About…
Guy is a Bristol-based actor/musician, composer/musical director and voice coach.
As a composer, his music spans across many genres, from atmospheric, filmic soundtracks for screen and large-scale events, through to songs for pop and musical theatre scores.
In 2022, he co-wrote music for Our Wilder Family, a 16-minute drone show as part of the closing weekend for Coventry City of Culture 21/22, collaborating with BAFTA and Ivor Novello award-winning composer Dan Jones. This multimedia, large-scale event was witnessed by a live audience of 27,000 people in War Memorial Park in Coventry, as well as attracting an online audience of over 13,000.
Guy also has a particular interest in music and theatre projects that create some form of social change, from engaging with local communities though to reaching under-served audiences. In 2024, he wrote music and lyrics for the first ever West End production created specifically for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities. The show opened at Soho Place and received wide attention and critical acclaim, featuring on both BBC and Sky News (article here).
In 2019, Guy co-wrote and co-produced a new musical comedy, The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe. The show received a collection of five-star reviews from top Fringe publications including ThreeWeeks and Broadway Baby, and was included in The Telegraph’s Top 20 shows to see at the Fringe 2019 (“Very Funny; musically deft”, lead Telegraph critic Dominic Cavendish).
As an actor/musician he has toured across Europe and UK with companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheek By Jowl, Shakespeare’s Globe, Bristol Old Vic, Edinburgh Lyceum, and Liverpool Everyman. He has worked with some of the UK’s best-known theatre directors, including Declan Donellan OBE (author of The Actor and the Target), Emma Rice, Tom Morris, Polly Findlay, Iqbal Kahn, Nick Bagnall and Wils Wilson.
His work as a vocal and performance coach includes residencies at a number of drama schools around the country. He holds an LRAM teaching qualification in Musical Theatre Singing from the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied the Estill voice model under renowned vocal coach Mary Hammond (vocal coach to Chris Martin, Lily Allen, Florence and the Machine and many others) and Anne-Marie Speed, founder of The Voice Explained. He now runs his own teaching studio, The Vocal Studio Bristol.
