Ben Goddard

31 Jan 2014

Ben has a BA Hons in Music from Leeds University and trained at Guildford School of Acting.

Ben has Musically Directed countless Rock ‘n’ Roll shows in the UK and around the world. For the last 20 years Ben has been working as Musical Director for the New Wolsey Theatre on productions including Never Lost at Home, One Man, Two Guvnors, Once, Oxy and the Morons, Our Blue Heaven, Mods and Rox, Little Shop of Horrors and many Rock ’n’ Roll pantos. He composed the music for the recent production of Trio and Midsummer Songs seen in 2014 at the New Wolsey.

He has also written music for plays at Nottingham Playhouse, Derby Playhouse, a score for a musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona which had a successful run in Seoul, Korea, an original score for Macbeth for the Gale Theatre in Barbados and arranged music for many other productions nationwide. He recently MD’d and toured with The All Balls and Glitter Tour with Craig Revel Horwood. Ben orchestrated and supervised the National tours of Tom – a new musical about the life of Tom Jones – and Jackie The Musical, and MD’d Made in Dagenham and The Hired Man for the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. He is a Musical Director for EastEnders and regularly enjoys playing piano in the Queen Vic.

As an actor, theatre credits include Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet (USA Broadway Tour, Nomination Best Supporting Actor in a Musical – Nöel Coward Theatre, West End); Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (Olivier nomination for best Company Performance – Comedy Theatre, West End and Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Arnauld Du Tihl in Martin Guerre (Watermill Theatre); Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar (National and European Tour). Also for Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Kelly in The Beautiful Game (Cambridge Theatre); Edward Ireton in Two Cities (Salisbury Playhouse) for Howard Goodhall; Juan in Murderous Instincts (Savoy Theatre); Detective Sergeant Trotter in The Mouse Trap (St Martins Theatre); Damien in Old Big ‘Ead in The Spirit of the Man (Nottingham Playhouse & Tour); Sanders-Draper in The Good Intent and Tom in The Glass Menagerie (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Charles B Cochrane in Over my Shoulder (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Paris in Romeo and Juliet, ensemble in Oh! What a Lovely War and Amiens in As You Like It (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Horatio in Hamlet and Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing (Ludlow Festival); Inigo Jollifant in The Good Companions (Belgrade Theatre Coventry); Dandini in Cinderella –The Panto with Soul (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Exchange Manchester); Boy in Kiss the Sky (Shepherds Bush Empire).

Television/Film credits include: Demon in Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black; Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd; Lt Walton in The Somme: From Defeat to Victory (BBC); Crispin Yates in Trial and Retribution (BBC); Neville in London Bridge (Carlton Television); Guy in Bugs (BBC); Celebrity Gogglebox with Craig Revel Horwood (C4).