Bill Barclay - As a composer
and multi-instrumentalist, Bill has provided live and recorded scores for PBS, King
Lear (La MaMa E.T.C. and Actors’ Shakespeare Project starring
Alvin Epstein), Antony & Cleopatra, Turn of the Screw, King John, The
Secret of Sherlock Holmes, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare & Co.), Living
in Exile (Vineyard Playhouse), Thin Air (Connecticut
Rep), The Captain’s Doll (Wellfleet Harbor
Actors’ Theatre), As You Like It (Boston Center
for the Arts), and Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Richard
III (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Bill’s
original music-drama, The Hamlet Symphony opened the New Center
for Drama and Film at Vassar College in 2003. His latest full-length
musical, Call of the Wild is currently enjoying a year-long US tour
with the National Players. Also a trained actor, his
productions include Achilles in War Music (Chicago Humanities
Festival), The Rivals (The Huntington Theatre Co.), Romeo
and Juliet (North Shore Music Theatre), L’Histoire
du Soldat (ALEA III Orchestra), Demetrius in Titus
Andronicus and The Bastard in King John (A.S.P.),
and the 4th Street Theatre. TV: Brotherhood (Showtime,
recurring), and PBS. Bill continues to develop a new
musical lecture series with this summer’s Music in The Elizabethan
World Picture performance at Shakespeare & Co. He
has taught acting at Emerson College, Boston University, and
the Wang Center (among others), and trained at the National
Theatre Institute (with study abroad at the Royal Shakespeare
Co.), the University of Siena, Italy, Shakespeare & Co.,
and the Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, MA. BA in Music
and Drama at Vassar College; MFA Boston University School of
Theatre.
