WENDY GADIAN

Wendy Gadian’s career as a musical director has spanned the last three decades and has included working with many of the UK’s foremost theatre performers, choreographers, writers and directors including Sam Mendes, Jude Kelly, Stephen Mear, Bill Deamer, Joan Littlewood, Tony Harrison, Lionel Bart, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Anthony Newley, Dora Bryan, Petra Siniawski, Elizabeth Seal, Maria Friedman and Clive Rowe.

In 2008 she took over the leadership of a new acting musical theatre course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, working closely with a team of exceptional national and international freelance practitioners. The BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre Course is currently recognised as one of the leading training courses for musical theatre both within the UK and internationally.

In 2013 Wendy created the Andrew Lloyd Webber Associate Musical Director post at Central, which supports the early career development of musical directors and in 2018 was a founder member of Ladies of the Stave which provides training and networking opportunities for female identifying musical directors in the musical theatre industry.

The Musicians’ Union awarded her the honorary title of Ambassador for Women in Musical Theatre in 2019. The following year she received an honorary Visiting Professorship from the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia.