Richard Reeday

Richard Reeday

Orchestra Leader and Ensemble

Musical Director
Re-orchestration and additional arrangements

Theatre credits include: James & the Giant Peach (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Little Shop of Horrors (Salisbury Playhouse & Mercury Theatre); Betty Blue Eyes (Mercury Theatre, Salisbury Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Liverpool Playhouse & UK Tour); The Hired Man (Off-Broadway New York, Leicester Curve & Mercury Theatre, Old Laundry Theatre Bowness &New Perspectives TC UK tour); Quadrophenia, The History Boys, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty & Cinderella (Mercury Theatre,Colchester); Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse); Departure Lounge (Unity Theatre Liverpool & Edinburgh Fringe); Doll (Leicester Curve & New Perspectives TC); Alice In Wonderland (Nuffield Theatre Southampton); Perfect Pitch New Musicals Showcase (Trafalgar Studios London); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Boys in the Photograph (Workshop & premiere, LIPA); Closer Than Ever also playing Man 3 (Port Erin Arts Centre); The Wizard of Oz (Gateway Theatre Chester); ‘Global Search
for New Musicals’ Showcase (Cardiff International Musical Theatre Festival); Sex, Chips and Rock n Roll (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Rocky Horror Show (Official European Tour); William Finn’s Elegies: A Song Cycle (The Arts Theatre, London); Blues in the Night and Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (NSTC at the Edinburgh Fringe).

Recordings: The Hired Man (2008 New Chamber Cast Recording).

Work in performing Arts Education includes: The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA); The Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland; Trinity College of Music; The Urdang Academy and Arts Ed.

Other: Richard has been an Associate Musical Director for the Mercury Theatre, Colchester since 2012.

Award Nominations: Best Regional Musical Direction, BroadwayWorld UK Awards 2013 – The Hired Man (Mercury Theatre,
Colchester)

Training: The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).

Twitter: @richardreeday