Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper

Jon and Martin wrote Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick for He’s Behind You! and twelve pantomimes for Above The Stag Theatre, including Dick Whittington: A New Dick In Town, and Mother Goose Cracks One Out. Their other collaborations include Ghosted: Another F***ing Christmas Carol (The Other Palace, London); and the sell-out musical He Shoots, He Scores! and Stonewall-era drama A Hard Rain (Above The Stag). Jon’s play Animal, developed with disability activist and equality trainer Josh Hepple, won the inaugural Through The Mill Prize, was shortlisted for the Papatango Prize, and was produced in 2023 by the Park Theatre, London, and Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Jon wrote Missing Alice for BBC4 and the Old Vic, part of Mark Gatiss’ Queers series, with Rebecca Front as Alice. He was the lead writer on the West End drag panto Cinderella starring Drag Race UK finalist Baga Chipz. He wrote the TV movie Romantic Friction. 

Andrew Beckett

Andrew Beckett was Associate and then Artistic Director at Above The Stag Theatre, helming a string of hits including nine pantomimes, an award-winning production of Grindr: The Opera (Winner: Best New Musical, Off West End Awards) and a revival of Jonathan Harvey’s Boom Bang-A-Bang. He directed Faking Bad – A Parody Methsical (Turbine Theatre); Horse Play (Riverside Studios); Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web (tour); and an internationally touring production of Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat. At Theatre Royal Windsor he directed Handbagged, Wuthering Heights and Joking Apart. He has directed numerous classic comedies and dramas for Paul Taylor Mills’ summer rep seasons including The 39 Steps, Private Lives and Abigail’s Party. 

Oli Sones

He’s Behind You! was founded to bring alternative, adult pantomime into the West End. It is a collaboration between the creative team behind London’s best-loved adult pantomime series and producer Oli Sones. Oli has produced A Chorus Line at the London Palladium; Wasted at the Southwark Playhouse; 46 Beacon at The Hope Theatre and Trafalgar Studios; Another America and Dark Tourism at the Park Theatre. He was associate producer on Taken at Midnight at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. He has produced major musicals in Singapore, Malaysia, Monaco, Tel Aviv and Slovenia and the international tour of Joan Collins Unscripted. He has produced cabaret shows in London and New York.

Matthew Baldwin

Matthew appeared as Queen Gertrude in Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick, in eight adult pantomimes at Above The Stag Theatre, two seasons of family panto at the Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple; and in the nude in 46 Beacon at the Hope Theatre, Islington. At Trafalgar Studios he performed The Act, a play for one actor which he wrote with Thomas Hescott and which was recently made into a short film starring Cyril Nri and Samuel Barnett, who is in many ways a better version of Matthew Baldwin. Screen work includes Riviera (Sky Atlantic); the Michael Winterbottom movie Greed (BBC); short film The Dark Room opposite David Mitchell and Miles Jupp; EastEnders (BBC); and The Crown (Netflix). Matthew and Tom Hescott also wrote Outings, which enjoyed a successful run at Edinburgh featuring Simon Callow, Mark Thomas, Jim Davidson and many others. It also toured and was performed at the Lyric Theatre in the West End. Matthew also wrote “I Miss the War” - a monologue for Mark Gatiss’ Queers series for the BBC.