I'm an actor, musician and miscellaneous other from Salford, Greater ManchesterI am a graduate of National Youth Theatre’s award-winning REP Company (2022/23 cohort). I've just debuted my solo gig-theatre piece Terminal Sound at The Lowry, Salford and am currently designing sound for Replica by Titas Halder for NT Connections and Queen's Theatre Hornchurch.My work blurs lines between musician and actor and I've performed in many hybrid roles with companies including The Pappy Show, the National Youth Theatre, CONTACT and HighRise Theatre among othersRecent acting credits include: Doctors (BBC), Bakkhai (National Youth Theatre), Gone Too Far! (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Much Ado About Nothing (Duke of Yorks Theatre), Handel & Hendrix (Somerset House) and others.Recent sound design and/or composer credits include: Bright.Young.Things. (Storyhouse Chester) GASH Theatre Needs Some Space (Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe) and The Concrete Jungle Book (The Pleasance)Training includes: National Youth Theatre REP Company, CONTACT Young Company and ArtsLab (North Wall Arts Centre)Please direct all acting inquiries to Claire Hoath: office@clairehoathmanagement.com
Production | Role | Company | Venue | Project Details |
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Bright Young Things | composer | Storyhouse | Storyhouse Theatre, Chester | dir. Grainne Flynn |
The Loud Pack @ The V&A | DJ | HighRise Theatre | Victoria and Albert Museum | V&A Performance Festival 2023 |
The Bakkhai | Dionysos / additional composition | NYT REP Company | National youth theatre | dir. Maisie Newman, translation by Anne Carson |
Gone Too Far! | Shopkeeper | NYT REP Company | Theatre Royal Stratford East | Dir. Monique Touko |
Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro | NYT REP Company | The Duke of York's Theatre | dir. Josie Daxtor, remixed by Debris Stevenson |
The Other Side | composer / music director | SwitchMCR | 53Two | dir. Gabriel Clark |
Handel & Hendrix | George Frideric Handel | National Youth Theatre | Somerset House | dir. Paul Roseby |
GASH Theatre needs some SPACE | Sound Designer / Composer | GASH Theatre | Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe | - |
The Concrete Jungle Book | Fat Albert / Assistant Music Director / Additional Composition | HighRise Theatre | The Pleasance, London | Dir. Dominic Garfield |
On the Edge (MELT) | JD* / Soundtrack | National Youth Theatre | COP26, Glasgow | Dir. Adeola Yemitan |
Saturnalia | Assistant Director / Music Director | Contact & HighRise Theatre | ProjektsMCR | Dir. Dominic Garfield |
Forrest of Forgotten Discos | Soundtrack | Contact | Online | Dir. Nicola Miles-Wildin |
Roll a Six | Darren* / Sound Designer | WhatStick Theatre | Online | Dir. Georgia Brown & Sass Holmes |
The Starter Kit | Jeff* / Sound Designer | Contact | Online | Dir. Keisha Thompson |
Project:ISOLATE | Sound Artist | WhatStick Theatre | Online | - |
We Won't Fall | Peter* / Music Director | SwitchMCR | International Anthony Burgess Centre | Dir. Gabriel Clark & Andy Long |
Wait Til The End (R&D) | G* / Music Director | The Pappy Show | North Wall Arts Centre | Dir. Kane Husbands |
Tuesday | Chorus | Studio Orka | Manchester International Festival | Dir. Peter Monsaert |
Fragments | Jude* | The Actors Lab | The Lowry | Dir. Sue Jenkins |
Ramping Up | The Director* | BAC | Battersea Arts Centre | Dir. David Cumming |
Oh Man! | Jack* | Contact | Site-specific | Dir. Hetain Patel |
This Earth | Alex* | Revolving Shed | Greenside, Edinburgh Fringe | Dir. Morgan Daniels |
Production | Role | Company | Venue | Project Details |
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replica | sound designer | Green shoe arts/National Theatre Connections | Queen's Theatre Hornchurch | dir. Maisie Newman |
Terminal Sound | Writer / Composer | The Lowry | The Lowry, Salford | Commissioned for Scratch Night x Musical Theatre @ The Lowry |
Bright. Young. Things. | composer | Storyhouse | Storyhouse Theatre, Chester | dir. Grainne Flynn |
scene through a lens | composition | Digital Theatre Plus/National Youth Theatre | Online | For 'Glass Menagerie' dir. Meghan Doyle |
The Loud Pack @ The V&A | DJ | HighRise Theatre | Victoria and Albert Museum | V&A Performance Festival 2023 |
The Bakkhai | additional composition | NYT REP Company | National youth theatre | dir. Maisie Newman, translation by Anne Carson |
COVID Song Cycle | Sound Artist | CONTACT | Documentary | - |
The Other Side | composer / music director | SwitchMCR | 53Two | dir. Gabriel Clark |
GASH Theatre needs some SPACE | Sound Designer / Composer | GASH Theatre | Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe | - |
The Concrete Jungle Book | Assistant Music Director / Additional Composition | HighRise Theatre | The Pleasance, London | Dir. Dominic Garfield |
On the Edge (MELT) | Soundtrack | National Youth Theatre | COP26, Glasgow | Dir. Adeola Yemitan |
Saturnalia | assistant director / sound designer | Contact & HighRise Theatre | ProjektsMCR | Dir. Dominic Garfield |
Forrest of Forgotten Discos | Soundtrack | Contact | Online | Dir. Nicola Miles-Wildin |
Roll a Six | Sound Designer | WhatStick Theatre | Online | Dir. Georgia Brown & Sass Holmes |
The Starter Kit | Sound Designer | Contact | Online | Dir. Keisha Thompson |
Project:ISOLATE | Sound Artist | WhatStick Theatre | Online | - |
We Won't Fall | Music Director | SwitchMCR | International Anthony Burgess Centre | Dir. Gabriel Clark & Andy Long |
Wait Til The End (R&D) | Music Director | The Pappy Show | North Wall Arts Centre | Dir. Kane Husbands |
TERMINAL SOUND. (2023) dir. self
The Lowry, Salford
Writer/Composer/performerTerminal Sound is a work in progress gig-theatre piece written and composed by Jack D’Arcy‘The Engineer’ has been brought into the home recording studio of a legendary artist, tasked with finishing his final album. All that has been left behind are copious, incomprehensible notes and cassette tapes. It’s his job to work through and complete this swan song—an album doused in morbidity, religiosity and sardonicism. As ‘The Engineer’ moves from mixing to recording, from tweaking to writing the songs, he begins to question whose final album this really is.
Bright. Young. Things. (2023) dir. Gráinne Flynn
Storehouse Theatre, Chester
Sound DesignerA funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are.On the set of a reality television show, six remarkable, young geniuses compete for the title ‘Britain’s Brainiest Child’. As the contestants battle it out round by round, the pressure mounts, and the spotlight gets harsher. Who will win and lose- and what exactly does winning mean anyway?
Bakkhai (2023) dir. Maisie Newman
NYT Workshop Theatre
Additional Sound and MusicA Queer reimagining of the ancient Greek classic. Underscored with original electronic dance music and filled with raucous dance. Devised with some of Britain’s most exciting new talent from the NYT REP and adapted and directed by Maisie Newman, recipient of the 2022 Bryan Forbes Directors Bursary, at the NYT Workshop Theatre. Maisie will be mentored by Sarah Frankcom as part of her Bryan Forbes Bursary.*Tracks here developed for the R&D process in December 2022
COVID Song Cycle
Documentary
CompositionA short documentary film, charting the pilot phase of a new choral co-creation project Covid Song Cycle; which is a collaboration between Manchester-based artists – composer Michael Betteridge and poets SAF, Ella Otomewo, mandla and Princess Arinola – in co-creation workshops with four distinct community groups- Sheffield Community Choir; N-Choir; Wild Voices and York Chapter House Youth Choir.Featuring original music and poetry, written collaboratively by over 100 participants, the documentary is a meditation on the transformational power of music and words to connect, unite and empathise, highlighting both the experience and value of the collective, as well as individual, experiences in creative communities.CO-PRODUCED BY HOLLY HUNTER, MICHAEL BETTERIDGE AND CONTACT. SUPPORTED USING PUBLIC FUNDING BY ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, AND WITH SUPPORT FROM SUBMERGE.
GASH Theatre Need Some Space (2022) dir. Maddie Flint and Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn
Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe
Sound Designer“Boy, you’re an alien
Your touch, so foreign
Wanna be your victim
Ready for abduction”
- Katy Perry
Come aboard the Starship Gash for a voyage of interstellar sex-ploits…
Do aliens have body image issues too?
Is there a galaxy far-far-away enough from your ex?
What’s really at the centre of a blackhole?
(Spoiler alert: it’s Demi Lovato).
Gash Theatre tackles inter-dimensional bodies and sexualities,
speeding between astronaut striptease,
himbo space-drag worthy of Flash Gordon himself,
and waaaaay too many Rick and Morty references (one).
Houston, let's get NASAty.
Mondegrin (2022)
Solo EPProduced by Jack D'Arcy
Art Design by Elli Kypriadis
Mastered by Dominic Clare at Declared Sound
Executive Produced by Sam Malik
Part of the the Level Up project at Contact, Manchester
Funded by Youth Music
Special thanks to Sam Malik, Tom Burford and Fiona Howard
The Other Side (2022) dir. Gabriel Clark
53Two
Music Director and Composer"From the moment we stepped inside... I knew something was off. There was a coldness, and a deep feeling that something dreadful was going to happen..."
What are ghosts? When Claire’s Mother dies unexpectedly, she finds herself moving back into her childhood home with her fiancé Benjamin. As the past comes back to haunt them, she and her husband-to-be must confront their future together.
‘The Other Side’ follows a newly engaged couple as they navigate grief, loss, fear and their future while dealing with a house they didn’t want, the secrets they hold and the ghosts of their past...
Saturnalia (2021) dir. Dom Garfield
Contact
Music Director/ˌsatəˈneɪlɪə/ noun:
Saturnalia: An occasion of wild revelry or indulgence.
CYC, Level Up and HighRise Theatre took over skate park ProjektsMCR to create a colosseum of celebration, imagination and revolution with an Avengers-like company of multi-talented performers including DJs, MCs, poets, dancers, musicians and storytellers.
Directed by Dominic Garfield, ‘Saturnalia’ is an immersive rave-concept performed LIVE in a skate park offering audiences the chance to transport into an underground wold of bass, politics and belonging- rising from the ashes of our brand new world.
The Starter Kit (2021) dir. Keisha Thompson
Online
Sound DesignerWant to join ‘the movement’ but not sure where to start? Join Contact Young Company to investigate the ins and outs of social movements, and the tools you need to re-imagine the future.
Contact Young Company are working with artists Amy Vreeke, Keisha Thompson and Javaad Alipoor to create a new piece of interactive, digital work that is decidedly frisky!
You’ll have the opportunity to create your own toolkit as you watch. What will you put in yours?
Social movements are fast-moving, ever-evolving spaces. Much like those movements, The Starter Kit has been growing and changing throughout the time CYC have been working on it. It might even change mid-performance!
Booking closes 24 hours before the show starts. You will receive a link to take part in the show via email. Please check your inboxes, including junk/spam email, for this.
We Won't Fall (2020) dir. Gabriel Clark & Andrew Long
The Anthony Burgess Centre
Music DirectorManchester, 2020. 80s music, homosexuality, unregistered pregnancies and artistic expression is illegal. A group of young activists return to their bar after a protest against the government. Their lives are about to change forever.
Switch_MCR Presents We Won't Fall A dystopian play exploring community, rebellion and the lives of a group of young activists living in a country policed by a far right government.
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