About

Stephen is a multi-award-winning composer, writer and director from Cumbria

composer 🎧

Hailed by The Stage as “excellent, idiosyncratic and genuinely contemporary”, his music draws on a diverse range of sounds genres — from folk to classical to pop — to create a highly original voice for theatre. His work has been performed across the UK, at venues including the New Diorama, Arcola (London) and the Hope Mill (Manchester) and has included commissions from The National Theatre and The Other Palace. He is currently a Developed With Artist at Lowry, Salford.

“Stephen Hyde’s musical score is seriously impressive…
These songs are not just catchy, but clever too”
Broadway Baby

director / writer ✍️

Stephen is co-founder and Artistic Director of actor-musician company The Three Inch Fools, with whom he has directed a number of Shakespeare’s plays alongside writing his own original historical comedies, including The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I, The Secret Diary of Henry VIII, and The Gunpowder Plot. His musical theatre work includes the pop opera The Marriage of Kim K and dark comedy pop thriller Dead Famous, in development with Lowry.

Stephen’s other writing collaborations include being one half of musical theatre duo leo&hyde, musicals with poet & novelist Katie Hale (My Name is Monster); as well as an ongoing songwriting partnership with Manchester poet, Tony Walsh “Longfella” (This is the Place). He has also collaborated extensively with director Sean Turner (The Play That Goes Wrong).

“Hyde’s inventive and ornate musical score… careens from Mozartian tunes to digital textures smoothed by a string quartet intricately filling the gaps”
The Guardian

musical supervisor / 🎶

He has worked as a Musical Supervisor on several large scale productions including Anne Boleyn: The Musical (Roxanna Silbert, Historalia); Twelfth Night & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Gatehouse); and The Prince and the Pauper (Trinity Theatre); working with performers including Kerry Ellis (Wicked), Jonathan Hyde (Titanic), Seann Miley Moore (X Factor), folk singer Bella Hardy and comedian Seann Walsh.

“Hyde’s music does the impossible… it skips from one [style] to the next with great fluency”
Express
“Hyde’s idiosyncratic score is excellent… haunting ballads are effortlessly fused with original pop anthems to create a genuinely contemporary score that’s rich in detail and intricate in its rhythms”
The Stage

If you would like to talk about anything arts-related, please do get in touch – I’d love to hear from you!
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stephenjghyde@gmail.com
07960 154950