Theatre includes: as director: 13 (Broadway), The Sound of Music (Toronto), Donkeys’ Years (West End), Little Britain Live with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, Noises Off (NT, West End and Broadway), Passion (West End), Wild Oats (NT), Marat/Sade (NT), The Wind in the Willows (Tokyo, Old Vic), Two Pianos, Four Hands (Birmingham Rep, West End), Spend Spend Spend (Olivier nominated, Plymouth, West End and tour) and Benefactors (tour, West End).

Lyrics: Amour (Tony nominated).

Translations include: Les Parents Terribles, Indiscretions, The Miser and Mary Stuart (NT); The Rehearsal; Becket; Figaro’s Wedding, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Wagner’s Ring Cycle (ENO); and The Merry Widow (Covent Garden).

As composer, he has written arranged and directed music for over 50 shows for film, theatre, television and radio, including: The Wind in the Willows, Arcadia (NT); The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); The Mother (BBC); Enduring Love (Pathe) for which he won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Score; and Jane Austen’s Persuasion (BBC Films), for which he won a BAFTA.

Adaptations include: the book of the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which has successfully run in London and New York (Olivier nominated).