Here you’ll find music, singing, instruments galore.
I used to fall asleep listening to my mum play the piano. I never really had a choice, I was always going to love music.
Decades of agonising practice later, tormenting my poor cat and some very patient neighbours, I now have more instruments than is strictly necessary but am always eager to add more to the menagerie. I get so much joy out of adapting whatever comes my way both as a singer and instrumentalist but also as a song writer. Have an explore..
Session Singing
Actor Musician
Singing
Elizabeth Holmes: How to bleed dry in Silicon Valley
From the brand-new musical about Elizabeth Holmes (still being written) by Jen Green and Caroline Wigmore. Filmed live at the Garrick Theatre October 2021, this is Moonshot.
My Wickerman
From “The Wicker Husband” by Darren Clark and Rhys Jennings. This was filmed by the Sondheim society, a year before Rhys and Darren would with the Stiles and Drewe Mentorship Award and we would perform it at The Other Palace.
When Do I Get To Live
Michael Roulston & Sarah-Louise Young’s new musical The Most Assassinated Woman in the World. Paula Maxa was a French actress in the 1930s who made her name in the “Grand Guignol” stage horror shows, every night, murdered for entertainment.
BIO
Performed at Wale’s Millennium Centre in Cardiff 2023, BIO tells the story of Lisbeth, a Bi-Sexual woman recognising and opening up about her sexuality in her 50s. Geraint Owen wrote it for the fantastic “Queerway” produced by Leeway Productions directed by Luke Hereford MD Connor Fogel.
Geraint went on to win the Stiles & Drewe award for “Voice, Vision & Potential”
Session Recording
This selection includes “Daddy” from These Trees Are Made of Blood at the Southwark Playhouse, “Ayotzinapa” from Day of the Living for the RSC, and “Take Flight” for My Brilliant Friend at the National Theatre.
It’s a joy working with songwriters and composers, bringing new music to life and in some cases even helping shape it.
More please!
Songwriting
Margaret Porteous was the first victim of the 1665 plague and she is buried at the Actor’s Church. I wrote this in 2020 and sang it on the eve of lockdown 2 in the garden where she lies.
Commissioned as part of an online concert On Hope, this song imagines the chaotic inner lives of the pandemic’s many insomniacs as #TwoAM comes round again.
My Welsh MamGu refused to pass on the language she knew fluently. Dw i Eisiau Siarad Cymuru, asks if you can ever feel whole when you don’t have the words to express yourself.
Something Else...
Some of my musical adaptations
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme for 10 cellos
Taylor Swift’s I Did Something Bad
a duet for cello & uke and sung with the wonderful Charlotte Worthing
Darren Clarks The Cave for our co-written, one woman show Go Forth And Slay recorded in lockdown on any instrument I could get my hands on as part of BEAM 2020