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Daniel Gillingwater (born 15th May 1963) is an actor, singer, painter and composer.

Early Life
The second child of Jack and Christine Gillingwater. He was educated at Ignatius College, Enfield and Universtiy College, Cardiff where he graduated in music (1984).

Career
After graduation from university he was offered a place at the Royal Acadamy of Music to study singing. This he turned this down to follow a career in the theatre. He started in the chrous of the national tour of Chess in 1990. His first princpal role was Anthony in Sweeney Todd at the Oldham Coliseum. Since then he has performed in many musical, plays and operas.

Works
His compositions include 2 operas on science subjects - The Homosexual Necrophiliac Duck Opera a setting of the Ig Nobel award winning article by [Kees Moeliker] It had it's private premier at Imperal College London as part of the Ig Nobel Tour of that year and it's first public premier at the 2015 Teye a Teye Opera Festival. It's not what he says, it's how deep it goes, the first opera about sexal attraction at voice pitch; based on Dominance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in human voice pitch by David Andrew Puts, Steven J.C.Gaulin and Katherine Verdolinic. The world premier was at the Natural History Museum in 2016. She said the 'F' Word had it's world premier at the Tete a Tete Opera Festival 2017. [[Michael White (journalist)] wrote in 'Classical Music Magazine The F-Word is an off the wall joy: riotous, direct and funny.

Other compositions include Ad Fontem, A Drop in the Ocean and Allegro Maestoso for orchestra, numerous chamber music works, anthems, songs, a Mass (The Mass of Reverence and Devotion) as well as a clarinet concerto which was premiered in 2018 in the bar of the South Norwood Conservative Club. He has written over 20 shows for school children.