The Book Thief - West End Creative Team
Production Staff
Kate Anderson
Composer
Lyricist
Kate Anderson is the Annie Award nominated songwriter behind Disney Animation’s OLAF’S FROZEN ADVENTURE and the Apple TV+ series CENTRAL PARK. She is 1/2 of the songwriting team of Samsel/ Anderson. Other credits include the Off-Broadway musical, BETWEEN THE LINES (Second Stage) and West-End bound THE BOOK THIEF.
Sarah Frankcom
director
Tom Jackson Greaves
Director
Timothy Allen McDonald
Librettist
Timothy Allen McDonald is an award-winning playwright (Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Jim Henson's Emmet Otter, Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach) adaptor of over 65 musicals (highlights include Guys and Dolls JR., Getting to Know...The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz YPE, and Les Miserables School Edition). McDonald is also an accomplished director (Dear Edwina produced by multi-Tony award winner Daryl Roth, and The Phantom Tollbooth at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and a leading authority on musical theater education. In 1996 McDonald was recruited by Freddie Gershon ... read more
Conor McPherson
Writer
Conor was born in Dublin in 1971 and attended University College Dublin where he began to write and direct. Original stage plays include Rum & Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, St Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards), Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Shining City (Tony Award-nominated), The Seafarer (Tony, Olivier and Evening Standard Award-nominated), The Veil and The Night Alive (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play). His 2020 adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya won this year’s South Bank Show Sky Arts Theatre Award and was filmed for broadcast by the BBC ... read more
Rachel O'Riordan
Artistic Director
Director
Jodi Picoult
Librettist
Elyssa Samsel
Composer
Lyricist
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