"Ami is without a shadow of a doubt the most creative & accomplished show producer working in the UK today"
Simeon Aldred, Group Managing Director - Full Circle (Concerto Group), Nov 2007


Lead Show producer, Creative Director, and Managing Director Ami Jade Cadillac has an impressive 20 year history in producing circus, theatre, fashion, dance, musical, multi-media and large scale touring productions, and all those within her team have had direct experience within these creative industries.

Ami had enjoyed the spotlight on stage for many years before forming her first company more than ten years ago.

The preceding events unfolded thus

Following a colourful childhood in Ma & Pa Cadillac's beatnik artist's commune, Ami first emerged enthusiastically on stage aged just 13, sporting a cerise pink hairdo, as the bass player in the frankly dreadful, delightfully named punk-rock band 'Corrosive Abuse'. Having acquired the fundamentals of punk etiquette, and spent a brief spell at college studying Art and Drama, Ami ran away with an anarchic French circus to tour Europe, perfecting headstands on glass, flying trapeze and 'acrobatics on fire' en route.

At 19, Ami returned - much inspired - to the UK and entered the cabaret circuit with the infamous 'Hell's Fairies', before joining ex-Hawkwind star 'Nik Turner's Fantastic All Stars' as a saxaphonist, where Nik re-christened her Ms Cadillac. Playing her first gig, petrified, at the Brixton Academy, she appeared on stage alongside Dr and the Medics, Gaybikers on Acid, Hawkwind and The Pixies.

With Europe calling, Ami moved to the south of Spain and spent three years developing a multi-media spectacular. In 1990 the show came to fruition, when she co-founded the Spanish based 'Turbo Unit': the 'Spektekno Pyrotranz' fire-engine circus. Here Ami developed her passion for Show Production, writing and directing the show, managing the tour, and performing one of the lead roles. The show toured successfully for five years, drawing huge crowds in the UK to events such as the Mean Fiddler's Phoenix Festivals and Glastonbury.

In 1996 Ami returned to the UK, co-founded 'Wreck Age Productions' and graduated into the realm of corporate events. Ever expanding and fast gaining experience, her ever increasing passion for turning creative ideas into invigorating live productions began to gain her respect within the industry.

In 2003 Ami moved forward, forming her own company Lavish, which specialises in Show Production. Their combined wealth of experience & expertise both on and off stage, coupled with unstoppable dynamism, is the secret to the Company's enduring success.

With both parents being artists, it seemed inevitable that Iona would develop a love for art, and was awarded an A* Fine Art A-level and the Young Artist of Herefordshire and Worcestershire Prize in 2003, when she was invited to exhibit with the Royal Academy of Oil Painters, in London, and became a National finalist for their Young Artist of the Year prize.
Torn between pursuing a career in painting, and her other love - literature, Iona eventually decided she'd be mad to turn down a place at Cambridge University, and spent three years reading everything they could throw at her before graduating with a degree in English Literature in the summer of 2007.

Making her debut on the stage at the tender age of 11 - as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone - Iona continued to appear in local productions throughout her teenage years, and developed a love for costume which Lavish has allowed her to nurture by assisting their wardrobe department in a number of their large live shows, including Dockside Story (2006), and the upcoming Las Vegas spectacular, Equilibrium (March 2008). She was also responsible for sourcing and making the Edwardian costumes and masks worn in the Cambridge production of Taming of the Shrew in the final year of her degree, and worked on the design team of Clare College May Ball in 2006.

The newest and youngest addition to the Lavish team, Iona is keen to develop her talents and creativity through her experiences of production and design with Lavish, so who knows what the future may hold for her…