About

Meet the creatives behind Robin Hood: The Golden Arrow.

Tyson Vick, WRITER/Director

Tyson Vick is an award winning photographer who has used his skill as a filmmaker, costume designer, digital artist, and storyteller to bring his visions to life. A graduate of the New York Film Academy, his passion for traditional analog cinematography led him to move into the realm of still photography over the course of his career.

As a filmmaker he created two documentaries for the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival. He is the author of Mozart Reimagined, a non-fiction work about the operas of the composer W.A. Mozart, and A Steampunk Guide to Hunting Monsters, an illustrated adventure novel. His work in male photography has produced his largest fanbase within the LGBT community.

​He was born and raised in Montana, and currently resides in Bozeman.

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Adapting a musical piece of history takes many unique team members that other films do not require, such as historians, musicologists, a music director and conductor, as well as an orchestra, chorus and soloists. It also involves the posthumous contribution of many well-respected artists from the past.

creatives

Sir G.A. Macfarren
​(1813 – 1887) 
​Composer

President of the Royal Academy of Music and founder of the Handel society, Macfarren's decision to set Robin Hood to music led to a great success as audiences of the time refused to see anything else, even if it was playing at the same theater.

John Oxenford
​(1812 - 1877)
​Writer

Self taught in the languages of Latin and Greek, John Oxenford is credited with writing 36 plays and operatic libretti. Later in his life he became a dramatic critic for the British daily newspaper “The Times”. 

LIZZIE WEBB
MUSIC DIRECTOR

Lizzie Webb likes to travel the world doing theatrical work with her actor husband and her performing dog. With over 20 years of experience, she has served as the music director for the National Tours of the Wizard of Oz, Broadway’s Anastasia and Hairspray.

Sir Arthur Sullivan
​(1842 - 1900)
​Composer

Known mostly for his work with comedic writer W.S. Gilbert, Sullivan also wrote more serious pieces. He composed Robin Hood themed music for both The Foresters and his own grand opera Ivanhoe.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
​(1809 -1892)
​Writer

Considered one of the greatest writers in the English Language, Tennyson's interest in Robin Hood tended towards the academic, and his last work, The Foresters, has bright scenes inspired by the hero of legend, particularly the musical ones.

DR. VALERIE LANGFIELD
PERFORMANCE EDITION

​A graduate of Cambridge, Dr. Langfield has substantial experience creating and editing performance editions of forgotten or neglected British operas, including Robin Hood. She is a founding member of Retrospect Opera whose vision is to allow people to hear unheard British operas for the first time by recording them to the highest standards possible.

dramatis personae

francesco diflora
As ​robin hood

Living a double life as both leader of an outlaw band, and as Locksley a respectable citizen, in order to woo the Maid Marian.

Annabel Storm
As Maid MaRian

Maid Marian longs for freedom from the restrictions of the life she leads through marriage with her beloved Locksley.

James oblak
​as Will Scarlet

The dandified fighter and troubadour of the outlaws.

preston lyford
​as Much, the Miller's son

The youngest of the outlaw gang who disagrees with the way things are run.

Joel Hildreth
​as Little John

Robin Hood's closest friend and ally.

COLIN BUCKINGHAM
​AS THE SOMPNOUR​

The greedy tax collector and liaison between the distant monarch Prince John and Nottingham.

THE ABBESS OF KIRKLEES

Marian's cousin and guardian who is watching over the May Day festival in Nottingham.

THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM

Charged to keep order in Nottinghamshire, The Sheriff lords over the populace with vanity and disdain, maintaining the laws of the Monarchy.

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