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Stephen McNeff
Stephen McNeff (born 6 September 1951) is an award-winning British composer.
Biography.
Stephen McNeff studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and undertook post-graduate research at the University of Exeter. He was Associate Director of Manchester University's Contact Theatre in 1979−80. From 1980−84, as Composer in Residence and Associate Director of the Music Theatre Studio Ensemble of the Banff Centre and then Comus Theatre Canada he won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his opera "The Secret Garden" (1985
and Graeme Garden's musical "The Pocket Orchestra" (Trafalgar Studios 2, 2006). He wrote the stage adaptation of Clive King's "Stig of the Dump" for the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, production of 2008-09. He directed some components of the Deloitte Ignite Festival at the Royal Opera House in 2010.
His association with composer Stephen McNeff goes back to about 1978, when Williams directed "Aucassin et Nicolette" with McNeff's music for the latter's South-West Music Theatre; during McNeff