The Team
Meet the team! Feel free to get in touch with us if you have any queries.
Jenni Halton
Production Team, Apocalypse & HappyLand 2008
Jenni graduated from Cambridge in 2007, with a philosophy degree and an inexplicable love of wimples. She stage managed The Winter's Tale (Cambridge American Stage Tour) and Nox Noctis (New Wolsey Youth Theatre, Ipswich), before completing an internship in Production and Management with the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. She currently works freelance in arts administration and production. Jenni's theatre credits at Cambridge include directing The Wizard of Oz and Aladdin, stage managing Art and Oklahoma and acting in Hair and We Will Rock You. She is proud to have made her Feed the Ducks Productions debut as the very first Daisy the Cow in Scene 1 of Apocalypse: the Musical back in 2005. Acting in the show's Cambridge and Edinburgh outings that year, she also appeared as an angel, a whore and Lucy the bakesale woman. She felt most at home, however, as Hildegard the Head Nun, mainly because she got her own clipboard. Elsewhere on the fringe this year, Jenni may be appearing as an enormous peanut.
Contact Jenni if you have a press enquiry or are considering becoming a Feed The Ducks Productions Patron on jenni@feedtheducksproductions.com or 07773 010094
Simon Cummin
Production Team, Apocalypse & HappyLand 2008
Production Director, Feed The Ducks Productions
Simon became involved with the Feed The Ducks Productions after meeting Newton and Merry while acting as technical director of Jazzmatazz at C-Venues in 2004. Simon stuck with Feed The Ducks through all the faux-fur, technical directing Apocalypse: The Musical in Cambridge and the Fringe in 2005 and directing HappyLand for its Goldsmiths’ Showcase production in 2008. Simon currently works as a Lighting Assistant in the Drama Department at Royal Holloway College, University of London, where he also completing a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies. He has just finished technical directing Sweeney Todd in the Jane Holloway Hall, Royal Holloway and Max and Iván: Exposed at the Etcetera Theatre (Camden) and at Midnight At The Boilerhouse (Royal Holloway). This year he has also technical directed Closer by Patrick Marber, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball, Volpone by Ben Jonson and Bash by Neil Labute. Simon has been a part of Feed the Ducks Productions as it has grown from a group of friends to a small but perfectly formed production company and is thrilled to be a part of it. As well as being a member of the Apocalypse and HappyLand production team for Edinburgh 2008, Simon is Production Director on the board of directors of Feed The Ducks Productions.
Contact Simon if you have an enquiry about merchandise on simon@feedtheducksproductions.com or 07818 278 793.
Heather Newton
Co-writer and Production Team, Apocalypse & HappyLand 2008
Creative Director, Feed The Ducks Productions
As one half of the writing partnership of Newton & Merry, Heather's heart lies in the creative side of Musical Theatre, befitting her role as Creative Director of Feed The Ducks Productions. She has just completed an MA in Writing for Musical Theatre, with distinction, and is keen to get back to the Fringe. Previous experience during her time at Cambridge includes directorial roles of Apocalypse: The Musical, Salad Days, and A Servant To Two Masters. Heather gained varied experience of the production of shows during her time as President of Pembroke Players Drama Society. She acted as the main producer of Apocalypse: The Musical for its Edinburgh run at C Venues in 2005 and is looking forward to bringing it back to the Fringe for 2008, alongside the world premier of Newton & Merry's new musical comedy HappyLand.
Contact Heather if you have an enquiry about performance rights to Apocalypse: The Musical or HappyLand on heather@feedtheducksproductions.com or 07740 353 386
Dom Carter/ Ernest Merry
Co-writer and Musical Director, Apocalypse & HappyLand 2008
Dom is a man of many talents: musical director, composer, arranger, orchestrator, pianist, organist, singer, teacher and voice coach. Confidentially, he is also the man behind Ernest Merry, composer of Jazzmatazz and, as half of the Newton & Merry partnership, Apocalypse: The Musical and HappyLand. Dom is a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was Organ Scholar and read Music. Following this he trained in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music, and he has studied accompanying with Simon Smith and Alexis French. Dom's MD credits across Cambridge and London include Guys and Dolls, Salad Days, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Young Ones, Pirates of Penzance, A Tale of Two Cities, Dracula and national tours of All The World's A Stage and Cool Britannia! He has recently finished working as MD for a recording of The Rose Tattoo (Pickering/Loveless) and is currently writing and arranging his second album.