My typical day...

Starts with expressing milk in the office. Then, I’ll eat breakfast at my desk. I am that awful person who makes their own granola and brings it in.

The job is enormous, so it varies a lot day-to-day, but often I’ll start by reading the nightly report from Matilda House, which is where some of our Matildas and Bruces live while the show is on. It tells us how they’ve been post-show, when they went to bed, what they ate. The house parents are gorgeous, I wish they could look after me.

Then, I’ll catch up with our company manager. We might chat about what props need to be painted or actor’s contracts. People management is a large part of the job. If we are in a cast change period, which happens twice a year, then I’ll spend a lot of time in rehearsals. Often, I’ll sit at the back of the auditorium with my laptop and get on with my work. I look after all our outgoing payments, even petty cash, so I could be approving things for that, too.

I don’t remember the last time I took a lunch break. I usually eat something I’ve brought from home, like a bulgur wheat salad, at my desk. In the afternoon, I head down to the theatre to check in with the creative team and regularly stay to watch the show. If I’m not staying, I run to the train station at 6pm to get home to put my child to bed.

Matilda The Musical’s Rebecca Treanor on what goes on behind the scenes at one of London’s biggest shows