PRODUCTION MANAGER

With nearly 30 years of professional experience, Simon is amongst the UK’s busiest production managers. In 2007 he opened the doors of Simon Gooding Production Management Ltd (www.simongoodingltd.co.uk) and has since supplied the services for High School Musical (in the UK and Spain), the world premiers of Never Forget and Flashdance, The Wedding Singer, West Side Story, the award-winning Stones in his Pockets, SHOUT!, Footloose in South Africa, a new production of The Rocky Horror Show, Jus’ Like That, the International tour of GREASE, the UK tour of Spamalot and most recently Flashdance in the West End.

Simon began his professional career at the Bristol Hippodrome Theatre as a technician from where he moved on to become Head of Department at the Theatre Royal, Bath. Following five years in Bath he went on to work as master carpenter on many touring and West End productions whilst also running his own scenery and furniture workshop. After being asked to production manage Great Expectations for Apollo Leisure UK in 1994, Simon production-managed numerous touring productions including Summer Holiday, Tommy Steele’s What a Show, Buddy, The Rocky Horror Show, Smokey Joe’s Café and the Aldeburgh Opera Festival.

From 1998, Simon worked as senior production manager for CoOrdination on many productions worldwide including Smokey Joe’s Café, Sesame Street Live, Soul Train, Jim Davidson’s Dick Whittington and Cinderella, Songs for a New World, Rosie and Jim’s Music Party and three world premiere stage musicals of Casper, The Mask and Spiderman. Simon also production managed; The Rocky Horror Show, My One and Only, White Folks, Sesame Street Live in Bahrain, Nixon’s Nixon, Vincent in Brixton, The Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas, Sesame Strasse in Germany, A Little Night Music, The Baker’s Wife, Money to Burn, The Holy Terror, Simply Heavenly, The Witches, Love Shack, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Footloose, The Rocky Horror Show (new production and tour), The New Statesman, the move of Chicago from the Adelphi to the Cambridge Theatre, Guys and Dolls in the UK and Melbourne, GREASE, and Aspects of Love.

Simon’s various interests in the theatre industry have recently found him advising on a panel which is endeavouring to improve the Health and Safety of the working environment for people at work within theatre.