Ian Favell
Composer & Music Director
Ian is an experienced Composer, Arranger and Sound Designer.
Ian studied music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and later at Trinity College of Music London. As Music Director and stage musician he has composed, arranged and played many theatre scores locally. In 2021 Ian was given a Special Technical Award for his work during 2020 on the Bawds podcasts.
At the 2023 AGM he was awarded the Bawds Technical Award for his music for the 2022 production of Alice Through the Looking Glass, and was a finalist for the Technical Award at the 2026 AGM for his music for the 2025 production of A Theatrical Christmas.
As a Cambridge Penguin he has built upon his previous professional work in sound and has undertaken sound design for a number of shows across the years.
Ian is currently a member of the Bawds Management Committee, focussing upon Finance, Rights, and Legal matters.
Ian currently plays in the Cambridgeshire covers band ‘The Knottleys’, sings with the 'Impingtones' community choir, and plays violin in the 'Cambridge Dust It Off’ orchestra.
Performing Roles have included:
- Man Born to be King (Lazarus)
- Oh What a Lovely War (MD & on-stage musician)
- A Tale of Two Cities (MD & on-stage musician)
- Review of Reviews (On-stage musician)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (On-stage musician)
- Cafe Cabarets (Arranger & On-stage musician)
- Chekhov Shorts (Arranger & On-stage musician)
- Ghosts to Gurus (Live musician)
- Larkrise to Candleford (Live musician)
- Aladdin (Live musician)
- The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Composer & live musician)
- The Tempest (Composer & live musician)
- Pericles (Composer & live musician)
Production Roles have included:
- Remember (Event Manager)
- Supernatural Shakespeare (Composer & Event Manager)
- A Theatrical Christmas (Composer & MD)
- Wind in the Willows (Composer & MD)
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (Composer & MD)
- Kinder Transport (Composer)
- A Christmas Carol(Composer)
- Hay Fever (Composer)
- Shakespeare in Love & War (Composer)
- Nell Gwynn (Composer)
- Tom Jones(Composer)
- Philip and Rowena (Composer)
- Shakespeare Shorts(Composer)
- Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (Composer)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Composer & Sound Design)
- Play in a Day (Composer & Sound Design)
- The Midnight Folk (Sound Design)
- The Last Bread Pudding (Sound Design)
- Murder in the Cathedral (Sound Design)
- Wyrd Sisters (Sound Design)
- Maskerade (Sound Design)
- Bedroom Farce (Director)
- Dick Whittington (Director)
