About…
Guy is a Bristol-based actor/musician, composer, musical director and voice coach.
As a composer, he writes music for a wide range of projects, from songs for musical theatre, soundtracks for plays through to soundscapes for large-scale events.
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.
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).
Guy also has a particular interest in music and theatre projects that engage with local communities, co-creating material alongside participants. This has included a new musical created alongside a local community in Brighton with Brighton People’s Theatre, another theatre project, Atlantis, co-created with members of the homelessness charity Crisis in Oxford, as well as numerous music or vocal workshops with groups across the country.
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.
