Laurence Mark Wythe
| Laurence Mark Wythe | |
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| Born |
Laurence Mark Wythe 8 February 1974 Ashford, Kent, England |
| Website | http://www.laurencemarkwythe.com |
Laurence Mark Wythe (born 8 February 1974, Ashford, Kent, England) is an award winning English composer, lyricist and writer for West End, international and Off-Broadway musicals. He is principally known for the off-Broadway musical Tomorrow Morning (2011) and Through the Door. Tomorrow Morning won the Jeff Award in Chicago for Best Musical (midsize) in 2009. The musical opened at the Landor Theatre in South London in October 2010, and off-Broadway at the Theatre at Saint Peters on Lexington Avenue in New York on 31 March 2011.
Tomorrow Morning has now been seen on four continents in several languages. He is currently working on Through the Door (book by Judy Freed) which was seen in the West End at Trafalgar Studios in 2009 starring Julie Atherton and Paul Keating and later had a New York City reading in 2011 starring Broadway star Kerry Butler. The show will open in Seoul, Korea on 13 March 2015. In 2013 he wrote music for television channel Nickelodeon. His latest project is the musical Midnight with bookwriter Timothy Knapmann, which is planned to open in London in 2015.
Wythe is married and has two children, Sophie and Charlotte who are both professional child performers. Sophie is a child actress, who appeared in The Sound of Music at the London Palladium, playing the role of Marta von Trapp. She also appeared for a year in Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and was Young Fiona in Shrek – The Musical in the West End in 2011. His younger daughter Charlotte Pourret Wythe made her West End debut in Billy Elliot the Musical in late 2015 until the completion of the show's eleven year run at the Victoria Palace Theatre on April9, 2016. Both girls appeared together in the world premiere of the musical The House of Mirrors and Heart at the Arcola Theatre London in 2015.
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