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1998-present
Joint artistic director, musical director, actor with Spymonkey comedy theatre company
2010
Turn On, created an iPod symphony for the opening of The Mill, Ipswich. Downloadable and synced to the light show created by Phil Supple.
2010
Time Out Alternative Eurovision, host with Petra Massey. Performed Netherland's entry from 1975 Ding-a-Dong. In Dutch.
2009-10
Spymonkey's Moby Dick, a mis-telling of Melville's classic whaling novel. Co-produced by Royal & Derngate Northampton, UK tour including Lyric Hammersmith. Composer & musical director
2009
Sandi Toksvig's Christmas Cracker, a variety show starring Ronnie Corbett. Played soprano saxophone alongside members of Bellowhead under the musical direction of Andy Mellon.
2008-09
Palazzo Amsterdam, hosts with Spymonkey of the dinner cabaret show. A variety of musical bits and pieces, songs, tenor and soprano work with the house band under the musical direction of Scott White.
2007
Spymonkey's 'Bless', a comedy about the lives of saints, previews Switzerland, UK, Canada. Shortlisted for 3 Betty Mitchell Awards including best musical & best musical direction. Composer & musical director
2007
composer & sound designer, UZ Events' Illuminating Links, a site-specific piece celebrating the life of the Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow. Created by Graeme Gilmour, lighting by Phil Supple, pyro by World Famous. 2007
composer & sound designer, Mimbre ‘The Bridge' , directed by Joseph Alford, an open-air acro-dance-theatre piece. Music commissioned by the Performing Rights Society, for international touring. 2006
composer for large-scale outdoor lakeside event at Kielder Water, created by Graeme Gilmour. Part of Northumberland Lights 2006, a series of light interventions for White Light/Phil Supple.
2005-08
Revival for medium scale of Spymonkey's 'Cooped', a gothic romance on acid. Has toured to Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Brighton Theatre Royal, Just For Laughs Montreal, Assembly Ballroom Edinburgh. Guest appearances with Spymonkey have included: William Shatner & George Lopez Just For Laughs TV Galas, Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala (ABC TV), La Clique, Granada TV's ‘Comedy Cuts'. Composer & musical director
2003-05
Zumanity – Another Side of Cirque du Soleil, created and performed four Spymonkey routines for this adult burlesque cabaret at the New York New York Hotel Casino, Las Vegas. Two-year permanent residency.
2003
composer, Mimbre ‘Trip Tic', directed by Flick Ferdinando, an open-air acro-dance-theatre piece.
2001-03
First touring production of Spymonkey's 'Cooped', a gothic romance on acid. London Mime Festival, Brighton Paramount Comedy Festival, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland
1998-03
Spymonkey's 'Stiff' dir. Cal McCrystal. Winner of Total Theatre Award 2000, Houston Press Award 2001, British Council Showcase 2001. Toured to 15 countries to date, including Syria, Taiwan, Mexico, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe. 1999-2000
improvising musician and performer, Improbable Theatre's ‘Lifegame' and ‘Animo', dir. Phelim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Julian Crouch: UK touring, Off-Broadway, La Jolla Playhouse San Diego. 1998
composer & performer Guy Dartnell's ‘Would Say Something', dir. Phelim McDermott, Arlette George. Winner, Time Out Best of the Fringe Award 1998. UK tour. 1999
composer & sound designer, Mimbre ‘Sprung', dir. Flick Ferdinando, an open-air acro-dance-theatre piece.
1999
Performed role of Othello in BAC Walking Orchestra ‘Othello Music' , an opera for musical instruments, dir. Tom Morris 1999
Musical director, composer for 'The Event', Millenium Dome/Circus Space, Three Mills Island, dir. Deb Pope. 1994-97
Performer and joint musical director and for Karl's Kühne Gassenschau, Switzerland's premier ‘action-theatre' company. Created four large-scale shows: 'S.T.E.I.N.B.R.U.C.H' (1994), an open-air spectacle in a quarry near Zürich; 'R.U.P.T.U.R.E' (1995), a French-language version of the quarry show in Monthey, Vaud, Switzerland; ‘Grand Paradis' (1997), a physical comedy in a tent theatre; ‘STEINBRUCH III' (1997), German-language revival, Zürich 1993
Composer & live musician, Exstatic '1080 Original Gravity' aerial circus theatre, Sadlers Wells & Edinburgh 1991-92
founder and actor of Comecon Theatre Company , in Cologne and London. ‘Ubu Roi' (1991), dir. Guy Dartnell; ‘Uroborus' (1992), dir. Adela Campbell. instruments Saxophone (tenor & soprano), flute, percussion, computer sequencing and hard disk recording (Logic Audio), vocalist, guitar and keyboard. Musical director, composer, arranger. Extensive professional studio session work; sightreader and improviser of jazz, latin, bebop, trad, gypsy, rock, blues, soul, funk. session work 2005 Joey Arias, ‘Attack of the 50-Foot Woman' 2001 Milk & Honey Band, 'Boy From The Moon' (BMG Music) 1996 Mighty Qart album 'Human Bomb' (Jecklin Red Note) 1995 'Blue Noise' album for Phil Saatchi, (BMB Records) live music 2002-05 Joey Arias & Eliot Douglass, ‘Strange Fruit', Montreal, Las Vegas & Edinburgh (tenor sax) 2003-05 Afrozoo, Las Vegas (baritone sax) 1993-2008 Absinto Orchestra, Germany (guest soprano, tenor sax, flute, vocals) 1995-97 The Mighty Qart, Switzerland (saxophones, flute) education & training 1984-87
BA(hons) in Drama at Hull University. Graduated with 2(i) degree 1987-88
Fool Time Circus and Performing Arts School, Bristol, 1 year course in Physical Theatre
1990-91
École Philippe Gaulier & Monika Pagneux, Paris, 1 year course Other training has included work with Jos Houben, Keith Johnstone, Mick Barnfather, Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch, Lee Simpson, Guy Dartnell, Gabriel Chame Buendia, Frankie Anderson. |