CURRICULUM VITAE
Ben Glasstone
Composer, theatre-maker, performer
Represented by Nick Quinn at The Agency (NQuinn@theagency.co.uk)
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4 Evershot Road, London N4 3BB
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benglasstone@blueyonder.co.uk
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RECENT WRITING AND COMPOSING
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Music/lyrics,The Tempest (RSC/Little Angel Theatre) 2011
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Writer/composer/lyricist, All Join In (Polka Theatre) 2011
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Music/lyrics, Alice in Wonderland (Little Angel Theatre) 2010
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Music/lyrics,Robin and the Big Freeze (Unpacked, Brighton Pavilion)
2010
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Music/lyrics, Michael Rosen’s Pinocchio (Polka Theatre) 2009
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Music/lyrics, The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me (Little Angel) 2009
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Music/lyrics, Jumping Mouse (Unpacked) small-scale tour 2009-10
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Score, La-Di-Dada (Quicksilver/Indefinite Articles), pilot tour 2008
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Music and lyrics, Fantastic Mr Fox (Little Angel Theatre, and 4 tours
including RSC and North American tour) 2005-10
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Co-writer, composer, lyricist (and performer-MD), The Mouse Queen (Little
Angel Theatre 04/05, Polka Theatre 05, New Victory Theater, New York
05, Unicorn Theatre 06, Hampstead Theatre 07)
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Score for How to Beat a Giant, Unicorn Theatre 2007
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IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION
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Composer, The Man with the Luggage (Trestle Theatre)
Composer/lyricist, Red Riding Hood (Norwich Puppet Theatre)
Writer/composer/lyricist, Thunder and Coal (Nonesuch)
RECENT EDUCATION WORK AND PUBLICATIONS
 Songs for A and C Black’s Singing Express series for schools (forthcoming
2011)
 Songs for Sing Up (published by Faber, 2010)
 Superheroes and Scaredy Cats - CD and songbook (Sound Minds, 2009)
 Course Leader, Make an Album in a Week at Roundhouse Studios 2004-09
 Leader, Gentle Giant education project for Royal Opera House 2008
 Commissioned by BBC to co-design and deliver Digital Curriculum module
on Composing music for Key Stage 2 (Dec 04 -May 05)
 Composer on large-scale Community/professional piece Human/Nature (dir:
Emily Gray) for Trestle Theatre (Nov 04-Jan 05)
 Composer/MD for “Clockwork Education Project” (Unicorn
Theatre/Philharmonia Orchestra) at Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera
House with cast of 90 children, opera singers and musicians 2004
 Composer/MD/music leader on composition and performance projects with The
Roundhouse, Camden, the Unicorn Theatre, the Lyric Hammersmith, The
London Bubble, Ladders, Kaos, Hampstead Theatre, Drake Music Project
and many London Primary and Secondary Schools. 2002-present
PREVIOUS COMPOSING COMMISSIONS include:
 Co-writer Rags to Witches for Josh Elwell Theatre, tour 2007-8
 Soundtrack for Snow and Snuggles installation at Discover, Stratford, 2007/8
 Potato Suite, a song cycle for large children’s choir for Three Rivers Festival,
Surrey, 2006
 Commissioned song/music for the opening of the new Unicorn Theatre on
London’s South Bank 2006
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 Banana - a slippery opera for Flight 5065 festival, performed on the London
Eye, June 05 and recorded for transmission on BBC World
 Songs The Face Song and Lunch for Nickelodeon TV – 2003
 Goldilocks (dir:Sally Goldsworthy) at Lyric Hammersmith studio theatre
(Christmas 2003/Remount at Warwick Arts Centre/Lyric 2004-5)
 Gotcha! (dir: Chris Elwell) at Half Moon E1 Autumn 02
 Composer/MD/performer for Pinocchio in the Park (dir: Emily Gray, Unicorn
Theatre) at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre - Summer 2001
 The Magic Box by Erroll Lloyd (dir: Surian Fletcher-Jones) Tricycle, 2000
PREVIOUS EDUCATION WORK includes:
 Composer and MD for Notting Hill the musical - large-scale community
musical commissioned by RB Kensington and Chelsea (Summer 2003)
 Music workshop leader for Ladders Young Performers and Writers songwriting, band skills, music theatre etc - 1998-2007
 Running/facilitating on music and theatre projects at Unicorn Theatre, Polka
Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Lyric Theatre and BAC among others, 97-08
 School residencies and workshops with Discover, 2006-8
 Beyond the Deathzone (Ladders) written with cast, Lloyd Park Theatre 2000
 Angelikaos (songs Ben Glasstone and Suzy Davis), Jackson’s Lane 1999
 10 short musicals for the After School Drama Club performed at the
Tabernacle and the Post Office Theatre 1997-2002
 Guitar tuition at Musicworks, Brixton and the Tabernacle Inner City Music
School, Notting Hill.
 Devising productions/workshops at over a dozen London schools: 1995-2009
PERFORMING/RECORDING
Instruments: Guitar, drum kit, percussion, table, piano, bass, ukulele.
CD releases:
 Night of the Long Spoons, Soup, 2008
 The Days (Traffic Island Discs) 2000
 Deadly Medley (Traffic Island Discs) 2003
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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