Tom Boyd Biography/cv (resume)

Born in Indianapolis Indiana, USA

Education:

Shortridge High School, Indianapolis

Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington

The American Academy of Dramatic Arts - New York

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama - London

Private music composition studies with George Tremblay, Los Angeles

Employment:

Program Supervisor, WTTV television, Indianapolis

Story analyst, Paramount Studios, Hollywood

Story analyst for the Westinghouse Playhouse TV drama series, Desilu Studios, Hollywood

Co-Proprietor (with Sally Boyd), The Chelsea House restaurant, Westwood Village, Los Angeles

xx Chelsea House restaurant, Los Angeles, 1960

Advertising agencies (creative departments) in London: Charles Hobson & Grey (Greys), Leo Burnett, Ogilvy & Mather, BBDO

Singer/comedian Harry Secombe in a musical TV commercial for telephones, with words and music by Tom Boyd for BBDO

Principal, All-in-English total immersion language school, Hampstead, London

Director, English Language Enterprises, producers of EFL material

Journalist - interviewer (click HERE for list) and international correspondent for Speak Up magazine (pub. Italy, Spain, France, former Yugoslavia & Brazil).

Tom Boyd interviewing the former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, 1985 and (right) academy award-winning actor Jeremy Irons 1986

Director, Englang Publishing, Poulton, Gloucestershire

Co-Director (with Sally Boyd) Poulton Productions

Stage director/ librettist, Malvern Hills Opera

Co-Director (with William Bell), Bel Canto Opera

September 2005: The Cheltenham Arts Council awarded Tom Boyd the Opera Cup for innovation and interpretation of operas.

Publications and/or original work produced:

Theatre: Book, music & lyrics for stage musicals: Chalet and Heavens to Betsy (Indianapolis), We’re From Missouri (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London), Tom Sawyer, (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London and touring), Incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tower Theatre, Canonbury, London) Tom Sawyer 2010 revival (Poulton and Cirencester, Gloucestershire)

CHALET

HEAVENS TO BETSY

WE'RE FROM MSSOURI

TOM SAWYER 1960

TOM SAWYER 2010

Radio/Television: composer: Theme music for Four Faces of Christ (BBC TV) - writer: English Overheard (BBC World Service), Both Ends Meet /Dora (ITV comedy series starring Dora Bryan),

Dora Bryan in The Dinner Party an episode from the TV series DORA (previously BOTH ENDS MEET) written by Tom Boyd with Stanley Segal and Jessica Taylor 1972

Recording: writer/producer: The English Speaking World a 12 part cassette series with a cast that includes Alan Bates, Sinead and Sorcha Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Peter Barkworth, Gordon Jackson, and Keith Michel.

Jeremy Irons recording The English Speaking World, 1982

Books: author: All in the Family (2009); A World in a Grain of Sand - Poulton, a Cotswold Village Revealed (1993 ; A Bowl of Cherries (1992); In Their Own Words (1988); America and Britain in Contrast (1985)

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Opera librettos (English versions) writer/director: The Impresario (der Schauspieldirektor - Mozart), The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Tosca (Puccini), Rigoletto (Verdi), Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck), Lakme (Delibes), Martha (Flotow), The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore - Donizetti), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Nicolai), Don Pasquale (Donizetti) and The Magic Flute (die Zauberflöte - Mozart)

The Impresario
The Tales of Hoffmann
Tosca
Rigoletto
Hansel and Gretel
Lakme

Martha

The Elixir of Love
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Don Pasquale
The Magic Flute

All of Tom Boyd's English versions of the operas were performed between 1996 and 2007 by Bel Canto Opera in Gloucestershire, England

Tom Boyd's English version of MARTHA was performed by Haddo House Opera, Aberdeen, in 2005

Tom Boyd's English version of THE ELIXIR OF LOVE was performed by STANLEY OPERA, Concordia Theatre, Hinkley in April, 2008

Tom Boyd's English version of TOSCA performed by HIGH DESERT OPERA, Colorado, USA, July, 2008, and by the INTIMATE OPERA COMPANY, Pasadena, California, April 2010

click here for Tom Boyd interview in the OXFORD TIMES Feb. 2007

click here for article about Tom Boyd in Poulton in the Wilts & Glos STANDARD 2005

click for Tom Boyd interview in the Gloucestershire ECHO 2002

and here for Tom Boyd profile in the Wilts & Glos STANDARD 1995

 

Personal

Married to Sally Milford

Children:

1 daughter: Polly, publishing editor (married to Mark Palmer, marketing director, This England and Beautiful Britain magazines

1 son: Tim, (proprietor, NEW WAVE SEAFOODS (catering) and retail: NEW WAVE FISH SHOP, CIRENCESTER (married to Maisie Ingram)

Son Tim and daughter Polly

Grandchildren:

Hector (14) and Jessica (1 8) Palmer and Bella Boyd (born 21 January 2010)

Sally with grandson Hector and with granddaughter Jessica - April 2010 - granddaughter Bella Boyd, born January 2010

son-in-law Mark Palmer and daughter-in-law Maisie Boyd née Ingram

 

All living in Gloucestershire, England

Cheers!

 

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