Dylan Townley
Music, Words, Improvisations
Hello! I am a UK-based composer, music director & arranger, lyricist, and scriptwriter. I was awarded the Cameron Mackintosh Composer Residency 2023-24 at the Octagon Theatre Bolton. I’m a Music Leader with Bath Philharmonia orchestra, and Head Writer for the BAFTA-winning online channel History Bombs.
I work in theatre, video, and community arts. I bring wide experience in creative & story development, music production for theatre, and live performance.
Composition credits: Animal Farm (Bolton Octagon & UK Tour); Wacky Racists Comedy Club with Sophie Duker (Soho Theatre); Childish with Chris Turner (Joe’s Pub NYC, Australia Tour); Sleeping Beauty (composer & sound designer, Stephen Joseph Theatre); Alfie The Elf’s Christmas Rescue (Bolton Octagon); The True Adventures of Marian & Robin Hood (The Barn Cirencester); Milky Peaks (additional composition, Theatr Clwyd & Wales Tour); Dracula: The Bloody Truth (associate composer, Stephen Joseph Theatre & Bolton Octagon); Miss Wales (upcoming Theatr Clwyd, working title)
Music Director credits: How To Win Against History (MD & co-orchestrator, Bristol Old Vic / Francesca Moody Productions; previously Young Vic, UK Tour); The Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto: Rapunzel (Everyman Liverpool); Milky Peaks (Theatr Clwyd & Wales Tour); Cinderella (The Barn Cirencester); Secret Cinema Present Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy (site-specific, London); Thumbelina’s Great Big Adventure (MAC Birmingham & Brewery Arts Kendal); The Twelve Choirs of Christmas (Old Vic Education & Community); Starry Starry Eyes (The Free Association, BAC, Mercury Colchester)
Pianist/Keyboardist credits: Austentatious (West End & UK Tour); The Greatest Wealth (Old Vic); Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised (BBC6 Music, Australia Tour); Bath Philharmonia (The Forum Bath); One-Legged Dog (MOTH Club)
Additional credits: Head Writer for BAFTA-winning online channel History Bombs; co-creator of The Peablossom Cabaret (UK Tour); Orchestrator, Bath Philharmonia; Community Consultant Artist (Old Vic)
I can be contacted at:
dylantownley@yahoo.co.uk
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