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Guy Masterson – Theatre Tours International Ltd and Park Theatre present the London Premiere of

The Marilyn Conspiracy

By Vicki McKellar and Guy Masterson

CO-WRITER & ORIGINATOR | VICKI MCKELLAR
CO-WRITER & DIRECTOR | GUY MASTERSON
 

Guy Masterson

Guy Masterson is an Olivier Award winning Producer, Director, Actor, Voice Artist and Writer. He is also a busy Dramaturg, Performance & Executive Coach. 

Educated at Christ's Hospital School and then Cardiff University, he graduated BSc Joint Honours in Biochemistry & Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude) in 1982. He moved to the USA and studied drama at UCLA before starting as an actor in Hollywood in 1985. After returning to the UK in 1989 to study further at LAMDA, and formed Guy Masterson Productions in 1991 to produce his first solo play, The Boy’s Own Story by Peter Flannery. This toured the UK and led to a 9 month stint in the West End with Robert Lindsay’s Cyrano de Bergerac in 1993. 

Guy then created his highly successful solo interpretations of Under Milk Wood (1993) and Animal Farm (1995). 

He formed Theatre Tours International Ltd (TTI) in 2000 to present and tour international work and has since produced, presented, directed and/or performed in over 150 theatre shows, many of which have played extensively all over the world. 

Over 29 consecutive seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 1994, Guy Masterson - TTI has become the most highly awarded and nominated independent theatre producer at the Fringe originating a string of notable hits including 12 Angry Men (famously starring stand-up comedians inc. Bill Bailey), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (starring Christian Slater & Mackenzie Crook), and The Odd Couple, (with Bill Bailey & Alan Davies). 
His multi-award winning 2009 production of Morecambe transferred to the West End and won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment in 2010 plus a nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy. 

In 2014, he adapted and directed an epic 30 actor production of Animal Farm with Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre Company of Tbilisi (Georgia) which won The Stage Best Ensemble Award at Edinburgh 2014. 
In 2018, he premiered 'The Marilyn Conspiracy' to strong acclaim and was due to transfer into London but interrupted by Covid 19. 
In 2019 Guy presented and directed The Shark Is Broken which transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre, West End for 20 weeks, and received an Olivier nomination for Best New Comedy. It transferred to Broadway in August 2023 for a 16 week run. 
At Park Theatre, he produced and directed Absolution and Bill Clinton Hercules in 2016 and, most recently, 9 Circles in 2022. 
He is married to Brigitta and father to Indigo & Tallulah. 

 

Vicki McKellar

Studied drama at Italia Conti Stage School for the Performing Arts and The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York. 

After starting out singing in bands, she played in Our Friends In The North and Bugs 4. She appeared on stage in both London and New York in Three Sisters, Time And The Conways and Love's Labours Lost. In 2004, she played the Brothel Madam in Channel 4's Queer As 18th Century Folk. She also appeared in I Know You Know (starring Robbie Carlyle). In 2009, she wrote and produced a short film (TITLE) for her own indie film company, Tapestry Film Productions. In 2010, she wrote and produced her first play Paradise Lost, at Leicester Square Theatre (starring Abi Titmuss). Vicki began writing Marilyn: Her Final Days in 2014, and, in 2017, teamed up with Guy Masterson to create The Marilyn Conspiracy and produce the premiere at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe - Assembly Festival, to strong acclaim. She is thrilled that the Marilyn will finally open in London after being delayed by Covid 19. 

2024 will also see Vicki mounting another of her plays, Love Or Something Like It in London (Venue/Dates TBC) 

Vicki is currently writing a sitcom, Aquarius Rising with her brother, Peter Halloran.