Creatives | Chris Poon

Chris Poon

Musical Director

Chris is a Musical Director, graduating with First Class honours in English Literature from the
University of Warwick, before training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Since graduating in the fall of 2018, Chris has gone to work with groups such the Old Vic, National Youth Music
Theatre, and the Goodspeed Festival. His projects also range from new musical theatre
productions to revivals, concerts to YouTube web series starring drag queens.

Chris has also taught at Guildford School Of Acting and Italia Conti Academy Of Theatre Arts.

Assistant/Associate Musical Director credits include

Undisclosed Musical Workshop (The Old Vic); Showtime Challenge: 48-hour Musicals: Singin’nIn The Rain (Adelphi Theatre); Julian Fellowes’ The Wind in the Willows (Workshop); LondonnRoad (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Sunday in the Park with George (The Other Palace)nChris was nominated for a ‘Best Musical Director’ award at both the Offies and BroadwayWorldnUK awards for his work on the UK premiere of Nice Work If You Can Get It at Upstairs at thenGatehouse.

Musical Director credits include

Game Theory (Workshop at the Lowry); West End Acoustic (Riverside Studios); The Vicky VoxnProject (YouTube); Rent (The Hope Mill Theatre); The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchitn(The Hope Mill Theatre); Legend Trippers (The Other Palace); In the Heights (BridewellnTheatre); Timpson: The Musical (King’s Head Theatre); Nice Work If You Can Get (Upstairs atnthe Gatehouse); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)