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Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas

Actor, Music Department, Composer

Born January 1, 1964 in UK

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Richard Thomas (born 1964) is British a musician, writer, and comedy actor. He is best known for composing and scoring the award-winning Jerry Springer: The Opera with Stewart Lee. Thomas collected the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Score in 2004.

Richard Thomas's comedy career began in 1987, doing a musical act on keyboards. In 2000, he wrote and performed a one-act opera called Tourette’s Diva with four actors, which aired at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Thomas had the idea for an opera based on Jerry Springer at this time, and wrote it over the next two years, chiefly in workshops at Battersea Arts Centre. Thomas would offer a "Beer for an Idea", where any audience members submitting a good idea would be rewarded with a can of Foster's (and poor ideas with a supermarket store brand).

After a number of small scale performances of the first act, which was in much the same shape as it remains today, the second act (where the characters descend into hell) was vague and unformed. Thomas brought his friend Stewart Lee in to assist with the writing. Six months later, the opera was in a far more recognisable state, and was snapped up by the National Theatre.

Thomas has also worked on BBC comedy shows such as Attention Scum and This Morning with Richard Not Judy. Starting on 25 February 2007, BBC Two aired his latest series, Kombat Opera, comprising five standalone musical parodies of well-known television programmes.

Thomas wrote the libretto for Mark-Anthony Turnage's 2011 opera Anna Nicole,

and co-wrote music for the 2010 film Uncle David as a part of the Avant-Garde Alliance.

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Actor

12

Type

Year

The Story of Musicals TV Series2012Self

Opera's Fallen Women Documentary2011Self

Comedy Songs: The Pop Years Documentary2008Self

50 Questions of Political Incorrectness Documentary2005Self

Forty Years of Fuck Poster

Forty Years of Fuck Documentary2005Self

Jerry Springer: The Opera - Story of a Musical Documentary2005Self - Interviewee

The Culture Show Poster

The Culture Show TV Series2004Self

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2003 TV Special2003Self

Attention Scum Poster

Attention Scum TV Series2001Kombat Opera Pianist

Either/Or TV Series1999Self - Music & Keyboards

This Morning with Richard Not Judy Poster

This Morning with Richard Not Judy TV Series1998Keyboard Player

Theater Talk Poster

Theater Talk TV Series1996Self - Guest

Music Department

4

Type

Year

Tracey Ullman's Show Poster

Tracey Ullman's Show TV Series2016

Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned Live from London's West End Poster

Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned Live from London's West End Video2001

Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned Poster

Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned TV Series2000

The Frank Skinner Show Poster

The Frank Skinner Show TV Series1995

Composer

8

Type

Year

The Button Poster

The Button TV Series2018

Tracey Breaks the News Poster

Tracey Breaks the News TV Series2017

Tracey Ullman's Show Poster

Tracey Ullman's Show TV Series2016

Uncle David Poster

Uncle David Feature Film2010

Kombat Opera Presents Poster

Kombat Opera Presents TV Series2007

Jerry Springer: The Opera Poster

Jerry Springer: The Opera TV Movie2005

Attention Scum Poster

Attention Scum TV Series2001

This Morning with Richard Not Judy Poster

This Morning with Richard Not Judy TV Series1998

Writer

4

Type

Year

Anna Nicole Poster

Anna Nicole TV Movie2011

Kombat Opera Presents Poster

Kombat Opera Presents TV Series2007

Jerry Springer: The Opera Poster

Jerry Springer: The Opera TV Movie2005

Attention Scum Poster

Attention Scum TV Series2001

Producer

1

Kombat Opera Presents Poster

Kombat Opera Presents TV Series2007

Thanks

1

Jerry Springer: The Opera - Story of a Musical Documentary2005

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