Alex Loveless
Composer, Orchestrator and Lyricist

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Forthcoming Production

2010 The Remains of the Day

 


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
2001

To 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.
2008 Dracula  (Music and lyrics)
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
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