Stephen Guy Daltry is a pianist, composer, actor and filmmaker. A student of the National Film School (1990-1994), Stephen has scored music for over 40 television documentaries and films, from 'The Hunt' (BBC2 - Cultural Prix Italia, 1999) , 'Diana, Secrets Behind the Crash' (1998, ITV), 'Too Scared for School (CH4, 2004), to the recent feature-length 'The Lost World of Mr Hardy' (Trufflepig Films, 2008) and 'Charlotte: A Royal At War' (Grace Productions, 2008) for Luxembourg cinemas.
Stephen was commissioned by Oxford Patron Pamela Barlow to musically adapt 'Alice Through the Looking-Glass', and the work was premiered at the British Library as part of its Millennium Festival of Literature, subsequently transferring to the New End Hampstead in a critically successful production directed by Stephen and Maureen Thomas.
The stage musical FOREVER SPLENDIDE, a collaboration between Stephen and actor/writer Lesley Albiston, is set in a little cinema in 1946, about a starstruck usherette Rosy Smith. it premiered at the King's Head Islington in 1990 and Salisbury Dramatic Association did a lively successful production of it at the Salisbury Arts Centre in June 1996. After workshops at the Royal Academy of Music and a reading at the Bridewell, SPLENDIDE will be remounted in the near future.
Stephen is currently collaborating with Irish playwright Brian McAvera ('Picasso's Women', NT 2000, 'Kings of the Road', Lyric Hammersmith). A workshop performance of 'DID YOU, DR CRIPPEN?' will take place in January 2010.
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