Jack Bennett is an award-winning musical director, pianist, arranger and educator.
TRAINING
Royal Holloway, University of London and Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
THEATRE MUSICAL DIRECTION INCLUDES
School of Rock (Central Theatre Chatham), At Last, It’s Summer (London Palladium), The Wizard of Oz (Edinburgh Fringe), Little Shop of Horrors (EM Forster Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Stag Sevenoaks), The Addams Family (Edinburgh), Jesus Christ Superstar (EM Forster), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Stag), Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure (Edinburgh), Sweeney Todd (EM Forster), Sleeping Beauty (Stag), Elf The Musical (Edinburgh), Rent (Ship Theatre), Seussical (Ship), Dick Whittington (Britannia Theatre), Into the Woods (Edinburgh), Jack and the Beanstalk (Stag), Cinderella (Harlow Playhouse) and Sleeping Beauty (Secombe Theatre). As Associate Conductor: The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory). As Assistant MD: Urinetown (Barbican).
Jack has also MD’d concerts and cabarets at venues including The Actors’ Church, artsdepot, Crazy Coqs, The Other Palace and Woolwich Works, and conducted recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios.
WEST END PIANO/KEYBOARD PLAYING INCLUDES
Sunset Boulevard (Savoy), Wicked (Apollo Victoria), Frozen (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and The Lion King (Lyceum), as well as playing for rehearsals for School of Rock (Gillian Lynne) and The Boy Friend (Princess of Wales, Toronto).
MUSICAL THEATRE TEACHING
ArtsEd, Finch Stage School, Laine Theatre Arts, PQA, Razzamataz, The Talentz (as Music Supervisor from 2013-2020), Trinity Youth Theatre and Urdang. Jack has also delivered courses for the National Operatic and Dramatic Association’s annual summer school.
In 2019, Jack received an award for Outstanding Musical Direction on a youth theatre production of Little Shop of Horrors (in the 14th Annual National Youth Arts Awards).
