Rebecca is an award-winning composer. She was the first woman to win the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Award, during which time she was resident at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and the Mercury Theatre, Colchester.  Other nominations include two BAFTA award nominations, and two Great British Pantomime Award nominations (for PUSS IN BOOTS and RAPUNSEL at Chipping Norton Theatre).

Rebecca’s studio is in the countryside of the Cambridgeshire fens. Her work involves various combinations of composition, arranging, orchestration, scoring, musical direction, sequencing, QLab programming, editing, mixing, words writing and playing the harp.

She works across theatre, screen and radio. She studied music at Cambridge University and Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music. She also has a doctorate and her research work is in Musical Theatre. Her book on composing for musical theatre, called The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Rebecca loves helping other people develop their musicals and has taught and mentored on the MA Musical Theatre Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has also led craft workshops for Mercury Musical Developments and been on their awards judging panels.

Recent projects as composer include British Council-funded CONNECTIONS THROUGH CULTURE INDIA-WALES, collaborating with Kaite O’Reilly and Madan Gopal Singh’s musicians and choreographer Navtej Singh Johar in New Delhi; WAR OF THE WORLDS (ON A BUDGET) with Lamphouse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and touring; THE BEAUTY PARADE, a collaboration between D/deaf and hearing cultures, commissioned by Wales Millennium Centre; HOURGLASS, originally commissioned by The Mayflower Theatre and performed at Chichester Conservatoire; THE ALLESLEY SILAS, a large-scale community piece with From the Heart theatre company. Recent projects as arranger and orchestrator include ROSIE AND HUGH’S GREAT BIG ADVENTURE - an actor-musician musical with the songs of CBeebie’s Nick Cope - and AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS at Bolton Octagon.

She has worked on projects for BBC Learning Zones with Gamelab, many radio programmes with Made in Manchester, and is a composer of library music for TV.

Rebecca’s work with young people includes being a practitioner for The International Schools’ Theatre Association; multiple projects for British Youth Music Theatre and composing for Watford Palace Theatre’s young company. She is an Associate Artist with young people’s theatre company, Full House. Wastebusters, her Eco musical commissioned by the Lyric, Belfast, will be touring primary schools in Northern Ireland again in 2024.

Rebecca is represented by Maeve Bolger at The Agency
contact: mbolger@theagency.co.uk