BOOK Music & Lyrics

General information

The BML Workshop is the UK’s premier training ground for emerging musical theatre writers. Participants of the programme hone their skills in songwriting, storytelling and stagecraft in a collaborative and professionally orientated workshop series. The workshops' focus is developing participants' individual creative voices, through instilling both an excellence of craft knowledge and the confidence to approach creative challenges in a personal and distinctive way.

The programme was established by musical theatre veteran David James, a former member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Workshop in New York. The workshops are led by David, Jason Carr, David Firman and Tim Sutton, and guest facilitators have included Terry Davies, Charles Hart, Jeremy Sams, Susan H. Shulman, David Spenser, George Stiles, Richard Stilgoe and Mark Warman.

Members and alumni of the workshop have worked with a wide range of theatres (RNT, Soho, Lowry, Watermill, Jermyn Street, Watford Palace, the Lyric Hammersmith), production companies (NITRO, DreamArts, YMT, Tete a Tete, Iris), and schools (E15, Guildhall, Goldsmiths, St Paul’s CE Primary in London, The MTA). Members of the workshop live and work throughout the UK.

Supported by the PRS for Music Foundation and Mercury Musical Developments.