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Philip Glassborow is a playwright, lyricist, composer and broadcaster who writes for theatre, radio and television.Glassborow is best known for the cult hit comedy theatre musical, The Great Big Radio Show!, for which he penned music, lyrics and book (the latter with an assist from Nick McIvor). The piano arrangements and dance music are by David Rhind-Tutt. The show premiered at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury in 1993, was showcased at the Bridewell Theatre in London, and had additional exposure via the off-Broadway York Theatre Company ‘Musicals in Mufti’ series (2005) , and Malta’s National Theatre, Teatru Manoel (2014). In 1989, the show won a special prize in the Vivian Ellis Awards, a contest established by the UK Performing Right Society to promote achievement in British musical theatre.

Other theatre credits include a new musical version of “Peter Pan” (1997) by J. M. Barrie (Watermill Theatre, Newbury and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford ).

In 2014, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Red Cross inspection of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Glassborow was commissioned by director Adam Forde to write a new music theatre piece, Welcome To Terezin. The play was presented at the Edinburgh Festival and in Guildford by the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, with support from the Garfield Weston Foundation. The material was also workshopped as part of the ‘New Plays For Young Audiences’ program by NYU Steinhardt at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village, New York.

Glassborow has also written and presented for radio. In December 2016, he wrote and presented a documentary detailing the creation of Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester, and the importance of music to the author during and after its creation, for BBC Radio 4. He also narrated a radio documentary on the comedy song-writing team, Ted Dicks and Myles Rudge, who together wrote Hole in the Ground, Windmill in Old Amsterdam and Right, Said Fred.

Glassborow has written for several television series. For Jackanory Playhouse, he dramatised “The Princess Who Couldn’t Laugh” by A. A. Milne(1978).