Andrew Hedges has been with us since 2006 and has brilliantly fulfilled several roles since then. He has a degree in Audio Engineering and Electronics and before joining us he worked at the Sandpit Theatre freelance, based from his hometown of St Albans.

As our shop representative he looked after We Will Rock You (UK Tour), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour), Speaking With Tongues (Duke Of York’s Theatre), Waiting For Godot (Haymarket Theatre), Mamma Mia (Spanish Tour), Mamma Mia (Essen), Mamma Mia (Paris), Ghost Manchester and London, Rock of Ages, Mamma Mia! (Rome) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

As a Production Sound Engineer and Assistant PSE his credits included Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Jersey Boys (Prince Edward Theatre), Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre) Parade (Donmar Warehouse), Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville Theatre), Avenue Q (Gielgud Theatre), Little Voice (Vaudeville Theatre), La Bête (Comedy Theatre), Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre) and Mamma Mia! (Aarhus), Ragtime & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Mamma Mia! Novello move, Mamma Mia! Moscow, From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury Theatre), Wolf Hall/Bring up the Bodies (Aldwych Theatre) and Urinetown (Apollo Theatre).

Not content to rest on his very considerable laurels, in 2017 Andrew started the Autograph Events Department. This sees him spearheading a new division of the company that has since delivered the Autograph touch to numerous occasions of all sorts, from brand activations and car launches to society weddings and outdoor immersive theatre. Their latest projects include work with Es Devlin, Warwick Castle and Battersea Power Station.

Raxa is our accounts administrator and her job, as it says on the tin, is to administrate the accounts. With qualifications and experience in the accounts field beyond compare we are blessed to have her helping to count the money.

Raxa is married to Chandresh who can also tell how many beans are in the pot at any given time as he is a qualified accountant. Their two children Veer and Nishi, complete the Shah family.

As confirmed Man Utd supporters they are obviously people with exquisite sporting taste!

Luke is a graduate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in stage management and technical theatre whilst specialising in sound. Before joining Autograph, some time ago, Luke worked at the Barbican Centre in the sound team for their theatres.

Luke started his life at Autograph in the hire store as shop representative before moving in the Digital Department where he spent several years as a Technical Support Engineer. Luke is now however a fully paid-up member of the sound designer’s club.

Luke’s experience covers a wide range of theatre, musicals, and events however he specialises in immersive and site-specific work and is often found lurking in dark, wet and cold venues all over London! As well as providing the creative sound design for this style of work Luke is also a show control programmer providing the technical solutions to run these often complex technical shows.

Since 2016 Luke has been sound designer and head of sound for Secret Cinema, taking responsible for all the audio requirements for all their ground-breaking productions. Some of his credits for Secret Cinema include; ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, ‘Bridgeton’, ‘Stranger Things’ (London and US), ‘Casino Royale’ (China & US) and ‘Dirty Dancing’ (London & US Tour).

Other immersive theatre credits include ‘Peaky Blinders: The Rise’ and ‘Dr Who Time Fracture’ for Immersive Everywhere and ‘Monopoly Life-Sized’ (Worldwide) and ‘Saw: The Escape Experience’ for The Path Entertainment Group.

Back in the more conventional theatre environment some of Luke’s credits include; ‘TRAPLORD’ (Sadler’s Wells/180 Strand), ‘Pride & Prejudice sort of’ (West End), ‘Parade’ (Other Palace), ‘Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre’ (Blenheim Palace), ‘The Full Monty’ (UK Tour), and ‘Big Fish’ (Other Palace).

As associate sound designer some of his credits were: ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ (Gielgud theatre, International tour and USA), ‘Shrek’ (UK Tour), ‘The Girls’ (Leeds and Salford), ‘The Elephant Man’ (West End) and Sweeney Todd (ENO and Kiss Me Kate (Tour).

Luke lists driving tests as one of his special skills, he’s so good at them he took 7! What he lacks in driving skills he makes up for in email writing, Luke has won the Autograph “who can write the longest email” tournament every year for the past 5 years!

Simon is a member of our fast-growing department that specialises in the sort of technology that causes the average Joe’s head to spin. The world of digital cleverness is his domain, and we must take his word that he knows what he is talking about, it’s all smoke and mirrors to the rest of us mere mortals.

Before joining us, Simon graduated from LAMDA (he completed their Stage Management and Technical Theatre course) and worked as a sound operator on productions such as Legally Blonde, Cabaret, Top Hat, Once, I Can’t Sing, Matilda and The Lorax.

When not being incredibly clever here at Autograph he spends his time being exceedingly average at DIY at home. As if there isn’t enough of it at work, he can often be found tinkering with computers on his own time. Simon is also an avid Sci-Fi fan (who would have guessed)

Matt joined us as a Hire Store Technician having studied Events Management at Sheffield University and working for several events companies. Being rather good at what he did it didn’t take long for him to be promoted to Hire Store Manager, a job he filled with consummate ease

Having had enough of being consummately at ease in that role he took up the slightly more challenging role of running our radio frequency department. No easy task keeping track of over 1000 units of radio transmitter/receiver equipment, not including hundreds of units of radio communications. His organisational talent has been tested to the max with no obvious outward signs of stress, a calmer person you couldn’t hope to meet.

Calmness perhaps instilled in him due to his hobbies of vinyl collecting (yes vinyl), golf (why ruin a good walk?) and cricket (golf without the nerve tingling excitement)!