Becky 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).

Becky’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.

Composition work spans 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. Becky 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.

Community projects are very important to Becky and she has been involved in many kinds of community arts projects. She has facilitated the creation of a brand new musical with the congregation and community of St Paul’s Church and Community Centre, reflecting their interpretation of ‘To Everything there is a Season’, led original songwriting and musical writing projects with primary schools in Cambridge and in Manchester. She was the music lead for large-scale community projects with Watford Palace Theatre, and the Mayflower Theatre, and she has also been a dep leading community choir London Sound Project, as well as playing the harp with them.

Becky’s experience of working with young people includes as 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. Waste Busters, her Eco musical commissioned by the Lyric, Belfast, has been out on tour around primary schools in Northern Ireland four times, and has been seen by thousands of children to help spread the message to reduce, reuse and recycle.

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