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MusicGary Yershon
Gary Yershon has been composing music for drama for over 30 years.
Theatre includes: Scores for the RSC: Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale (2002 and 2006), The Malcontent,Twelfth Night, The Rivals, Hamlet, Don Carlos, The Taming of the Shrew, The Unexpected Man (also West End, New York), The Devil Is an Ass, The Virtuoso, Artists and Admirers, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It (1992 and 2005) and Cymbeline. Scores for the NT: 2000Years, Buried Child, The Duchess of Malfi, The Way of the World,Volpone, The Tempest, Broken Glass, Pericles,Troilus and Cressida,Widowers’ Houses, Further than the Furthest Thing and Life x 3. Also work in Chichester, Leeds (composer-in-residence, West Yorkshire Playhouse), Lancaster, Chester, York, Derby, Nottingham, Exeter, Manchester (Royal Exchange and Library Theatres) and Bristol Old Vic. London: composer TheWinter’s Tale, Miss Julie, Arabian Nights and MaVie en Rose (Young Vic), musical director The Iron Man, musical director The Threepenny Opera and composer Boston Marriage (Donmar Warehouse), composer Doña Rosita the Spinster (Almeida), composer A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth (Open Air, Regent’s Park), composer Rhinoceros, Plasticine, Redundant and Fireface (Royal Court), musical director Snapshots (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), composer All Our Loving and Does This Train Stop at Southend? and, in the West End, composer Art, The Play What I Wrote, By the Bog of Cats, Hysteria, Endgame and Broken Glass.
Film includes: musical director for Mike Leigh’s Topsy- Turvy, vocal coach on Peter Capaldi’s Strictly Sinatra and composer for Mike Leigh’s forthcoming movie, as yet untitled.
Television includes: three cartoon series (James the Cat, Painted Tales and Ebb and Flo), The Heritage Game, The Good Neighbour Show and, most recently, Linda La Plante’s Trial and Retribution.
Radio includes: many scores, most recently, Gawain and the Green Knight (Radio 4) and The Theban Plays (Radio 3) and for Sony Award-winning productions Lorilei and Autumn Journal.
Gary also works as a writer, translator and teacher.