“As a professional musician and theatre producer, and having studied martial arts for over 30 years, I wanted to create something that brought together my love of music and love of martial arts. I spent a year or more trying to think of something that would interest both theatre lovers and martial artists. I needed to write a show and create a concept that would excite the typical theatre audience, the martial artist and their partners.
None of my ideas excited me. That was until I went straight back to what interested me and countless others studying martial arts, whether it be Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, Kung Fu or any other fighting forms. I went back to the one primary source, or really the one truly inspirational person, BRUCE LEE. Why I didn’t think of this from the start, I don’t know. But since I started working on Jun Fan – The Bruce Lee Musical, I can hardly wait to see the final production.”
Brian Hill – Creator of Bruce Lee the Musical
Brian Hill – Creator of Jun Fan the Musical
Brian Hill started his career as a trumpeter and conductor. He earned his undergraduate degree at Kingston University, later achieving a master’s degree in performance, analysis, and composition. After performing as a professional musician, conductor, and band leader for the over 20 years, he turned toward theatre production to establish his reputation as a musical fixer, arranger, director, and producer. Now, having written, produced and toured numerous theatre shows over the past 10 years to such venues as Cairo Opera House and the London Palladium, he is committing all his talent and experience to this new and original musical.
ANTHONY LAMOLINARA – Oscar winning visual effects designer
Anthony LaMolinara is a multi-talented sculptor, cameraman, and animator, nominated for an Academy Award® on the international hit SPIDER-MAN (2002) as well as for the record-breaking sequel, SPIDER-MAN 2 (2005). LaMolinara, along with Sony Pictures Imageworks visual effects supervisors John Dykstra and Scott Stokdyk, was awarded the Academy Award for his work on the latter film for Achievement in Visual Effects.
LaMolinara began his peripatetic entertainment career in 1976 as a freelance lighting cameraman and animator working on documentaries, commercials and independent films in Florida, Atlanta, New Zealand, Seattle, and Toronto. His first break came in 1988 at Will Vinton Productions where he was the animator/director for the California Dancing Raisins commercial. In addition, he served as animator/director on the Emmy® Award winning TV special “Claymation Christmas Celebration.”
In 1991, LaMolinara began another phase of his career by opening Clay Pigeon animation studios in Montreal and Toronto. These five studios produced commercials and the half-hour TV special “Johann’s Gift to Christmas.”
LaMolinara then moved to Pixar where he served as an animator on TOY STORY (1995). This was followed by stints as an animator at Shanghai Animation Studio working on THE MONKEY KING, animation director at Digital Domain on the development of AVATAR and a Bud Bowl commercial and on the CG feature “Final Fantasy” for Square USA. LaMolinara was also an animation director at VIFX (Twentieth Century Fox Digital Effects) where he worked on PLANET ICE, BLADE and T-REX.
While working at Imageworks, LaMolinara also served as lead animator on STUART LITTLE (1999, Academy Award nominee, Achievement in Visual Effects), and animation director on HOLLOW MAN (2000, Academy Award nominee, Best Visual Effects).
XIAOXIAO WANG – Chinese Executive Producer and Asia Tour Manager
We are thrilled to have XioaXiao Wang join us as an Executive Producer and Asian Tour Manager for our China office. XioaXioa has a distinguished career spanning over 15 years in the entertainment industry and is an instrumental part of Barisons Theatre Productions and in bringing this iconic production to China.
As a visionary leading in the Chinese Entertainment industry, XiaoXiao has continuously strived to bridge cultural boundaries through innovative artists endeavours. During the Covid-19 period, he planned the international dissemination of the Chinese anti-covid music film “Let the World be Full of Love” for the China People’s Association for Friendship and Foreign Countries, which was broadcast in 114 countries worldwide.
In 2020, XiaoXiao produced the world’s first online live concert, “Saluting the Angels in White”, featuring China’s top 100 celebrities, which attracted a total of 520 million global Chinese viewers during the Covid-19 period.
His keen insight and unwavering dedication has been pivotal in shaping the international collaboration of our Bruce Lee musical.
ROBERT JOLLEY – Producer
Until January 2006 Robert was Managing Director of Raymond Gubbay Limited. He worked alongside Raymond Gubbay for thirty six years building up the successful concert promotion business.
Each year several hundred events were presented including the acclaimed opera and ballet seasons at the Royal Albert Hall, including Madam Butterfly, Swan Lake and La Boheme and the hugely successful Classical Spectacular shows at the Royal Albert Hall and arenas in the UK, Europe and Australia. There was also the annual Christmas Festival with more than 150 events at venues across the UK including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall Manchester and the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow
Robert also produced musical productions at the Royal Festival Hall including Follies, On Your Toes with Adam Cooper and Peter Pan as well as the ground-breaking sold out season by Circus Oz.
In London’s West End he produced the sold-out three week season with Ute Lemper (Queen’s Theatre), D’Oyly Carte Opera The Mikado (Savoy Theatre) and combined cast productions of Peter Pan and Pirates Of Penzance (Savoy Theatre).
He produced many thousands of concerts at major venues in London and across UK with artists as diverse as Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Miles Davis, Henry Mancini, Preservation Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans, Michael Ball and Sarah Brightman.
Since leaving Raymond Gubbay Limited Robert has been an independent producer, including the hit Argentinian show Fuerzabruta as the reopening season of London’s Roundhouse, a total sell-out for 13 weeks. He subsequently produced the show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in Berlin. Also at Roundhouse LOFT with the Canadian circus group Seven Fingers at the Roundhouse and TRACES also with the Seven Fingers on tour in the UK and the Netherlands.
MARK BERRY – AMG Music, Film and Television
Mark is presently at the helm of AMG. AMG is a fully independent media company with an international mandate for promoting/marketing new and emerging artists, film & TV content internationally. AMG’s rock and urban record division has over 200 masters that are distributed in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Attackin’ Tunes, AMG’s music publishing division is 50% owned by one of the world’s largest music publishers, BMG Rights Management (www.bmg.com) (Black Eyed Peas, Fergie, John Legend, Icon Productions, John Carpenter, Roger Corman, Elvis Presley catalogue, John Denver catalogue, NFL Films, NASCAR, now owned by BMG Chrysalis music).
Since its founding, AMG Visuals has executive produced, financed, or distributed several movies, including Drake: Homecoming, James Brown Live and the upcoming Jeff Healey Band documentary; and has almost an equal amount in development, under production, or completed but not yet released.
DUANE FARLEY – Executive Producer
Duane career in the entertainment industry began street marketing for UC Live, a prominent Toronto based live entertainment company who produced many memorable events in Toronto such as The Truth Tour (Usher, Kanye West and John Legend), As I Am (Alicia Keys, Ne Yo, and Jordin Sparks), “Rome And Jewels” a Hip Hop adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, “Cheaper To Keep Her” starring Vivica Fox and Brian McKnight to name a few. Duane furthered his education by attending Harris Institute of The Arts and studying Recording Arts Management.
Today, Duane combines his experience and acquired knowledge to make decisions daily at The AMG Corp overseeing music marketing, playlist promotions, music publishing, and independent film and television projects. His several decades of experience in the Canadian and International entertainment/music industries brings a wealth of knowledge to use for AMG’s various clients.
MATTHEW HOWORTH – Co-writer
Matthew Howorth is a versatile and prolific songwriter, musician, lyricist and writer and has recorded songs as a solo artist as well as a band member. His plays have been performed in a number of venues, and he is a published author with Bloomsbury. Jun Fan is his second collaboration with Brian Hill, after the successful children’s book How Lion Became King of King of Tinga Tinga Land, a wonderful story illustrated by a Disney artist.
JONATHAN FLETCHER – Co-orchestrator
Jonathan is a UK-based music composer, orchestrator, music producer, and sound designer. He has composed music for a variety of genres and media, including: feature film, feature documentary, corporate, television commercial, theatre, and contemporary dance projects. His work has been screened internationally, including at Cannes and Hollywood. Jonathan has also worked as a forensic musicologist, and his research in film music (narrative ambiguity & musical intertextuality) has been published.
Jonathan studied music at the University of Surrey, majoring in Composition. He later attended the University of Bristol, where he obtained a Masters Degree in Composition of Music for Film & Television.
Jonathan was asked to work on Jun Fan as Brian Hill wanted a modern film style orchestration to the musical. Staying away from the traditional ‘Oklahoma’ and ‘Annie get your Gun’ in order to reach the modern day film and theatre goer.