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Mates blogger: Phil Willmott
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Phil Willmott is a multi-award winning director, playwright, composer, librettist, teacher, dramaturg, arts journalist and actor and currently the editor and chief theatre critic for the commercial ticketing website. LONDONBOXOFFICE.COM.
As a theatre maker he has worked in theatres across the world on everything from the classics, musicals and family shows to cabaret and cutting edge new writing. He is the founding artistic director of several multi-award-winning theatre companies including the Finborough Theatre, the Phil Willmott Company, which presents the annual Essential Classics at the Union Theatre; and Gods & Monsters, which, for 15 years, presented the annual London Free Theatre Festival at The Scoop amphitheatre adjacent to London's City Hall. Find out more about Phil at philwillmott.org and on Twitter at @PhilWillmott.
The latest from Phil on MyTheatreMates
Do you know the 5 types of opening numbers used in musicals?
Analysing the opening moments of any musical tells you a lot about the writer’s intentions for the evening to come.