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Matthew Floyd Jones is a composer-lyricist, musician and performer.
Jones graduated from the University of Oxford with a joint honours degree in Classics and English Literature.[1] Whilst at university he established a comic songwriting partnership with Laura Corcoran as members of The Oxford Revue.[2]
Jones was then accepted to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts but deferred the place due to the growing success of his pop music parody double act Frisky & Mannish, created with Corcoran.[3] Dubbed "The Next Big Thing" by The Times in 2010, their career included shows at the Lyric Theatre, Southbank Centre, Shepherd's Bush Empire, Edinburgh Fringe, Glastonbury Festival, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe, and New Zealand International Arts Festival.[4][5][6][7][8] They also appeared on BBC Radio 1 and BBC2's The Culture Show.[9][10]
Jones was cast in the Samuel Beckett Award-winning Camera Lucida by Dickie Beau at the Barbican Centre in 2014,[11] and played the role of George in the 2018 West End premiere of the musical Miss Nightingale at the Hippodrome.[12]
Jones won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for writing the songs in Jon Brittain's play A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), published by Bloomsbury.[13][14] Their second show Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder!, for which Jones wrote and arranged the music and co-wrote the lyrics, received its premiere at Paines Plough in 2022 and transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End.[15][16]
References[edit]
- ^ "Matthew Floyd Jones". The Soho Agency. Retrieved 19 Apr 2024.
- ^ "Frisky & Mannish Interview". British Comedy Guide. 11 Apr 2011.
- ^ Williams, Holly (26 Jun 2011). "Glam rocks: Meet the stars who are taking cabaret mainstream". The Independent.
- ^ "Fringe faces brain storm as Oxbridge performers thunder in". The Times. 5 Aug 2010.
- ^ Lamont, Tom (3 Jul 2011). "Frisky and Mannish: 'It's hard making pop music funnier than it already is'". The Guardian.
- ^ Tripney, Natasha (13 Jul 2011). "Frisky and Mannish". Exeunt Magazine.
- ^ "FRISKY AND MANNISH at Shepherd's Bush Empire". United Agents. Retrieved 19 Apr 2024.
- ^ "Glastonbury Festival Line-Up 2015". Glastonbury Festivals. Retrieved 19 Apr 2024.
- ^ "Frisky and Mannish perform Girls Aloud and Whigfield... sort of". BBC. 22 Mar 2011.
- ^ "The Culture Show at the Edinburgh Festival". IMDb. 19 Aug 2011.
- ^ O'Mahony, John (28 Oct 2014). "Camera Lucida: a truly spine-tingling experience". The Guardian.
- ^ Cavendish, Dominic (3 Apr 2018). "Miss Nightingale at Hippodrome, review - plucky new musical is worth a punt". The Telegraph.
- ^ Masso, Giverny (25 Aug 2017). "Final Fringe Firsts for 2017 announced". The Scotsman.
- ^ "A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 19 Apr 2024.
- ^ Tripney, Natasha (31 Jul 2023). "Why 2022's hit musical Kathy and Stella is having a second stab at EdFringe". The Stage.
- ^ "Edinburgh Fringe Favorite Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder to Play London's West End". Playbill. Retrieved 19 Apr 2024.