Paddy Cunneen

COMPOSER

Paddy Cunneen is a theatre director, playwright and composer. He is an associate director of Cheek by Jowl Theatre.

As a composer he worked on some 200 productions for many theatre companies in the UK, Ireland and on Broadway.

He is a recipient of the Christopher Whelen Award for Music in Theatre, two Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, and a Music Industry Award for Best Cast Album for the Donmar Warehouse production of Company.

He composes for radio, TV and film – his score for the Channel 4 film Boy A was BAFTA nominated.

As a writer he has had two plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and has written five stage plays which have performed throughout Scotland and abroad. His his plays Fleeto and Wee Andy won awards at the Edinburgh, Adelaide and an Brighton Fringe festivals.

His play Watching The Detective saw its performer, Stuart Bowman, nominated for best actor in the 2012 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland.

AWARDS

CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR THEATRE IN SCOTLAND

KING LEAR Best Music & Sound (2012)

TWELFTH NIGHT Best Music & Sound (2004)

PRODUCTION	VENUE/PRODUCER	YEAR	NOTES
Fuente Ovejuna	Theatre For A New Audience	2023
Anna Karenina	Bunkamura Theatre, Tokyo	2023
The Comedy of Errors	Royal Shakespeare Company	2021	Outdoor production in Garden Theatre
A Long Day's Journey Into Night	Bunkamura Theatre, Tokyo	2021
A Very Expensive Poison	The Old Vic	2019
The Provoked Wife	Royal Shakespeare Company	2019
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Regent's Park Open Air Theatre	2019
Crime and Punishment	Bunkamura, Japan	2019
Shakespeare in Love	UK Tour	2018
A Streetcar Named Desire	Bunkamura, Japan	2017
The Beauty Queen of Leeane	Brooklyn Academy of Music, Off Broadway	2017
The Beauty Queen of Leeane	Druid Theatre	2016
Shakespeare in Love	West End & Stratford Festival, Ontario	2014
The Merry Wives of Windsor	Royal Shakespeare Company	2012
Sleeping Beauty	Citizen's Theatre	2012
King Lear	Citizen's Theatre	2011
Peer Gynt	Dundee REP	2007
Wiping My Mother's Arse	Traverse Theatre	2007
Period of Adjustment	Almeida Theatre	2006
Bury/Chatroom/Citzenship	National Theatre	2006
The Life of Galileo	National Theatre	2006
The Pillowman	Broadway	2005
President of an Empty Room	National Theatre	2005
Playing with Fire	National Theatre	2005
The Pillowman	National Theatre	2003
Twelfth Night	National Theatre	2003
Antony & Cleopatra	Royal Shakespeare Company	2002
Hinterland	Out of Joint, Abbey Theatre & National Theatre	2002
She Stoops to Conquer / A Laughing Matter	Out of Joint & National Theatre	2002
Private Lives	Broadway	2002
The Plough and the Stars	Abbey Theatre & Tour	2002
Hinterland	Abbey Theatre	2002
The Prisoner's Dilemma	Royal Shakespeare Company	2001
Henry IV, Parts I & II	Royal Shakespeare Company	2001
Big Maggie	Abbey Theatre	2001
The Ballad of Crazy Paola	Traverse Theatre	2001
The Duchess of Malfi	Royal Shakespeare Company	2000
On Raftery's Hill	Druid Theatre & Royal Court	2000
The Hackney Office	Druid Theatre	2000
The Lonesone West	Broadway	1999
Closer	Broadway	1999
Battle Royal	National Theatre	1999
Antigone	The Old Vic	1999
The Leeane Trilogy	Druid Theatre & Royal Court	1999
The Iceman Cometh	Broadway	1999
The Country Boy	Druid Theatre	1999
School for Scandal	Royal Shakespeare Company	1998
Flight	National Theatre	1998
The Beauty Queen of Leeane	Broadway	1998
The Blue Room	Broadway	1998
Vassa	Albery Theatre	1998
Racing Demon	Chichester Festival Theatre	1998
The Beauty Queen of Leeane	Druid Theatre	1998
Chips with Everything	National Theatre	1997
Othello	National Theatre	1997
The Cripple of Inishman	National Theatre	1997
Closer	National Theatre	1997
The Iceman Cometh	Almeida Theatre	1997
The Illusion	Royal Exchange Theatre	1997
Portia Coughlan	Abbey Theatre	1996
Blue Remembered Hills	National Theatre	1996
Portia Coughlan	Royal Court	1996
Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards	National Theatre	1996
The Misanthrope	Young Vic	1996
Popcorn	Nottingham Playhouse	1996
Painter of Dishonour	Royal Shakespeare Company & Barbican	1995
The Colleen Bawn	Royal Exchange Theatre	1995
The Devil's Disciple	National Theatre	1994
The Birthday Party	National Theatre	1994
Measure for Measure	Cheek by Jowl	1994
The Seagull	Gate Theatre, Dublin	1994
Silverlands	Druid Theatre	1994
Don't Fool With Love / The Blind Men	Cheek by Jowl	1993
Richard III	Royal Shakespeare Company	1993
Angels In America Parts I & II	National Theatre	1993
A Doll's House	Gate Theatre, Dublin	1993
The Lady from the Sea	West Yorkshire Playhouse	1993
The Changeling	Royal Shakespeare Company	1992
Fuente Overjuna	National Theatre	1992
The Alchemist	Royal Shakespeare Company	1992
The Recruiting Officer	National Theatre	1992
The Sea	National Theatre	1991
As You Like It	Cheek by Jowl	1991
Sara Sampson	Cheek by Jowl	1990
Hamlet	Cheek by Jowl	1990
Peer Gynt	National Theatre	1990
The Treatment	Royal Court	1990
Lady Betty	Cheek by Jowl	1989
King of the Castle	Abbey Theatre	1989
The Tempest	Cheek by Jowl	1988
Philoctetes	Cheek by Jowl	1988

TV & FILM CREDITS

PRODUCTION	VENUE/PRODUCER	YEAR	NOTES
Splendid Isolation: The Girl in the Window	Lyric Theatre Belfast / BBC	2020	Short film
Nan	Brighter Pictures Ltd	2009
Boy A	Film 4	2007	BAFTA Nomination - Best Score (2008)
Afterlife	Gabriel Films	2003
Bite	Imagine Films Ltd	1997
Two Oranges and a Mango	BBC 2	1993
The Maitlands	BBC 2	1992

MUSIC & RADIO CREDITS

PRODUCTION	VENUE/PRODUCER	YEAR	NOTES
Cymbeline	BBC Radio 4 Drama
Sprite	BBC Radio 4 Drama
Tamburlaine	BBC Radio 4 Drama
Henry IV (Parts I & II)	BBC Radio 4 Drama
Burdalane	BBC Radio 4 Drama
Mr Wroe's Virgins	BBC Radio 4 Drama
The Jew of Malta	BBC Radio 4 Drama

OPERA CREDITS

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