Joseph Atkins

Joseph Atkins trained at the Royal Academy of Music and New College, Oxford. As musical director and arranger, his credits include the Olivier-nominated Josephine and I (Bush Theatre, London and Public Theater, New York), Not Such Quiet Girls (Opera North and Leeds Playhouse), All I Want is One Night (Manchester Royal Exchange), Boundless as the Sea and Miss Littlewood (Royal Shakespeare Company) The Miser and She Stoops to Conquer (both BBC Radio 3) and Liza Pulman Sings Streisand (West End and UK tour). His stage compositions include Scene Unseen (Royal and Derngate and English Touring Opera) Carnation for a Song (Young Vic) and Cabaret Macabre (British Youth Music Theatre) plus TV scores for Mud, Sweat and Tractors and Shooting the War (BBC4). Other recent engagements include artist-in-residence at the 2021 Lichfield Festival, plus cabaret appearances at the Cadogan Hall, Wilton’s Music Hall and the Liverpool Philharmonic.