Toby Marlow

{{Short description|British composer, writer and actor (born 1994)}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Toby Marlow

| image = TobyMarlow-byPhilipRomano.jpg

| caption = Marlow at the 75th Tony Awards in 2022

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1994|10|12}}

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| occupation = {{hlist|Composer|writer|actor}}

| nationality = British

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| awards = Tony Award for Best Original Score (2022)

| notable_works = Six
Hot Gay Time Machine
Why Am I So Single?

| education = Robinson College, Cambridge (BA)

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Toby Marlow (born 12 October 1994) is a British musical theatre composer, lyricist, playwright, writer, and actor best known for co-creating the international hit musical Six with Lucy Moss. Six received five Olivier Award nominations, including Best New Musical and Outstanding Achievement in Music.{{Cite news |last=Rooney |first=David |date=7 April 2019 |title=Olivier Awards 2019: Full Winners List |work=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/olivier-awards-2019-full-winners-list-1193956/ |access-date=2022-04-22}} Marlow and Moss went on to win the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2022.{{cite news |url=https://playbill.com/article/sixs-toby-marlow-makes-history-with-tony-win |title=Six{{'}}s Toby Marlow Makes History With Tony Win |first=Leah |last=Putnam |work=Playbill |date=12 June 2022 |access-date=13 June 2022 }}

Marlow is also co-creator of Hot Gay Time Machine, a musical comedy cabaret show directed by Lucy Moss, in which he co-stars with Zak Ghazi-Torbati .{{Cite news |last=Button |first=Simon |date=14 December 2018 |title=Review – Hot Gay Time Machine at Trafalgar Studios 'leaves you wanting more' |work=Attitude |url=https://www.attitude.co.uk/article/review-hot-gay-time-machine-at-trafalgar-studios-leaves-you-wanting-more/19896/ |access-date=2022-04-22}}

Early life and education

Marlow was born on 12 October 1994 to parents Helma and Andrew Marlow and was raised in Henley-on-Thames, England. He has two siblings: an older brother named Jasper and a younger sister named Annabel,{{Cite news |url=https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/theatre/120136/divorce-beheaded-live-henry-viii-s-six-wives.html |title=Divorce, beheaded, live: Henry VIII's six wives |work=Henley Standard |date=8 January 2018 |access-date=12 June 2020 }} who later originated the role of Katherine Howard in Six at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.{{Cite web |url=https://cherwell.org/2017/09/09/six-at-the-fringe-review-the-best-hour-of-comedy-i-saw-all-week/ |title=Six at the Fringe review – "the best hour of comedy I saw all week" |website=Cherwell |last=Beswick |first=Emily |date=9 September 2017 |access-date=12 June 2020 }} Marlow's mother and maternal grandparents are Jewish.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/theatre/six-the-musical-steps-from-fringe-to-the-west-end-1.469323 |title=We wrote a musical during our finals...now it's on in the West End |work=The Jewish Chronicle |last=David |first=Keren |date=6 September 2018 |access-date=12 June 2020 }} He was a child actor from the ages of 9 to 14, appearing in several films and on TV, including an appearance on ITV's Marple, in which he played a French boy with glasses.{{cite news |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/six-playwrights-lucy-moss-toby-marlow |title=With Six, Playwrights Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow Dramatize the Tudor Dynasty—One Power Ballad at a Time |website=Vogue |last=Crompton |first=Sarah |date=16 January 2020|access-date=20 February 2020}} Marlow's father is a professional musician, his grandfather also trained as an actor and his great-grandmother taught speech and drama.{{cite news |url=http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/theatre/85885/dad-and-talented-teenagers-have-great-expectations-of-acting-together.html |title=Dad and talented teenagers have great expectations of acting together |work=Henley Standard |date=30 September 2013 }}

Marlow was educated at Abingdon School from 2008 to 2013,{{cite web |url=http://www.abingdon.org.uk/guys_and_dolls_feb14 |title=Guys and Dolls |publisher=Abingdon School }} and was a member of the Acorn Music Theatre Company in Henley.{{Cite news |date=21 June 2021 |title=Theatre group returns with six Grimm tales |work=Henley Standard |url=https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/theatre/163154/theatre-group-returns-with-six-grimm-tales.html |access-date=2022-04-22}} He went on to study English at Robinson College at Cambridge University. While at Cambridge, he was very active in the ADC Theatre scene, as both a performer and a composer.{{cite web |url=https://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2017/10/05/review-hot-gay-time-machine-98393 |title=Review: Hot Gay Time Machine |first=Timothy |last=Petkovic |work=The Tab |date=5 October 2017 }}{{cite web |url=https://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2015/11/27/review-footlights-panto-robin-hood-63091 |title=Review: CUADC/Footlights Panto – Robin Hood |first=Luke |last=Heppenstall-West |work=The Tab |date=27 November 2015 }} According to Lucy Moss, their friendship "solidified" during the 2015 amateur student production of Rent at the ADC Theatre,{{Cite news |date=20 November 2020 |title='I have really intense memories of the ADC and it being the beginning of a lifelong friendship' |work=CAM |url=https://magazine.alumni.cam.ac.uk/creators-of-musical-six-lucy-moss-and-toby-marlow/ |access-date=2022-04-27 }} during which Marlow played the lead character Angel, and Moss was one of the dancers.{{Cite news |title=Rent (2015) |url=https://www.camdram.net/shows/2015-rent |access-date=2022-04-27 |work=Camdram }}

Career

= ''Six'' =

In 2017, Marlow co-composed and co-wrote the musical Six, produced by Kenny Wax.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sixthemusical.com/cast-creatives/toby-marlow |title=Toby Marlow |website=Six The Musical |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802153241/https://www.sixthemusical.com/cast-creatives/toby-marlow |archive-date=2 August 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=2 August 2018 }} The musical received positive reviews at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and went on to be performed in the West End in London.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/theatre-dance/article/lucy-worsley-on-the-musical-six-its-hamilton-for-the-16thcentury-pgdf75fs7 |title=Lucy Worsley on the musical Six: 'It's Hamilton for the 16th century |work=The Times |last1=Worsley |first1=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Worsley|date=23 January 2019 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/theatre/toby-marlow-lucy-moss-interview-six-west-end-a4001191.html |title=Hit Musical Six Creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss talk making Henry VIII's wives into pop stars |date=1 April 2019 |first=John |last=Nathan |work=Evening Standard }} On 28 July 2019, Marlow stepped into the role of Catherine Parr for two sold-out performances at London's Arts Theatre when a cast member was on vacation, the two standbys for the role were out sick, and the other understudy was performing in a different role in the show.{{cite news |last1=Fierberg |first1=Ruthie |title=Six Composer Toby Marlow Steps in at Sold-Out Shows After Cast Illnesses |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/six-composer-toby-marlow-steps-in-at-sold-out-shows-after-cast-illnesses |work=Playbill |date=29 July 2019 |access-date=17 October 2019}} Marlow, along with his collaborator Lucy Moss, signed with Warner Chappell Music in August 2019.{{cite news |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/SIX-Writers-Lucy-Moss-and-Toby-Marlow-Sign-With-Warner-Music-20190809 |title=Six Writers Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow Sign With Warner Music |first=Stephi |last=Wild |date=9 August 2019 |work=BroadwayWorld }} Six began previews on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 13 February 2020 and was scheduled to open on 12 March 2020.{{cite news |url=https://deadline.com/2019/08/toby-marlow-lucy-moss-musical-six-broadway-2020-1202658667/ |title=Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss Hit Musical Six Heads To Broadway In 2020 |work=Deadline Hollywood |first=Denise |last=Petski |date=1 August 2019 }} However, the show's opening night was delayed due to the closure of all Broadway theatres because of the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/theatre/six-the-musical-broadway-opening-cancelled-coronavirus-a4386566.html |title=Six the Musical: Broadway opening night for West End transfer cancelled as coronavirus causes theatres to go dark |work=Evening Standard |last=Dex |first=Robert |date=13 March 2020 |access-date=13 May 2020 }} Previews for the show resumed on 17 September 2021 and the official opening night occurred on 3 October 2021.

On 12 June 2022, Marlow became the first openly non-binary composer–lyricist to win a Tony Award, sharing the Tony Award for Best Original Score for Six with Moss.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/toby-marlow-first-nonbinary-best-score-winner-2022-tonys-1235163987/ |title=Tony Awards: Six Co-Creator Toby Marlow Becomes First Nonbinary Composer-Lyricist to Win Best Score |first=Abbey |last=White |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=12 June 2022 |access-date=13 June 2022 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/toby-marlow-six-the-musical-composer-lyricist-becomes-first-openly-non-binary-person-to-win-a-tony |title=Six Composer Becomes First Openly Non-Binary Person to Win a Tony |last=McDougall |first=AJ |date=12 June 2022 |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=13 June 2022}}

Recognition

In 2022, Marlow and Moss were included in Time magazine's Time 100 Next list.{{cite magazine |last1=Mendez II |first1=Moises |title=Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow are on TIME100 Next 2022 |url=https://time.com/collection/time100-next-2022/6213741/lucy-moss-and-toby-marlow/ |access-date=10 November 2022 |magazine=Time |date=28 September 2022}}

Personal life

Marlow is non-binary and gay. Marlow uses he/him pronouns.

Filmography

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|+ Film and TV

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

2004

|Agatha Christie's Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

|James Stoddard-West

|(TV Series), 1 episode: "Marple: 4.50 from Paddington"

rowspan="2"|2005

|The Mistress of Spices

|Young Doug

|Film

Egypt

|Young Champollion

|(TV Series), 1 episode: "The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone"

2006

|Silent Witness

|Stephen Owen

|(TV Series), 2 episodes: "Supernova" Part 1 and 2

2008

|Senseless

|Young Eliott

|Film

2009

|Shadows in the Sun

|Sam

|Film

rowspan="2"|2010

|Ben Hur

|Young Messala

|(TV Series), 2 episodes

Mongrels

|Death (Voice role)

|(TV Series), 1 episode: "Marion the Young Lover"

References

External links

{{IMDb name|1822364}}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DosS8C8_Hj8 Toby Marlow on creating Six + new projects] on YouTube
[http://www.fandango.com/tobymarlow/filmography/p608382 Filmography at Fandango]
[http://www.shadowsinthesun.com/cast.html Shadows in the Sun cast list]

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