The Team

Gabriella Sills
Company Director & Executive Producer
Gabbie (she/her) is Producer and Director of Gabriella Sills Productions, which both focuses on new writing in the Off West End and is the home of Alfresco Actors. She previously ran the open-air touring troupe, Tethered Wits. Her shows have won Best Production at the Off West End Awards and Scottish Theatre Awards, been nominated for The Stage Debut Awards and Off West End Awards, and received critical praise.
Gabbie is also General Manager & Associate Producer at Seventh Productions under The Partnership Group, where she plays a pivotal role in developing fresh productions and leveraging the group’s acclaimed talent and IP. She recently moved from Fiery Angel, an award winning international production company based in London’s West End.
Selected credits include:
As Producer - Breeding (King’s Head Theatre, produced with Seabright Live in association with Mark Gatiss); Agatha (Theatre503); 1902 (Union Theatre, UK Tour); Blackout (Theatre503, Old Joint Stock); Bits ‘N’ Pieces (Leith Arches); The Great Gatsby (UK Tour); Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (UK Tour); The Railway Children (UK Tour); Doctor Dolittle (UK Tour).
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As Associate/Trainee Producer – The 39 Steps (Trafalgar Theatre, UK Tour); Starry (London Workshop, The Other Palace); And Then There Were None (UK & China Tour); Murder on the Orient Express (UK Tour); Rob Brydon: An Evening of Songs & Laughter (Lyceum Theatre, UK Tour); Amy Dowden & Carlos Gu: Reborn (Adelphi Theatre, UK Tour); Everybody Dance with Claire Richards (London Palladium, UK Tour).
With a commitment to innovative storytelling and experience across diverse production formats, Gabbie combines creative vision with commercial savvy. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Stage One Bursary, a mentor for Westminster City Lions, and on the Board of the League of Independent Producers.
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Chris Fung
Adaptor
Chris (he/him) is the Adaptor of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of 'Around the World in 80 Days'.
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Chris Fung is an East Asian Migrant playwright and performer with West End credits. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Chris is a qualified teacher, holds 4 degrees in music and performance, and runs a private singing studio for professional singers. Chris is the Artistic Director of Fun Guy Theatre, and of Camino Meets. He is a graduate of the Musical Theatre program at the QAEMT under Paul Sabey, and is represented by Kristian Evans at Carlton West Artists.
Selected credits include:
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As Writer - The Society for New Cuisine dir. Rupert Hands (EdFringe ‘23, Omnibus’25, Chichester Festival/UK Tour ‘27); Global Majority dir. Rupert Hands debut run in London TBA ‘26; Frank and Jen - in development.
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As Performer - The Society for New Cuisine (EdFringe/Omnibus); Your Lie in April (West End); Frozen (West End); Cyrano De Bergerac (West End); Evita (Regent's Park); The King and I (Australian Tour).
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Schemes and Awards include - Offies Assessor’s Choice 2025, 5 Fringe Theatre Award Nominations, OffFest Best Solo Show Nom 2023 (for The Society for New Cuisine); Tony Craze Award Winner 2025 (for Frank and Jen); Rafia Hussain Productions Early Commission (for Frank and Jen); The Ilfeld Prize Shortlist 2026 (for Global Majority); Criterion Theatre New Writing Program; Affiliate Playwright Pint-Sized Theatre; Pentabus Jerwood Associate Longlist; Soho Theatre Writers Lab; New Earth Theatre Writers; ATG Surrey Musical Theatre Program; Junior Member - League of Independent Producers.

Tara Noonan
Director
Tara (she/her) is the Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of 'Around the World in 80 Days'.
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Tara is a director and facilitator from South London. Immediately after graduating with an MA in Directing with Distinction from Mountview, she directed the social media smash hit musical Diary of a Gay Disaster at the King's Head, a show that later went on to win the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Studio Production.
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She has been workshopping new plays and musicals for the last three years, including Bollywood Rose by Ajay and Sumerah Srinistav, Worn Out by Zoë Morris and Meg McGrady for BYMT, Between The Sheets by Joel Priest, and others that have gone on to professional productions.
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Selected credits include:
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As Director: The Gardening Club at the New Wimbledon Theatre; The Musical Medea Upstairs at the Gatehouse; Spring Awakening at Phoenix Arts Club; and Strings at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre.
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As Assistant/Associate Director: Dick Whittington and his Catford Cat (Broadway Theatre Catford); Floella Benjamin's Coming To England (UK tour); Songs for a New World (Upstairs at The Gatehouse); Batboy and Bare (London Palladium); and Close Enough To Touch (Theatre503).

Thomas F. Arnold
Composer & Musical Director
Tom (he/him) is the Composer and Musical Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Around the World in 80 Days.
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Tom is an Offie Award-Nominated Musical Director, Orchestrator, Composer and Writer. He is also an unhealthily obsessive fan of the 2004 movie adaptation of Around the World In 80 Days starring Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan.
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Selected credits include:
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As a Composer and Writer: Sense and Sensibility (British Youth Music Theatre, 2025), The House of Edgar (Seven Dials Playhouse, 2024).
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As a Musical Director and Orchestrator: The Musical Medea (Upstairs at the Gatehouse, 2025), Jack and the Beanstalk (Lichfield Garrick, 2024), A Song of Songs (Finsbury Park Theatre, 2024), Beauty and the Beast (Lichfield Garrick, 2023), My Fair Lady (Frinton Summer Theatre, 2023), Robin Hood (Exeter Northcott, 2022).
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Tom is also the resident Musical Director of The Crazy Coqs Presents and Mickey Jo Theatre Live!. He is the Musical Director on the Musical Theatre performance course at the University of Winchester.

Oliver Stockley
Adaptor & Director
Oliver (he/him) is the Adaptor & Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Jeeves and Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'.
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Oliver is a graduate of The Royal Academy of Music, MA in Musical Theatre and Durham University, BA in English Literature. He is currently performing in ‘Oh Mary!' at Trafalgar Theatre as part of the Original West End cast.
Selected credits include:
Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club (ATG); The Great Gatsby (Tethered Wits), which was nominated for an Offie; Don’t Say Macbeth and Sex With Friends - And Other Tiny Catastrophes (GOYA), both of which were nominated for Best Musical at the Musical Theatre Review Awards; Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends: A Celebration (Cameron Mackintosh/Sondheim Theatre); and Maria Friedman & Friends (Sonia Friedman Prods/Menier Chocolate Factory).

Jonathan Deakin
Composer & Musical Director
Jonathan (he/him) is the Composer & Musical Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of Jeeves and Wooster in 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'.
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Jonathan graduated as an actor from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and has since performed in a range of theatrical productions. Jonathan is a multi-instrumentalist, playing the piano, guitar, trombone, and is currently fine tuning his harmonica skills. He is also a composer, and has performed his own songs for Anthroplay Theatre’s Femme Night, and is currently writing a musical.
Selected credits include:
Robin Hood (Applecart Arts), The Great Gatsby / Dr Dolittle (Tethered Wits), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Shakespeare Company), and Much Ado About Murder / Twelfth Night (Heartbreak Productions). ​

Lynne Lawrence
Adaptor & Director
Lynne (she/her) is the Adaptor & Director of the 2026 Alfresco Actors' production of 'Kaspar: Prince of Cats'.
Lynne (BA Hons English Literature) was Director of Drama at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and LAMDA teacher for 20 years.
Selected credits include:
As Director - Our Town, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Private Peaceful, The Tempest, The Wind in the Willows, Aladdin, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Wizard of Oz, Annie, Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, Dahl’s Diabolical Dramatic Dilemmas, Oliver!, Honk!, Archie Dobson’s War, Godspell, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bugsy Malone, Imaginary, Shakespeare on Trial.
As Adaptor - Elephant in the Garden and The Railway Children for Tethered Wits Theatre Company.​

