Emily Rose Simons is a musical theatre writer known for strong melodies, deep emotional intelligence and quirky wit who has worked mainly in London and New York. She has an MFA from the Graduate Music Theatre Writing Program, Tisch, NYU, a BA and MA in Music from the University of Bristol, is an alum of the Book, Music, Lyrics workshops and currently a member of MMD Advance Lab. 

She is currently developing book, music and lyrics on Becoming Nigella, which has been supported by ACE, was selected for MMD’s BEAM and has been performed in concert at The Other Palace. She is also the composer-lyricist on The Inconvenient Miracle with Emily Claire Schmitt as book writer and Ria T. DiLullo as director, which has received development performances in New York with support from EAG, Primary Spaces, The Tank NYC and New York New Works. Her newest show in development is The Funeral Lady, which is being developed with Mrs C Collective and was selected for Pitch Point and as a finalist for the Styles and Drewe Songwriting Award. 

As a composer and sound designer, she has brought her musical talents as well as her dramaturgical and comedic sensibilities to many plays and films, including Pickle (Park Theatre & Soho Theatre), Therapy Won’t Kill You (Big Apple Film Festival & Massachusetts Film Festival) and Buyer and Cellar starring Rob Madge (Kings Head Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth).

She has also enjoyed working with drama schools including Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she has taught lyric writing and been brought in as a composer for the musical theater short course, and Oxford School of Drama where she has worked as a sound designer and supported students composing original music for Superhuman (Old Diorama Centre)