HMS Pinafore, National G&S Opera Company - 2026

HMS Pinafore, National G&S Opera Company - 2026

Production Team

• Director – Sarah Helsby Hughes
• Conductor – James Hendry
• Musical Director – James Hendry
• Head of Music – Benjamin Hamilton
• Choreographer – Sarah Storer
• Lighting Designer – Matthew Cowan
• Company Stage Manager – Sarah Taylor Kent
• ASM and Stage Carpenter – Keith Drage
• Wardrobe Supervisor – Harriet Ravdin
• Wardrobe Assistant – Gabriella Bowman
• Wardrobe Assistant – Bea Downing
• Repetiteur – Chris Flint

Principals (Dramatis Personae)

• Sir Joseph Porter K.C.B. (First Lord of the Admiralty) – Simon Butteriss
• Captain Corcoran (Commanding HMS Pinafore) – Ben McAteer
• Ralph Rackstraw (Able Seaman) – David Webb
• Dick Deadeye (Able Seaman) – Mark Saberton
• Bill Bobstay (Boatswain's Mate) – Paul Sheehan
• Bob Becket (Carpenter's Mate) – Alex Peart
• Josephine (The Captain's Daughter) – Phoebe Smith
• Hebe (Sir Joseph's First Cousin) – Grace O'Malley
• Little Buttercup (A Portsmouth Bumboat Woman) – Gaynor Keeble

Chorus

• Hannah Andrusier
• Luke W Bennet
• Joshua Carpenter
• Jasmine Colgan
• James Connolly
• Ruby Donnelly
• Grant Haddow
• James Holt
• Mila Johannsen
• Katrina Mackenzie
• Daisy Mitchell
• Sophia Parker
• Kate South
• Benjamin Staniforth
• Saffron Stringer
• Ifan Thomas
• Joe Yates