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Current / coming soon:

Red Light Winter  (Bath Theatre Royal). Opens 1st March 2012. 

Pink Mist (BBC Radio 4). May 2012. 

The Norman Conquests (Liverpool Playhouse). June 2012. 

Gatwick  (Cricket Media). New re-branding film for Gatwick airport. 

Theatre: I'm currently working on a new production of Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter  at Theatre Royal Bath, and have most recently composed / sound designed for Natalie Abrahami's production of Lorca's Yerma at the Gate.

Other theatre from the last few months includes the the National Theatre's sell-out production of The Holy Rosenbergs, Laurie Sansom's production of J B Priestley's Eden End, which toured nationally with English Touring Theatre and Erica Whyman's TMA-nominated production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ('..frighteningly potent...': The Guardian), co-produced by the Sheffield Crucible and Northern Stage, which received rave reviews from every national broadsheet. 

Other recent theatre work includes the National Theatre's smash-hit European premiere productions of Tennessee Williams's Spring Storm and Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, which had sell-out extended runs in the Cottesloe - 'a triumph on so many levels I would need at least twice the space to do them justice' (Independent - 5 stars); 'you won't find much anywhere in Britain to top Laurie Sansom's superlative productions' (Guardian - four stars); 'thrilling, illuminating and deeply affecting' (Telegraph - five stars). Both productions received national acclaim and rave reviews from, amongst others, the TimesTelegraph - 'one of the most thrilling theatre offerings of the decade' - and the Guardian

Spring Storm was recently broadcast on Radio 3, and is transferring to Broadway in autumn 2012.

Screen: I've most recently composed for a new Cutting Edge documentary, Jaycee: My 18 Years In Captivity (Mentorn / Channel 4), telling the story of the abduction and 18-year imprisonment of Jaycee Duggard . Other recent screen work includes a Cutting Edge special, Tracking the Cumbria Killer, for Mentorn / Channel 4, and my music was also recently heard in Dispatches: Murder on Honeymoon, broadcast last month and Dispatches: the children betrayed by Britain (Channel 4). Meanwhile Speed Date , a new short from from Smoorns Films (with whom I previously worked on Prodigal and Shore) premiered at the Glasgow Film Theatre recently, and I'm currently composing / sound designing for several other film shorts.

I'm also currently working on music and sound design for films forming part of the promotional package for the rebranding of Gatwick airport.  

Radio: I've most recently composed / sound designed for Erebus, Jo Shapcott's poetic retelling for Radio 4 of the doomed 19th-century Franklin expedition to the Arctic. 

I also created the music / sound score for Laurels and Donkeys, by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion which formed a key part of Radio 4's Armistice Day broadcasts. Other recent radio includes music for Radio 4 Extra's serialisation of H P Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth for BBC Radio 4 Extra, following my score for BBC7's acclaimed serialisation earlier this year of Lovecraft's classic horror story At The Mountains of Madness (now available as an audiobook and download from Ladbroke Radio). I also composed for Radio 4 Extra's recent serialisation of Ernest Bramah's classic Victorian detective stories The Eyes of Max Carrados.

Earlier this year I created the music / sound score for a new adaptation of Tennyson's In Memoriam, which was broadcast on Radio 4 in the spring. 

I scored Radio 3's recent adaptation of Herodotus' Histories, adapted by Tom Holland, broadcast in the Drama on 3 slot. My music was also heard in The Quest, a time-shifting side-splitting new adaptation of the King Arthur legend starring Julian Rhind-Tutt and Mark Gatiss, which was a recent Woman's Hour drama serial. Radio 3's acclaimed adaptation of H G Wells' The Time Machine, starring Robert Glenister is now available to buy as a BBC CD at Amazon. It was reviewed by the Guardian and the Stage. I also provided the theme music for Radio 2's serialisation of Roger Moore's autobiography, My Word Is My Bond.  

My music and sound score for BBC Radio 4's acclaimed docu-drama What I Heard About Iraq received a Jury Special Mention at the 2008 Prix Italia.

Extracts from my recent live literature projects for voice and soundscape with Patrick Gale and Jackie Kay can now be heard here