Tim is a folksinger, songwriter and actor. He has performed with Magic Lantern and The Melstock Band, and played concertina in six productions at The National Theatre. As an actor-musician he has appeared in many productions at the Young National Trust Theatre, The Chichester Festival Theatre, Leicester Haymarket and the Old Vic. Acting roles have varied from the Gentleman Mouse in the Tailor of Gloucester to Jesus in The Passion. Tim has written and directed ten plays and has collaborated on many more. He works regularly for The Lions Part and Solomon Theatre. He is currently performing
The Land by Vita Sackville-West with actress Sonia Ritter, and his own one-man play The Year Clock,
a dramatic and musical celebration of the life of the Dorset poet William Barnes, with live music by Colin Thompson.
Tim has composed and arranged music for many plays, including Wind in the Willows, Pirates of Treasure Island, Scrooge! and The Borrowers for Jakes Ladder Theatre Company and two community plays in Dorset, On the Green Rock by David Cregan (the Shaftesbury Community Play) and A Time to Keep, the Fifth Dorchester Community Play by Stephanie Dale and David Edgar. Both plays were directed by Jon Oram. Tim has also been working with Stephanie Dale on a new adaptation of Moonfleet by John Meade Faulkner.
Tim is a specialist in the songs, traditions and dialect of the West Country, and the poetry and prose of William Barnes and Thomas Hardy. He often gives solo recitals and he appears regularly in schools, performing traditional music and storytelling. His extensive repertoire of English folksong forms the basis of the material for The New Scorpion Band.
