Meet English Youth Ballet

ENGLISH YOUTH BALLET DIRECTOR Janet Lewis OBE

ASSISTANT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dominic Marshall

MARKETING / PUBLICITY MANAGER Ben Garner

COMPANY MANAGER Juliet Hayes

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Julianne Rice-Oxley

PRINCIPAL GUEST ARTISTS
Oliver Speers, Scott Butterworth

ARTISTS
Brenden Bratulic
Lindsey Fraser
Olivia Trevelyan-Richards
Ann Wall
Joshua Webb
Raphael East

LIGHTING DESIGNER Sebastian Petit

TECHNICAL STAGE MANAGER Andy Ankers

STAGE MANAGER Simon Ridgeston

SOUND MANAGER Michael O’Sullivan

RESIDENT WARDROBE MISTRESS Maria Henry

TOURING WARDROBE MISTRESS Helen Lillington

COMPANY PHOTOGRAPHER Peter Mares

SENIOR TRUSTEE EYB REGIONAL TRUST Anthony Burke

Principal Character Artist/Choreographer

Steven Wheeler

Originally from Rochford Essex, Steven trained at the Bush Davies and Royal Ballet School Upper School. He subsequently joined the Lewis London ballet dancing principal and soloist roles with them for four years. He has been a member of northern ballet theatre for the last seventeen years touring the UK regions as well as China, Greece and Turkey. Achieving status of Senior Artist his roles with Northern Ballet included Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Von Rothbart in Christopher Gable’s Swan Lake, Lord Capulet and Paris in Romeo and Juliet. With English Youth Ballet Steven plays Godfather Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker and Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty