MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Ivan McKenna
Ivan has worked as MD/Pianist/Keyboardist on many shows in venues
such as Olympia Theatre (Dublin), Gaiety Theatre (Dublin), National Concert Hall (Dublin), Lowry Theatre (Manchester), Cork Opera House, Helix (Dublin), Belfast Waterfront, Theatre Royal (Waterford), Millennium Forum (Derry), Wexford Opera House, Draiocht Theatre (Dublin), Civic Theatre (Dublin) and Dun Mhuire Theatre (Wexford).
He has previously worked as MD/Keyboardist on “Riverdance” and “I, Keano” in Ireland and the UK. In 2009, he won the AIMS Best Musical Director award for his work on the Irish premiere of "Jane Eyre". In 2010 he worked as MD on the premiere of Eoin Colfer’s “The Lords Of Love”. Among his other MD credits are “Chicago”, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “Hot Mikado”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, “A Slice of Saturday Night”, “Wonderful Town”, “The Wiz”, “Annie” and “Hello Dolly”.
Pianist/Keyboardist credits include “Assassins”, “Chess”,
“Into The Woods”, “Fame”, “La Cage aux Folles”, “Singin’ In The Rain”,
“42nd Street”, “Cabaret”, “The Wizard of Oz”, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “Copacabana”, “Mack and Mabel”, “Sweeney Todd”, “Ragtime”,
“The Snowman” and “West Side Story”.