Patrick Gleeson

Patrick has a degree in philosophy and classics, another one in technical theatre and stage management, and one more in business administration. He has worked as a theatre sound designer, an ‘interpretive naturalist’ at an aquarium, a software developer, a business mentor to fledgling entrepreneurs, and a voice actor.

He composed the music for a musical about taxidermy that The Stage said ‘put to shame the hackneyed standards of the contemporary musical scene’, and has been performed in London, Edinburgh, Suffolk and, weirdly, Alaska. In 2012 he built a giant mechanical octopus that played the xylophone rather badly.

He now lives in Norfolk with his wife and two children, plus two cats, periodic invasions of deer, pheasants and mason bees, and by the sound of it an alarming quantity of deathwatch beetles in the walls.