Howard Gray

Howard Gray

Keys / Show Musical Director

For the New Vic as an actor: Good Golly Miss Molly, The Cherry Orchard, The Night before the Morning After Show, Julius Caesar, Threepenny Opera, The Mikado, The Magic Flute, Carmen, Country, By Jeeves, From A Jack to a King, The Card, Ali Baba, Sleeping Beauty.

For the New Vic as Musical Director: A Taste of Honey, The Admirable Crichton, The Blonde Bombshells of 1943, Our Gracie, Spring and Port Wine, Bus Stop.

Musical Director and Musical Arranger credits include: Howard has worked extensively at Liverpool’s Royal Court. Shows include: Lennon, Come Together, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Maggie May, Sons of the Desert, Homebaked, Eight Miles High, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

He also directed two Royal Court Christmas shows: Scouse of the Antarctic, Pharoah Cross the Mersey.

He is the Creative Director of Alterean Media and has directed productions of: The Sunderland Story (Sunderland Empire); One Night in Istanbul (M&S Bank Arena Liverpool, plus a tour of Ireland); Celtic, The Musical (Pavillion Theatre and the SEC Armadillo Glasgow); You’ll Never Walk Alone (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool).

He was previously an Associate Artist of the Octagon Theatre, Bolton. Shows include: The Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (winner of the Manchester Evening News award for Best Production); Song of Singapore, Oh What a Lovely War, Looking for Buddy (Co production with Live Theatre, Newcastle); Little Voice, Once Upon a Time in Wigan, I just stopped by to see the Man, Eight Miles High and composer for, Danny, The Champion of the World.

He was the Resident Musical Director of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre and worked on numerous productions there including: Close the Coalhouse Door, Bread and Roses, Dick Barton, Our Gracie, Curtain Up, Sweet Charity, Good Golly Miss Molly, The Ladykillers , Union Street, Women on the Verge of HRT, Private Lives, Feed, The Road to Nab End and Brassed off.

For the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, he co- wrote and Musically Directed: Alice in Boogie Wonderland, Puss in Blue Suede Boots and as a performer, Dick Whittington, Cinderella and Aladdin.

For Harrogate Theatre, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Of Mice and Men, Macbeth and others.

Howard has also worked at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Coventry Belgrade, Worcester Swan, York Theatre Royal, Lancaster Dukes, Bristol Old Vic, Theatr Clwyd and Opera North.