Andy Picheta
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Andy Picheta is a Film and TV director and producer, who in March 2007 undertook a major career change when he became the co-owner of the Scottish country-house Muckrach Lodge Hotel.
He started his media career directing music videos as MTV was taking off. He worked with Bon Jovi, Madonna, Iron Maiden and many other bands and artists. He then filmed a few theatre productions for Andrew Loyd Webber's musicals, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat, and Cats. He also directed musicals such as Oklahoma! and Kiss Me Kate. In 2004, he was nominated for an Emmy Award, for his directing of Elaine Strich at Liberty. Andy didn't stop his television/film/theatre career after he bought Muckrach. In early 2008, Picheta was line director in the latest television adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, which will be screened on Channel 4 on Christmas Day/Boxing Day (Date TBC). Picheta worked alongside Sir Ian McKellen and director Trevor Nunn, in the production filmed primaliry at Pinewood Studios.
Picheta has worked alongside some of entertainment's greatest names, such as Sir Ian McKellen, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bon Jovi, ACDC, Michael Flatley, Lionel Ritchie, Donny Osmond and many more. Picheta, when asked his feelings on his great success in the late 1990's, described it as "Better than striaght sex."
Picheta added fame value to the small village of Haddenham in Buckinghamshire when he moved their with his long-term partner Rebecca Ferrand, herself a well-established television and film personality who has produced the infamous Popetown and worked with comedy icons such as David Mitchell and Vic Reeves. The couple moved there in 2002 before leaving at Christmas 2006 to persuit their careers in hoteliering.
Picheta, and his partner Rebecca Ferrand decided in 2006 to buy a hotel. At first they looked abroad before deciding a move north to Scotland from their country house in Buckinghamshire was the best choice. They bought Muckrach Lodge Hotel and Restaurant in the Caingorms National Park, Scottish Highlands, just outside Grantown-on-Spey, in Morayshire, in March 2007. The Emmy Award is on display at the hotel. In a career spanning nearly twenty years, he has experienced many different aspects of the Film and TV industry, as well as changing his career to the hotel industry.
Muckrach Lodge has been transformed by the pair into a high-class, elegant hotel and restaurant, which has been successful since they purchased the property. Picheta was asked about how he saw the hotel buisness in 2008, to which he simply replied; "It's a performance."
Picheta has two teenage children who currently live in West London.
Picheta with his partner Rebecca and two children, Rob and Sophie.
Filmography
As Producer
King Lear (2008) (TV) (post-production) (line producer)
Kiss Me Kate (2003) (TV) (producer)
The Merchant of Venice (2001) (TV) (line producer)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999) (V) (line producer)
... aka Great Performances: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (USA: series title)
Oklahoma! (1999) (TV) (producer)
"Great Performances" (line producer) (1 episode, 1998)
Cats (1998) TV episode (line producer)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration (1998) (TV) (producer)
Lord of the Dance (1997) (V) (producer)
Bon Jovi: Live from London (1995) (V) (producer)
Performance (1991) (V) (line producer)
As Director
Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (2002) (TV)
The Christmas Angel: A Story on Ice (1998) (TV)
Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas Live (1997) (V)
Anthea Turner Body Basics (1996) (V)
Production Manager
Secret World Live (1994) (TV) (production manager)
Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) (production manager: concert, U.K.)
... aka In Bed with Madonna (Australia) (UK) ... aka Truth or Dare
