Ella Grace is an award-winning musical theatre writer whose work bridges powerful historical narratives with contemporary accessibility. With formal training from The London School of Musical Theatre and a background fronting alt-rock band Hitchcock Blonde, Ella brings a distinctive musical voice to her theatrical compositions.

 

Her current focus, SCHOLL, a folk-pop musical about anti-Nazi resistance fighters Hans and Sophie Scholl, received a full production at Chichester Conservatoire in 2024, having been showcased at BEAM (Oxford Playhouse). This work continues her commitment to creating theatre that examines moral courage in historical contexts, previously explored in NETHERGATE (BEAM/Scottish Youth Theatre/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).

 

Ella's compositions have been commissioned and presented by organisations including New York Theatre Workshop (SALOME), China Plate (ROMEO AND JULIET, MAD BLOOD STIRRING), Serenbe Playhouse (PETER PAN: A PIRATE ADVENTURE), and Viborg Theatre, Denmark (OPHELIA ). 

 

Her work has been selected for major festivals including the New York Musical Theatre

Festival and Midtown International Theatre Festival (TROUBLE), and Finger Lakes Festival (OPHELIA).

 

Ella was musical director for Harlow Playhouse’s 2017 production of Beauty & The Beast.

She was the composer, lyricist and musical director for British Youth Music Theatre’s full production of HOT WHEELS. Her work with BYMT also includes summer workshops of The Gorbal’s Vampires, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

 

As a television writer, Ella co-developed and co-wrote the half-hour pilot FARM GIRLS, which was optioned by Avalon Entertainment and ultimately sold to ITV in 2023.

 

A recipient of the Michael Grandage Futures Award and a finalist for both the Perfect Pitch Award and the RSC's Song for Shakespeare Competition, Ella was selected for the China Plate’s development program, Musical Theatre Darkroom, and Tim Johanson and Mark Cartwright's musical theatre writer's residency.  

 

She has also been shortlisted for both the National Theatre of Scotland and The Lowry's Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer positions.