Laurence Mark Wythe

Laurence Mark Wythe is an 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),^[1] Through the Door and Midnight. 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 and has played all over the world. Also: Creatives written with Irvine Welsh has been seen in the US and the UK; Extraordinary was produced by the University of Central Lancashire in 2017. He has also written one play's incidental music (Fucking Men by Joe DiPietro). The movie adaptation of Tomorrow Morning was shot in 2021 and will be released by Kaleidoscope Films in 2022, starring Samantha Barks and Ramin Karimloo with Omid Djalili, Fleur East, Joan Collins, Henry Goodman and Harriet Thorpe.

Tomorrow Morning has now been seen on four continents in multiple languages. He wrote 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 Broadway presentation in 2011 starring Broadway star Kerry Butler. The show has seen multiple productions in Seoul, Korea. In 2013 he wrote music for television channel Nickelodeon. He wrote the musical Midnight with bookwriter Timothy Knapmann, which ran in London in 2018, and in Korea in 2018 and 2019 and is currently playing in Seoul. In 2017 he composed the score for the independent film Last Laugh written by John Godber. His musical GROWL! with Tim Knapman was produced by the NYMT (National Youth Music Theatre) in 2019 after development workshops in 2018. Their musical Danni Hero (originally Danny Hero) was commissioned by Made in Corby and performed at the Core at Corby Cube in England and ran in October 2016.