Dream ticket

I will be performing up at Homeground, Manchester for this revival of Filter’s terrific production

Thu 3 Jun 2021 – Sat 26 Jun 2021

A Lyric Hammersmith and Filter Theatre Production

Experience this riotous version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream reimagined as part of our Summer programme at Homeground.

Young lovers and warring fairies cross paths in this irreverent adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays by Filter Theatre.

Featuring live music, don’t miss one of the most exciting and inventive Shakespeare productions of recent years.

Cautionary Tales S2

Music composition, sound design, mixing

That’s another fine mess you got me in to. More Cautionary Tales, allowing you to smugly learn lessons from the comfort of your headphones while other people lurch from disaster to catastrophe.

“We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these cautionary tales are for the education of the grown-ups — and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “Messy” and “The Undercover Economist”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and hilarious fiascos. They’ll delight you and scare you, but also make you wiser.”

Brilliant – The Guardian

One of the recommended podcasts “to get you through lockdown” – The Sunday Times

Fabulous series – Bill Dare, creator of “Dead Ringers”

Fascinating and inventively told – The Daily Mail

Reverberate – Guardian podcast

Music composition, sound design and mix. From the Guardian: “The Guardian’s Chris Michael explores incredible stories from around the world about when music shook history. Each episode focuses on a turning point in a city’s story, as told through a song that sparked a moment – and reveals the deeper social and political issues that shaped these pivotal events”

Awake at Night Season 3

Sound design and additional music
From Chalk & Blade:
“Awake At Night Season 3 returns with host Melissa Fleming building on its award-winning work to tackle the global crises facing us all. For this season specifically, the series will explore how health workers, humanitarians, and peacekeepers are racing to protect the world’s most vulnerable populations from the COVID-19 virus. Subscribers will be treated to an expanded version of the series with an episode landing each week for the next 20 weeks. Previous series have seen everyone from Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett share their extraordinary experiences from the frontlines.”

The Messenger

I composed and produced the title music for this new Audible series. From Audible: “When investigative journalist Shiv Malik was betrayed by a source he considered a friend, he spent almost fifteen years tracking down the truth about what happened. The Messenger is an extraordinary audio tale of friendship, lies, betrayal, terrorism, the destruction of a marriage, and the insidiousness of fake news long before it went viral. In the wake of the 7/7 London bombings, Shiv Malik began working for the BBC to discover how young South Asian men like him had turned into suicide bombers. That's when he met notorious Islamist spokesman Hassan Butt, who told Shiv that he'd repented and left al-Qaeda. Hassan wanted Shiv to write his biography, and Shiv thought he'd found the biggest story of his life—a story that would help to change the world for the better. Little did he know that Hassan Butt would almost destroy his life. Over the next three years, Shiv and Hassan became friends, until one day there was a knock on the door from police investigators and everything fell apart. In eight revealing episodes, featuring Shiv's own audio recordings of his conversations with Hassan, Shiv searches for where he can place his trust: in the reams of evidence, in the cops, in a terrorist who swears he's changed, or in a friend who has no one else to turn to?