FIRST FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT

Chief Executive - Kevin Wood

Producer and Chief Executive of First Family Entertainment

Kevin Wood is one of Britain’s leading pantomime producers.  Over the last twenty-four years he has been responsible for literally hundreds of Christmas productions in London and the provinces.  As the Chief Executive of First Family Entertainment he enjoys the position at the very forefront of this British theatrical tradition.

Kevin Wood began his career with Alan Ayckbourn at Scarborough, and has been directing and producing plays and musicals since 1980.  He was the founding Artistic Director of Channel Theatre Company, an Arts Council subsidised company serving the South East of England.  He moved into commercial theatre production in 1985 when the Board of his subsidised company refused to let him produce a pantomime - it being too popularist!  Since he had already signed the contract with the theatre he had no option but to form Kevin Wood Productions, and four years later was the third largest pantomime producer in the UK.

Between Christmas shows, Kevin adapted and directed the stage version of HG Wells’ The History of Mr Polly.  He produced the Malvern Festival Plays Tommy Boy by Ted Willis and Shaw’s Pygmalion, and national tours of An Inspector Calls starring Alfred Marks, the RSC version of The Wizard of Oz with Brian Blessed, and the Chichester Theatre production of Peter Pan starring Frank Finlay and Toyah Willcox.  Overseas he produced at the Istanbul International Festival, Oklahoma at the Nice Opera House, Annie Get Your Gun on tour in Germany.  He wrote, directed and produced The Mystery Plays in Canterbury Cathedral on five occasions, and produced the London Palladium Tribute to Evelyn Laye.  He directed and produced a sell-out run of Ron Moody in Oliver.

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Associate Producer / Head of Marketing - Laura Taylor

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Production Manager - Ben Arkell

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Office Manager - Tara Caws

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Wardrobe Supervisor - Emma Waugh

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Production Coordinator - Jamie Taylor

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