LORI COPPERMANS EVANS - Musical Director
Lori has worked throughout the United States on many musicals including Grease (in Utah), Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!, Company (Washington DC-area), The Wind in the Willows, The Sound of Music (West Virginia), and more recently on Amsterdam productions of Cinderella, Ordinary Days, Dishenchanted! and Heerlijk duurt het langst. She has worked with Washington DC’s longest running children’s theatre, Adventure Theatre.  She was musical director of two award-winning school productions (A Year With Frog and Toad and The Apple Tree), and created original music for a children’s ballet. Lori plays in the Blue Tone Big Band, and teaches piano. A more recent musical adventure: playing keytar with pop group Birmingham Electric. She is proud to have just published her children's novel - The Voyage of Aart Aap. In 2022 she was MD for QETC's musical CABARET.

CAROLIEN CANTERS - Director/Choreographer
Carolien is a Dutch director and choreographer. During her 30-year career in theatre, she’s been involved with many internationally acclaimed productions. She’s created and directed opera, musical theatre, film, television, music concerts and live events. After completing her studies at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, she performed roles in international productions such as Chicago, A Chorus Line, Cats and 42nd Street. Since 2006 Carolien has been working as a choreographer/director on musicals for Stage Entertainment and Opus One, and working with top directors like Anthony van Laast and Koen van Dijk. Her credits include The Wiz, The Wild Party, Amandla! Mandela, Yab Yum, The Color Purple and Fun Home. The latter, as well as the self-developed musical Watskeburt?! were both honoured with Dutch Musical awards. In 2022 she choreographed QETC's musical CABARET.

LOUIS VAN BEEK - Albin/Zaza 

Louis graduated with highest distinction from the Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp. He is active in many creative aspects of theatre, as an actor, writer, lyricist, translator and director. His credits in musicals include Willeke - the musical, De Geheime Tuin and Larry. He has worked with numerous respected theatre companies. These include De Paardenkathedraal, National Theatre of Gent and Toneelgroep Maastricht. For Theater Production House Zeelandia he devised and wrote the play Mathilde, about Mathilde Willink, the notorious fashion icon and muse of 20th century painter, Carel Willink. He himself performed in the title role and in 2010 was nominated for the prestigious Louis d'Or award for his portrayal.  He is perhaps best-known for notable Dutch TV appearances in series such as Rembrandt, OnM, Pleidooi and Westenwind. Louis graduated with highest distinction from the Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp in 1994, under the supervision of Jan Decleir 

MARK WINSTANLEY - Georges / Artistic Director QETC

Mark's acting and directing career began as a child, training with Manchester Youth Theatre and LAMDA. In 2020 he was lead voice actor and dialect coach on the NETFLIX feature film The Forgotten Battle (Slag om de Schelde). In 2021 he appeared in a new TV drama series for VPRO, The Spectacular as a BBC journalist. A founder of QETC, in 2019 he appeared in both Scary Bikers and The 39 Steps. He reprised this last role and directed its revival, gaining top reviews, in November 2021. In autumn 2022 he achieved a 40 year ambition, directing QETC’s 20th Anniversary production of the musical Cabaret. The show was a big success with the public and collected great reviews. Mark has directed many times for QETC, including their 2023 immersive double-bill (Smiley& Endless Second) and notably their modern, gay adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest. Staged in 2018, it was the first show at a fully opened CC Amstel and 100% sold out. In 2024 he filmed episodes 1 and 2 of a new TV crime series, Bookish, written by and starring Mark Gatiss. 

BRANDON DELAGRAENTISS  - Jacob 
Brandon is an Actor, Singer and Talk-show Host from Houston, Texas. He is known to Dutch audiences from the television programmes The Voice of Holland, DINO & Better Than Ever (RTL) and The Brandon Delagraentiss Show (SALTO1&2). Brandon began writing and producing his own theatrical productions at the tender age of 7. He continued acting at the University of Houston where he majored in Theatre Education, and in Europe; moving here in 2005.  Brandon first appeared for QETC in their production of Little Shop of Horrors. Now celebrating 27 years in Entertainment, Brandon has starred in several major musicals, including: DREAMGIRLS, Nat King Cole & Me, and most-recently TINA- de Tina Turner Musical.

BARRIE STEVENS - Edouard Dindon
Barrie left the UK as an 18-year-old, auditioned for the Snip & Snap Revue and never looked back. He made his television debut as Bobbie in the TV series Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster by Annie M.G. Schmidt. In 1973 and 1974 he played a leading role in the popular television series Ti-Ta Tovenaar, of which 490 episodes were made. Barrie also appeared as a dancer and actor in many musicals. In addition to various theatre and TV work, Barrie made a career as a choreographer and director. He was involved in several successful musicals, such as Footloose, A Chorus Line, Follies, Grease and De Jantjes. In the 1990s, Stevens was asked to sit on the jury of the Soundmix Show. In 2018, he appeared in the television travel programme Better Late Than Never. In 2019, Stevens made his debut in the RTL 4 soap Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden and  was also  a contestant  in Dancing with the Stars. 2021 saw him in drag in Make-Up Your Mind and as a Secret Singer in the television program Secret Duets.