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Ben Glasstone
Composer and theatre-maker
Address: 4 Evershot Road, London N4 3BB
Tel: 0207 281 1226 mob: 07947 043 009
E-mail: benglasstone@blueyonder.co.uk
Represented by Nick Quinn at The Agency (NQuinn@theagency.co.uk)
ONGOING THEATRE PROJECTS:
Writer/director of Bookstory (MONSTRO Theatre) - touring Spring 2015
Composer for The Lone Pine Club (Pentabus) - touring from July 2015
Writing song for a giant squid for Citizen Squid for Puppets with Guts
Composer/lyricist, The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me (Little Angel) revival 2015
POSTS, current and past
Artistic Director, MONSTRO theatre (formerly Nonesuch), 2011-present
Music Specialist, Yerbury Primary School, January 2014 – present
PREVIOUS THEATRE WORK
Sound design/composition for Jabberwocky (Little Angel Theatre), 2014
Composer/Lyricist, Moominsummer Madness (LAT/Polka/Royal and Derngate) – 2014
Director for The Odyssey (Polka), schools tour - Autumn 2013
Director/co-writer/composer: The Night Before Christmas (LAT) 2013/14
Composer/lyricist: The Odyssey (Polka Theatre) - 2013
Director/ writer /composer, Thunder and Coal (Nonesuch) at LAT 2012
Composer/lyricist, Red Riding Hood (Norwich Puppet Theatre) 2011/2014
Writer/composer/lyricist, All Join In (Polka Theatre) 2011
Composer/lyricist, The Tempest (RSC/Little Angel Theatre) 2011
Composer, The Man with the Luggage (Trestle Theatre) 2011
Director/co-writer/composer, GoldenEgg (Unicorn), R and D , 2011
Composer/lyricist, Alice in Wonderland (Little Angel Theatre) 2010
Composer/lyricist, Robin and the Big Freeze (Unpacked) small-scale tour 2010-11
Project leader/co-writer/composer/lyricist The Great Cat Massacre
R and D (Chat’s Palace, Soho Theatre) 2008-9
Composer/lyricist, Jumping Mouse (Unpacked) small-scale tour 2009-10
Composer/lyricist, Michael Rosen’s Pinocchio (Polka Theatre) 2009
Composer/lyricist, The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me (Little Angel) 2009
Composer, La-Di-Dada (Indefinite Articles/Quicksilver), pilot tour 2008
Writer, Rags to Witches (Josh Elwell Theatre), tour 2007-8
Composer/lyricist, Fantastic Mr Fox (Little Angel Theatre, and 5 tours including RSC and North American tour) 2005- 2014
Composer/lyricist/co-writer, (and performer-MD), The Mouse Queen (Little Angel 04/05, Polka 05, New Victory Theater, New York 05, Unicorn 06, Hampstead Theatre 07)
Composer, How to Beat a Giant, (Unicorn Theatre) 2007
Director/composer, Banana, a slippery opera (Host Universal) for Flight 5065 festival, performed on the London Eye, June 2005
Composer, Goldilocks (Lyric Hammersmith/ Warwick Arts Centre) 2004
1990-2000 - Scores for fringe plays in London and Edinburgh Fringe and writer/director of fringe musicals including Querm (Burton Taylor) and Disgusting (Fringe Club, Edinburgh)
EDUCATION PROJECTS, COMMISSIONS, PUBLICATIONS
Composer/facilitator StageSong project (Mousetrap theatre projects) 2014
Composer/leader: Royal Free Hospital school project (Mousetrap) 2014
Composer/co-leader for Verve, music theatre project with young people on the autistic spectrum (Opera North) 2013
Course deviser/director, Make an Album in a Week (Roundhouse) 04-13
Songs for A and C Black’s Great Space Songs, Singing Express2012
Composer/lyricist, Superheroes and Scaredy Cats – CD/songbook for Sing Up, 2009
Course leader, Gentle Giant education project, Royal Opera House 2008
Freelance music leader at Ladders Young Performers and Writers, 98-07
Composer, Potato Suite, song cycle for Three Rivers Festival, Surrey, ‘06
Commissioned songs and music/MD for opening of Unicorn Theatre ‘06
Commissioned by BBC to co-design and deliver Digital Curriculum module on Composing music for Key Stage 2, 2004-5
Composer on large-scale Community/professional piece Human/Nature (dir: Emily Gray) for Trestle , 2004-5
Composer/conductor for large-scale “Clockwork Education Project” (Unicorn Theatre/Philharmonia) at Linbury, Royal Opera House, 2004
Composer and MD for Notting Hill the musical - large-scale community musical commissioned by RB Kensington and Chelsea, 2003
Composer/MD/music leader on composition and performance projects with The Roundhouse, Unicorn Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, London Bubble, Ladders, Kaos, Hampstead Theatre, Drake Music Project, Discover and many London Primary and Secondary Schools, 2002-present
Composer/co-director, 10 short musicals for the After School Drama Club performed at the Tabernacle and the Post Office Theatre 1997-2002
TRAINING / QUALIFICATIONS
Certificate in Music Workshop Skills, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 1996 (Commendation for research work and music techniques)
Associated Board Classical Guitar, Grade 8, 1992-3. Piano Grade 6
BA English Literature (2.1) and Exhibition, New College, Oxford 1991
A levels: English (A), French (A), Greek (A), English S-level (Distinction)
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