Job Title
Owner/Director/Technical Director

Nicknames
Mr Happy, His Lordship, Miserable Old Git! (And other names too vulgar to mention here!)

Age
Mentally about ten!

Duties
Design it, build it or repair it, and use it! Technical everything, everything technical! Everything to do with the day to day running of the theatre. Chief problem solver.

Significant Others
The lovely Hayley (of course!), Minnie Moglet, The Savoy Theatre, oh, and my workshop!

Hobbies
Theatre, electronics, engineering, DIY, classic Minis, making people laugh, moaning, making people happy, eBaying, carpentry, prop-making, designing and building anything that presents a challenge!

Favourite Food
Chinese, Indian, bacon sarnies, barbecues, crispy onions, and Hayley's marvellous homemade bacon and mushroom cheese pasta and cakes! A nice juicy egg and bacon roll from The Snack Box in Tonyrefail. Most of all, one of my Mum and Dad's roast dinners! 

Favourite Sayings
"Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow… Or the next day… Or maybe next week…
Or when I get a chance to do it!"
"If it can be made in the first place, it can be repaired or restored."
"Where is it? It was there a minute ago! I’m not going mad!"
"Someone..."
The last sayings aren't printable here!

Favourite TV Programmes, Films and DVDs
Mock the Week, Q.I, BBC Proms, How It’s Made, Foyle’s War, Steptoe and Son, The Munsters, Top Cat, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Dr Pimple Popper, all musicals, old black and white films, and many others!

Favourite Music
Mezzoforte, Judie Tzuke, Renaissance, Genesis, Yes, Led Zeppelin, James Taylor, Ben Folds, Martin Taylor, Dimension, Picture House, Rumer, The Carpenters, all types of jazz, most classical pieces (my favourite being Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade). Everything really, but not rap or the sort of noise they produce these days!

Things I Hate
Violence, disrespect to others, smoking, litter dropping, people who drive with their fog lights on when it’s not foggy, greed, people who use their mobile phone whilst driving, having to do things twice (work etc), and anything that isn’t common sense, the wasteful and throwaway society of today, the outrageously high VAT rate, red tape and pointless legislation.

Best Moment When Building the Theatre
I think getting the sound and lighting systems running for the first time, and also seeing the foyer finished was great too. Building the dressing room block was also an incredibly rewarding experience.

Worst Moment When Building the Theatre
All the paperwork, red tape and waiting for authorities to make decisions.

My Heroes
Firstly, my father who helped finance the purchase of the building and continues to assist in that way (Royal Bank of Dad). My family and Hayley’s family, Peter Knight (ex stage manager of The Cliffs in Southend, who taught me a lot), my friend Phil Landau, who taught me so much about electronics, all my great friends back in Essex (especially Bryan and Jill Woods). Phil Dorkin who sourced and donated lots of technical equipment. Michael Pearsons, the new friends I’ve made here, everyone who has trusted me, helped me, and given me a chance. Without these people, I would not be where I am today!