Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary

Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary are a London-based musical theatre writing partnership. They met at Bristol University, where they were studying Drama and Music respectively.

Their first musical Jet Set Go! ran at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival at George Square Theatre. Following the Festival it played a short sell-out season at the acclaimed Theatre 503 in London. A new production in April 2009 ran at Jermyn Street Theatre with a cast including Mark Evans and Tim Driesen. Jet Set Go! is published and licensed by Josef Weinbeger Ltd. The amateur premiere took place at Cambridge University in February 2011, a production which subsequently opened at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2011.

Their second musical The Great British Soap Opera ran at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival - again at George Square Theatre - and subsequently transferred for a two-week run at Jermyn Street Theatre in September 2009. The cast included Philippa Buxton and Leon Kay featuring the voice of Lynda Bellingham.

In 2010, Brunger and Cleary were commissioned to write the stage adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series, which received a workshop at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, directed by Thea Sharrock, and in August 2011 they wrote a new musical for Youth Music Theatre: UK (YMT) called The Lost and Found Office, which was directed by Gemma Farlie.

In March 2012 they wrote a new song for A Song Cycle for Soho at Soho Theatre, starring Claire Moore, Michael Cantwell, Niamh Perry and James Gillan. It was released on CD in May 2012 by SimG Records.

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