Anne-Marie has been directing musicals in and around Surrey for the past twelve years, preferring to lend her expertise to the weird, the wonderful or the just damn difficult shows available to amateurs. Not for her the safe seats of Oklahoma or The Sound of Music – this girl likes her shows to be really complicated!

Starting out as an actress, Anne-Marie was soon commandeered by her local drama group to ‘find something for the children to do between pantos’, and ended up with two successful junior productions of Dracula Spectacular and Dazzle with no less than 50 children in each…and all on a village hall stage. Moving on to adults, a sell-out production of Little Shop of Horrors was closely followed by The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas…and she was off!

Recent favourite directing jobs in and around Surrey include Sondheim’s Follies, Tim Rice’s Blondel, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Return to the Forbidden Planet, topping it all off with her last award-winning production, the amateur premiere of Saucy Jack & The Space Vixens.

Now she feels ready to direct the complex but fun musical, Into the Woods – one of her all-time favourite shows. And she is looking forward to sharing the responsibility for the first time with her good friend, Rosie Hatton.

And for a bit of non-theatrical background…in her spare time Anne-Marie likes to get involved in life; she is a showjumping ring steward, an avid reader, does a huge amount of cross-stitch, is a website moderator, an enthusiastic supporter of the Countryside Alliance, loves decorating wedding cakes, is currently taking a course in journalism, spends far too much money on Pony Club ponies for her adored nieces and nephews, and even tries to squeeze in a full-time job working for a pharmaceutical company. If there’s any time left after all that – it’s spent eating chocolate!