Alex Loveless
Composer, Orchestrator and Lyricist
Forthcoming Production
2008 Dracula , a new musical at The White Bear Theatre London, Tues 28 Oct - Sun 23 Nov 2008
Previews: Tues 28 & Wed 29 Oct, Press Night: Thurs 30 Oct
Performance times: 7:30pm Tues - Sat, 5pm Sun (no performances Mondays)
Further information on Dracula
Awards 1998
Most Promising Newcomer at the Vivian Ellis Prize for new musicals,
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.2000
Howard Goodall Award for Musical Composition.
Training
1998
First Warner Chappell Symposium on the Craft of Musical Theatre Writing & Collaboration, PRS, London, facilitated by Don Black and David Shire.
1999
First UK New Musical Theatre Writers' Laboratory, Mountview Theatre School facilitated by theatre professionals from the Tisch School of Performing Arts, New York University.
Warner Chappell Symposium on Musical Theatre, PRS, London, facilitated by Jeremy Sams, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe
New Musicals Alliance Seminars on Musical Theatre, Goldsmiths College, London, led by Richard Andrews
John Sparks Masterclass, Mercury Workshop, London
Received instruction on orchestration from David Cullen and the late Paul Jury (orchestrator for Buddy/Jolson). Described as a proficient orchestrator by The Mercury Workshop.
1999 - 2003
BMus Music Performance/Composition - London College of Music.
Performed Work
1994
and
2001To Death And Glory Performed by Youth Groups in Cumbria 1998
Sensation - (Book, Music & Lyrics)
Showcased Theatre Royal, Drury Lane at the Vivian Ellis Prize finals.Plus
'Classical' pieces, music for plays, orchestrations for shows and bands and additional lyrics for the Mike Harding play A Free Man on Sunday.
Work in Progress A musical adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's
My Beautiful Laundrette
Membership of Groups Writer-associate member of Mercury Musicals Development.
General information Date of birth 20th July 1977 Residence Ealing, London and Ulverston, Cumbria Ulverston Tel 01229 585433