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

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Chelsea House restaurant, Westwood Village, Los Angeles, 1960-1962

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 GPO telephones (now British Telecom), with words and music by Tom Boyd for BBDO.

The Two Ronnies

Comic actor RONNIE BARKER in another commercial for GPO telephones ( British Telecom), written for him by Tom Boyd.

 

Tom Boyd (as a nun) with comedian RONNIE CORBITT in a cinema commercial he wrote for the Milk Marketing Board 'drinka pinta milka day' campaign, for Ogilvy and Mather

 

Jazz singer ANNIE ROSS sings 3 of Tom Boyd's TV advertising jingles for Long Life Beer - King Krunch Chocolate Bar - Delight Margarine

 

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

Below: Live shows in the Poulton village hall with local talent , produced and directed by Tom Boyd - PARTY PIECES 1995 (40 minutes) and THE POULTON MUSIC HALL 1996 (40 minutes)

Stage director/ librettist, Malvern Hills Opera

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

Above: duet from THE ELIXIR OF LOVE by Donizetti - Words and direction by Tom Boyd

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 1949

HEAVENS TO BETSY 1950

WE'RE FROM MISSOURI 1956

TOM SAWYER 1960

TOM SAWYER 2010

UP FROM NEW ORLEANS from the 2010 revival production of Tom Boyd's musical, Tom Sawyer

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 Dinner at 8, one of the episodes from the weekly TV sit-com series DORA (previously BOTH ENDS MEET) written by Tom Boyd together with Stanley Segal and Jessica Taylor 1972. (right) Fanny Carby, Timothy Bateson, Ivor Dean and Dora.

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.

The young JEREMY IRONS recording The English Speaking World, in Tom's recording studio in Hampstead, London, 1982

Books: author: Script and lyrics of the musical Tom Sawyer (2010) 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: Dr Miracle (Bizet) 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)

Doctor Miracle	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*

* except The Tales of Hoffmann which was performed by Malvern Hills Opera at the Festival Theatre, Great Malvern

Tom Boyd's English version of MARTHA was performed by HADDO HOUSE OPERA, Aberdeen, Scotland in 2005

Tom Boyd's English version of THE ELIXIR OF LOVE was performed by STANLEY OPERA, Concordia Theatre, Hinkley Leicestershire England 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, USA April 2010

Tom Boyd's English version of RIGOLETTO was performed by STANLEY OPERA, Concordia Theatre, Hinkley, Leicestershire England in April, 2011

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

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Children:

1 daughter: Polly, publishing editor (married to Mark Palmer, Product Development Manager, 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)

Daughter Polly and son Tim

Grandchildren:

A fully functional family - all living in the Cotswolds

Gloucestershire, England

Cheers!

 

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