Ian Haig

Ian co-founded Eyebrow Productions in 2001 and has produced all the Showtime Challenges to date. He produced Company (Edinburgh, 2001), and for Bristol University, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Peter and the Wolf for the Anthony Nolan Trust, Two, Calamity Jane, and The Boy Friend for the National Meningitis Trust. Ian has organised concerts and events for The Oxford Radcliffe Children’s Hospital, Cecily’s Fund, The British Heart Foundation and the Brittle Bone Society.

Amy Abrahams

Amy has worked as a producer for Eyebrow Productions on shows including: In An Instant (Latitude Festival; Theatre503); WriteBites (BAC; RADA); Crazy For You (London Palladium); Me And My Girl (London Palladium) and Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). As one of the artistic directors for Eyebrow’s new writing initiative, WriteTime, Amy helped oversee the In An Instant installation in association with The Hospital Club which had a week-long residency in Seven Dials, London.

Amy studied English and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a postgraduate diploma in magazine journalism from City University. She has written for publications including Time Out, The Big Issue, MSN, Reveal, Star and the Latin American News and worked as a reporter for Virgin while based in Kansas, USA. She is currently the Deputy Chief Sub-Editor for Glamour magazine. Amy is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme.

Sheara Abrahams

Sheara is co-artistic director of WriteTime and produces Eyebrow’s Showtime Challenges. She specialised in costume at RADA, fashion design at Istituto di Moda Burgo, Milan, and studied History of Art and Italian at the University of Bristol.

As well as theatre, Sheara mainly works in costume for film and television. She has assisted award-winning designers on projects such as Gambit, Hugo, Sherlock Holmes, Bright Star, The Young Victoria, Elizabeth – The Golden Age, The Other Boleyn Girl, Gulliver’s Travels, Unmade Beds, Sense and Sensibility, and Lark Rise to Candleford.  She recently designed the feature film The Nanny State and has designed shorts including Run, HOOD, David Rose, The Trigger, Idle Hands, The Crossing, Positive Feedback, and The Wonderful World of Death.

Apart from costume designing Eyebrow’s productions, her other theatre work includes: Costume designer of Fiddler on the Roof (Cambridge Arts Theatre); wardrobe mistress of Dancing in the Streets (Cambridge Theatre, Covent Garden); costume supervisor of Art (UK Tour).

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Esther Biddle

Esther has been an assistant producer for every Showtime Challenge alongside her main career as an actor musician.  She also starred in Into The Woods, and Crazy For You, and joined the orchestra for Me and My Girl.
After graduating with a BA Hons in music from Bristol University, Esther completed an MA in Performance at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Esther is a professional musician who plays a wide range of instruments, and has worked extensively as an actor musician in the West End and regional theatres all over the UK. Most notably she has appeared in Craig Revel Horwood’s UK No.1 Tour of Chess, and John Doyle and Sarah Travis’ Mack and Mabel at the Criterion Theatre, London. Esther was also a member of the original company of the 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices at The Old Vic, London.

Esther is also a full time producer for the film and tv production company Quick March Production, who create a wide range of films and products. Of late, QMP has begun specialising in producing idents for books. To view their latest work, please visit www.quickmarchproductions.com.

Leigh Thompson

MD credits include: Tell Me On A Sunday (UK tour with Claire Sweeney); Westenders (UK, Dutch and German tour); Naked Boys Singing and Nunsense(Arts Theatre); Songs For A New World (The New Players); Aaron Copland’s opera The Tender Land (Upstairs At The Gatehouse, The Arcola and the Cochrane Theatre); Crazy For You and Me And My Girl (Showtime Challenge for Eyebrow Productions at the London Palladium); Sweet Charity, West Side Story, Candide and The Pajama Game (Tobacco Factory); Company; Assassins; Weird Romance (European premiere); and three pantomimes at the Corn Exchange, Newbury.  Leigh is in demand as a cabaret accompanist, working with Karen Akers (at Jermyn Street and Pizza On The Park), Rosemary Ashe, Al Pillay, Klea Blackhurst, Jeff Harnar and Leanne Masterton, and was the pianist in residence at The American Songbook in London season at Pizza On The Park.  Leigh is the founder and creative director of The London Show Choir, acting as choral director for Our Lady J’s Gospel for the Godless at the Soho Theatre, as well as a founder member of both MadCow Theatre Company and Eyebrow Productions.  Leigh has worked extensively as a music director on cruise ships, travelling the world and working with artists such as The Four Aces, The Tempataions, Lorna Luft, Claire Sweeney and Iris Williams and currently works as a musical director for Headliners Theatre Company and the Advanced Performers Studio and Associated Studios.

John Sheerman

John has directed productions, large and small, with Eyebrow Productions for more than a decade, from the London Palladium to church halls, musical extravaganzas to the shortest of monologues. John has been given the opportunity to cut his teeth as a writer under Eyebrow Productions’ new writing venture and has since co-founded the sketch comedy group So On & So Forth, for which he continues to write and perform. John trained as an actor at Mountview Theatre School in 2001. Recent productions include: Generous (Finborough Theatre) and For King And Country (National Tour).

Mel Hillyard

Mel trained at Rose Bruford College, University of Berkeley and University of Kent, then later with Moscow Art Theatre School, King’s Head, Young Vic, with directors such as Ian Rickson, Dominic Cooke, Carrie Cracknell, Nancy Meckler and Rufus Norris. 

As Director: What’s Inside My Box? Adam Brace and Lola Stephenson (DryWrite at The Bush), Hard Shoulders – James Graham (Latitude Festival), In An Instant - Kenny Emson, James Graham and Matthew Dunster (503 and Latitude Festival), We Heard A Screech - Jack Thorne (Latitude and Old Red Lion), BareBones - Kieran Lynn (Old Red Lion); The Spit of Me - Adam Barnard (Nabokov’s Present: Tense); Southgate - Will Hammond (503/Urban Scrawl), His Face Her Face – Ben Cooper and Three Is Company - Erin McMahon (King’s Head); Grey Days and Loose Ends(Edinburgh Festival).

As Assistant: 1936 and The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola); Is Everyone OK? - Joel Horwood (Associate to George Perrin – Nabokov: Latitude and UK/International tour), Me and My Girl (London Palladium); Cherry Docs and The Shadowmaster (King’s Head); The Winter’s Tale (Courtyard), Helen of Troy and The Jungle Book with Phil Willmott at The Scoop.