About

George is from Liverpool, UK and works as a creative Musical Director and Keyboard player in Theatre and Music. He is currently the Associate Musical Director for the West End production of Hadestown, and the Musical Director for Hadestown Amsterdam. He played piano/accordion and conducted the Hadestown Live from London cast recording.

He was Musical Supervisor for the Liverpool Everyman Rep Season, and Musical Director for the Grammy and Olivier nominated Amelie the Musical (Watermill/UK Tour/West End). He recently orchestrated, arranged and was music director for Now is Good by Tim Firth, for Chester Storyhouse. He was nominated for a WhatsonStage Award for his work as Musical Director on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind. Both Now is Good and Whistle Down the Wind were nominated for UK Theatre Award Best Musical Production. 

As Musical Director: Jonathan Harvey’s A Thong for Europe (Liverpool Eurovision 2023 Royal Court), The Commitments (UK Tour), Fiddler on the Roof (Liverpool Everyman), Miracle on 34th Street (Liverpool Playhouse), Carousel (Mountview), The Wizard of Oz (Chester Storyhouse), John and Jen (Union Theatre), Aladdin/Cinderella (Qdos). George curated, directed and music directed The Everyman Christmas Cabaret, top pick Christmas show in The Times 2020.

Workshops as MD: Feather Boy, King Ralph, Catch Me if You Can, Simon Amungem, Vertigo.

In the West End George has been Assistant MD on Elf the Musical at the Dominion Theatre, and played keyboard on: Mean Girls, Guys and Dolls, Sunset Boulevard, The Little Big Things, Grease, Crazy for You, Jersey Boys, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Book of Mormon (and Amsterdam) and Pretty Woman. On tour: Les Miserables, Wicked, Joseph. Pop credits include: Glastonbury Festival, BBC Radio 1xtra, Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Robbie Williams Xmas LMA Choir recording, Songs of Prasie, Manchester Christmas Light Switch On and CBBC’s Clash.  George led a project about mental health and music direction called Sustain Collective and spoke about it at the first International Music Director Symposium.