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The people behind
Adam Walker
Training: Royal Academy of Music, Post Graduate Diploma in Musical Theatre.
Theatre includes: 'Detective Oliver/Ensemble' in Based on a True Story (Jermyn Street); 'Daddy's Assistant/Ensemble' Sweet Charity (whilst training); 'Soloist' A Bushel and a Peck (Jermyn Street); 'Bernie/Yulinik/Ensemble' Little Me (Whilst Training); 'Maximillian' in Candide (University of Hull); 'Ensemble' Oklahoma (Paris), 'Sylvius' As You Like It (Spotlight Theatre); 'Budles/Howe/Ensemble' Annie (Bridlington Spa). Other work includes: Backing Choir for Elton John and Ray Cooper at The Royal Albert Hall, Guest Artist for the East Riding Music Festival 2009, member of Showtune: Straight Up With a Twist cabaret act.
Jack Summers
Training: Queen Margaret University, Royal Academy of Music.
Theatre: Christmas Gold at the Jermyn Street Theatre; Various roles in Oh, What a Lovely War (RAM); Jeff/Hastings in Bells Are Ringing (RAM); Orestes in Electra (QMU); and Alan Conway in Time and the Conways (QMU). Television: Big Joe in The Shop (Pilot); Concert: Elton John at the Royal Albert Hall and Fast Forward 3 at the National Theatre. Other: Winner of the Toni Fell Prize for speech into song presented by Joel Fram.
James Smoker
Training: Royal Academy of Music
Roles include: Dim/Minister, A Clockwork Orange (Action to the Word, Proud Camden); Thursford Christmas Spectacular; Robbie’s Choir, Ant & Dec Christmas Show; Haig, Oh, What a Lovely War (Dir Matthew Lloyd, RAM); Saturninus, Titus Andronicus (Action to the Word, Edinburgh Festival; Flute/Don Pedro/Witch, Shakespeare Shorts (Action to the Word, Edinburgh Festival); Claude, Hair (ADC, Cambridge); Bill, Me and My Girl (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Jack, Into the Woods (Minack Theatre).
Jessica Sherman
Training: University of Western Ontario. Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre includes: Emma, Hooked, Auora, Elle and the Cabaret of the Cavendish Gate, Zelda Zonk, The Marilyn Monroe Show, Constance, Alvaro’s Balcony, Violet/Iris, Eugenia, Solveig, Peer Gynt, US Lenka, Candida, Gillian/Magda/Deidre, Rock’n’Roll, The Fly/Soprano 2, The Highwayman and Other Songs from the Shadows, Woman 1 Side by Side by Sondheim. Film includes: The Academy, Trouble in Paradise, Stormy Weather.
Tom McLean
Tom was born in a manger under the watchful eye of three men of wisdom and other assorted farmers. Having completed his musical theatre training at RAM, he turned his hand to synchronised figure skating, a sport which flourished at this year’s winter Olympics. He would like to dedicate his performance to quiche Lorraine in the hope that it will take the hint and never poison his palate again.
Production History and Credits
Unburied Treasures was developed during Mercury Musical Developments’ “Writing Lab Extreme” over the winter of 2008/09 where Jessica first sang her numbers. Thanks to Tim Saward, Christine Dennison, Andrew Brinded, Michael Dresser, Sue Pearse and Rebecca Applin, Nicholas Scrivens and Paul Kessell-Holland, plus Terry Davies, Richard Thomas and Mark Warman for all their constructive feedback.
The show was also workshopped at the Royal Academy of Music with the Post Graduate Musical Theatre students in the spring terms of 2009 and 2010. Thanks to all the students in each year at RAM (including Adam and James who got the job!).
The producers wish to thank the Royal Academy of Music, Karen and Vicky at the Carole Young Community Centre, Mark Warman (again) and, of course, Cec and Cleo from the Rosemary Branch Theatre.
Unburied Treasures opened at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, London N1 3DT on 20 April 2010 and had a three week run. The original cast album was recorded at Carleton Studio on 4 and 5 May 2010 supervised by Mark Warman. A new finale “Everybody Dies” was recorded in 2020 under the musical direction of David George Harrington.
Music and Lyrics – Mark Bunyan
Performed musicals: Just Good Friends (choreographed by Karen Rabinowitz); Homes and Gardens; True Romances; Achilles in Heels.
Other available musicals: Telling Tales, Defining Dr Minor, Being Colonel Barker.
Cabaret at the piano going back years: all over Europe and USA including Don’t Tell Mama (New York), Lambos (San Franciso), Edinburgh and Harrogate Fringe Festivals, Europride (Copenhagen), Kulturhuset (Stockholm), National Museums of Medical History (Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia – no really!), both Pretty Policeman’s Balls (Piccadilly Theatre, London).
Musical Direction – Peter Wilson
Peter read Music at Jesus College, Oxford, where he was an Organ Scholar. In September 2010 he will undertake postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music. Peter was MD for many student shows before leaving Oxford in 2009. He then returned to London and, since September, has been cover MD for Little Fish (Finborough Theatre) and MD for NewsRevue (Canal Café Theare). He has conducted dozens of performances of Mary Poppins, The Light in the Piazza and A Little Night Music. Sadly, these have all been restricted to the confines of his bedroom.
Director – Karen Rabinowitz
Royal Academy of Music: Sweet Charity; Nine; Happy End; City of Angels; A Little Night Music; The Wiz; Chorus Line; Little Me; A…My Name is Alice; The Soldier’s Tale, Pierrot Lunaire; Bastien-Bastienne. Goodbye Barcelona (Grimeborn Festival), Hansel&Gretel (Stratford East). Ain’t We Got Fun? (Lyric Studio). Twelfth Night (Waterville, Maine), Alice Through the Looking Glass (Dundee Rep).
Choreography/movement direction: The Way of the World; dances for The Resistible |Rise of Arturo Ui (National Theatre); La Traviata; Masquerade (Opera North). Eugene Onegin (Scottish Opera). Jesus Christ, Superstar (York). The Innocent Mistress (Derby Playhouse). Dead White Males (Nuffield, Southampton). The Last Yankee (Mercury, Colchester); Metamorphosis (Everyman, Cheltenham)
Lighting Design - John Brand
Has worked as a lighting designer for over 30 years, in which time he has lit shows as diverse as large scale tours of musicals to Shakespeare in a squash court of an Oxford college to a dance piece on the roof of the Royal Festival Hall. For the last 3 years, he has been lighting bands and shows at the BBC Radio Theatre, so is pleased to be back in a Real Theatre and working with such talented singers.