carol sloman
musical director, composer

At the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch:
Carol has been Musical Director since 2000 at the Queen’s. She has been involved in over thirty productions here. She is proud to have composed and arranged music for The Tempest, Brighton Rock, Jane Eyre, The Glass Menagerie plus her pantomimes – three Jack and the Beanstalks, three Aladdins, two Cinderellas, a Dick Whittington and a Sleeping Beauty. This year’s Mother Goose will be virgin territory. She was recently musical director for A Slice of Saturday Night and From a Jack to a King.

Her performances at the Queen’s include Dandini in Cinderella, Lady Eleanor in Curses!, Shirley in Shirley Valentine, Lady Montague in Romeo and Juliet, Fairy Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vera in Women on the Verge of HRT, Lady Seward in Dracula, Dolly Messiter in Brief Encounter, for which she also played excerpts from Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto, Yvonne in Perfect Pitch, Mrs Fairfax in Jane Eyre, Rebecca Huntley-Pike in A Chorus of Disapproval, Miss Bland in Face, Beattie in In the The Midnight Hour and the Brass Upstairs in Fings Ain’t Wot They Used t’Be.

Theatre:
She was nominated for an Olivier award for Lennon, and did a long stint in Buddy in the West End, for which she was also Musical Director. She had the good fortune to be Musical Supervisor on Murderous Instincts (Norwich Theatre Royal) and occasionally plays the piano for Julian Clary’s show, Natural Born Mincer.

TV:
Credits include Brighton Boys, Doctors, The Secret Camera Show and Children in Need. She is currently enjoying her new band Bluesmoke who are about to embark on an extensive tour of pubs in Brighton. Her son Robert plays bass.