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Paul Boyd artistic director Paul is the author and composer of 17 original stage musicals that have been presented in professional productions around the world. As well as his musical adaptations of famous tales such as Hansel & Grettel, The Elves And The Shoemaker, Rumpelstiltskin, Red - the Red Riding Hood Musical, Pinocchio (named Best Musical 2003 by The Sunday Life and nominated as Best Production for Children and Young People at the 2007 TMA Theatre Awards), Alice The Musical (nominated as Best Drama at the 1999 Belfast Arts Awards), and The Tale of the Beauty and the Tail of the Beast, Paul has also written the acclaimed musicals McCool (a UK entry to the 2006 NAMT Festival of New Musicals in New York), Molly Wobbly’Äôs Tit Factory (short-listed for Eden Court Theatre’Äôs Highland Quest for a New Musical 2006), Macbeth The Musical, and The Haunting of Helena Blunden (a song from which was named as a finalist for the 2010 Stiles & Drewe Prize for Best Song from a New Musical). In addition to his musical theatre work Paul has written many original scores and soundtracks for professional theatre productions, including; The Thief (Irish Tour), The Colleen Bawn (Irish Tour), The Well of the Saints & The End of the Beginning (Irish Tour), The Playboy of the Western World (Irish Tour and Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke), and Spike Milligan’Äôs Puckoon (Irish Tour) all for Northern Ireland’Äôs oldest independent theatre producer Big Telly Theatre Company; Puppet Magic (Irish Tour), Buster (Ireland Tour and Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), A Fairy’Äôs Tale (Irish Tour) and The Magic Hat (Ireland and Asia Tour) all for Cahoots NI; The Little Wee Martian (Irish Tour), Dome Sweet Dome (Irish Tour), Smelly Won’Äôt Behave! (Irish Tour) and Flaming Fables (Irish Tour) all for Northern Ireland’Äôs theatre-in-education company Replay Productions; The Emperor’Äôs New Clothes for the Castle Theatre Northamptonshire; and Marching On, Howl!, and A Whistle In The Dark for the Lyric Theatre Belfast. Other work includes original scores for the 2005 Belfast Lord Mayor’Äôs Parade, the 2006 Belfast City Hall Centenary Exhibition, and the score Titanic: Song of The Hammers which formed part of a major new exhibition in Belfast at the construction site of RMS Titanic. As a theatre director Paul has worked for many of Ireland’Äôs leading theatre producers and has directed numerous stagings of his own musicals over the years, including the 2007 TMA Theatre Award nominated production of Pinocchio for the Lyric Theatre Belfast, and the 2010 13th Anniversary concert production of Hansel & Grettel at New Wimbledon Studio, London. In 2005 he became the first living musical theatre writer to have two productions running simultaneously at major Dublin theatres, and in 2007 he achieved another first when his production of Pinocchio ran in Belfast and Dublin theatres concurrently. As a playwright his works include Murder Most Probably and All Wired Up (winner of the 1992 Greer Garson Theatre Award for Best New Play) both of which have toured Ireland and the UK. Internationally Paul is known as the composer, co-director, and co-creator (with Zoˆ´ Seaton) of the acclaimed water spectaculars The Little Mermaid and Sinbad which first began touring in 2005 and have now played to over 40,000 people across Ireland, the UK, Taiwan, Serbia, and Denmark. Paul recently worked as musical director of Martin Lynch’Äôs hit play The Chronicles of Long Kesh which has now toured Ireland twice, played at the Edinburgh Festival (where it won The Stage Award 2009 for Best Ensemble), and enjoyed runs at the Tricycle Theatre in London, The Tron Theatre Glasgow, and Everyman Theatre Liverpool. Paul is looking forward to appearing across the UK and Ireland in the revival of the hit stage production of Spike Milligan’Äôs Puckoon (produced by Big Telly Theatre Company) which he co-devised and for which he also provided music and songs. Paul Boyd is a Professional Writer Associate of Mercury Musical Developments and lives in London. The following is a list of some of the original theatrical works that Paul Boyd has written, directed, or contributed material to since 1992. Shows are listed in order of most recent production date. hansel_and_grettel.htmlred.htmlpinocchio.htmlalice.htmlalice.htmlbeauty.htmlbeauty.htmlmccool.htmlMolly_Wobblys_Tit_Factory_by_pbm.htmlHelena_Blunden_2010.htmlHelena_Blunden_2010.htmlpuckoon_2009.htmllittle_mermaid.htmlsinbad.htmlhttp://www.mercurymusicals.com/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14
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