SOPHIE BOYCE
Lyricist / Librettist
The Dark Lady
With Veronica Mansour
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...
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The Forty Elephants
With Einar Adalsteinsson
Inspired by true events, this is the story of London's notorious all-woman crime-ring: The Forty Elephants. It's a show that celebrates women's rights... but even more so, women's wrongs.
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Developed at The Other Palace Musical Bites, Winchester University, Edge Hill University, NYU Tisch.
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Little Red
With Veronica Mansour
The tale of a troubled teen training under the enigmatic “Granny” to become the ultimate Wolf-Killer. Flipping the script on the original fairytale, this is a dance-driven, horror-tinged musical with a score that fuses folk, pop and opera. A thrilling journey of discovery that explores the mechanics of fear and polarisation, and asks whether light can be found in the darkness of the woods.
Everything's Going My Way
A play
​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.
Unglamorous
With Fred Feeney
A true story. In 2020, the world was shut down. But while life slowed, Ruth Miller was just getting started. She had a dream: to put guitars into the hands of the women of Leicester. One by one, women from all walks of life started to trickle through the door of this rinky-dink practice room that had previously felt off-limits to them. Most of them were in their 60s; grandmothers, women used to getting along quietly. Now, they were about to make noise.