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Ellen Arnall

MA Musical Theatre: Musical Directing Class of 2025

Bio:

Nationality: British

Visa Status: Permission to Work in the UK

Skills:

Instruments: Piano (Classically trained specialising in MT Accompaniment and Keys Pads), Oboe (Classically trained, specialising in MT Reed doubling chairs), Flute, Clarinet, Alto & Tenor Saxophone

Arranging: Proficient Orchestrator, Arranger and Copyist

Technology: Proficiency in Mainstage, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, QLab and various music Notation Software

Previous Qualifications: Professional Graduate Diploma in Musical Directing, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; BA English and Film & Television Studies, University of Exeter

Work Experience:

Associate Musical Director, Spring Awakening, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (dir. Louise Shephard)

Musical Director/Arranger, Into the Woods, RCS (dir. Tom Cooper)

Musical Director/Orchestrator/Arranger, Christmas at the Conservatoire, RCS

Assistant Musical Director/Keys 2, When I Grow Up: NYMT in Concert, National Youth Music Theatre (dir. James Robert Moore)

Musical Director, Kipps: The New Half a Sixpence Musical, Exeter Footlights

Musical Director, Little Women, Shotgun Theatre Company

Assistant Musical Director/Keys 1, Chess, National Youth Music Theatre (dir. Alex Sutton)

Reed 3 (Flute and Clarinet), She Loves Me, Dec 2024

Reed 2 (Flute and Clarinet), A Little Night Music, August 2024

Reed 1 (Flute and Alto Sax), A Night at the Musicals: Edinburgh Fringe, August 2023

Keys 1, Bandstand (Exeter Northcott), January 2022

Images

Emma is playing keyboard.

Bandstand


Videos

Angel Lewis-Massey – Alyssa Greene

Angel Lewis-Massey – Easy As Life

Daisy Young – Take Me to the World

Daisy Young – Get Out and Stay Out

Carley Duncan – Gorgeous

Carley Duncan – Carrie

David Coppini – I Love Betsy

Emma May Crone – The Life I Never Led

Emma May Crone – Killer Instinct