Phil Bateman
Musical Director / Supervisor / Arranger
As Musical Director
VERNON GOD LITTLE Young Vic Dir. Rufus Norris MD/Arranger
MY DAD’S A BIRDMAN Young Vic Dir. Oli Mears Music by The Pet Shop Boys. MD/Arranger
THE HUMAN COMEDY Young Vic Dir. John Fulljames Galt MacDermott. MD/Arranger
TREASURE ISLAND Kingston Rose Dir. Stephen Unwin
HELLO DOLLY Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Dir: Tim Sheader Olivier Award Best Musical 2009
IMAGINE THIS New London Theatre / Plymouth Theatre Royal Dir: Tim Sheader Musical Supervisor/Vocal Arranger
GIGI Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Dir: Tim Sheader
BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL Victoria Palace Theatre Dir: Stephen Daldry Olivier for Best New Musical 2006. Original MD
OUR HOUSE Cambridge Theatre Dir: Matthew Warchus/ Chor: Peter Darling Olivier Award Best Musical 2003. Musical Supervisor, Vocal Arranger & MD – Dance Arrangements and Underscore.
PETER PAN Chicester Festival Theatre Dir: Dale Rooks
PIAF Sheffield Crucible Dir: Tim Sheader MD/Arranger
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA Bristol Old Vic Dir: Tim Sheader MD/Arranger
WILD, WILD WOMEN Orange Tree, Richmond Dir: Tim Sheader
RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET No.1 Tour Dir: Bob Carlton
LOVE IN A MAZE Watermill, Newbury Dir: Tim Sheader
WINNIE THE WITCH Birmingham Rep Dir: Anthony Clark
GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING Latchmere Theatre, East African Tour Dir: Tim Sheader
CANTERBURY TALES No. 1 Tour Dir: Peter James
CABARET Watermill, Newbury Dir: John Doyle
As Composer
THE BIG PERFORMANCE TwentyTwenty for CBBC (theme tune & additional music)
BODY STORY ‘Wall to Wall’ for Channel 4 (& singing coach)
LA MAISON SUSPENDUE The Other Place, RSC
CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE Watermill, Newbury
FAITHFUL DEALING Soho Theatre
WHEELS ON THE BUS 3 theatre tours (based on new ITV animation series)
POLKA DOT SHORTS 3 theatre tours (based on BBC2 children’s series)
Other
- Singing Coach for Ricky Gervais' Cemetery Junction
- Singing Coach/Vocal Arranger for film Kinky Boots (BuenaVista)
- Conducted City of London Philharmonic Orchestra for 'Our House' sequence at Royal Variety Performance
-Regular pianist on GMTV
-Singing Coach/MD at Royal Academy of Music, Mountview, Arts Educational & Rose Bruford
-Musical Director for Original Cast Recording of Billy Elliot
-Musical Supervisor and Co-Producer for Original Cast Recording of Imagine This