BIOGRAPHY

Jim Fortune

Theatre credits include: Pericles (National Theatre); Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear: The Musical! (National Theatre): Mother Courage (Manchester Royal Exchange); Love’s Labours Lost (The Globe); My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Liverpool Everyman); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Globe); Shibboleth (Abbey Theatre, Dublin): The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead (UK tour): Teh Internet Is Serious Business (Royal Court); The Beautiful Cosmos Of Ivor Cutler Best Music and Sound, Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (Vanishing Point and National Theatre of Scotland); Posh (Royal Court & West End);

As a singer and musician, Jim has worked with Tom Jones and Blondie. James is a founder member of, and arranger/song-writer for, award-winning vocal harmony band The Magnets. They have appeared on The Review Show, Comic Relief, Parkinson, GMTV, BBC Proms, and Blue Peter as well as sessions for Radios 1 and 2.