Robert Hupp (he/him)

FOURTH SEASON 

Robert is thrilled to return to Weathervane after having directed Stones in His Pockets in 2023, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder in 2022, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grille in 2019. Robert is currently in his ninth season as the artistic director of Syracuse Stage in central New York. He’s also served as the artistic director of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre and NYC’s Jean Cocteau Rep.

Ira Kramer (he/him)

SEVENTH SEASON 

Grant Olding

Grant Olding trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama before turning to music when the Bridewell Theatre created the post of composer in residence for him in 2003. His play scores include: TIMON OF ATHENS, TRAVELLING LIGHT, ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS, ENGLAND PEOPLE VERY NICE, THE MAN OF MODE, THE ALCHEMIST, and SOUTHWARK FAIR (all at the National Theatre, directed by Nicholas Hytner); JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (Birmingham Old Rep and UK tour); BROKEN GLASS (Tricycle, and Vaudeville); BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (Theatre Royal Haymarket); and many others. Grant’s musical theatre scores include: ROBIN HOOD (The Castle, Wellingborough); SIMPLY CINDERELLA (Curve, Leicester); TRACY BEAKER GETS REAL (Nottingham Playhouse and UK tour); YETI: AN ABOMINAMUSICAL (Edinburgh fringe); SPITTIN’ DISTANCE (Stephen Joseph Theatre and National Theatre Studio); and others. TV and film scores include: “The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff” (BBC 2); “Theatreland” (Sky Arts, six-part documentary series); “Losing the Plot” (Bongo Reef Pictures, short film), as well as a viral musical video for Lastminute.com which won the Cannes Lions award for best viral. Grant was nominated for a Tony Award in 2012 for Best Original Score for the Broadway production of ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS, and won the Drama Desk Award for outstanding score for the same production. His songs have featured on the albums of Gemma Atkins, Annalene Beechey, Caroline Sheen and Stuart Matthew Price, and the ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS original cast album (on which Grant performs 9 of the 12 songs) has been released by the National Theatre in the UK and by DRG Records in the USA. Grant is a board member for Mercury Musicals Development.

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