Stu Barker

Stu is a composer and musician and originally trained in fine art at Goldsmiths College, London.

For Bristol Old Vic: Hansel and Gretel (with Kneehigh), The Grinning Man.

Stu has worked extensively as Composer/MD with Kneehigh over the last 20 years. Credits as Composer/MD include: A Matter Of Life And Death, Tristan And Yseult (National Theatre); Brief Encounter (Broadway/West End); Cymbeline, Don John (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Winter’s Tale, Romeo And Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Bristol Old Vic); The Bacchae, The Wooden Frock (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Nights At The Circus, The Red Shoes (Lyric Hammersmith); The Wild Bride, Rapunzel, Midnight's Pumpkin (BAC) and Pandora’s Box (Northern Stage).

He has also worked with Donmar Warehouse, Welfare State International, Contact Theatre, Horse And Bamboo, Liverpool Lantern Company, And Now, Travelling Light and C. W. Stoneking.