Jeremy Sams
Jeremy Sams Writer: Amour (Broadway), Ghetto (National Theatre and Broadway), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West End and Broadway), The Wizard of Oz (West End and tour); translation of Indiscretions (Broadway), The Miser and Mary Stuart (RNT), The Rehearsal, Don Giovanni, Figaro’s Wedding, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Wagner’s Ring Cycle (ENO), Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow (New York). He wrote and devised The Enchanted Island for the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
Directorial credits include Die Fledermaus (Metropolitan Opera), The Wizard of Oz (West End, Toronto, US tour), The King and I (Royal Albert Hall), The Sound of Music (London Palladium, world tour), 13 The Musical (Broadway), Donkey’s Years (Comedy Theater), Little Britain Live, Noises Off (West End and Broadway), Passion (West End), Wild Oats (RNT), The Wind in the Willows (Tokyo, Old Vic) and the Olivier-nominated Spend Spend Spend (West End).
As a composer, he has written, arranged and directed music for over 50 shows for theatre, TV and film, including: The Wind in the Willows; Arcadia (RNT and Lincoln Center); The Mother (BBC); Enduring Love (Pathé), for which he won the Ivor Novello Award; Hyde Park on Hudson; Le Weekend and Persuasion (BBC Films), for which he won a BAFTA.