Jake brunger & Pippa cleary
“A fresh and funny show from the young songwriting team of Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary. They clearly have the potential to inject new life into the anaemic British musical.”
Jake Brunger (book and lyrics) and Pippa Cleary (music and lyrics) met at Bristol University, where they were studying Drama and Music respectively. They have been described by The Stage newspaper as “one of the most exciting musical theatre writing teams working in the UK today”.
Their stage adaptation of the much-loved Channel 4 series THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF recently played a limited 12-week season at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and produced by Mark Goucher and Love Productions. The show premiered at the Everyman Cheltenham in July 2022. The Original London Cast Recording was recently released by Sony Masterworks Broadway and is available on Spotify and Apple Music.
Their stage musical adaptation of Sue Townsend’s THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13¾ ran at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End in 2019 following critically acclaimed runs at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Leicester Curve. The show was directed by Luke Sheppard and nominated for the 2018 Evening Standard Award for Best Musical with the original cast recording released by Sony Masterworks Broadway. An actor-musician revival opened at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch in April 2022.
Their musicals include: JET SET GO! (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Theatre 503, Jermyn Street Theatre & Turbine Theatre MT Fest 2020), THE GREAT BRITISH SOAP OPERA (Edinburgh Fringe Festival & Jermyn Street Theatre), RED RIDING HOOD (Singapore Repertory Theatre and multiple international productions), PRODIGY (National Youth Music Theatre at The Other Palace), TREASURE ISLAND (Singapore Repertory Theatre) and CHICKEN LITTLE (The Other Palace / Singapore Repertory Theatre). They also wrote the music and lyrics for THE SNOW GORILLA (Rose Theatre, Kingston).
In 2018 they headlined their first sell-out concert at Live at Zedel, with a cast including It’s a Sin actor Callum Scott Howells, which can be viewed online here. They were chosen for the 2013 Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project in Chicago and are Associate Artists of Leicester Curve. They recently spent a year on attachment to the National Theatre Studio working on an original new musical called MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU, which workshopped in London last year produced by Tim Johanson & Mark Cartwright with a cast including Caroline Quentin, Anita Dobson, Claire Moore and Robert Hands.
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The cast recordings for THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF, THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13¾ and PRODIGY are available on all streaming platforms.
For all professional enquiries please contact Harriet Pennington Legh at Lark Management and Helen Mumby at The Soho Agency
