Over the last four years Tim has completed numerous translations of plays and musicals from German into English, including 'The Physician', 'Robin Hood', 'Beauty and the Beast', 'William Tell', 'Scrooge', 'Bambi', 'A Touch Of Colour', 'Heidi' and 'Oliver' (among others) for German theatre publishers. He has also provided on-stage surtitles for various productions at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Maxim Gorky Theater Berlin, the Duesseldorfer Schauspielhaus and Theater Basel Switzerland. Tim has also acted as script consultant on several new European musicals and was recently voice and dialect coach on the new South African musical 'Clarence Square' which showcased at the Wintergarten Theater Berlin in March 2024.
As a performer, Tim recently appeared in the UK tour of 'Dreamboats and Petticoats' and in 'Gypsy' at The Mill At Sonning (which won Best Musical Production of 2023 at the UK Theatre Awards) and is currently playing the Hospital Ghost in 'Ghost The Musical' UK Tour 2025.
Tim has also made numerous appearances as alto saxophonist with one of the UK's leading Steely Dan tribute bands, 'Nearly Dan' and prior to the pandemic, Tim played the principal role of band leader Mark Minton, and featured as alto saxophone/lead clarinet in the 16-piece on-stage big band in 'The Glenn Miller Story', starring Tommy Steele, at the Coliseum Theatre in London's West End. Before this, Tim appeared as Monsignor O'Hara in the highly-successful UK tour of 'Sister Act', starring Alexandra Burke.
Tim translated and project-managed productions of the music theatre piece 'In May', with music by Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy), in Glasgow, Lancaster and Brighton. The Divine Comedy's album 'Foreverland' DeLuxe version includes 'In May' as a bonus disc.
TIM CLARKE
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