Cinderella
A Christmas Carol
Guys & Dolls
Mother Courage & Her Children
Laurel & Hardy [+Dublin]
dundee rep
Flora The Red Menace [+tour]
Sunshine on Leith [+tour]
Sweeney Todd
The Rise & Fall of Little Voice
A Christmas Carol
2003/4 James Brining
2007/8 James Brining, AMD/keys2
2010 James Brining, AMD/keys2
2011 Jemima Levick
2009 James Brining
Basienka Blake holds court in A Little Night Music : PFT 2015
MT ROLES
Jon works extensively in musical theatre, in roles ranging from musical supervisor or musical director, to arranger and keyboard player.
He has covered many styles and genres from Rodgers & Hammerstein to Sondheim, from Frank Loesser to Lloyd Webber, from The Beggar's Opera to the songs of The Proclaimers, from Maria Callas’ operatic arias in Master Class to new contemporary rock such as the Kielty brothers' Sundowe which won Cameron Mackintosh's Highland Quest for a new musical in 2007. For a decade, Jon supervised and/or arranged the musicals in Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s repertory seasons, working with both actor-musicians and dedicated bands.
PLAYS WITH SONGS
As well as musicals, Jon has also worked on many plays with songs, most recently Piaf at Bristol Old Vic for Bristol School of Acting, with director Stuart Wood, starring Maya Pope.
Others range from Mother Courage with Maggie Steed at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh with a score by Jonathan Dove, to David Greig & Gordon McIntyre's Midsummer; from Privates on Parade with music by Denis King, to compilations such as Oh! What A Lovely War; from the Edwardian songs of Para Handy to the travellers’ folk songs of The Yellow on the Broom; from the 1930s music of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? to two productions of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice featuring iconic singers of the 1960s and 70s.
Jon has also performed and/or written music for over 20 Christmas shows, 12 of these by author Stuart Paterson, and for two Roald Dahl shows with lyricist Vivian French at Dundee Rep.
selected PRODUCTIONS:
Royal lyceum edinburgh
2025 Jemima Levick
2005 Jemima Levick
2000 Kenny Ireland
1998 Kenny Ireland
2005 & 2022 Tony Cownie
drama schools
Cry-Baby
Piaf
Into the Woods
Merrily We Roll Along
Bye Bye Birdie
Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens
citizens theatre
Glasgow Girls [remount]
eden court Inverness
byre theatre st andrews
The Secret Garden
Honk!
Into the Woods
Worzel Gummidge
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Whistle Down the Wind
A Christmas Carol
Golf - the musical
Oh! What a Lovely War
Kissing Angels
Our Day Out
Chicago
The Rise & Fall of Little Voice
High Society
Carousel
A Little Night Music
Whisky Kisses
The Steamie
Hello, Dolly!
Little Shop of Horrors
My Fair Lady
Privates on Parade
Kiss Me, Kate
Whisky Galore!
Sundowe [+tour]
The Phantom of the Opera [x3]
Les Misérables [x2]
Blood Brothers
2026 RWCMD Cardiff
2024 BSA Bristol, Stuart Wood
2023 BOVTS Bristol, Atri Banerjee
2024 Scottish Institute, Cress Carré
1999 QM Edinburgh, Rita Henderson
2006 RCS Glasgow, Iain Davie
2018 Richard Baron
2018 Gemma Fairlie
2017 John Durnin
2016 John Durnin
2015 John Durnin
2014 John Durnin
2013 Ken Alexander
2013 John Durnin
2012 John Durnin
2011 John Durnin
2011 Richard Baron
2010 John Durnin
2009 & 2011 Ken Alexander
2012 Cora Bissett, arr Hilary Brooks
2007 Kenny Ireland
1995-2004 Ken Alexander
[Richard Taylor’s version]
2005 Steven Wrentmore
youth theatres
St Andrews 2007 Rita Henderson
NYT 1998 Maggie Kinloch
Perth 1995 Colin Gray
uk touring productions
1993-2003 Edinburgh Playhouse &
Festival Theatre,
[deputising Keys 2 or 3]
pitlochry theatre
Cinderella : Royal Lyceum Edinburgh 2025 picture: Mihaela Bodlovic