Jude Obermüller

Jude Oberm ller is a British composer whose eclectic work spans Theatre, Dance and Recorded Media. His recent credits include scores for CRAMPS (TV Pilot sketch show for Comedy Central); JULIUS CAESAR (Singapore Repertory Theatre?s 25th Anniversary production, dir. Guy Unsworth); AS YOU LIKE IT (Southwark Playhouse, Off West End, dir. Derek Bond); the European Premiere of FARRAGUT NORTH (starring Shaun Williamson, Josh O'Connor and Rachel Tucker at Southwark Playhouse, dir. Guy Unsworth); ALICE IN WONDERLAND (inaugurating Chester's Storyhouse, dir. Derek Bond); UNDERGROUND (59E59, Off Broadway, dir. Kate Tiernan); and music for UN Refugee Agency?s MOVING STORIES (Theatre Royal, Haymarket, West End, dir. Guy Unsworth); UCAS (Edinburgh Fringe, book & lyrics by Holly Bellamy). His first opera with Genevieve Dawson, I REMEMBER THE SHIP was premiered through T te T te for the centennial of the Titanic (Britten Theatre, London, dir. Bill Bankes-Jones). His first full dancework, NEHEMIAH (with Mathew James) was premiered through the JCC Manhattan. His cantata, HEARTLAND, written with celebrated author Nicky Singer, was commissioned and premiered by Scarabeus Aerial Theatre (Andover Estate, London). His work has been recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and played at The London Festival of Cabaret; The Other Palace, London; 54 Below; NYMF; New Musicals Inc. LA; Music Theater Kansas City; The London Hippodrome; Encores at New York City Center (where he won the Alan Menken Remixed Award in 2016) - as well as film festivals including: Seoul International Animation Festival; This is England Animation Festival, Rouen; Tricky Women Animation Festival, Vienna. In 2012, he worked closely with Les Mis rables co-creator Alain Boublil, musically adapting and reorchetsrating the Off West End revival of his and the great Michel Legrand's score for MARGUERITE (new book by Guy Unsworth; new lyrics by Callum McIntyre). Other orchestrations and arrangements include ONLY MEN ALOUD AT CHRISTMAS (UK Tour 2013, dir. Jonathan Butterell); ROBBIE WILLIAMS SWINGS BOTH WAYS (International Tour 2013); Peter Polycarpou's THE SONGS OF MY LIFE (Garrick Theatre, West End); BRAVA (G Live) - arranging for Matt Lucas; several concerts of MASH-UP (Leicester Square Theatre) - arranging for Cynthia Erivo and Natasha Barnes. He has worked as Frances Ruffelle's musical director and co-arranger since 2013, working on PARIS ORIGINAL (The Other Palace, London, dir. Matt Ryan); I SAY YEH YEH (The Kennedy Center, D.C.; Joes Pub at The Public Theater; & Pizza Express, Holborn); and FRANCES RUFFELLE LIVE(S) IN NEW YORK (The Green Room 42; & Rockwell Table & Stage, LA). Over the years, their guest artists have included Eliza (formerly Eliza Doolittle), Sally Ann Triplett, Catherine Porter, Craig Bierko, and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt. His other highlights as MD for one-person shows include: A BAKERS DOZEN with Paul Baker (54 Below, dir. Frances Ruffelle); SEIS N with Fra Fee (54 Below), with guests Rachel Bay Jones, Scarlett Strallen and Laura Jane Matthewson; XARA WITH AN X with Xara Vaughan (Edinburgh Festival; & London Festival of Cabaret, dir. Mary Hammond); I CAN'T TRACE TIME with Andrea Bell Wolff (The Laurie Beechman; & Pangea NYC, dir. Dan Ruth); GIRL NO MORE and BALLAD OF A BROADWAY TWENTY-SOMETHING with Eva Noblezada (Feinstein's AMP by Strathmore, Bethesda; & The Green Room 42). He was a Wayne Sleep Foundation Scholar of The Royal College of Music where he studied with Michael Zev Gordon, Joseph Horovitz and Mark Anthony Turnage. He was also a Deans Scholar of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program). He divides his time between London and New York.