Neil trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
As Musical Director, theatre includes: Sister Act! (Eventim Apollo, London and UK & ROI tour), White Christmas (Dominion Theatre, London), Grease (UK & ROI tour), White Christmas (Curve, Leicester), Guys & Dolls (Kilworth House), Scrooge The Musical (Curve, Leicester), A Little Night Music (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Grease (World Trade Centre, Dubai), Grease (Curve, Leicester), The World Goes Round (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough),The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Birmingham REP), Love Birds (Pleasance, Edinburgh), Cougar The Musical (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre - Asst. MD), Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal, Winchester), Spend, Spend, Spend (Bridewell Theatre), Liza Liza Liza (Yvonne Arnaud & Theatre Royal Windsor), The Wind In The Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Some Like it Hotter (Watermill Theatre & Touring), Copacabana (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Lunch with Marlene & Noel (New End Theatre & Tour), Dracula (White Bear, London). Dep. Keys on Chicago (Cambridge Theatre), Les Miserables (Queen’s Theatre).
Neil has also performed extensively as a solo classical pianist and accompanist at venues in London such as the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, St. James’s Piccadilly and St. Martin in the Fields. He has toured SE Asia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, and given recitals in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paris, Nice, Barcelona, Rome and Hamburg.
He has also worked as MD, vocal and repertoire coach at many leading drama schools, including LSMT, ArtsEd, GSA and Mountview.