Name | Rebecca Applin |
Biography | Becky is currently the holder of the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Award and is resident composer at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. As part of the scheme she has composer for Sandi Toksvig’s ‘Bully Boy’ at the Mercury and ‘Alfie Strange: Trained Time Travellers Only’ at the New Wolsey. She is currently working on ‘Wind in the Willows’ at the Mercury and will be composing for ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ there in the Autumn. She will then be composing for ‘The Twits’ at the New Wolsey. Both theatres are currently mentoring her through creating the musical ‘My Life’, a contemporary adaptation of the Faust legend. TV and Radio credits include: ‘I Know Me’ (BBC Learning and Gamelab, BAFTA nominated), ‘Wanna Be a Rockstar’ (BBC Learning and Gamelab, BAFTA nominated), ‘Dance with the Elements’ (BBC Learning and Gamelab), ‘Vanishing Point’ (Youth Music Theatre and Gamelab), ‘Death in Genoa’, ‘The Lost World of the Suffragettes’ (Radio 4 Archive Hour), ‘Don’t Cry for me Maradona’ (Radio 5 Live), ‘John Stapleton’s History of Manchester’ (all Made in Manchester Radio). |
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Writer Type | Lyricist, Composer |