Rebecca Aplin

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; and Arabian Nights (all Watford Palace Theatre); Ashputtel and Around the World in 80 Days (Forest Forge); 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 Nuffiel 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); Sex and the Village (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and The Walpole Orange (Robert Atkins Studio, 2006)

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 is 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.  Rebecca is currently studying for a PhD researching aspects of commercial musical theatre at Anglia Ruskin University.