Theatre Career
After his Youth Company parted in 1994, Griffiths was invited to co-write, produce and direct a musical for a Festival to celebrate the centenary of poet and Archdruid Cynan in Pwllheli, Wales. In collaboration with Musical Director and Composer Annette Bryn Parry and author Glyn Roberts, Griffiths successfully produced O Docyn Brwyn i Ben Draw’r Byd (From ‘Tocyn Brwyn’ to the Ends of the Earth) at Neuadd Dwyfor Theatre, Pwllheli in May 1995, with a cast of over 50 local and professional artists including the Hogia’r Wyddfa and Rosalind and Myrddin. Following the success of the production, an annual May Festival was set up in the town, and Griffiths co-wrote and directed three further productions with the cast; Dan Hwyl Wen (Under a White Sail) in 1996 based on the sea-shanties of J.Glyn Davies, Dan Gysgod y Graig (In the Shadow of the Rock) in 1997 based on the true story of the Carreg yr Imbyll Granite Company, and Ail-Godi’r Llen (Raising the Curtain) in 2005, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the company.
In 1998, Griffiths was commissioned along with composer Einion Dafydd to write a musical for the Urdd Gobaith Cymru Eisteddfod in Pwllheli, and Yn y Ffrâm (Framed) was produced at Neuadd Dwyfor, during the festival week in May 1998. A second commission followed in 2000, and Griffiths worked with composer Gareth Glyn on Ail-Liwio'r Byd which was staged at the Venue Cymru, Llandudno in May 2000.
Since re-locating to London in June 2007, Griffiths has worked as a production assistant on Moonwalking in Chinatown at the Soho Theatre, The Masque of the Red Death at the Battersea Arts Centre, and musical productions with Youth Music Theatre: UK.
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