Recent and up-coming Musical credits include:
Pinocchio for Shakespeare’s Globe ‘25-’26
The Odyssey, Pericles, Hex and Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear: The Musical! (Olivier Award Nomination) for the National Theatre.
We Begin Again: a musical for The Guardian/National Theatre written with James Graham.
The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler (Vanishing Point and National Theatre of Scotland) for which he won Best Music and Sound at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
Past composer credits include: Cowbois (RSC); My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre); A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe); Mother Courage (Manchester Royal Exchange); Romeo and Juliet and A Clockwork Orange, (Liverpool Everyman); Shibboleth (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Teh Internet Is Serious Business and Posh (both for the Royal Court with a West End transfer for Posh)
Prior to this Jim was a singer and musician, touring the world. He has worked with Tom Jones, Blondie and Lionel Ritchie, amongst others.
Recent BAFTA judge
Below is an interview with Jim, and some reviews of his Musicals, as well as a documentary about the work of the National Theatre’s Public Acts programme, something Jim was honored to have been a part of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eX4PYq_C6o Public Acts documentary by Hanan Abdalla.
https://genesisfoundation.org.uk/news/artists-in-quarantine-jim-fortune-songwriter/ Interview with the Genesis Foundation.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/aug/30/pericles-review-national-theatre-public-acts-scheme The Guardian review of the musical Pericles
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mr-gum-and-the-dancing-bear-review-inventive-mischievous-and-thrilling-rq58l7d2b The Times review of Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e8e98dvj6o BBC article about Make Good.