Marlow is also co-creator of Hot Gay Time Machine, a musical comedy cabaret show directed by Lucy Moss, in which he co-stars with Zak Ghazi-Torbati .[3]
Early life and education
Marlow was born on 12 October 1994 to parents Helma and Andrew Marlow and was raised in Henley-on-Thames, England. He has two siblings: an older brother named Jasper and a younger sister named Annabel,[4][5] who later originated the role of Katherine Howard in Six at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[6] Marlow's mother and maternal grandparents are Jewish.[7] He was a child actor from the ages of 9 to 14,[4] appearing in several films and on TV, including an appearance on ITV's Marple, in which he played a French boy with glasses.[8] Marlow's father is a professional musician, his grandfather also trained as an actor and his great-grandmother taught speech and drama.[9]
Marlow was educated at Abingdon School from 2008 to 2013,[10] and was a member of the Acorn Music Theatre Company in Henley.[11] He went on to study English at Robinson College at Cambridge University.[8] While at Cambridge, he was very active in the ADC Theatre scene, as both a performer and a composer.[12][13] According to Lucy Moss, their friendship "solidified" during the 2015 amateur student production of Rent at the ADC Theatre,[14] during which Marlow played the lead character Angel, and Moss was one of the dancers.[15]
In 2017, Marlow co-composed and co-wrote the musical Six, produced by Kenny Wax.[16] The musical received positive reviews at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and went on to be performed in the West End in London.[17][4] On 28 July 2019, Marlow stepped into the role of Catherine Parr for two sold-out performances at London's Arts Theatre when a cast-wide illness struck and the show required a sixth performer.[18] Marlow, along with his collaborator Lucy Moss, signed with Warner Chappell Music in August 2019.[19]Six began previews on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 13 February 2020 and was scheduled to open on 12 March 2020.[20] However, the show's opening night was delayed due to the closure of all Broadway theatres because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[21] Previews for the show resumed on 17 September 2021 and the official opening night occurred on 3 October 2021.
