Sam Willmott

Sam Willmott is a musical theatre composer/lyricist. Theatre: A Beat of Our Own (Birmingham Rep UK, 2024; La Jolla Playhouse 2022); Yo, Vikings! and Wake Up, Daisy! (both with Marcus Stevens); Standardized Testing – The Musical!!!! and the mini-musical Scarlet Takes a Tumble. TV: HBO’s Emmy-nominated Song of Parkland (dir. Amy Schatz). Awards: Kleban Prize for Most Promising Lyricist, Fred Ebb Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, Richard Rodgers Award, the ASCAP Foundation’s Harold Adamson and Cole Porter Awards. Sam has been a guest lecturer and/or taught courses at Harvard, Pace and Lincoln Center Theater’s Songwriting in Schools Program. He is also a proud contributing writer to the Korean children’s language program English Egg, for whom he’s written over 190 educational kids’ tunes.