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Dougal Irvine

DOUGAL IRVINE

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  represented by Rachel Daniels

Dougal is an award winning composer, lyricist and writer. He trained in playwriting at the Royal Court. Credits as Bookwriter/Lyricist/Composer: Departure Lounge (many productions including LONDON Waterloo East [Whatsonstage award nomination - Best New Musical], OFF BROADWAY Public Theatre - New York Summer Play Festival, CHICAGO Royal George Theatre, BELFAST Grand Opera House), In Touch (LONDON Bridewell Theatre JAPAN Rabinest Theatre), The Other School (St James Theatre/NYMT), Angry Birds (Havering Theatre), The Buskers Opera (Park Theatre). As Lyricist: Britain's Got Bhangra (2 National Tours Stratford East/Watford Palace 2010/11/15 - TMA Award nomination - Best Musical Production, Off West End Award Winner - Best New Musical). Laila (Rifco Arts, 2016 tour). The Lighthouse (Production Exchange). As Composer: The Witches (Leicester Curve/Tour) Teddy (Southwark Playhouse) The Snow Queen (Nuffield Theatre/Royal & Derngate), The Bacchae and Blood Wedding (Royal & Derngate - during the Cameron Mackintosh/Mercury Musicals Resident composer scheme), The Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor and The Comedy of Errors (Hazlitt Theatre, Touring), Captured by the Dark (StopGap Theatre). Songs by Dougal have featured at three WhatsonStage Award winner's concerts and the song cycles A Song Cycle for Soho (Soho Theatre) and Beyond the Gate (Gate Theatre) His albumAcoustic Overtures: The Songs of Dougal Irvine features a forward by Stephen Fry and the Stiles and Drewe song prize winning Do You Want A Baby Baby? Dougal was also runner up in the prestigious Arts Foundation award.

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         Angry Birds         Britain's Got Bhangra         Buskers Opera, The         Departure Lounge         In Touch         Laila         Lighthouse, The         Other School, The         Snow Queen, The         Teddy         Unzipped - The Ultimate Package Musical
Angry Birds

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Havering Theatre    

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Britain's Got Bhangra

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Britain's Got Bhangra charts the rise of British Bhangra from the sequin clad 80s through to the RnB fusion of the current charts. Twinkle arrives fresh from the fields of the Punjab with a song in his heart and no money in his pocket. Can his talent shine through or will the remixed bling of the 90's DJ's ruin his dreams? Bring the family and move to the rhythm and Bhangra. Shake your shoulders, twist that lightbulb; this is the story of how Britain got Bhangra. a new musical guaranteed to lift you from the dhol drums!

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book by Pravesh Kumar; lyrics by Douglas Irvine; music by Sumeet Chopra

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Theatre Royal Stratford east and RIFCO Arts in association with Warwick Arts Centre

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Musical

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Buskers Opera, The

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London, 2012. The night before the Opening Ceremony. A group of street performers called 'the 99percenters,' gather in protest against the over-priced, corporate games. Among them is Macheath, satirist and ladies' man, whose razor sharp wit is slashing chunks out of the Mayor's reputation. Powerful figures are watching. With the ever influential media operating twenty-four-seven, capital punishment has found a new method of delivery. - See more at: https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-buskers-opera#sthash.9CMl7DX5.dpuf

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Inspired by The Beggar's Opera by John Gay

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Michael Peavoy, Neil Marcus and Paul Tyrer & Jamie Clark for Buskers Opera Ltd in association with Park Theatre - See more at: https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-buskers-opera#sthash.9CMl7DX5.dpuf

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Departure Lounge

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Delayed at Malaga airport after a week in the sun to celebrate their graduation from school, four less-than-innocent 18 year olds caught between adolescence and adulthood reminisce about their time together. It soon becomes clear that their individual memories of the holiday are at odds, particularly when it comes to romance and the girl on all their minds. . .. Is she as innocent as we're lead to think and will the boys friendships hold firm as they all face a coming of age?

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musical comedy

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In Touch

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part of Perfect Pitch

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musical 45 min extract

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Laila

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lyricist - Dougal Irvine

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UK tour     2016

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Rifco arts

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Lighthouse, The

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lyricist - Dougal Irvine

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Other School, The

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Polly and Kester Parish are bored of first days. This is their fifth new school in five years thanks to Mum's job. This school seems a bit different though. Every student seems to have suffered a random freaky accident. Some of them enjoy snapping their limbs and slamming their fingers in doors. That Headmistress is definitely not all there, not to mention the creepy Caretaker. Welcome to 'The Other School' - once you're part of the system it'll never let you leave!!

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book, music and lyrics by Dougal Irvine; book by Dominic Marsh

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National Youth Music Theatre

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Snow Queen, The

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We are delighted to announce an enchanting new version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, The Snow Queen. Featuring memorable new songs and hilarious characters, this mischievous retelling of a timeless story will melt your heart. In a frozen land far away, a Snow Queen kidnaps a young boy named Kai. His best friend Gerda, a stumpy, grumpy, determined little girl is the unlikely hero who sets out to rescue him. On the way, she finds friends who will help her, and the truth behind the mysterious Snow Queen's identity and why she lives locked up in solitude in her Icy Palace.

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adapted from story by Hans Christian Andersen by Georgia Pritchett; music and lyrics by Dougal Irvine

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Christmas adaptation 105 min

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Teddy

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Unzipped - The Ultimate Package Musical

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