Susannah Pearse
Playwright
About
Susannah Pearse is a writer and composer working mainly in theatre and radio. She has co-written musical adaptations of Around the World in 80 Days, A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island (all for the Octagon theatre in Bolton) as well as two musicals for the radio, Hall of Mirrors (BBC Radio 3) and an adaptation of Rossum’s Universal Robots (BBC Radio 4). Other credits include The Stationmaster, I Relate to the Sparrow, Jabberwocky and Once Upon a Time in Narcissia, with cast sizes ranging from one to thirty-five. She writes the original music for the comedy songs on John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme on BBC Radio 4, and she has also developed several musicals for young people to perform with Go Live Theatre Projects (previously Mousetrap Theatre Projects) and British Youth Music Theatre.
From 2013–2024 she taught new musical theatre writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, supervising the creation of over thirty new musicals during that period. She has also taught musical theatre writing and history on a range of shorter modules at Wolverhampton University, Leeds Conservatoire, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Urdang (City St George’s, University of London). She previously worked for Bloomsbury Publishing and Oberon Books in their digital marketing teams.
Susannah grew up in Essex and now lives in London. In addition to musicals, she is also a big fan of crime fiction. She can often be found watching Morse (as well as some other lesser detectives where necessary) or taking pictures at the seaside.