Born in Indianapolis Indiana, USA
Shortridge High School, Indianapolis
Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts - New York
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama - London
Private music composition studies with George Tremblay, Los Angeles
Program Supervisor, WTTV television, Indianapolis
Story analyst, Paramount Studios, Hollywood
Story analyst, Desilu Studios, Hollywood
Proprietor, The Chelsea House restaurant, Westwood Village, Los Angeles
Advertising agencies (creative department) in London: Charles Hobson & Grey (Greys), Leo Burnett, Ogilvy & Mather, BBDO
Principal, All-in-English total immersion language school, Hampstead, London
Director, English Language Enterprises, producers of EFL material
Journalist - interviewer (click HERE for list) and international correspondent for Speak Up magazine (pub. Italy, Spain, France, former Yugoslavia & Brazil).
Director, Englang Publishing, Poulton, Gloucestershire
Co-Director (with Sally Boyd) Poulton Productions
Stage director/ librettist, Malvern Hills Opera
Co-Director (with William Bell), Bel Canto Opera
September 2005: The Cheltenham Arts Council awarded Tom Boyd the Opera Cup for innovation and interpretation of operas.
Theatre: Book, music & lyrics for stage musicals: Chalet and Heavens to Betsy (Indianapolis), We’re From Missouri (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London), Tom Sawyer, (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London), Incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tower Theatre, Canonbury, London)
Radio/Television: English Overheard (BBC World Service), Dora (ITV comedy series for Dora Bryan) Theme music for Four Faces of Christ (BBC TV)
Recording: The English Speaking World (writer/producer of 12 part cassette series with a cast that includes Alan Bates, Sinead and Sorcha Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Peter Barkworth, Gordon Jackson, and Keith Michel - pub. Englang)
Books: In Their Own Words (a collection of Tom Boyd’s recorded interviews with personalities from theatre, films, literature, music, politics etc. which includes Lord (Jeffrey)Archer, Barbara Cartland, Frederick Forsyth, Jeremy Irons, John Mortimer and Kushwant Singh - pub. Nelson), America and Britain in Contrast (pub. Longman), A Bowl of Cherries (memoirs - pub. Englang), A World in a Grain of Sand - Poulton, a Cotswold Village Revealed (pub. Englang)
Opera librettos (English versions): The Impresario (der Schauspieldirektor - Mozart), The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Tosca (Puccini), Rigoletto (Verdi), Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck), Lakme (Delibes), Martha (Flotow), The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore - Donizetti), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Nicolai), Don Pasquale (Donizetti) and The Magic Flute (die Zauberflöte - Mozart)
Tom Boyd's English version of THE ELIXIR OF LOVE was performed by STANLEY OPERA, Concordia Theatre, Hinkley in April, 2008Tom Boyd's English version of TOSCA performed by HIGH DESERT OPERA, Colorado, USA, July, 2008
click for Tom Boyd interview in the Gloucestershire ECHO 2002
and here for Tom Boyd profile in the Wilts & Glos STANDARD 1995
click here for latest Tom Boyd interview in the OXFORD TIMES Feb. 2007
Married to Sally Milford
Children:
1 daughter: Polly, publishing editor (married to Mark Palmer, marketing director, This England and Beautiful Britain magazines
Grandchildren: Hector (13) and Jessica (1 6) Palmer
Mark, Hector, Polly, Sally and Jessica (Easter in Puglia, 2006)
Back to school for Hector and Jessica - September, 2006
