Over the past decade, Royal & Derngate
Theatre's Artistic Director James Dacre has commissioned 12 of the most prominent British composers working today to write original music for the stage – including Number 1 selling musicians White Lies, Guy Chambers and These New Puritans; Oscar and Grammy award winning film composers Rachel Portman OBE and Anne Dudley; leading opera composer Orlando Gough, British Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra MBE and ground-breaking classical and electronic composers Isobel Waller-Bridge, James Johnston, Bedroom Community's Valgeir Sigurðsson and 2020 Ivor Novello Award winner Renell Shaw.