Full cast for Eugenius! at the Turbine Theatre

Completing the cast is Naomi Alade (Beautiful – The Carole King Musical) as Eugenie (Swing), Dominic Andersen (What’s New Pussycat?) as Gerhard/Tough Man/Dad, Joseph Beach (Ortistic Augasm) as Evil Lord Hector, Lara Denning (Matilda) as Lex, Louis Doran (Bugsy Malone) as Eugenie (Swing), Maddison Firth (Heathers The Musical) as Carrie/Super-Hot Lady, Sebastian Harwood (Treason The Musical In Concert) as Eugenie (Swing) and Rhys Taylor (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) as Theo/Space Diva.

Boasting a pulsating soundtrack, streamed by millions and heard across 125 countries, Eugenius! is a hilarious love letter to the iconic movies, comic books and nostalgia of the 80’s. A champion of the underdog, a place where anyone can become the hero. With our legion of Eugenies we’re set to prove that together we are mighty.

The musical is written by Ben Adams and Chris Wilkins and is directed by Hannah Chissick, it will run at the Turbine Theatre from Friday 17 March until Sunday 28 May 2023.

Musical Direction by Nick Pinchbeck, Set and Lighting Design by Andrew Exeter, Sound Design by Alistair Penman and Video by Andy Walton with Choreography by Aaron Renfree.

Naomi Alade stage credits include: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Leicester Curve/UK Tour); Robin Hood and His Merry Band (Oxford Playhouse) and Once on This Island (Southwark Playhouse)

Dominic Andersen stage credits include: Mrs Doubtfire (Manchester Playhouse); What's New Pussycat (Birmingham Rep); Cats; Rocky Horror Show (West End); Heathers The Musical (West End); Mamma Mia (West End) and Cruel Intentions Musical

His screen credits include: The Crown (Netflix); Humans (Channel 4), Glow and Darkness (Dreamlight International Productions), Ant and Dec Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)and Brad-Keith Lemon Coming in America (ITV).

Joseph Beach stage credits include: Ortistic Augasm (The Other Palace); Ragtime (NYMT). Their screen credits include: Doctors (BBC) and Patch To Ecstasy (Short Film).

Jaina Brock-Patel stage credits include: SIX The Musical (UK Tour) and With A Little Bit Of Lerner (BBC Concert Orchestra).

Lara Denning stage credits include: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour); Ruthless The Musical (Arts Theatre); Scrooge The Musical (Curve Theatre); The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End); Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (West End); Matilda (West End); Dick Whittington and His Cat, Tweedy (Cheltenham Everyman Theatre); Ruthless The Musical (Arts Theatre); The Famous Five (Theatr Clwyd & Chichester Festival Theatre); Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre); Dick Whittington (Bristol Hippodrome); The Rocky Horror Picture Show (European Tour); Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance (UK Tour); Tap Dance Fever (UK Tour and Niagra Falls); All The Fun Of The Fair (UK Tour); You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (UK Tour); Dirty Dancing In Concert (UK Tour); Can Can (Sadlers Wells) and Grease (Cyprus).

Her screen credits include: I Came By (New Regency and Film 4); Ruthless The Musical (Broadway HD); Dick Whittington (UK Cinema Release/Kaleidoscope) and Glass Body (Short Film).

Louis Doran stage credits include: Treason The Musical In Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Getting To Know…Footloose The Musical (Southwark Playhouse) and Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith).

Elliot Evans stage credits include: Jack and the Beanstalk (Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells); KIN The Musical (Factory Playhouse); Taboo Concert (The London Palladium) and Musical Theatre Rewind Concert (The Union Theatre).
His screen credits include: Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV).

Maddison Firth stage credits include: Heathers The Musical (The Other Palace/UK Tour); Six The Musical (NCL); and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (The Carriage Works). Her screen credits include: Heathers The Musical (Roku) and Waterloo Road (BBC).

James Hameed stage credits include: Peter Pan (Darlington Hippodrome); The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); Aladdin (Mercury Theatre); Be More Chill (The Other Palace); Fiddler On The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory) and Spamilton (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Sebastian Harwood stage credits include: Roles We’ll Never Play (The Union Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (The Core Theatre, Solihull); Treason The Musical In Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Stephan Sondheim’s Old Friends – A Celebration (Sondheim Theatre) and Maria Friedman and Friends – Legacy (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Rhys Taylor stage credits include: Millennials (The Other Palace); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre); Dick Whittington (National Theatre); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Union); Now and Then (Above the Stag).
Their screen credits include: Bad Education season 4 (BBC Three) and Cher: The Greatest Showgirl (ITV/Potato)

Ben Adams and Chris Wilkins (Writers and Creators) Armed with a decades worth of awesome 80's movies and music and an unnecessary amount of comic book knowledge, they combined their powers to create something out of this world for the stage. Since its beginning Eugenius has been streamed millions of times across 125 countries worldwide, achieving multiple award nominations. Whether it’s presenting, acting, singing or directing their work has taken them across the globe.

Between them they have racked up over 12 million physical record sales worldwide, 100's of millions of streams, no.1 songs in multiple countries, 6 studio albums, a Brit award, multiple Theatre awards, they’ve produced sell out tours, written an original comic book series with 4 million daily readers, directed record breaking stage productions, voiced & directed major release Computer games and worked on many high profile projects for the likes of Netflix, HBO, Disney, Sony, BBC, ITV etc. They are published children’s book authors and even made a big impact on Eurovision in 2023!

Hannah Chissick (Director) current projects include Treason a new British musical which was nominated for a What’sOnStage award when it premiered in concert form at Drury Lane last Summer and for which Hannah is director and dramaturg. Hannah is also working as director and Dramaturg for a new version of the musical Flashdance, and new British musical Good Enough Mums Club.

Immediately after graduating from Hull University, Hannah worked as Assistant Director on the play Art in London and New York. She then won a Bursary from the Channel 4 Directors’ scheme and spent a year as Mark Clements’ assistant at Derby Playhouse. During this year, she directed her first main stage production – John Godber’s Perfect Pitch. She stayed as Director in Residence at Derby Playhouse for a further two years, co-directing two pantomimes and directing The Blue Room by David Hare, Life in the Theatre by David Mamet and On The Piste by John Godber.

After leaving Derby, Hannah returned to London to direct Jamie Theakston, Steve McGann and Chris Luscombe in Art by Jasmina Reza at the Whitehall Theatre and then spent three months in Manchester as Associate Director for the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.

In 2003, Hannah became the youngest women in the UK to become an Artistic Director when at the age of 25 she joined Harrogate Theatre, where she stayed for three and a half years. For her first production, she did the regional premiere of Art with Les Dennis, Christopher Cazenove and John Duttine which then toured nationally.
Other productions for Harrogate include: Side by Side by Sondheim and Putting it Together, Bouncers, the Fats Waller Musical Ain’t Misbehavin, Ibsen’s Ghosts, Camping Cleo Emanuelle and Dick, The Fantastiks, the critically-acclaimed Steaming, Talking Heads and Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden.

After leaving Harrogate, Hannah’s directing work includes: Tick Tick Boom (The Duchess Theatre Westend); Pack Of Lies (Menier Chocolate Factory); Little Wars (XXX); Down the Dock Road (The Royal Court Liverpool); Mother Courage and Her Children (Southwark Playhouse); 54 (a new musical scheduled to open next year in the West End); Amour (The Charing Cross Theatre - for which she was nominated for best director at the Off West End awards); Side Show (Southwark Playhouse); Hormonal Housewives (UK Tour), Horrid Henry Live and Horrid (UK tour and West End) and the critically acclaimed one man play Jigsy which she developed with actor and comedian Les Dennis.

Paul Taylor-Mills (Producer) is the Artistic Director of both The Turbine Theatre at The Battersea Power Station and The Other Palace Theatre, London. He has worked as Advisory Producer to Andrew Lloyd Webber and The Really Useful Group.

Stage credits include: At the Turbine Theatre - My Son’s A Queer (But what can you do?) (The Garrick, Ambassadors Theatre – Olivier Nominated, Best Entertainment or Comedy Play); But I’m A Cheerleader, My Night with Reg, MTFestUK 2021, 2022 and 2023, Cinderella: The Socially Distanced Ball, Hair (part of the Turbine on the Jetty Season), Torch Song, High Fidelity and Cat In The Hat.

Elsewhere, Heathers the Musical at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and currently running at The Other Palace (winner of the WhatsOnStage Best New Musical Award), Murder For Two at the Watermill Theatre and The Other Palace, The Wild Party at The Other Palace, European Premiere of Disney’s Peter and the Starcatcher at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Side Show at Southwark Playhouse, The Last Five Years at the St. James Theatre (winner of the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production) End of The Rainbow on UK Tour, In The Heights at Kings Cross Theatre and Southwark Playhouse (winner of three Olivier Awards), Casa Valentina at Southwark Playhouse, Carrie The Musical at Southwark Playhouse (winner of The WhatsOnStage Off West End Award), and Associate Producer on The Importance of Being Earnest starring David Suchet on UK Tour and the Vaudeville Theatre.

His next productions include Cake, written by Morgan Lloyd Malcom and directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie with songs by Tasha Taylor Johnson, and Eugenius, at the Turbine Theatre.