Tim Sutton

Tim is an award-winning composer and musical director. 

​

Music includes Restless Natives (Scottish Tour 2023), To the Streets! (B22 Festival), Measure for Measure (Globe), The Omission of the Family Coleman (Ustinov, Bath), As You Like It and Titus Andronicus (RSC), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre), Mother Courage and Her Children, Alexei Sayle’s Imaginary Sandwich Bar Series 1-4, The Now Show Series 57-60, and Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz  (BBC Radio 4), and The Lavender Hill Mob (Cheltenham and Touring). 

​

Other scores for theatre include The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse),  Dreamfighter (Lichfield Festival), The Bacchae (NToS), As You Like It (Wyndham's) and As You Desire Me (Playhouse). 

​

Music for film includes Reasons, dir. Charlotte Peters (BFI). 

​

His community opera Cycle Song won the Royal Philharmonic Society Learning  & Participation Award 2012. He is twice recipient of the Stiles and Drewe Best Song Prize, and won the Vivian Ellis Prize for Best Musical for Beauty and the Beast. 

​

Tim is an Associate Member of the Inner Magic Circle. He is also committed to  the development of new musical theatre, and has mentored aspiring writers on  the Book, Music and Lyrics course since its inception in 2011.​

​