Ross Doodson

Owner, Producer & Musical Supervisor

Ross has produced, directed and musically directed close to 200 productions over the past 20 years. Ross’ specialisms are musical theatre, music education and educational leadership. Ross combines his work as a school leader and musical director. Ross is the Designated Safeguarding Lead for The Arts Centre Telford.

By day, Ross is the Deputy Headteacher at a secondary school in Walsall, where he has strategic responsibility for Teaching & Learning and CPD. Ross was previously Director of Performing Arts at the academy for over a decade and when he was Head of Music, his department boasted one of the largest school choirs in the region, which won national competitions and performed at several high profile events across the country. Prior to life in Walsall, Ross was Music Coordinator at a Telford school for 2 years. Ross has also worked as a Music Education Consultant and has provided interim and advisory leadership support for secondary school music departments in the Midlands.

Ross is responsible for oversight of all music at TACT, regularly musically directing productions and conducting VIP. He also teaches singing as part of the 1-to-1 singing programme, with his students achieving outstanding examination results and regularly progressing to vocational study at prestigious professional stage schools.

For a decade, Ross was an Associate Musical Director and regular vocal coach for Aberystwyth Arts Centre, one of the largest and leading arts centres in the UK. Ross was Musical Director for the Oakengates Youth Summer Project for 8 years. Ross has also been a guest MD for Simply Theatre, Switzerland’s premier English speaking theatre academy, as well as several other theatre companies in the West Midlands. Ross has conducted choirs and orchestras across Shropshire and is the founder of Voices in Partnership, an audition only theatre and vocal harmony company, which is TACT’s flagship performance outlet.

Musical direction credits include: West Side Story; The Phantom of the Opera; Children of Eden; Songs for a New World; Sweeney Todd; Les Miserables; A New Brain; The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe; Merrily We Roll Along; Fame the Musical; Oliver!; Seussical the Musical; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; Jane Eyre the Musical; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; High School Musical; Into The Woods; The Addams Family; Scrooge the Musical; Annie; The Wizard of Oz; Cats; Bad Girls; 9 to 5; Back to the 80s; Disco Inferno; Beauty & the Beast; Guys & Dolls; A Slice of Saturday Night; Bugsy Malone; Sister Act; Peter Pan; Just So; Little Shop of Horrors; Godspell; Our House; Working; All Shook Up; A Chorus Line & Sweet Charity.

Ross is an experienced school governor and is proud to be Chair of Governors at Millfield Primary School and a Governor of the Cadmus Federation of Schools. Ross has previously served as Chair of Governors at Alumwell Junior School and Newport Infant School, and has been a Governor at Jerome Primary School and Muxton Primary School.