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A (BRUSH) STROKE OF GENIUS!

Issued : 21 May 2007

Ambassador Theatre Group’s Operations Department has restructured its maintenance staff in order to create a dedicated team of painters, who will be responsible for the decoration and general upkeep of the company’s West End venues.

Originally, five painters were employed by ATG and assigned to their own single venue, leaving five theatres unmanned. This meant that external contractors had to be brought in to carry out the additional work.

The newly established team consisting of Mark Reddin (Paint Services Manager), Vincent Garyga, Graham Upsom, Paul Murphy and Nigel Leon, means that ATG now has all of its venues covered… and recovered!

Richard Kiernan, ATG Group Building Services Manager;
“We realised that if we brought the guys together as a single team we could utilise their painting skills across the entire West End. Streamlining the system has resulted in a more cost effective operation. It has also made it more fun for the guys who were originally tasked with decorating a whole theatre on their own. Now they enjoy working as part of a team”.

The team will shortly commence work at London’s Piccadilly Theatre, in preparation for the opening of Grease in July. They’ll need to go like grease lightnin’!

Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, ATG is currently the largest theatre group in the West End and separately, the second largest in the UK regions, with a total of 23 venues, including 10 in the West End. ATG is also one of the country’s foremost theatre producers and has been behind some of the most successful and innovative productions, including Porgy and Bess, Michael Grandage’s award winning Guys and Dolls, The New Statesman starring Rik Mayall (currently on UK tour) and The Rocky Horror Show starring David Bedella (also on UK tour). Most recently, ATG announced its plans for international expansion, which will see the company grow further into Europe and North America, open an office in New York and produce its productions around the world including Australia and Asia.


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For further information, please contact David Bradbury, ATG Group Press Officer on 01782 211 206 or email davidbradbury@theambassadors.com

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