Jenifer Toksvig

Jenifer writes book & lyrics for musicals, both adapted and original stories. She is The Copenhagen Interpretation, Artistic Director of Story Un (Ltd), a graduate of the Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a Professional Writer Associate of Mercury Musical Developments (MMD). She also teaches musical theatre writing craft, and general aspects of the art of storytelling and collaboration, and has written guidelines on business aspects of the musical theatre writing business that are used by MMD and the Writers Guild of Great Britain. Here's a full biography.

Click on the images or show titles below, or to the right, to read and listen to more. She can also be found on blogger and twitter.

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Hitler's Canary goes into development this spring, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

In collaboration with Uterus Musical Theatre Development in Fredericia, Denmark and Watford Palace Theatre in London, the show will receive three weeks of research and development work, culminating in some open workshop performances.

Check out the show page for more info.

This famous fairytale will be coming to life in Guildford, Surrey this October, as a Story Un (Ltd). The show will take place throughout the town centre, and it will last an entire weekend.

Listen to a demo of Mort's love song Beautiful
or click on the picture above to hear more songs from the show...

This brand new adaptation of the popular Discworld novel, written in collaboration with composer Dominic Haslam, is in production again this year with YMT, directed by Luke Sheppard.

Come and enjoy the huge, and hugely talented cast, an eight foot tall dancing skeleton, a flying horse and a small ferret.