About
John Berry and Anthony Lilley formed Scenario Two in 2017 and are internationally recognised for their award-winning work in opera, musical theatre, scripted TV drama, film and innovation in the latest digital media.
Scenario Two believe that musical theatre can share universal stories and move and entertain popular audiences as no other medium can, and that audiences recognise and respect quality above everything.
During John’s time as Artistic Director at ENO he collaborated with the Grade-Linnit Company to produce the critically acclaimed star-driven musical theatre projects, Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson and Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close at the London Coliseum. Summer 2019 saw Scenario Two’s first independent production, The Light in the Piazza with Disney star Dove Cameron and opera legend Renee Fleming at London’s Royal Festival Hall which travelled to Los Angeles Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera House and is scheduled for the Sydney Opera House in 2022.
Scenario Two’s focus is on musical theatre and we collaborate with leading global talent from across the widest range of art forms and are currently developing four major international musical theatre projects.
The Team
John Berry
Director
John Berry is Co-Director of Scenario Two Ltd and started his career as a professional clarinet player. He founded the Brereton Symposium in 1990, building a renowned teaching faculty that included opera icons Birgit Nilsson and Renata Scotto. His many opera collabrations with the BBC and Channel 4 included the award-winning film version of the opera The Death of Klinghoffer. As Artistic Director of ENO from 2005-2015 he created more than 100 new productions, such as Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson. His innovative work with artists such as Anthony Minghella, Deborah, Terry Gilliam and Damon Albarn, together with his groundbreaking partnership with The Metropolitan Opera, has made Berry a major voice in the world of opera. His awards include 45 Olivier Award nominations, The Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Artistic Programming and several Sky Arts Awards. He founded the charity Opera Ventures Productioins in 2016, championing living composers worldwide. Recent opera productions include Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov which opened at The Metropolitan Opera October 2024. His latest opera commission, Galloping Cure, directed by Tom Morris, receives it’s world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2026.
Anthony Lilley
Director
Anthony Lilley OBE is a co-founder, with John Berry CBE, of Scenario Two Ltd. For Scenario Two, Anthony and John Berry have produced The Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre, LA Opera, Lyric Opera Chicago) starring Renée Fleming, Into the Woods directed by Terry Gilliam (Theatre Royal Bath) and the Offie-award-winning Cages at Riverside Studios. Prior to returning to theatre, where began his career, Anthony has worked extensively across the creative industries including founding Magic Lantern Productions, one of the UK’s earliest specialist digital content companies. He has produced TV, web, mobile, theatre, games, opera and advertising projects, including for brands such as Top Gear and Doctor Who and clients including BBC, C4, Sony Playstation, CCTV China and ABC. He has won BAFTA, RTS and Peabody awards in the field of digital innovation. His first love, however, has always been the arts where he has been fortunate to work with Ai Wei Wei, Terry Gilliam, Hans Peter Kuhn, James Graham and many others. Anthony met John Berry whilst serving as a trustee of English National Opera and their decision to set up Scenario Two grew out of their work there on musical theatre projects. Anthony is the non-Executive Chair of Studio Ulster, Europe’s most advanced virtual production studio, a Council Member of the University of Birmingham and chairs the Board of Blast Theory. He holds a personal Professorship in Creative Industries at the University of Ulster and was previously both a Council Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council where he was instrumental in establishing the £85m creative industries clusters programme and a trustee of NESTA. Anthony sits on the board of UK Theatre.
Terri-Jayne Griffin
Production Director
Terri-Jayne joined Scenario Two in 2018 and is one of the most experienced producers in the business. Born in Melbourne Australia, she grew up in Brisbane where she studied for a Bachelor of Music at the University of Queensland, after which she was awarded an International Rotary Foundation Scholarship to study Arts Administration at City University, London. Terri-Jayne started her career in opera administration at Glyndebourne Festival Opera before joining the Royal Opera House where she was Opera Company Manager (1989-1997), and then in 1999 she joined the Senior Management Team at English National Opera as Production Controller, assuming responsibility for the Production Departments and workshops. During John Berry’s time as Artistic Director at ENO he appointed her Producing Director and together they collaborated on many operas developing increasingly high artistic standards and numerous coproduction partnerships with international houses. As Producing Director at English National Opera, she was responsible for large-scale events, cinema relays and directly delivered dozens of award-winning productions with directors including Terry Gilliam, Anthony Minghella, Richard Jones, Deborah Warner, Dmitri Tcherniakov and David Alden. Terri-Jaynes’s many other credits include Sweeney Todd, Sunset Boulevard and Chess.
Matthew Damsell
Sales & Marketing Director
With over 25 years’ experience in theatre marketing and ticket sales, Matthew has headed the sales and marketing arm of some of the UK’s top cultural institutions such as the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, SEE Tickets and the advertising and marketing agency Dewynters. Musical productions include: Evita, The Sound of Music (London and Toronto), Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat, Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical, The Phantom of the Opera (London and Las Vegas), Love Never Dies, The Wizard of Oz, Ghost the Musical (London and Broadway), Sweeney Todd and Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum.