FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Sam is a theatre director, artistic director and producer with over 15 years experience across the not-for-profit and commercial sectors.

A few years after graduating from Cambridge University, he founded the HighTide Festival Theatre, which grew into one of the country’s leading new writing companies. He was Artistic Director for five years, during which time he produced early work by the leading writers and directors of his generation – including writers Nick Payne, Sam Holcroft, Ella Hickson, and Beth Steel and directors Mike Longhurst, Polly Findlay and Natalie Abrahami.

Between 2012 and 2014, he was invited by Stephen Fry to become the Creative Producer for the Criterion Theatre in London’s West End.

More recently, Sam was Artistic Director of Nuffield Southampton Theatres where he built on his reputation for commissioning new plays and musicals. Highlights include international award-winning tours of Fantastic Mr Fox the Musical and Billionaire Boy the Musical, London transfers for A Number to the Young Vic and SS Mendi to the Royal Opera House, and world premieres of The Shadow Factory by Howard Brenton and an adaptation of the Coen Brothers film The Hudsucker Proxy.

He founded Tilted in 2021.

CO-FOUNDER, Tilted Sessions

Eleanor is a theatre producer and current President of SOLT (Society of London Theatre).

Current productions include the site-specific production of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution (Olivier Nomination – Best Revival) which is now in its 6th year at the specially created theatre in London’s County Hall, and Mark Gatiss’ adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Alexandra Palace.

Prima Facie on Broadway starring Jodie Comer, Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward starring Zachary Quinto and David Harewood, The Collaboration with Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope which played the Young Vic London, The Friedman Theater on Broadway and is being made into a feature film and Constellations (Olivier Nomination – Best Revival, Vaudeville Theatre) with 4 different casts including Chris O’Dowd, Peter Capaldi and Anna Maxwell-Martin which played in rep at the Vaudeville Theatre, winning two 2021 Olivier Awards.

Deborah Frances White’s debut play, Never Have I Ever, at Chichester Festival Theatre, Eddie Izzard’s Great Expectations at the Garrick Theatre, new feminist play Emilia (3 Olivier Awards, including Best New Comedy, Vaudeville Theatre) by Morgan Lloyd-Malcom, which transferred from Shakespeare’s Globe to the Vaudeville Theatre and won three 2020 Olivier Awards, West End Productions of Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial by Liv Hennessey, Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale, My Night with Reg (Olivier Nomination – Best Revival, Apollo Theatre) by Kevin Elyot, Handbagged (Olivier Nomination – Best New Comedy, Vaudeville Theatre) by Moira Buffini and West End and Broadway seasons of 1984 adapted by Duncan Macmillan and Rob Icke.

CO-FOUNDER, Tilted Musicals

Miranda Eleanor de Fonbrune Cooper is pop royalty – a British songwriter who has penned over 30 UK top 10 hits, including four #1 singles.

Miranda began as a dancer, for artists such as Danni Minogue and Gina G, where she met Brian Higgins, founder of Xenomania, in 1997. They went on to find commercial success and critical acclaim writing songs for Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Pet Shop Boys, Franz Ferdinand, Kylie Minogue, Alesha Dixon, and many more.

More recently, she has celebrated success with rising stars Griff and Maisie Peters, writing the songs “John Hughes Movie”, “There It Goes” and “The Last One” with the latter.

Alongside her work in pop music, Miranda has also been focusing her talents on writing musicals. Billionaire Boy was the first show she co-wrote; it went on to win the ‘Best Show for Children and Young People’ at the UK Theatre Awards 2018. In 2021, Fantastically Great Women premiered with rave reviews and also picked up the ‘Best Show for Children and Young People Award’ at the UK Theatre Awards in 2022.

Miranda has set up Tilted Musicals with theatre producer Sam Hodges. They plan to bring together the best writers from both the theatre and music industry to create exciting work. Current projects include a one woman show about motherhood, co-written with global pop writers Jon Shave and Jason Pebworth, as well as an adaptation of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, and the cult indie film Son of Rambow - both written with her long term Xenomania collaborator Nick Coler.

PRODUCTION AND INVESTMENT CO-ORDINATOR

Katy Galloway is a theatre producer and general manager working across commercial and subsidised theatre, alongside TV and Film development.

West End productions include Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Garrick); Chess the Musical in Concert, Kinky Boots in Concert and Treason the Musical in Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre); Wonderville: Magic and Illusion (Palace Theatre); and One Jewish Boy (Trafalgar Studios).

Other theatre productions include Treason the Musical (UK Tour); Duck (Arcola Theatre); Smoke (Southwark Playhouse); Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Southwark Playhouse); Little Women (Park Theatre); Treason the Musical in Concert (Cadogan Hall/Online); and Fringe First Award winning play, Bobby and Amy (Edinburgh Fringe).

General Management includes I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire (Riverside Studios) and Tarantino Live (Riverside Studios).

Film includes Last Encounters (Independent)

Katy has also worked in producing and general management roles with companies such as Mark Rubinstein Ltd, DEM Productions and Chalk Line Theatre. Previously as Producer and General Manager at Carter Dixon McGill Productions Ltd she worked on Your Lie in April (Harold Pinter and Drury Lane) Blippi’s Wonderful World (West End and UK Tour) and Death Note the Musical (London Palladium and Lyric). At Mark Rubinstein Ltd, she worked as Production Assistant on TINA (Aldwych Theatre), Mandela the Musical (Young Vic), and multiple other projects.

Katy has proudly worked with Stage One on their Commercia

INVESTMENT CONSULTANT, Tilted Investments

Aidan is Producer and Co-Founder at Rodeo Productions. Current productions include & Juliet in Australia, Europe and on tour in the UK and the new musical Tammy Faye which will open on Broadway in Autumn 2024. The company are also developing a number of new projects with world-leading composers, writers and creatives.

Prior to Rodeo Productions, Aidan was Associate Producer and General Manager at Greene Light Stage. He was previously Executive Producer at Curve Leicester and he has worked in his hometown of Southampton at both Nuffield Southampton Theatres as Director of Creative Programmes and MAST Mayflower Studios as Creative Producer.

He began his career in the fundraising team at the Young Vic, with music company Air-Edel, and assisting producer Thelma Holt CBE. He was the inaugural Executive Director of Reading Rep which he started while studying at university. Aidan has been supported by UnLtd and EY’s Accelerate Programme for social entrepreneurs. He is a Trustee for Stage One and Chair of Reading Rep. He is proud of his Vincentian and Indian background.

INVESTMENT CO-ORDINATOR, Tilted Investments

Lotty is an award winning independent producer and playwright who creates work that is inclusive, exciting and asks audiences to question the world around them. During her career she has won the André Ptaszynski Prize for Producing and the Offie for Best Audio drama for her original Play Red Breast. She is the cofounder and Head of Theatre at Cloudburst Productions as well as the co founder of Flood Artist Development, a place that supports artists at all stages in their careers. 

Theatre Includes: 

As Producer: Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Cloudburst Productions, Garrick Theatre), Devil Play (Cloudburst Productions, VAULT), Glacier (Oxford Old Fire Station), Paper Cut (Park Theatre), No Man's Island (The Big House), NSDF: The Big Reset (UK Tour), Medusa Reloaded (The Void Nottingham), 

As Associate Producer: A Mirror (Cloudburst Productions, Trafalgar Theatre) Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (Cloudburst Productions, Ambassadors Theatre), 

As Writer Red Breast (Chronic Insanity Theatre and The Traverse),Dispatched (Chol Theatre) 

Film Includes: As Producer: Petrol Head (Cloudburst Productions)