It’s been an incredible couple of years composing and music directing for the ABC TV series Wakefield, created by Kristen Dunphy, showrun by Kristen and Sam Meikle, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and Kim Mordaunt, and produced by Jungle Entertainment. The music score was composed by myself and Caitlin Yeo, and features multi-instrumentalist Damian de Boos-Smith and vocalist Rucha Lange. The show, along with the dramatic underscore, contains onscreen featured music and dance numbers choreographed by Christopher Horsey. The launch on 23 March 2021 at Event Cinemas Bondi was a chance to share the excitement of completing Season 1 prior to its release on ABC iView on 2 April and broadcast from 18 April. At the launch, Damian and I performed one of the main themes from the series on cello and viola. The score for Wakefield covers an expansive range of emotions, in alignment with the wide emotional range of the characters, the story being based in a psychiatric hospital in the Blue Mountains.
More photos from the event on Jungle Entertainment's Facebook page.