Guy is a Bristol based actor, composer, musical director and vocal coach. He studied music at Durham University, where he graduated with a first class honours degree, before taking up a scholarship place at the Royal Academy of Music to study Musical Theatre performance. After completing his studies with a distinction and the Toni V Fell prize for speech into song, he began working with some of the countries leading theatres and theatre companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheek By Jowl, Shakespeare’s Globe, Bristol Old Vic, Edinburgh Lyceum, and Liverpool Everyman. As an actor and musician, Guy has worked closely with some of the UK’s finest theatre directors, including Declan Donellan OBE (author of The Actor and the Target), Emma Rice, Tom Morris, Polly Findlay, Iqbal Kahn, Nick Bagnall and Wils Wilson.

Guy also works as a vocal coach in a number of drama schools around the country, having qualified with an LRAM in Musical Theatre Singing from the Royal Academy of Music. He studied the Estill voice model under renowned vocal coach Mary Hammond (vocal coach to Chris Martin, Lily Allen, Florence and the Machine and many others) and Anne-Marie Speed, founder of The Voice Explained.

As a composer, Guy has worked with a number of reputable companies, building an eclectic catalogue of diverse music for both stage and screen. For the stage, he has worked with the internationally renowned cycling theatre company, The HandleBards, since their inaugural tour in 2012, writing music for over 12 different Shakespeare productions. He has also written music for award winning company New Old Friends, collaborating with the Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal Bath. He recently co-wrote and produced his own musical for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes. The show received a collection of five star reviews from top Fringe publications including ThreeWeeks and Broadway Baby, and was included in the Telegraph’s Top 20 shows to see at the Fringe 2019 (“Very Funny; musically deft”, lead Telegraph critic Dominic Cavendish).

As a musical director, Guy often works closely with casts on his own music for shows. He also works independently as an onstage musical director, bringing together his experience as an actor and musician/composer. Most recently, Guy worked closely alongside Olivier award winning composer Adrian Sutton and BAFTA and Ivor Novello award winning composer/sound designer Dan Jones to deliver music for Tom Morris’s Cyrano at the Bristol Old Vic.