Georgia Stitt

Georgia Stitt is an award-winning composer, lyricist, music producer, pianist, and activist. Her original musicals include Snow Child, Big Red Sun, The Danger Year, The Big Boom, The Water, Mosaic, Samantha Spade, Ace Detective (“Outstanding New Musical” from National Youth Theatre), and the upcoming Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Georgia has released five albums of her music: Bell Tower, A Quiet Revolution, My Lifelong Love, This Ordinary Thursday, and Alphabet City Cycle. She has a large library of published choral music (including “The Promise of Light” and “De Profundis”) and is currently writing an oratorio called The Circling Universe. Georgia has worked in the music department on projects including NBC’s The Sound of Music (Live!), Off-Broadway’s Sweet Charity (starring Sutton Foster), the films of The Last Five Years (starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan), 13: The Musical, and the recent Broadway revival of Parade. Through her work with Maestra she has won an Obie Award and a Lilly Award and has been featured in Forbes, Billboard, Playbill, Opera News, and The New York Times. She is a Council Member at The Dramatists Guild and serves on the Leadership Council for the Songwriters and Composers Wing at The Recording Academy. Georgia teaches Musical Theater Writing at Princeton University and lives in New York with her husband, composer Jason Robert Brown, and their two wonderful daughters.