GAVIN O'LOGHLEN

Gavin O'Loghlen is an actor, author, composer, musician, director and recording artist having written over twenty music theatre productions and plays for stage and film. He plays a wide variety of instruments and has worked as a session musician on many recordings.

Gavin O'Loghlen has a degree in Drama and many years experience in Music, Music Theatre and Drama productions.

Gavin started playing bagpipes at 11 years of age and played for a number of years in pipe bands and in Highland competitions. Upon entering university to study a degree in drama, he added guitar, keyboards and flute to his list of instruments. During the course of his studies there was a gradual shift from acting, which was his major, to writing music for theatre productions. This tended to take the form of atmospheric pieces using synthesizers and banks of keyboards and was compared to the symphonic progressive sounds of early Genesis and King Crimson, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel. The theatre productions gradually evolved to became more complex and eventually ended up as rock operas - theatre pieces of between 90 and 120 minutes all sung and performed to a musical soundtrack with live musicicans.

Gavin also returned to his musical roots with the creation of "Cotters Bequest" a progressive Celtic ensemble that used Highland, Uilleann, Northumbrian and Scottish small pipes amid layers of keyboards, guitars and vocals. Cotters Bequest have released three albums and are currently writing and recording their fourth.

PAST AND CURRENT WORKS

PRODUCTION	AUTHOR / COMPANY	ROLE
Henry IV Part 11	William Shakespeare	Actor
The Insect Play	Josef and Karel Kapek	Actor
Mystery Bouffe	Vladimir Mayakovsky	Actor / composer / musician
Peer Gynt	Henrik Ibsen	Actor / musician / musical director
Ride across Lake Constance	Peter Handke	Actor
Man of Mode	George Etherege	Actor
Fando and Lis	Fernando Arrabal	Actor
Dan Morgan	Robert Kimber	Actor / composer / muscician / musical director
The Nose	Nikolai Gogol	Actor
Towards a poor theatre	Jerzy Grotowski	Actor (European tour)
The Bed-Sitting room	John Antrobus and Spike Milligan	Actor
Jeux de massacre	Eugéne Ionesco	Actor
Women of Troy	Euripides	Composer / musician / musical director
Ham Funeral	Patrick White	Composer / musician / musical director
Joseph and the amazing technicolour Dreamcoat	Andrew LLoyd Webber	Musician / musical director / director
Sebastian and the quest for the fourth person	Gavin O'Loghlen	Composer / musician / musical director / director
The Hobbit	JRR Tolkien	Composer / musician / musical director / director
Four Days	Gavin O'Loghlen	Composer / musician / musical director / director
Warlord	Gavin O'Loghlen	Composer / musician / musical director / director
In the Image of Narcissus	Gavin O'Loghlen	Actor / composer / musician / musical director / director
The Adolescence of Miss Trust	Gavin O'Loghlen	Actor / composer / musician / musical director / director
The Problems of Nuts and how to conker them	Gavin O'Loghlen	Actor / composer / musician / musical director / director
Nerbellus of Blog	Gavin O'Loghlen	Actor / composer / musician / musical director / director
The Poet and the Priest	Gavin O'Loghlen	Composer / musician
Greeks plays for children	Gavin O'Loghlen	Author
Antigone	Sophocles	Composer / musician / musical director / director
A Good Yarn	Alan Lyne	Composer / musician / musical director
Straight from the Horse's Mouth	Alan Lyne	Composer / musician / musical director
The Valley Beyond	Gavin O'Loghlen	Composer / musician / musical director/ director
Black Comedy	Peter Shaffer	Director
Noises Off	Michael Frayn	Actor / director
The Women	Sophocles / Euripides / Aeschylus	Director
The Colour of Beauty	Gavin O'Loghlen	Composer / musician / musical director/ director
Medea	Euripides	Director
Like a Rubber Band	Gavin O'Loghlen	Composer / musician / musical director/ director
Look Look	Michael Frayn	Director
The Island	Gavin O'Loghlen	Composer / musician / musical director/ director
Marat / Sade	Peter Weiss	Director
In the Home of my Ancestors	Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest	Composer / musician
Ancient Lands	Loch'rien	Composer / musician
My Mother's Country	Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest	Composer / musician
Grim Tales	Young Vic Theatre company	Composer / musician / musical director
The Venetian Twins	Nick Enright and Terence Clarke	Musician / musical director
Arabian Nights	Young Vic Theatre company	Composer / musician / musical director
Land of the vast horizon	Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest	Composer / musician
The Kelly Dance	Troupe Theatre Company	Composer / musician / musical director

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