Becky Applin

Rebecca studied Music at Cambridge University and as a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music, where she studied Composition for Film.  She has since been working for seven years as a professional composer, musical director and lecturer.

Composition credits include: Milestones;Success; andArabian Nights (all Watford Palace Theatre); Ashputtel, Around the World in 80 Days, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, and Peeling  (all Forest Forge Theatre Company); Rapunsel, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Match Girl; Pinocchio; Hansel and Gretel and Robin Hood:The Secrets of Sherwood (all Full House Theatre Company); Brecht’s Leherstuck and Fable; Fly Away Parvel, Fly Away Piotr; The Odyssey (all Nuffield Theatre, Southampton) Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing (RJ Williamson Company national tour) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Royal, Bath) The Comedy of Errors (Arts Theatre, Cambridge) Ceridwen – a new ballet (Greenwich Playhouse) Into the Light (The Tramway, Glasgow).  Five seasons as resident composer for White Horse Theatre Company, Germany for a current total of 30 plays including Pinter’s Betrayal, Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking and various Shakespeare plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth.

Rebecca’s own projects include Something Strange (Grimeborn at the Arcola Theatre, 2009); and The Walpole Orange (Robert Atkins Studio, 2006).  The musical Sex and the Village, written with Sue Pearse, is currently in development with Perfect Pitch Musicals.

Rebecca also works as a practitioner for youth theatres including for Youth Music Theatre: UK for whom she has composed and musically directed residential studios.  She also works for the International Schools Theatre Association, with whom she has been a composer on a musical theatre festival in Hamburg. 

She was also the tutor of the Compose a New Musical course at Benslow Music Trust and lectures in the History of Musical Theatre at Urdang Academy and at Anglia Ruskin University.  Rebecca is currently studying for a PhD researching aspects of commercial musical theatre at Anglia Ruskin University.