PRODUCTION LEAD

Cécile is a French expat who moved to Amsterdam in November 2021. She has performed in amateur musicals in Paris since 2014, including Curtains!, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Urinetown and The Drowsy Chaperone. She joined the Cauldron as part of the cast for their second musical Monstersongs, and is now acting as the production lead for their third musical. When not participating in performing arts, Cécile is a regulatory affairs professional who works at the European Medicines Agency.

DIRECTOR

George has worked as an actor, singer, professional clown, producer, director, lighting and technical designer, acting coach, and has owned and/or operated a number of travelling children's theatre companies. He spent 9 seasons at Monmouth University's Shadow Lawn Theatre and ran the Black Box of Asbury Park, a not-for-profit performance space, for 12 years. There he helped create many original events including an Annual Woman's Art Festival that performed in various venues throughout the town for over three weeks every fall.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | CO-MUSIC DIRECTOR

Michael is an award winning classical guitarist from Cork, Ireland. Michael has been a musician for most of his life, having started piano at an early age before being drawn to the guitar and it’s diverse tonal palette. Since then he has explored a wide variety of genres, performing with a number of groups, but fell in love with the intimate tones of the classical guitar. Michael ventured into the world of musical theatre a couple years ago, where he started out playing in HEA Productions’ Little Shop of Horrors, and from there has music directed Disenchanted! and directed and music directed Monstersongs with the Cauldron.

CO-MUSIC DIRECTOR | PIANIST

A hobbyist musician, Elliot has played music in the pit for several shows in Australia and now in the Netherlands, including Working, Guys & Dolls, The Night We Broke Into The Theatre, AIDA, Urinetown, Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors, and Avenue Q. He has musically directed and co-/assistant musically directed several of these shows, and when not participating in the performing arts, he is a renewable energy professional with extensive technical, analytical, and managerial experience in various sectors.

CHOREOGRAPHER

"Zena Wood is a Producer, Performer and Director living in New York City and Amsterdam. With a rich musical theatre career in South Africa, she moved to the US where her work has since had theatrical screenings nationwide. She is the producer of feature film, The Blacklight (AMC Theaters), I Heart Jenny (Green Bay Film Festival & New Filmmakers Festival New York) and Life After Her which was selected to screen at Festival de Cannes 2017. Her original documentary, Will There Be Dancing, was awarded best documentary short at the Cannes Short Film Festival, 2020. She has also coordinated for many Fortune 500 companies and studios such as The BBC, Sky and History Channel. And produced an immersive game for Brooklyn-based start up, Unshut.

STAGE MANAGER

"Ellen is a stage manager, jewellery designer and fulltime baker of sourdough and viennoiserie in Amsterdam. She obtained a Master's Degree in Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries from Central St Martin's (London, England) in 2018, and has been happily applying her imagination to exciting projects internationally ever since.

Selected credits include Technical Coordinator for foldA, digital arts festival 2020 (Kingston, Canada); Co-Production Manager for Nightwood Theatre's All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, 2020 (Toronto, Canada); Costume and Set Design Assistant for Lucid Ludic's Brain Storm, in Association with Why Not Theatre 2020 (Toronto, Canada); and Stage Management for Morro & Jasp: Save the Date at Red Pearl Womxn international clown festival 2020 (Helsinki, Finland)."

VOCAL COACH

Specialised in Early Music, Kat’s training in Historical Acting and Classical Singing help her create interdisciplinary performances that bridge the past and present. She has founded two ensembles The Wandering Bard and Nymphes et Monstres, has sung with The Sixteen, performed on some of the largest stages in the UK and Netherlands, and sung on British and Dutch radio. As an educator, Kat has run several outreach projects in the UK with one fundraising for a UK Music charity. She now works with the DGAI Music School and is vocal coach for The Wazzup Singers, who recently performed on We Want More. As a teacher, Kat allows her students to explore multiple styles of singing, and encourages experimenting with styles from Musical Theatre, to Jazz, to Classical. See more about Kat on her website, https://www.katcarson.com.

ACTING COACH

Madison (she/they) is a theatre maker, teacher and activist from Canada, living in the Netherlands. They have been teaching theatre and musical theatre since 2013. Most recently, they taught various acting workshops for Concordia University from 2019-2022, and musical theatre classes for The Segal Centre Academy from 2016-2020. They are a co-founder of Utopia Syndicate, which is a theatre collective that focuses on fostering hope through utopian speculation and prefigurative living. She also co-founded and directed Carleton Musical Theatre Society (Ottawa) in 2015, and Hey Lady! Productions (Montreal) in 2017. Madison holds a BFA in Performance Creation and a Masters of Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy.

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Jacob is a world-travelling software engineer and long-time theatre goer with a background in the creative arts, business, and charity. After attending past Cauldron performances, he joined the general staff to provide administrative and logistical support, as well as graphic design, photography, and “IT” services.

HEAD OF COSTUMES

Ángela is a serial hobby collector; she has dabbed into various crafts, improv, stand-up, sewing… it was only a matter of time she tried her hand at costume design and making, which has since become a new passion of hers. She now collaborates with various English-speaking theatre groups in Amsterdam and has designed costumes for a few productions, including The Cauldron's musical Monstersongs. You can find more info and pictures at angelasedeno.com.

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Yann has been involved in the Amsterdam theater community since 2014, and he has worked both onstage and backstage for English (Into the Woods, Contractions, Avenue Q, Monstersongs) and French (Les sept jours de Simon Labrosse, Le crime de l'Orient Express) productions since then. After working in the tech booth for Little Shop of Horrors in 2021, he fell in love with stage lighting and was delighted to join the Spelling Bee team for another round!