SOPHIE BOYCE
Lyricist / Librettist
PROJECTS
THE DARK LADY
Music by Veronica Mansour
Book & Lyrics by Sophie Boyce
Winner of the 2025 Richard Rodgers Award.
The year is 1588 and Emilia Bassano is crafting the most remarkable stories that the world will ever see.
But women are not permitted to write plays. And so theatre's greatest characters stand to be lost in the abyss.
Until a deal is struck, with the stableboy William Shakespeare...
UNGLAMOROUS
Music by Fred Feeney
Book & Lyrics by Sophie Boyce
A true story. In 2020, as the world slowed, Ruth Miller put a dream into action. She put guitars into the hands of the women of Leicester. Most of these women were in their 60s; grandmothers, women used to getting along quietly. Now, they were about to make noise.
Nobody could have predicted the impact this would have on their lives or on the city of Leicester.
EVERYTHING'S GOING MY WAY
A play by Sophie Boyce
Colin is a psychotherapist assigned to work with the corrosive 17-year-old Noah and his worn-down mother, Helen. As an unnerving paternal instinct takes hold, power ping-pongs between them and the line between care and harm all but disappears.
This is a play that examines masculine intimacy, the ferocity of motherhood, and connection in its most fragile and complicated forms.
LITTLE RED
Music by Veronica Mansour
Book & Lyrics by Sophie Boyce
Flipping the script on the original fairytale, Little Red is the story of a relentless young woman training under the enigmatic “Granny” to become the ultimate Wolf-Killer.
This is a high-octane, twist-filled thriller musical with a score that fuses folk, pop and opera.
The show explores fear, power and dangerous devotion.
THE FORTY ELEPHANTS
Music by Einar Adalsteinsson
Book & Lyrics Sophie Boyce
Inspired by true events, this is the story of London's notorious all-woman crime-ring: The Forty Elephants.
Set in Victorian-era Elephant and Castle, this is a show that celebrates women's rights... but even more so, women's wrongs.