Sharon’s stellar career as a performer and creative talent has seen her recognised with a swag of awards, including three Helpmanns.

Most recently, Sharon was Assistant Director to Priscilla Jackman on RBG; Of Many One for the Sydney Theatre Company and played Louise Daley in the new Australian play A Broadcast Coup at Ensemble Theatre.

In 2022 Sharon was the Australian Associate Director for Six The Musical, Associate Choreographer on Yve Blake’s smash hit musical Fangirls for Belvoir, and played numerous roles in Simon Phillips’ North by Northwest at the Lyric Theatre Sydney. Sharon also recently starred as Penny in The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race for Ensemble, played Caroline in the original company of Fangirls and Joan in Small Mouth Sounds at the Darlinghurst Theatre.

Sharon’s starring roles in musical theatre include Roxie Hart in Chicago, Meg Giry in The Phantom of The Opera and its sequel Love Never Dies, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Anita in West Side Story, Charity in Sweet Charity, Catherine in Pippin, Velma Kelly in Chicago, Columbia in Rocky Horror Show, Sonia Walsk in They’re Playing Our Song, Demeter in Cats, Cordelia in Falsettos, and Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods for Sydney Theatre Company.

Other notable roles include the eponymous heroine Shirley Valentine, all female roles in Last of the Red Hot Lovers and all characters in Joanna Murray-Smith’s smash hit Bombshells.

Guy Simpson has been working as a Conductor, Orchestrator, Musical Director and Musical Supervisor for over 40 years.

He was Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator of a new production of Into The Woods at Belvoir St Theatre and Musical Supervisor of Miss Saigon for Opera Australia.

This year he conducted The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour and was Musical Supervisor of the show at the Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne. He was also Musical Supervisor of Cinderella — all for Opera Australia. He was also Musical Director of Anna O’Byrne’s solo show Becoming Eliza and Do You Hear the People Sing — a concert of the music of Claude-Michel Schönberg in the newly opened Opera House Concert Hall.

For Opera Australia he was Musical Director of Evita (starring Tina Arena), the 60th anniversary production of My Fair Lady (directed by Julie Andrews) and West Side Story (on the harbour).

Guy’s work on The Phantom of the Opera began in Australia in 1990 and has continued on and off for the past 30 years, conducting or supervising productions in Auckland, Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Brazil (in Portuguese), Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing and Seoul.

He has had a similar long association with Miss Saigon since 1994 — conducting or supervising productions in Australia, Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, Seoul, The Netherlands and Japan.

Other international productions include Cats (Australia, New Zealand), Chicago (Australia, Hong Kong) and We Will Rock You — the QUEEN musical (Australia, Japan).

Other productions in Australia — Muriel’s Wedding, The Wizard of Oz, Dream Lover, Prima Donna (the opera by Rufus Wainwright), Passion, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (starring Geoffrey Rush), Love Never Dies (the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera), Les Misérables, Cabaret, Company, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Pirates of Penzance, Snoopy, Seesaw, Zorba, Oklahoma!, Funny Girl, Call Me Madam, Mack and Mabel, The Music Man, They’re Playing Our Song, Carousel, Camelot, Little Me, Follies, Promises Promises, Gypsy and Guys and Dolls.

As an orchestrator, recent projects include the musicals Ladies in Black and Dream Lover.

As a producer of cast recordings he has produced the albums of Muriel’s Wedding and Dream Lover for Sony and two cast recordings of The Phantom of the Opera in Korea.

Born in Dublin, Enda Markey trained on a scholarship at Laine Theatre Arts in London, studying musical theatre. After completing his training, he worked extensively as a singer and actor in Ireland and the UK before relocating to Australia, where he established a successful career across television, theatre, concerts, and cabaret.

As a producer, Enda is the founder of Enda Markey Presents, with offices in Sydney and London. His productions include the Australian tour of Side By Side By Sondheim, culminating in a gala concert at Sydney’s Theatre Royal starring Ruthie Henshall alongside more than twenty of Australia’s leading theatre and television stars. He also produced the Helpmann Award-nominated production of Blood Brothers (Sydney and Melbourne), starring Helen Dallimore, Bobby Fox, Blake Bowden (Sydney), Josh Piterman (Melbourne), and Michael Cormick.

In 2016, he created Defying Gravity: The Songs of Stephen Schwartz (Theatre Royal, Sydney), featuring a stellar cast including Sutton Foster, Aaron Tveit, David Harris, Helen Dallimore, Joanna Ampil, and Betty Buckley. His work also includes Stephen Schwartz in Conversation with Leigh Sales (Theatre Royal, Sydney), Geraldine Turner in Turner’s Turn (Australian tour), and the tour of Bobby Fox: The Irish Boy, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House. In 2019, he presented Ruthie Henshall – Live & Intimate, her first Australian tour, with sold-out performances at the Sydney Opera House and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

His critically acclaimed production of Becoming Eliza, starring Anna O’Byrne, premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2022 and continues to tour nationally.

In 2024, Enda produced Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel in Concert at the historic Princess Theatre in Melbourne, earning three Green Room Award nominations.

His long-running international production of Boublil & Schönberg’s Do You Hear The People Sing? has toured since 2013, with seasons in China, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Australia, including the Sydney Opera House. The Manila performances in 2014 and 2024 collectively raised nearly $1 million for charity. In July 2024, the concert made its Hollywood Bowl debut in a spectacular performance. The show has featured an extraordinary line-up of performers, including Michael Ball, Lea Salonga, Patrick Wilson, Skylar Astin, Jon Jon Briones, John Owen-Jones, Rachel Tucker, Bradley Jaden, Amy Manford, and Sooha Kim.

Upcoming projects include further international performances of Do You Hear The People Sing? and Defying Gravity.