The Team
Richard Joy
Richard is the head of Full Circle’s creative and bookings team. Starting in his father’s stage act from the age of 6, Richard has been in the business for over 20 years and brings with him a wealth of knowledge spanning theatre, comedy, circus, variety, popular music and classical performance. As a show producer and performer, Richard has worked on the Brits, Party in the Park and the Smash Hits Awards, the Royal Albert Hall, Top of the Pops, Popworld, T4 and MTV.
As a performer in the international percussion show, Slam!, he has travelled worldwide with Disney and Sony and has taken the production to Korea and Azerbaijan and toured the USA and Europe on many occasions.
Max Elliott
As a talented DJ and accomplished saxophonist, Max is a key part of the Full Circle team building relations with artists and clients and sourcing fresh talent. Max brings with him a fresh approach to contracting our ever expanding stable of artists. In his years with the company Max has managed every genre of artist on hundreds of events gaining knowledge of solutions to every event issue.
Georgia Juett
With over 10 years of talent management, live entertainment bookings and on site artist liaison, Georgia brings a wide range of skills and experience to the table. As well as supplying entertainment to all types of events; corporate, festival, main steam; She also currently manages award winning, critically acclaimed and highly sought after artists from the world cabaret/circus scene (Empress Stah, Roxy Velvet, Miss Behave). Most recently she was sole supplier of live entertainment for HBO's hit TV show 'Game Of Thrones' launch event in London, written, produced and directed a multi staged circus show for Cancer Research's Emeralds & Ivy Ball, produced a flash mob at Westfield London for X Box and worked alongside legendary rocker Alice Cooper to help create a side show for his London tour in 2010 and 2011.
Evie Manuel
Evie studied Arts Management and Dance at De Montfort University from 2006-2009. She comes to us from another prominent events company in London and now has the chance to bring in new acts, manage our current roster and keep the Full Circle team on their toes!
She has worked on many high profile events including the Xmas '10 season at Old Billingsgate, the 2010 Grand Prix Ball at Silverstone, the multi-site launch of Metro Bank in the UK and many other shows. Evie is a keen ballet dancer and she enjoys being involved in dramatic productions in and around her native East London.
Georgina Wilson
Georgina joins the team from Leeds Metropolitan University for her year on placement as part of her Events Management Course. Georgina has hosted and organised many charity events for Oxfam and Barnsley Hospice. Since joining the team she has been an active part of events in the Tower of London, HAC and our largest outdoor festival of the Summer.
Sophie Bailey
Sophie is currently studying Events Management at Bournemouth University and working with the team for her placement year. She has been actively involved with volunteering at festivals, local events and has just finished running a model casting and photo shoot for the clothing brand Animal.
Sophie coaches at a local gymnastics club and has helped choreograph as well as performed in four London Festivals of Gymnastics. Her squad have just been asked to perform for the British Gymnasestrada in Switzerland 2011. Her passion for dancing has led to several stage performances, including Sadlers Wells Theatre and Disneyland, Paris.
Simeon Aldred
Simeon Aldred is a creative consultant for Full Circle and is regularly called on to lend his considerable experience to our many high profile projects. As a show producer and ideas man he has worked on huge events for our biggest and most discerning clients.
Alex Bingham
Alex joins us as Production Director after running the London office of one of the UK's largest Production Companies. Alex has been in the industry for over 15 years, having trained in lighting and sound design in Manchester. He spent his early years practising his trade at the Manchester Opera House & Palace Theatres before moving into London's West End where he worked on numerous shows including Whistle Down The Wind, Grease, West Side Story and Singing in the Rain.
Shortly after this he made the move into corporate events, working on large projects for various high profile clients. Events have included gala dinners, awards shows and product launches for events in the UK, Europe and even further abroad, highlights being the PCA Awards and the British Video Association Awards.
Jonathan Ward
Jonathan joined Full Circle in January 2012 as our Concept Designer. As part of the Full Circle team he forms concepts and designs visualisations to give clients an accurate idea of how their event will look.
Since graduating from his degree in Production Design at Wimbledon College of Art he has worked on a range of projects. These have included theatre productions such as La Boheme, feature and short films and concept designs for a number of high profile clients. Through working in the industry during and after his degree, Jonathan has on-set experience in costume, art direction and a huge range of creative processes.
As an avid traveller Jonathan takes lots of inspiration from the places he visits. He enjoys hunting for antiques and items to restore in his spare time.
Neil Atkinson
Neil went to Newcastle University where he studied Music production and technology before moving into the theatres off Middlesbrough to hone his skills. In 2000 he made the move down the M1 and continued his profession at the Hayes theatre before going on a European tour for 4 years with a production of 'That'll Be The Day'. Neil has now joined the Full Circle team as Alex Bingham's right hand man handling the ever-expanding production side of the business.
In his spare time he enjoys building refurbishing and writing off old Mazda rx7s and is a keen Middlesbrough football fan.
Pete Why
With a theatre background starting in 'Youth Theatre Showcase' and school shows in 1993, Pete has collected a wide range of technical skills over the years.
After spending time in Theatreland and residence positions in Essex, he then moved onto receiving houses and working on touring shows such as Starlight Express, Cats, and many more. After a final swansong in Panto with the Fonz, he moved into the Corporate world in 2005 working on large award shows, gala dinners and conferences Pete joins us after spending over 5 years learning the corporate market. In his spare time Pete enjoys watching Spurs and relaxing in Oxford.
Ben Macrow
Ben started his professional life while studying at Staffordshire University by starting a local production company that took him all over the country filming everything from disabled rowers while standing in a lake to producing an award winning live internet telethon in aid of Children In Need! Between that and helping set up a dedicated student television station at the university, Ben did manage to get a degree in Film Production Technology.
Following his graduation in 2008 he joined the video department of one of the UK's largest production companies, doing everything from setting up LED video walls on an island in the middle of a lake to creating the screen visuals for an industry awards show. He now joins the production team at Full Circle to develop our ever expanding video department.
Gary Mahone
Gary heads up the technical team for FC with over 12 years experience in the music and events industry as both an artist and producer. His skills boast live sound, lighting design, artist riders, pre production, theatrical, conference, commercial and corporate production. Gary has worked alongside artists such as Oasis, Cheryl Cole and Jonathan Ross and produced shows internationally for clients such as Quintessentially, State Street Bank and The Royal Family.
Vicki Jackson
As an industry-established choreographer, Vicki has worked extensively on Full Circle's fashion and bespoke shows and dance productions.
Her credits have included choreography for Blue, Ronan Keating, Mcfly, Katy Perry at the MTV Awards, Taio Cruiz, Ministry of Sound, Hed Kandi, Elbow, Bodyrockers, Peter Andre, T4 on the Beach, Capital Summertime Ball, Nickelodeon Kids Awards, CDUK, SMTV, and Pineapple Dance Studios. Her fashion, TV and dance shows include work for corporate clients and leading brand names including Doctor Martens, L'Oreal, Mercedes Benz, Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins, The Chris Moyles' Show, X Factor, Louise Spence's ShowBiz, Ministry of Sound and Bed Head.