I wish my life were like a
A musical

Alexander S. Bermange

In addition to I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical (which has enjoyed twelve international productions and garnered a West End Wilma Award, nine further award nominations, and nearly 60 five-star reviews), Alexander ’s credits as a composer and lyricist include music and songs for theatre productions such as Spitting Image (West End and Birmingham Rep), Plague Over England (West End) and the much-toured Murder On Air; musicals including The Route To Happiness, Thirteen Days and the multi-award-winning Shadowless that have been produced in London, around the UK and across the world, spawning numerous cast recordings; one of the Old Vic’s 24 Hour Musicals; and many comic songs for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Alexander’s songs have been recorded and released by dozens of international musical theatre artists, and he topped iTunes’s comedy album chart with ‘Wit & Whimsy’, an album celebrating his comedic work which features 23 popular personalities and West End stars. Recent months have seen performances of Alexander’s For The Record in London, The Sound Of Indifference in New York, Nicosia and London, and My So-Called Haunting in Chichester and Leeds. Web: bermange.co.uk

Aaron Renfree

Aaron trained at Laine Theatre Arts. His recent theatre choreography credits include The Sound Of Music (Landestheater Niederbayern, Germany), Now That’s What I Call A Musical (UK tour), Greatest Days (UK tour), Eugenius! Musical (London Palladium, Other Palace & Turbine) and Ariana DeBose’s show at the Palladium. His television choreography credits include ‘The Masked Singer’ (ITV) and ‘The Masked Dancer’ (ITV), ‘Starstruck’ (ITV) and as an on-screen choreographer for ‘Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK vs The World’ (BBC). Aaron was an original member of SClub Juniors, achieving six top ten singles and two top ten albums. The group won the Disney Channel award for Best Newcomers and had a sell-out UK tour and their own TV series ‘IDream’ (BBC). Aaron has also worked extensively as a commercial dancer performing with Taylor Swift, Little Mix, Kylie Minogue, SeanPaul, Take That and The Saturdays.

Sorcha Corcoran

Sorcha is a five-time Offie nominated set and costume designer. Recent credits include Fever Pitch, Lear, Vagina Cake, & The Replacement Child (Hope Mill), Papercut (Park), Variation and Buckets (Egg, Bath) Salome, Hamlet & Dr Faustus (Southwark), Agrippina (Hampstead Garden Opera), Closure (HOME), Her Naked Skin (Rose Bruford), Grandad Anansi (Halfmoon), Edward II (Lazarus), Baby Box (York Royal), Jew-ish! and No Strings Attached (Kings Head), Guilty Secret, Dear Lupin, Table Manners and Round and Round the Garden (Frinton).

Chris McDonnell

Chris was nominated for an Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design for Thrill Me (Jermyn St) and The Lesson (Hope). Theatre include: The Circle (Orange Tree), The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary, Love All (Jermyn Street), May Queen (Belgrade), Til Death Do Us Part (503, London Pub Theatres’ Best Production – Premiere Award Winner), The Winter’s Tale (Minack), Comedy of Errors, Peter Pan (Roman Theatre of Verulamium), P.S. I’m a Terrible Person (Cockpit), The Mikvah Project (Orange Tree), Tryst (Chiswick - London Pub Theatres’ Outstanding Theatricality Award), Can’t Wait for Christmas! (Lighthouse), Ruffian on the Stair, Little Echoes, Uncle Vanya (Hope), Die Meistersinger (Fulham Opera), Target Man (King’s Head), Kika’s Birthday (Little Angel) and Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddle Gang (New Wimbledon).

Tom Lishman

Tom’s work in the West End has included Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, The Caretaker, Pete And Dud Come Again, Medea, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, Brief Lives, Twelve Angry Men, The Gin Game, Taking Sides, A Letter of Resignation, Life Support, The Hothouse, The Rivals, Vita and Virginia, Hobson’s Choice and Rope. He designed sound for Ashes to Ashes (Royal Court), The Great Game: Afghanistan, Not Black & White, Broken Glass, Women Power & Politics and Greta Garbo Came To Donegal (Tricycle), I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio), A Tainted Dawn, Bill Shakespeare’s Italian Job, A British Subject, Potted Sherlock and Shakespeare Untold (Edinburgh Festival), The Farm, Those Magnificent Men, The Falling Sky (New Perspectives), To Town Hall Cherubs (BAC), and five seasons of operas for Grange Park, as well as pantomimes and numerous repertory theatres. He has created almost 60 sound designs for Chichester Festival Theatre. 

Alice Carroll

Alice studied at Rose Bruford College, and has a particular interest in site specific theatre and design led performance. Credits include costume for The Light Trail (Hope), Astoria (Jackson’s Lane), set and costume for Can’t see for Looking (Oxford Fire Station), The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache  & Vincent River (Greenwich). Costume supervisor credits include Romeo & Juliet (Box Clever), The New Musketeers (Trinity) and Jesus Christ Superstar (Frinton). 

Joel Benedict

Joel Benedict trained at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Joel’s recent theatre credits include Mayflies (York Theatre Royal), Blood Brothers (UK Tour), Spamalot (UK tour), and Paper Hearts (Upstairs at The Gatehouse, Hamburg & Edinburgh Fringe). Joel is also a professional musician playing guitar, mandolin and lute. Recently he performed in Fairytale of New York (UK and US tour). Joel is also an audiobook narrator having recorded several titles for Audible, most notably ‘The Final Dawn’ series by T.W.M. Ashford.

Rory Connolly

Rory trained at the London School of Musical Theatre. His recent theatre credits include Made in Dagenham (London Palladium) and F**king Men (Waterloo East). Rory has also performed as a lead vocalist onboard Viking Ocean Cruises, and returned to the high seas with this production when it appeared on Cunard earlier this year.

Samantha Dorsey

Samantha began her career playing Cosette in Les Misérables (Queen’s) later performing in the All-Star Concert, featuring on the live recording and album (Universal). Her recent theatre credits include Anything Goes and Shout! (Upstairs at the Gatehouse) Jekyll and Hyde (The English Theatre, Frankfurt) and Cinderella (Lichfield Garrick).

Emma Ralston

Emma trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Emma’s recent theatre credits include: Sister Act (West End, Eventim Apollo & UK Tour), Cinderella (Corby Cube), Aladdin (Capital), The Wind in The Willows (Turbine), Queen of the Mist (Charing Cross & Jack Studio), The Greatest Show (UK Tour), Bananaman the Musical (Southwark Playhouse), The Frogs (Jermyn Street), News Revue (Canal Cafe) and Into the Woods (Rose & Crown Theatre). Emma’s TV credits include ‘Gavin & Stacey: The Finale’ (BBC), ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ (ITV) and ‘The Royal Variety Performance’ (ITV). Emma’s debut EP ‘On My Way’ is available to download on all major streaming platforms.