Jeremy Ellis

Office & IT Administrator

Jeremy Ellis joined in August 2009 thanks to a generous grant from Broadway Cares to allow for a second permanent member of staff.

Jeremy has worked in theatre since the early 1990s, starting at Colchester Mercury where he got his Equity Card as an Acting ASM in a production of You Never Can Tell.  After his debut live sound mix on Hello Dolly at Colchester, he went on to study Technical Theatre at Rose Bruford College before working on many shows in the West End and round the World as a sound engineer in Musical Theatre.  He counts himself very fortunate to have spent most of his sound engineering career working for Andrew Lloyd Weber and Cameron Mackintosh; much of it working with Autograph Sound and legendary sound designer Martin Levan.

Shortly before going to set up and open Phantom of the Opera in Copenhagen in 2000 Jeremy met his husband Chris Allen and they got married in Marylebone in 2006.  In order to be able to have a home life with Chris (and actually be able to see enough of each other) Jeremy decided to hang up his mixing gloves and find something else to do which did not involve 8 shows a week and/ or touring.  Having mixed Lautrec, Jesus Christ Superstar and Sunset Boulevard one after the other, his final mix was The Nutcracker at Sadlers Wells.

After several years working as a project manager at Orbital Sound he was diagnosed with brain tumours and spent more than a year undergoing treatment for this; which he is very happy to say was successful.  After experiencing the hardship of severe illness first hand he was happy to start volunteering for The Trust when he was well enough to do so; helping to procure and set up the IT system in their new Greek Street office. He is now very proud to be working full time for The Make a Difference Trust, having always had admiration for people who work for charities.

Jeremy says: “If I had not had my husband Chris to help me (mentally, physically and financially) through the ordeal of serious illness, I would simply not have been able to cope and would have been needing assistance from someone like the MAD Trust myself.  Knowing that this charity exists to help others in dire medical situations gives me a good feeling about going to work each day.”

We are hoping that having an IT and office administrator on board will help the Trust grow and allow us to increase our grant making operations to help more people.