Joe Partridge
Training: Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Theatre: Oklahoma! In Concert (London Muiscal Theatre Orchestra, Drury Lane), Beauty & The Beast (Dubai Panto), Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Thursford Collection), Merrily We Roll Along (Guildhall), Fiddler on the Roof (Guildhall), Crazy for You (Guildhall).
Opera: The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Utopia Limited, HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Patience (National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company), Sane & Sound (Arcola Theatre/Barbican), Rain (Arcola Theatre), West Side Story (Conservatori Liceu/Mosaika), The Mikado (Opera Anywhere), Cosí fan tutte (Guildhall), Orpheus in the Underworld (Guildhall).
Concerts Include: London Musical Theatre Orchestra's New Musicals Sitz (LMTO), The Best of Rock Musicals (Eventim Apollo), Guys and Dolls in Concert (West Green House Opera), Crazy Coqs Presents (Live at Zédel)*, A West End Christmas 2017 (Actors Church, Covent Garden).
Recordings: Katherine Jenkins Cinema Paradiso (Decca), Katherine Jenkins Guiding Light (Decca), The Stationmaster (Auburn Jam Productions), A Tiny Little Sky (Book, Music & Lyrics).
Voice Over: Unlock Art Composer Series
Workshops: Secret Santa (Collective Acting Studio), A Step Ahead (Waterloo East), If So & So What Though (Arts Theatre)*, Between the Music (BML Workshop)*, Sabrina (BML Workshop), Mascherato: The New Musical (Barbican/Guildhall), Mitten Hands and the MisMatch Band (Drama Centre)*, Journeys (devised, Guildhall), Dracula (Guildhall).
Television: Songs of Praise (Avanti/BBC), InVerse (Generation Revolution), Whatever After (Generation Revolution), A Kylie Christmas at The Royal Albert Hall (Sky Arts).
Film: Seeking (Histrio House).
*Composition Credit
Joe is a singer, actor, musician and composer from Devon. Currently Joe is studying for a musical theatre MA at the Royal Academy of Music. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Joe studied singing and composition before taking his first role as a soloist in the Thursford Christmas Spectacular in 2019. Since then, Joe's performing credits include Oklahoma! In Concert (London Musical Theatre Orchestra, Drury Lane), the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company's HMS Pinafore, Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, Utopia Limited & Patience, Guys and Dolls in Concert with the London Philharmonic, BBC Songs of Praise, Best of Rock Musicals (Eventim Apollo), West Side Story, Grimeborn Festival (Arcola Theatre), and in recordings for Katherine Jenkins Guiding Light & Cinema Paradiso (Decca).
As a composer Joe works as part of several songwriting collaborations, and has been part of the creative teams for several new musical workshops including Mitten Hands and the MisMatched Band (Drama Centre) & If So & So What Though? (Arts Theatre). Joe is currently working on a series of collaborative projects as part of the BOOK, Music & Lyrics writing for musical theatre programme, and has recently completed a new Shakesperian song-cycle based on a variety of texts circulating around Jacque's As You Like It monologue 'All the World's a Stage'.
Alongside performing, Joe coaches young singers and actors at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, Laine Theatre Arts & Bird College in London. Joe has held several roles contributing to education including overseeing the music department at Snaresbrook Prep School, delivering outreach projects and workshops for the Kenneth Moore Theatre and for Stagecoach Performing Arts. Joe's students have featured in notable musicals including Identical (Notingham Playhouse), Matilda (Cambridge Theatre), School of Rock (UK/International Tour), Frozen (Drury Lane), and Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (UK Tour) amongst others.
As an MD Joe has worked on several productions including Bring It On (dir. Stuart Glover), Little Shop of Horrors (dir. Leanne Everitt) for MEPA College, Mamma Mia! (dir. Bryn Williams), and Twilight for the Sylvia Young Theatre School.
Joe’s studies at the Royal Academy of Music & Guildhall School have been generously supported by a number of charitable trusts including the Really Useful Group, the Guildhall School Trust, Fleebag Support Fund, Musicians UK, Equity, the Theatrical Support Fund, Mary Barnes Trust, and the Arts Council.