David JW Knight
COMPOSER - NARRATIVE DESIGNER - WORLDBUILDER
Crafting interactive, immersive stories across music, theatre, games, and digital media.Choose your path:
Music Composition
Original Music for stage, audio, and digital worlds
I compose music that bridges narrative and emotion - from Shakespearean recap songs in pub gardens to cinematic scores for podcasts and digital worlds. My work combines melody, character, and momentum to stories sing.
Resident Musical DirectorComposer and Resident Musical Director for Open Bar and Open Book Theatre, I have scored over a decade of Shakespeare, Regency, and Classic Literature adaptations performed in pub gardens and community spaces across the UK.
Series Composer
With 180+ episodes released, I have scored the entire No Small Rolls actual-play podcast series writing original compositions for every epic episode. Explore the series or jump into the companion album Fatemarked - The Music of No Small Rolls, featuring musical excerpts from the series.
Narrative Design
Interactive stories shaped by audience choice and discovery
I design branching narratives where user agency drives the story. My work spans site-specific mysteries, language learning, and reactive conversation systems, aligning engaging structure, real emotion, and meaningful choice.
Mystery Author
For Immercity, I devised and authored site-specific immersive theatrical mysteries, blending narrative design with live performance that adapted to audience exploration. Each experience used the location to its fullest to explore stories across era and genre, from Victorian machine murders and Cold-War library spy thrillers, to punk squat parties and church-going gangster weddings.
Story Mapper
Twyn is a new platform that uses AI-powered speech recognition and pre-recorded footage to simulate a FaceTime-style conversation, activate user agency, and enhance parasocial relationships. Using Articy, Ink, and other proprietary tools, I designed and built episodic maps that users navigated to discover the content across multiple applications, such as Messi Connect, Twyncast, Jamie O-Brien's Surf App, Deep Real, and Twyn - The English Language Practice App.
Worldbuilding
Collaborative storytelling across tabletop, podcasting, and live play
I create narrative worlds that grow through performance and improvisation. As Creative Director, GM, and composer for No Small Rolls, I blend story, music, and community to build immersive adventures that feel both epic and personal. My tabletop design extends into published modules, live events, and online campaigns.
No Small Rolls
For this long running podcast, I have led players through 180+ episodes of improvised, epic fantasy adventure, weaving worldbuilding, music, and character-driven narratives through long and short-form campaigns.
GM for Hire
With over a decade of designing and running private tabletop games, I have recently launched public adventures on StartPlaying, the largest online platform for professional Game Masters. With a number of custom one-shots and campaigns, I run games focused on narrative depth, accessibility, and high-energy collaboration.
Get in Touch
Open for collaborations, commissions, or creative consultation.
For further examples of my work, please don't hesitate to reach out.