Philip Glassborow
Philip Glassborow is a playwright, lyricist and composer who writes for theatre, radio and television. His best-known theatre musical is The Great [Big Radio Show!] with book in collaboration with Nick McIvor, which was premiered by the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, showcased at the Bridewell Theatre in London, and had additional exposure via the off-Broadway York Theatre Company Musicals in Mufti series, and Malta’s National Theatre, Teatru Manoel.
Other theatre credits include a new musical version of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie and A Kid for Two Farthings with music by Cyril Ornadel and book in collaboration with Robert Meadwell, based on the novel by Wolf Mankowitz.
For BBC Radio, Glassborow compiled and presented The Gorey Details based on the work of Edward Gorey, which starred Frank Langella, Katherine Kellgren, Andreas Brown and David Suchet. He has dramatized many classic books for radio including Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville; Christopher Himself based on Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood ; The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett ; and Silas Marner by George Eliot. His dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's short story "Christmas Day At Kirkby Cottage" starred Finty Williams, John Rhys-Davies and Julia McKenzie.
In 2014, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Red Cross inspection of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Glassborow was commissioned by director Adam Forde to write a new music theatre piece, Welcome To Terezin. The play was presented at the Edinburgh Festival.
Glassborow's musical play Star Of Strait Street premiered as part of Valletta 2018, European Capital of Culture in May 2018. The play was previewed with the support of the Mackintosh Foundation for Malta's EU 2017 Presidency Arts Celebrations, at the Splendid Cultural Incubation Centre as part of the Strada Stretta Concept under the artistic direction of Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci.