Susannah Pearse is a writer and composer. Musical theatre credits include Around the World in 80 Days, A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island with Kate Ferguson (all for The Octagon Theatre in Bolton), Hall of Mirrors and Rossum’s Universal Robots with Robert Hudson (for BBC Radio 3 and 4 respectively), Jabberwocky with Rebecca Applin (BYMT), The Stationmaster with Tim Connor (Aria Entertainment), and Once Upon a Time in Narcissia with YounYoung Park (Daegu International
Musical Festival, South Korea).

She writes the original music for the comedy songs on John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme on BBC Radio 4, and she has also developed several musicals for young people to perform with Go Live Theatre Projects (previously Mousetrap Theatre Projects). She also wrote I Am Not Yours - Mother Nature with composer Anna Semple (Royal Opera House).

From 2013–2024 Susannah taught new musical theatre writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, supervising the creation of over thirty new musicals during that period. She has also taught musical theatre writing and history on a range of shorter modules at Wolverhampton University, Leeds Conservatoire, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Urdang (City St George’s, University of London). She is currently the Royal Literary Fellow for De Montfort University, a member of Mercury Musical Developments, and a facilitator for Book, Music & Lyrics, a development programme supporting new musical theatre writers in the UK.