BIOGRAPHY

Tim Sutton

An actor with green eyes, wearing a blue flat cap and headphones hanging around their neck, looking into camera

Tim Sutton is a composer and musical director for theatre and radio.

Previous work at the Globe includes Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night.

Music credits include: Restless Natives (Perth and Touring 2025); To the Streets! (B22 Festival); The Omission of the Family Coleman (Theatre Royal Bath); Women Beware Women, Two Noble Kinsmen, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Amen Corner (National Theatre); The Lavender Hill Mob (Cheltenham/tour); The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Dreamfighter (Lichfield Festival); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland); As You Like It (Wyndham’s Theatre); As You Desire Me (The Playhouse).

Radio Credits include: Mother Courage and Her Children, Alexei Sayle’s Imaginary Sandwich Bar, The Now Show, and Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz (BBC Radio 4).

Music credits for film includes Reasons.

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

Tim Sutton 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 professional development programme since its inception in 2011.