Victoria Saxton (Book) is a Librettist, Lyricist and Dramaturg currently living in London. She received an MFA from the Tisch School of Arts, NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Programme. Her musical Head of the Table (music by Paul Castles) received a 29 hours Actors Equity Association reading (NYU, 2010) and a 2 week workshop at the Old Vic Theatre Lab (London, 2017). Other productions in New York include A year with the ever so slightly crazy and British Veronica Sexton (music by Julian Blackmore, Tada Theatre 2010, Roots and Wings 2011) and The Assistors (music by Julian Blackmore, Lee Strasberg Institute 2009). She’s a graduate of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Programme, and has degrees in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and Theology from Cambridge. Her theses, for both degrees, were musicals: Three Days (Moore Theatre, Dartmouth 2003) and Retail Rock (ADC Theatre, Cambridge, 2001).

Recent commissions include: Marriage a La Mode (music by Charles Miller), The London School of Musical Theatre (London, 2015), the opening song for Simon Green’s Cabaret ‘So, this then is life’ which premiered at the Crazy Coqs opening the London Festival of Cabaret 2014 and transferred to 59E59 Theatre, New York for the ‘Brits Off Broadway’ Festival (music by David Shrubsole).

Victoria is currently Executive Director of Mercury Musical Development (MMD) and Visiting Lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she has designed and leads a Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Programme. She also helped establish and facilitate the National Theatre’s Musical Theatre Writing Group.

Ella Grace (Music & Lyrics) trained at the London School of Musical Theatre and went on to front rock band Hitchcock Blonde for four years. She now writes for theatre, and wrote music & lyrics for pop/rock musical Trouble, which was presented at the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival. She was a finalist of the 2014 Perfect Pitch Awards and is subsequently under commission with Perfect Pitch and The New Wolsey Theatre to write a new musical.

In 2015, Ella wrote music & lyrics for King Athelstan as part of the Rose Theatre Kingston’s Festival of Stories, and was a finalist in the RCS’s A Song for Shakespeare competition.

In 2016, Ella was selected for China Plate, House Theatre and The Musical Theatre Network’s inaugural Musical Theatre Darkroom, and from this partnered with Look Left, Look Right’s Katie Lyons to write an immersive musical, Blackout, which is being developed by China Plate Theatre and is supported by the Arts Council England.

Most recently, she’s been commissioned to write songs for Contender Charlie’s UK tour of Romeo and Juliet, and songs for Oscar Wilde’s Salome, which played at the Walt Disney Modular Theatre, Los Angeles.

On-going projects include; Nethergate, a modern re-imagining of Peter Pan, which was presented at BEAM 2016 and workshopped with Scottish Youth Theatre; Ophelia, a modern adaptation of Hamlet; and Billy Binns, a new actor-musician musical.

Ella is an associate artist of Harlow Playhouse and recent recipient of the Michael Grandage Futures Bursary.

Mia Walker (Director) Mia is an NYC-based theater and film director. Recent directing: Into the Wild (The Encore Musical Theatre); Normativity (NYMF, 2016). Broadway/National Tour: Tour Director, 2017 Pippin tour (original direction by Diane Paulus); Waitress (Assistant Director); Finding Neverland (Associate Director on current National Tour); The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Assistant Director). Upcoming: Camp Wanatachi: In Concert (Director, NYMF, Summer 2017); Jagged Little Pill (Associate Director, American Repertory Theater, Spring 2018). B.A. Harvard University. miapwalker.com