Liz Thomas
No of times Stage Managed for RDG - 46 Liz joined the group in 2002 and has been part of the busy stage crew for Sweet Charity and Privates on Parade. We were delighted when Liz was presented with the Best Backstage Crew Award at the 2003 Spelthorne Drama Festival on behalf of the RDG support team for Losers. She stage managed the major musical Copacabana and in 2006 stage managed both Last of the Red Hot Loversand our large scale musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. In 2007 she stage managed the award-winning The House of Bernarda Alba, Noel Coward's Hay Fever and the First World War epic ~ Journey's End.
Liz made her RDG debut on stage in 2007 in our musical tribute ~ Life of Brian - a Celebration of the life of Brian Walters. In a busy 2009 she stage managed the successful and festival plays Land of the Dead and Helter Skelter. followed by the Ayckbourn comedy RolePlay, and ended the year with our major production on The Crucible.
In 2011 she was S M for Pinter's The Birthday Party, the National award-winning A Kind of Alaska, and the musical 42nd Street. In 2013 she S.M'd our production of Riverside Drive which won both the Woking and Spelthorne Drama Festivals and Definitely The Bahamas which won the the same two festivals the following year. Liz was part of the presentation team which scored maximum marks for Technical Excellence at the 2015 Woking Drama Festival for Funeral Games.