“Sam Norman is remarkable… Genius writing” — StagetoPage

Hi, I’m Sam — an award-winning (but more often award-losing) rhymester who bounces between the UK and US.

I mostly write lyrics and librettos for musicals and operas. Sometimes I write screenplays and light verse.

Most recently… Come Dine With Me: The Musical.

You might have seen my work produced and/or developed off-West End, off-Broadway and regionally, at venues including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Turbine Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and the Edinburgh Fringe.

I’m currently a Resident Artist at the American Lyric Theater. In the past I’ve been a Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriter, an American Opera Initiative Fellow, a winner of the Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation, a Lincoln Center Broadway Future Songbook writer and a three-time finalist for the Stiles & Drewe Best New Song Prize. I’m a proud member of the BMI Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop and the Dramatists Guild.

I’ve failed at lots of things! I’d like to create a CV of Failures at some point, but only when I have enough successes to justify it.

Fun Fact: All crustaceans are possibly trying to become crabs.

Fun Fact About Me: I think podcast musicals are massively underrated.

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