After receiving a Vivien Ellis Award for new music theatre in 1997, Tom has worked extensively as composer, musical director and arranger on numerous professional and community productions throughout the North West of England.
Scratches In The Earth
Action Transport Theatre, 24-26 July 2008
What will Britain be like for young people when the oil runs out and food becomes scarce? For this production - thirteen young theatre makers are working alongside five writers, a dramaturg (Kevin Dyer), a director (Nina Hajiyianni), a composer (Tom Moss), a costume designer (Lois Maskell) and professional musicians and performers (Sian Phillips, Sarah Atter and Janys Chambers) in a devising and collective playwriting process. The result is Scratches in the Earth, an ambitious and brave new play that explores hunger and how young people may have to cope with the world we leave them.
Sleepover Planet
Song: The New Conductor
Duration: 1m 47s
Commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland, 2006
Sleepover Planet is an online musical for schools, written in collaboration with playwright and lyricist Andrew Sherlock.
Sleepover Planet Webpage
Kiss My Blues
Song: Funny And Blue [featuring vocalist Claire Jones]
Duration: 1m 31s
Funded by North West Arts Council, 2004
Samuel Beckett meets Jerry Lee Lewis in this North West Arts Council funded music theatre piece, composed by Tom Moss in collaboration with playwright Andrew Sherlock. Performed at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool and the Contact Theatre, Manchester, 2004.
Review from the Manchester Evening News
The Memory Chamber
Commission by Action Transport Theatre, 2003
The brief was to compose a “dynamic, thought provoking musical soundscape” to heighten a devised touring physical theatre education piece. Toured England, July to November 2003.
Action Transport Theatre Website
Earlier projects include:
Wan 2 tlk?
Composer, arranger and musical director. A piece of community music theatre specially commissioned to be performed by South Liverpool residents. Performed at Unity theatre, Liverpool June 2001. Book by Kevin Fegan.
The Matchstick Girls
Commission by Arts in Regeneration, and Liverpool Hope University College, 2001
Composer, arranger and musical director. A piece of music theatre specially commissioned to be performed by Liverpool Hope University students, and residents of South Liverpool in disused factory.
Game On
Composer, arranger and musical director. A piece of music theatre specially commissioned to be performed by South Liverpool school children. Performed at Unity Theatre, Liverpool June 2000. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool 2001. Book by Kevin Fegan.
The Weather People – A Clockwork Opera
Commission by Arts In Regeneration
The commission was to transcribe, arrange and musically direct a community opera. Book, music and lyrics by Andrew Sherlock.
Loco Salsa
A 1998 piece for which the composer Tom Moss and lyricist Andrew Sherlock both received a Vivian Ellis Prize. (Vivian Ellis was the President of the Performing Right Society, which instituted this annual event to encourage young composers and lyricists to write for the musical stage).
Performed at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
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