Music & Lyrics by Daf Hughes
Book by Daf Hughes & Will Ing
A brand new musical for the modern media age
Now available for public performance and publication
Cast & Creatives
Meggie Hughes – Nicky
Meggie is 21 years old from Hampshire. She recently graduated with a first class honours degree from Performers College in Essex. She is currently living in London, working at the Dominion Theatre and auditioning for shows. She is represented by LEODIS (formerly The Souncheck Agency).
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Georgia Billard-Edwards – Alex
Georgia Billard-Edwards is 21 years old and has recently graduated from Performers College Essex with a first class degree. She is originally from Windsor, where she trained in multiple styles of dance and musical theatre in her childhood. Georgia is very excited to be working alongside Daf and the amazing cast and creatives in this project.
Sophie Lockwood – Frankie
Sophie is 21 years old, from Buckinghamshire. She has been dancing since she was 3, and carried on to study at Performers College Essex graduating in May 2024. She is currently living in Devon, working as a Dance/ Musical Theatre Teacher for children who want to carry out their passion professionally and attend dance college. Alongside teaching, Sophie has the hope of setting herself up for performing gigs at various events by creating her own small business and promoting herself as a local artist.
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Zoe Antoniou – Jaz
Zoe is from Hertfordshire and recently graduated from Performers College, Essex, with a degree in musical theatre and dance. She will be performing as the role of Janice (cover Aurora and Ursula) in 'Sleeping Beauty' at The Oxford Playhouse this Christmas. Zoe is represented by David from North Artist Management.
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Luisa Edgecombe – Kim
Luisa Edgecombe is a 21 years old and graduated from Performers College, Essex in June 2024. She is currently working as a Character and Parade Performer at DisneyLand Paris. Her dream role would be in Funny Girl as Fanny Brice. Luisa is looking forward to working with the cast and creatives for GIRLZ the musical.
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Ethan Emery – Adam
Ethan is an actor-musician who recently graduated from the renowned Acting & Contemporary Theatre course at East 15 Acting School. He is currently living in London, and is applying for acting and creative jobs with the help of his agents at Take One Agency. His favourite song from the show is Fifteen More to Go and his dream role would be Jamie in The Last Five Years.
John Paul McCrohan – Director & Kyle Kashman
John-Paul has worked extensively as a director, actor and singer, with touring appearances in THE JUNGLE BOOK, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and WEST END TO BROADWAY amongst others. He can be seen in a number of film and TV projects for the BBC and others.
As a director, his work on numerous plays and musicals has been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe and Avignon festivals in addition to his abundant work on the South coast in productions for his own, multi award-winning CCADS Theatre. He has, over the years, been responsible for providing many notable plays and musicals with their regional premieres and was at the helm of the world premieres of Michelle Magorian & Robert Buckley’s new musical, TINSEL and Dafydd Hughes’ OPERATION SANTA.
As a writer, he was responsible for Casio’s internet soap opera, DOREMI CAFE, as well as for specially commissioned plays and short films that he has also directed, alongside work as a teacher of acting and singing.
Daf Hughes – Writer
Daf studied Music at the University of York, and took his first musical to Edinburgh in 1989 as part of his degree. In 1997 Cameron McIntosh described his next musical 'Magic' as 'not for me' ! Since then he has mainly worked as a teacher of Music and Musical Theatre in Further Education alonside performing and writing. In 2020 he left full time teaching to allow himself to re-focus on writing and performing projects. His musical Operation Santa (with book co-written by TV writer Will Ing) premiered at TPS in Petersfield in 2022. Girlz is his fourth musical for which he has written book, music and lyrics. He also performs in various bands including The Elton John show 'Rocketmania' (www.rocketmania.co.uk). He lives in Hampshire with his wife and has 3 children.
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