Theatre, 2022); Oliver! (Shaw Theatre, 2022); Aladdin (dir. Zoë Waterman. The Capitol, 2021); Flower Cutters (dir. Robyn Grant & Allie Munro. Birmingham Hippodrome, 2020).
Cover MD/Assistant: Pericles, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Cover MD. Royal Shakespeare Company, 2024); KIN (Associate MD. dir. Emil Dale. 2023); Goblin Market (Assistant MD. MD Adam Gerber. Yvonne Arnaud, 2021)
Music Supervisor: Dreamland (Musials Young Theatre. Birmingham Hippodrome, 2024)
Repetiteur: Musicals: Live At Loseley (MD Steve Moss. CNC Live Ltd, 2024); West Side Story (MD Paul Murphy. Birmingham Hippodrome, 2019)
Instrumental: Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist (keys 2 deputy, The Other Palace, 2024); School For Scandal (keys, Royal Shakespeare Company, 2024); Ben & Imo (recorders, Royal Shakespeare Company, 2024); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (keys deputy, UK Tour, 2022); SAGA ‘Spirit of Adventure’ (jazz trio & production pianist, Live Business Ltd/SAGA Cruises, 2022); Bring It On (keys 2, Mountview, 2023); Spring Awakening (viola, Chroma-Q Theatre 2022); The Musicals In Concert (keys, Villa Marina, 2023); Wolf, Indigo (viola, Katherine Priddy, E.P. 2018)
Youth Theatre: Musicals Young Company (Birmingham Hippodrome), British Youth Musical Theatre, Spotlight Stage School, Youth Onstage, Daylight Theatre Foundation, South London Youth Theatre, Theatre Tribe, Stagecoach Performing Arts, Stagebox
Teaching Experience: Emil Dale Academy, Performers College Birmingham, Institute of Contemporary Theatre, Guildford School of Acting, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Drama, Mountview Birmingham, University of Winchester, Year Out Drama Company, Mercurial Dance Company, Music Lessons Anywhere (International), Wolverhampton Music Service, Rugby High School, Lawrence Sheriff School
Qualifications: BMus (Hons), MA, LRSM. Certified Vocal Health First Aider.
