Millie Taylor is Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Winchester, UK. She worked as a freelance musical director and, for almost twenty years, toured Britain and Europe with a variety of musicals including "West Side Story", "Rocky Horror Show", "Little Shop of Horrors" and "Sweeney Todd". Recent publications include "British Pantomime Performance" (2007), "Singing for Musicals: A Practical Guide" (2008), "Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment" (2012), and with Dominic Symonds the edited collection "Gestures of Music Theatre: The Performativity of Song and Dance" (2014).