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12 Facts About Jocelyn Pook

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Jocelyn Pook worked on several DV8 Physical Theatre shows including Strange Fish which won a Prix Italia Award for Music.

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Jocelyn Pook was a member of composer Jeremy Peyton Jones's post systems music ensemble Regular Music, and recorded their albums for Rough Trade and Century XXI.

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Jocelyn Pook co-founded neoclassical chamber quartet Electra Strings alongside Australian violinist Sonia Slany.

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Jocelyn Pook was nominated for a BAFTA for her score for Channel 4's The Government Inspector and, in April 2018, she won a BAFTA for her music for the 2017 TV film version of King Charles III.

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Jocelyn Pook wrote the score for Netflix documentary series The Staircase directed by Jean-Xavier Lestrade.

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Jocelyn Pook was commissioned to write a short opera, Ingerland, for ROH2 which was performed in the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre in June 2010.

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Jocelyn Pook won a second British Composer Award in 2012 for her soundtrack to Akram Khan's dance production DESH.

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Jocelyn Pook won an Olivier Award in 2008 for the National Theatre's production of St Joan.

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Jocelyn Pook wrote the score for National Theatre of Scotland's award-winning Adam, which premiered at Edinburgh International Festival in 2017 and featured a 120-strong, international digitally connected trans choir.

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In 2019, Jocelyn Pook was commissioned by The Proms to write a new piece for Prom 49: The Lost Words.

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Jocelyn Pook composed the soundtrack for The Kingmaker, a documentary about the controversial political career of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, directed by Lauren Greenfield.

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In November 2019, along with other public figures, Jocelyn Pook signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election.