TIM GILVIN
Tim Gilvin is a multi-award-winning composer and lyricist working mainly in new musical theatre. Tim grew up playing in prog rock bands, studying classical music and writing songs in Swindon, and started writing musicals whilst at university in Birmingham.
His one-man, one-act musical Stay Awake, Jake won the S&S Award in 2014, and has been performed at VAULT Festival (2016, where it won the VAULT Festival Origins Award) and Southwark Playhouse (2020, live stream).
He is the composer of Unfortunate (Fat Rascal Theatre) which had a sell-out run at Edinburgh Festival 2019, and has since toured to Birmingham Hippodrome and Leicester CURVE.
Tim currently working on several new shows for 2021. These are: Scot Free (a commission with bookwriter-rapper Jonny Wright for Perfect Pitch and Royal & Derngate); Cable Street (a commission with bookwriter Alex Kanefsky from 10 to 4 Productions) and The Last Two, with bookwriter Imogen Palmer.
Tim is also developing a song cycle based on a theme of Random Acts of Kindness, with Mercury Musical Developments, 10 to 4 Productions, and director/dramaturg Amy Draper.
Outside of musical theatre, Tim has worked in music preparation and orchestration for sessions at Abbey Road and Air, and some of his non-musical theatre songs have been played on BBC Radio 6 and Channel 4.
Tim lives in the south-west, where he spends his time eating too much halloumi.
His one-man, one-act musical Stay Awake, Jake won the S&S Award in 2014, and has been performed at VAULT Festival (2016, where it won the VAULT Festival Origins Award) and Southwark Playhouse (2020, live stream).
He is the composer of Unfortunate (Fat Rascal Theatre) which had a sell-out run at Edinburgh Festival 2019, and has since toured to Birmingham Hippodrome and Leicester CURVE.
Tim currently working on several new shows for 2021. These are: Scot Free (a commission with bookwriter-rapper Jonny Wright for Perfect Pitch and Royal & Derngate); Cable Street (a commission with bookwriter Alex Kanefsky from 10 to 4 Productions) and The Last Two, with bookwriter Imogen Palmer.
Tim is also developing a song cycle based on a theme of Random Acts of Kindness, with Mercury Musical Developments, 10 to 4 Productions, and director/dramaturg Amy Draper.
Outside of musical theatre, Tim has worked in music preparation and orchestration for sessions at Abbey Road and Air, and some of his non-musical theatre songs have been played on BBC Radio 6 and Channel 4.
Tim lives in the south-west, where he spends his time eating too much halloumi.
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