About

Paul du Fer Tour Booking Services is a freelance entertainment theatre tour booking company specialising in the programming of entertainment shows and events including drama, musicals, comedy and named artistes.

Paul du Fer - (Director)         George Christie - (Administration & Marketing)

Paul du Fer

Paul started his professional career by working on the musical 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and on a Royal Variety Performance at the same theatre in 1985 and has been involved in national and international tours of productions such as Blood Brothers, What The Butler Saw, Much Ado About Nothing, The Death of Arthur, The Dresser, Forty Years On, The Provok’d Wife, A Pageant, A Cricket Match, Move Over Mrs. Markham with the late Peggy Mount, Ray Cooney’s farce One For The Pot, Alan Ayckbourn’s play Affairs In A Tent, See How They Run, Birthday Suite by Robin Hawdon, Nobody’s Perfect by Simon Williams and Who Goes Bare? by Richard Harris & Leslie Darbon.

He has worked in France, touring with various productions as well as having worked on resident seasons in Paris. In the West End of London he has worked on productions of Lady Day at the Piccadilly Theatre, Anything Goes at the Prince Edward Theatre, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre as well as on an extensive tour of the UK.

Work with dance companies including the Georgian State Dance Company at the Dominion Theatre, London and on a extensive national tour, The Moscow Classical Ballet with their acclaimed production of Swan Lake starring Vladimir Malakhov at the Sadler’s Wells and on tour, The Moscow Festival Ballet on tour and the English National Ballet at the London Coliseum, the Royal Festival Hall, London and on tours of the UK, Germany and Italy.

In 1992, Paul Co-Produced a national tour of the play Revenge with Fiona Fullerton as well as producing various plays at venues such as the Mermaid Theatre, London, the King’s Head Theatre, London, the Edinburgh Festival, the Orange Tree, Richmond, the New End Theatre, Hampstead and various tours of the UK including a tour of Dame Hilda Bracket which he also produced at the Players Theatre, London.

For five years Paul ran his own theatrical agency before becoming Associate Producer on pantomimes at Guildford (four years), Crewe (seven years), Redhill (six years), Poole (two years), Windsor, Hackney Empire and Barnstaple working with such artists as Wayne Sleep, Peggy Mount, Bob Carolgees, Robert Powell, Patrick Mower, Denise Van Outen, Peter Bowles, Kathy Staff, Letitia Dean, Kate O´Mara, Patrick Cargill, Dave Benson-Phillips, Wendy Craig, June Brown, Lorraine Chase, Sonia, Mark Curry, Barry Howard, Melvyn Hayes, Trevor Bannister, Gordon Kaye, Lisa Goddard, Geoffrey Davies, Jean Boht, Tim Brook-Taylor, Ken Morley, Paul Shane, John Challis, Michael Elphick, Rula Lenska, Dennis Waterman, Patti Boulaye, Robin Askwith, Mike Holoway and Louise English.

As Assistant Producer, he has worked on West End productions of Dead Funny with Belinda Lang (Savoy Theatre, London); Thing’s We Do For Love with Jane Asher (Gielgud Theatre, London); Elton John’s Glasses with Brian Conley (Queen’s Theatre, London); The Invention of Love with John Wood (Theatre Royal Haymarket, London); Alarms & Excursions with Felicity Kendal (Gielgud Theatre, London); Copenhagen with David Burke, Matthew Marsh and Sara Kestelman (Duchess Theatre, London); Comic Potential with David Soul (Lyric Theatre, London); blue/orange with Bill Nighy (Duchess Theatre, London); Feelgood with Henry Goodman and Nigel Planer (Garrick Theatre, London) as well as national tours of Now You Know with Adam Faith, Silhouette with Stephanie Beacham, The Heiress with Frank Finlay, Arcadia with Sharon Maughan and Paul Shelley, Entertaining Mr. Sloane with Barbara Windsor, Marta, Josie and the Chinese Elvis with Belinda Lang, Straight & Narrow with Dora Bryan and Private Lives with Gemma Craven.

Paul spent eight years living in Spain, during which time he was Director and Editor of a magazine called Life & Style. He also presented shows at various venues including the film critic Barry Norman in Barry Normans Favourite Films and An Evening with Sir Donald Sinden.

Paul is Co-Director of Morse & du Fer Management Limited, a Theatrical Agency and Production Company which he formed with Paul Morse and together they have been presenting a tour of Boycie & Marlene starring John Challis and Sue Holderness which will continue throughout 2010. Paul was also Assistant Director on a national tour of Hi-de-Hi! and Morse & du Fer is currently working on another project with Wayne Sleep.