Jude Taylor is a composer, lyricist, writer, musical director and sound designer from Leicester. He has been working professionally in theatre since 2018. He is currently a Generate Associate Artist at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton, and was previously a Resident Creative at Curve in Leicester.

Jude has composed original music and songs for a number of stage adaptations of popular children’s books, including ‘Pirates Love Underpants’, which sailed to the Sydney Opera House in Australia following multiple UK tours. His original musicals have also featured at UK venues such as Curve, The Other Palace in London, and The Lowry in Manchester.

Credits include:

Cinderella – Music by Jude Taylor; Lyrics by Jude Taylor and Katie Arnstein

Sound Design and Musical Direction by Jude Taylor

Nottingham Playhouse, 2026

Dead Dog In A Suitcase (and other love songs) – Sound Design, Musical Direction and Arrangements by Jude Taylor

Royal & Derngate (Northampton), 2026

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – Sound Design by Jude Taylor

Royal & Derngate (Northampton), 2026

Aliens Love Panta Claus – Music by Jude Taylor; Lyrics by Jude Taylor and Chandni Mistry

Musical Supervision and Arrangements by Jude Taylor

Curve (Leicester), 2025

Dorothy and Her Very Many Friends – Book, Music and Lyrics by Jude Taylor

Sound Design, Musical Direction and Arrangements by Jude Taylor

Workshop Production; Royal & Derngate (Northampton), 2025; Concert; Phoenix Arts Club (London), 2025

Pirates Love Underpants – Music and Lyrics by Jude Taylor

Musical Supervision and Arrangements by Jude Taylor

Curve (Leicester), 2024; UK Tour (Norwell Lapley Productions), 2025; Sydney Opera House, Australia, 2025

The Owl Who Came for Christmas – Music by Jude Taylor; Lyrics by Jude Taylor and Chandni Mistry

Musical Direction and Arrangements by Jude Taylor

Curve (Leicester), 2023; UK Tour (Norwell Lapley Productions), 2024-2025; Production, MAC (Birmingham), 2025

The Unconventionals – Book, Music and Lyrics by Jude Taylor                              

VAULT Festival, 2023

R&D; Curve (Leicester) 2022

The Phase – Co-Arrangements/Orchestrations by Jude Taylor

VAULT Festival, 2023

Is He Musical? – Book, Music and Lyrics by Jude Taylor

The Other Palace (London), Curve (Leicester), University of Wolverhampton, 2022

Workshop Presentation; The Lowry (Manchester), 2021

Workshop; Curve (Leicester), 2021

Trans Voices Cabaret – Arrangements by Jude Taylor

Concert; Turbine Theatre, 2021

Make Me Infamous – Book, Music and Lyrics by Jude Taylor

Full Audio Production; MPTheatricals, 2020

Reading; The Other Palace, 2020

Steep Themselves in Night - Book, Music and Lyrics by Jude Taylor

Reading; The Other Palace, 2019

Workshop Presentation; The Other Palace, 2018

Community Work

Jude has extensive experience in teaching, leading community-based workshops and facilitating groups, including as a singing teacher and musical director. From 2024 to 2026, he was Musical Director of the Curve Young Company and from 2024 to 2025 he was an artist and facilitator on the National Theatre’s ‘Speak Up’ programme working with young people in Leicester.

Following over 12 years of working in the voluntary sector with mental health services alongside his work in the arts, Jude also has a particular passion for promoting singing for wellbeing and has developed several singing courses/groups for adults with mental health difficulties in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. He is a qualified Adult Learning Tutor and Mental Health First Aider.

In 2019 he gave a TEDX talk on his experiences of singing for wellbeing at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.