Husband Matthew Bugg
Award-winning theatre Composer
Matthew Bugg and Marketing Professional
Tobias "Toby" Oliver (born July 13, 1972) have been together since 1994. They live in Sheffield
with their beloved Dachshund, Georgie. Matthew grew up in Sheffield and began
his theatre training at the age of four. He achieved the highest mark in the
country at A Level Music, and won the Roland Gregory Prize and Barber
Scholarship at the University of Birmingham. Before even graduating, Matthew
landed his first professional theatre job at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester.
Tobias grew up in London and read English with Drama at the University of
Sheffield. He went on to study Text and Performance at RADA and King’s College
London. After 20 years working in the arts and major events industries he
became Marketing Director of Mr. Bugg Presents, a music theatre company his
husband, composer Matthew Bugg, and he set up with producer Keith Arrowsmith.
They have taken their critically acclaimed production, Miss Nightingale – the
musical written by Matthew, on two hugely successful tours of the UK,
including a run in London’s West End. They are now working on their second
show, alongside a potential USA production and movie version of Miss
Nightingale.
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