Egil Kipste
Casting Director
Disney Theatrical Productions (Australia)

After graduating from the NIDA Director's Course, Egil worked as a freelance theatre director with most companies around Australia in the 1980's. Productions included Rents for Gordon/Frost, Cyrano de Bergerac in Urdu for India's national Theatre Repertory and The Golden Age and Kiss of the Spiderwoman for Nimrod. He was also Associate Director at Nimrod and the Artistic Director of the Q theatre. He holds a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies.

Egil lectured in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Sydney and UNSW before becoming Casting Director at Sydney Theatre Company. The major musicals he cast there were Merrily We Roll Along, The Sunshine Club, Sunset Boulevard (later cancelled) and Steel City. He was also a casting consultant on Rent. After six years at STC, Egil was appointed Casting Director for Disney Theatrical Productions (Australia) and is currently casting THE LION KING.

Anne Driscoll
Casting Coordinator
Disney Theatrical Productions (Australia)

Anne graduated from the NIDA Technical Production Course in 1997. She has since worked as a freelance stage manager and assistant stage manager for various producers. Some of those productions include Closer, Navigating, Betrayal and A Delicate Balance for Sydney Theatre Company; Fame - The Musical and Shout - The Legend of the Wild One for Jacobsen Entertainment and a number of productions within the Olympic Arts Festival including stage managing the Opening Ceremony directed by Stephen Page. Anne joined the Casting Team at Disney in April 2003.

Annabel Scholes
Resident Director
THE LION KING

Annabel graduated from the NIDA Directing Course in 2000. She has directed several productions including; Jennifer Compton's The Big Picture for the New Theatre, Newtown, The Stars Come Out for Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, Brad Fraser's Wolfboy and Unidentified Human Remains And the True Nature of Love, Cho Cho San by Daniel Keene, Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Glory by Steve J Spears. Last year Annabel was the Assistant Director to Gale Edwards for Sydney Theatre Company's Soulmates by David Willaimson. Annabel previously worked as a lecturer in the School of Communications at Charles Sturt University

Anthony Gabriele
Music Director
THE LION KING

Anthony made his professional debut with the Gordon/Frost Organisation, touring Australia and Hong Kong as Assistant Music Director on South Pacific. Amongst the engagements that followed were as Assistant Music Director for the Australian tour of Blood Brothers, Co-Music Director for the Australian Premiere Concert Production of Dear World (The Australian Opera), Assistant Music Director for the Australian and Asian tour of Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera, and a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Asia as a keyboard player in the orchestra for The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Sarah Brightman & Anthony Warlow (The Really Useful Company/IMG/Duet Productions). Other music theatre credits include, Music Director for the Australian Premiere production of A Grand Night for Singing (Footbridge Theatre Sydney), Music Director for Chess - The Musical (Princess Theatre Melbourne),Music Supervisor & Vocal Coach for Kevin Jacobsen's Australian Premiere production of Larry Hart's Sisterella (Regent Theatre Melbourne) and as Music Director on various projects for Walt Disney Special Events Group Australia. Anthony's opera credits include Assistant Chorus Master & Italian Language Coach on La Bohème (The National Opera of Wellington) and as Assistant Conductor & Italian Language Coach on The Barber of Seville for the West Australian Opera Company as part of their Young Artists Development Programme. Anthony made his on-stage debut as 'Manny' (the accompanist) performing opposite Amanda Muggleton in the Sydney Theatre Company/Essgee Entertainment production of Master Class (Playhouse Theatre Melbourne). Two Australian tours staged in the "Big Top" followed: firstly as Music Director for The Really Useful Company production of CATS and then as Music Director for The Gordon/Frost Organisation, SEL & The Really Useful Company production of GREASE - The Mega Musical. Anthony then toured Australia playing keyboard in the orchestra for The Pirates of Penzance (Essgee Entertainment) and then was Associate Music Director for the 2002 Helpmann Awards. Anthony was recently the Associate Music Director on the production of The Wizard of Oz for The Gordon/Frost Organisation, SEL and Macks Entertainment.

Paul Cordeiro
Resident Dance Supervisor
THE LION KING

Paul was born in Singapore, trained in Perth at WAAPA completing a Diploma of Dance. His first engagement was with One Extra Company. He toured nationally with The King and I 1991 - 1992 and with West Side Story in 1995. He worked with Flamenco Master Antonio Vargas, and with Opera Australia with Stephen Page. Paul has performed his own work at the Studio at the Opera House as well as having his own season at Belvoir St. Theatre. He was Assistant Choreographer on the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony 2000. As an Independent Performer and Choreographer Paul works constantly.

Anthony Lyn
Associate Director
THE LION KING

Born in Swansea, South Wales.
Theatre in London includes: Anything Goes, Oklahoma, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat, Les Miserables, Damn Yankees!, Miss Saigon, Hey! Mr Producer. Has worked at almost every major regional Theatre in the United Kingdom and for Jean Ann Ryan Productions World Wide.
Teaching: Actors Center (London), Royal Academy of Music, Duke University (Recipient of the Hal Brody Fellowship).
Anthony was Resident Director of the London Production of the LION KING, then the Gazelle National Tour before becoming Supervising Resident Director and now Associate Director World Wide.
Anthony was a founding member and past Chairman of West End Cares.

Clement Ishmael
Music Supervisor
THE LION KING

Clement is a conductor, composer and arranger. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Royal Conservatory of Music, where he specialised in composition and conducting as well as singing with Joyce Britten. Conducting credits include Abbey Players Opera Company, Ad Astra Chorus, Addison Jazz Ensembles, West London Gospel Choir, and this year he will be conducting a new opera at Sadler's Wells. West End credits include: Five Guys Named Moe, Ain't Misbehavin', Smokey Joe's Café. He has also directed and arranged the music for the shows Sweet Lorraine, 3 Ms Behaving, Up Against the Wall, The Amen Corner, The Grapevine, Centralia and Soul Train. His classical compositions and arrangements have been performed worldwide as well as being broadcast by BBC Television and Radio. Most recently his Opera Grazyna was performed at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio, and he has been commissioned to write a new opera for W11 Opera Company, to be performed in September 2005.

Marey Griffith
Production Dance Supervisor
THE LION KING

A native New Yorker, Miss Griffith toured worldwide with the acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as a featured dancer/soloist for 8 years. She is most known for her performances in the works of the late, world renowned choreographer Ulysses Dove. Other guest appearances include Déjà vu Dance Theatre, and the Spoleto festival in Italy. She worked as co-choreographer on the star studded production of The Wizard of Oz in concert at Avery Fisher Hall with Nathan Lane, Joel Grey, Jewel and Natalie Cole. Miss Griffith has appeared in numerous commercials and voice-overs. Her soap opera credits include As the World Turns and Another World. She has also performed with Sight and Sound Theatre in Lancaster, PA. Miss Griffith joined the creative team of THE LION KING in August of 2000. She feels privileged to work with Choreographer Garth Fagan.

Aubrey Lynch II
Associate Producer
THE LION KING

Aubrey studied Chemistry at the University of Michigan, before being invited into the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre as a Principal Dancer. He has traveled worldwide leading dance master classes, including workshops for deaf children. As a guest speaker, he has been a regular visitor at The Juilliard School. He played the lead in the film The Next Step, and has appeared commercially with George Michael, En Vouge, and for Tanqueray gin and Rollerballs. Aubrey also owns his own line of hand made wearable art. He was the original dance captain for the Broadway company of THE LION KING before becoming the Associate Choreographer.