Director.

Sherryl-Lee Secomb has worked constantly in community theatre since 1981, performing in everything from farce, concert performances, plays and large scale musical theatre. Her directorial career began with a production of Carousel (Savoyards Brisbane, 2010), and later working with professional Directors, David Williams (Miss Saigon, Savoyards Brisbane, 2011) and Jason Ward Kennedy (The Phantom of the Opera, Savoyards Brisbane, 2013).
In 2014, after performing as Mrs Meers in the Savoyards Brisbane production of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sherryl-Lee directed a community production of The Phantom of the Opera for Ipswich Musical Theatre Company, a production which received an Australia Day Award for Best City-Wide Community Event of the Year.
Since then, directing credits have included How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Savoyards Brisbane, 2015). the Queensland amateur premiere of Nice Work If You Can Get It (Savoyards Brisbane, 2016), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Phoenix Ensemble, 2017), and Chicago (Savoyards Brisbane, 2018). These productions have received a total of 12 Del Arte Charts recognitions.

A passionate advocate for community theatre, Sherryl-Lee created the blog in 2014, called An Idiot on Stage, which has gone on to become a major community theatre project, purposed to “equip and encourage community theatre to expect more and be extraordinary”.

Musical Director.

Benjamin Tubb-Hearne is originally from London, UK and studied Tenor Horn and Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. Aged 22, Benjamin moved to New York City, where his Musical Direction journey began at the French Woods Summer Camp. Here he musically directed and conducted over 20 shows, including Annie, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Curtains and Sweet Charity. It was also here that Benjamin found with his writing partner Ryan Jacobs, where they created 1 hour musical versions of popular movies for children including Toy Story, Enchanted and a Bugs Life, as well as creating their own superhero musical Powers.

In 2014, Benjamin & Ryan’s original full-length musical ‘Twisted’, a story which follows Little Blue Riding Hood’s search to find her real family premièred at the Playhouse Theatre at French Woods to much acclaim, and it is currently preparing for a second workshop.
Although Ben is relatively new to Brisbane he has burst onto the scene Musical Directing ‘The King and I’, ‘Chicago’ & ‘The Boy from Oz’ (Savoyards), ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’, ‘La Cage Aux Follies’, ‘Big Fish’, ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Phoenix Ensemble).

Choreographer.

With formal training in Jazz, tap, classical (Sue Harvey Academy of Modern Stage Dance) and Polynesian dance (Isles of the Pacific Polynesian Dance Troupe), Desney is no stranger to the stage, her debut being at the age of six, cartwheeling across the stage in the 1986 Savoyards production of Showboat. Since then she has performed in many shows with credits including roles in Nunsense (Sister Mary Leo), Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Desney’s choreographic credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Phoenix Ensemble) regional work with the Lockyer Regional Performing Arts (Music Man and Bye Bye Birdie), The Sound of Music (Choreographer/Assistant Director, Savoyards), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Speed Tap Routine), and Ensemble Choreographer for the 2014 Ipswich Musical Theatre Company production of The Phantom of the Opera, winner of a 2015 Australia Day Award for Best Community Event in Ipswich.
Brisbane choreographic credits also include Savoyards’ productions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the Queensland premiere of Nice Work If You Can Get It; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; and most recently, Chicago. These productions have received 11 Del Arte Charts recognitions.