Georgia Stitt

Biography

GEORGIA STITT is an award-winning composer, lyricist, music producer, pianist, and activist. Her original musicals include SNOW CHILD (commissioned by Arena Stage), BIG RED SUN (NAMT), and a children’s musical, SAMANTHA SPADE, ACE DETECTIVE (TADA Youth Theater), which won “Outstanding New Musical” from the National Youth Theatre. Other shows include THE DANGER YEAR, THE BIG BOOM, THE WATER, COMMON GROUND, and MOSAIC, and she has written arrangements and orchestrations for the upcoming production of GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN. Georgia has released four albums of her music: A QUIET REVOLUTION (2020), MY LIFELONG LOVE (2014), THIS ORDINARY THURSDAY (2007), and ALPHABET CITY CYCLE (2009) and is currently at work on a fifth album and an oratorio called THE CIRCLING UNIVERSE. She is the Founder and President of Maestra Music, an organization that provides support, visibility, and community for women and nonbinary theater musicians, and through that work she has won an Obie Award and a Lilly Award and was featured in Forbes, Billboard, Playbill, Opera News, and The New York Times. In collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda, she and her team at Maestra created the RISE Theatre Directory. She is in leadership at The Dramatists Guild, The Recording Academy’s Songwriters & Composers Wing, and Musicians United for Social Equity (MUSE). Georgia has worked in the music departments on projects including Broadway’s 2023 revival of PARADE, NBC’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Live!), the film version of THE LAST FIVE YEARS (starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan), Off-Broadway’s SWEET CHARITY (starring Sutton Foster), Disney/ABC’s ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett), and the Netflix film, 13: THE MUSICAL. She teaches Musical Theater Writing at Princeton University and is a frequent keynote speaker and master class instructor. Georgia lives in New York with her husband Jason Robert Brown and their two wonderful daughters.