Faculty & Staff

Joseph Atkins
Composer and Musical Director at Shakespeare’s Globe
Theater
Degrees & Accomplishments
Associate of the Royal Academy of Music
Mmus in Composition: Royal Academy of Music, London
BMus in Music: New College, Oxford University
Topics of Expertise
Composition and Songwriting
Ensemble Singing
Music in Theatre
Arrangement and Orchestration
Musical Direction
Biography

Joseph joined the Higher Education team at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2009 and is composer of The Globe Round. Compositions for stage include Scene Unseen (Royal and Derngate and English Touring Opera) Carnation for a Song, She Ventures and He Wins and Sing Before You Speak Again (all Young Vic) and Cabaret Macabre (British Youth Music Theatre). As musical director and arranger, his credits include the Olivier-nominated Josephine and I (Bush Theatre, London and Public Theater, New York), Not Such Quiet Girls (Opera North and Leeds Playhouse), All I Want is One Night (Manchester Royal Exchange), Boundless as the Sea and Miss Littlewood (Royal Shakespeare Company) The Miser and She Stoops to Conquer (both BBC Radio 3), Pat Kirkwood is Angry (Brits Off-Broadway Festival, New York) The Heart of It (Riverside Studios), (Dead) Funny Women (La Barcarolle, St Omer and various UK festivals) and Liza Pulman Sings Streisand (West End and UK tour). His TV composition credits include Mud, Sweat and Tractors and Shooting the War (BBC4). Other recent engagements include artist-in-residence at the 2021 Lichfield Festival, plus cabaret appearances at the Cadogan Hall, Wilton’s Music Hall and the Liverpool Philharmonic.