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Artisic Director - John Pritchard started his career working in holiday resorts around the UK before moving abroad and working around the Mediterranean as a vocalist and comic. On coming back to the U.K he became involved with the Chaos brand for Bourne leisure directing producing and performing in the Chaos Comedy Club. During this time, he was writing gameshow formats, variety shows, recording voice overs and songs for some major holiday brands. Since 1997 John has been performing in Pantomime working first as the lead comic and then more recently as the Dame. John performed in some of the largest pantomimes in the UK performing with many celebrities such as Ruth Madoc, Darren Day, Jim Davidson, John Challis to name but a few. John has written and directed touring and static pantomimes and bespoke panto style shows for the theatre and holiday industry. He became Theatre Manager at the Tower Theatre where he wrote and directed an extraordinarily successful product that grew to become one of the standout pantomimes in Kent. John playing the Dame with his great friend Mike Nolan (Bucks Fizz) as his comedy foil. This partnership enjoyed a great following with record-breaking audiences and sales year after year. It was on this show that John met Pete Brown and the seeds were sown for Rebel Art Productions. Bringing together the passion and expertise of producing many hundreds of shows to new and exciting productions.
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Technical Director - Pete Brown began his career as a recording engineer and opened his own recording studio in 2001 (The Annexe Studio) Working with many different artists he was inevitably asked to engineer live sound for his clients. This led to to a flourishing career in concert and theatre sound design, working on tours, theatre runs and many corporate events. He has had the honour to work with many great artist, Curtis Stigers, Chas Hodges, Albert Hammond, Dave Lee, Beverly Craven, Bradley Walsh and many many more. He was also head engineer on the nationwide Diamond Kids shows culminating in a Royal Gala in the West End. He toured with the Lashings World XI cricket team, Don Mescall’s solo tour of Ireland and was the chief engineer for The Commonwealth Carnival of Music at the Westminster Hall in London to name but a few. Pete has recently been working on film and animation, working with stars such as Ken Colley and Mark Benton and has had an animation he produced entered into the Cannes Film Festival. Pete met John Pritchard in 2013 while working on the Tower Theatre Pantomime in Folkestone. During the next ten years they began to work more closely on production and show development. This partnership has culminated in the formation of Rebel Art Productions where many years of collective experience helps to shape top quality productions.
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Executve Producer & Director - Double Olivier Award Nominee best known for Oklahoma! (1999) Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Atlantis (2013) Credits Include:
Tom in BEAUTY & THE BEAST Feature Film (Disney) Phil (Older Bobby) in DREAMBOATS & PETTICOATS (West End)
Will Parker in OKLAHOMA! (Royal National Theatre) - Olivier Nominated for Best Actor
Pirate King in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Regent’s Park Open Air) – Olivier Nominated for Best Actor
Thernadier in LES MISERABLES (West End) Buquet in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (West End) Skimbleshanks in CATS (New London Theatre)