RICHY HUGHES
Richy’s musical Superhero (Southwark Playhouse), in collaboration with Joseph Finlay and Michael Conley, won 2018’s Off-West-End Award for Best New Musical. Don’t Look Down from the show won the 2015 Stiles and Drewe Prize.
Mr Popper’s Penguins, written with composer Luke Bateman, has enjoyed runs at The Criterion and The New Victory Theatre, 42nd Street NYC, as well as extensive UK and US tours. His adaptation of the bestselling children’s book series ‘Oi Frog! And Friends’ opened in The West End in November 2019 before embarking on a UK tour.
‘The Beautiful Game’, written with composer Darren Clark, won the Xmas Factor All Stars award for best Christmas song of the last five years. Richy has contributed songs for Song Cycle For Soho (Soho Theatre) and MMD’s 25th Anniversary Gala (Novello Theatre).
Richy is a member of the BML Workshop, London and MMD Lab. He enjoys the support of his wife Nikki, and his children Jessica and Harry.
Mr Popper’s Penguins, written with composer Luke Bateman, has enjoyed runs at The Criterion and The New Victory Theatre, 42nd Street NYC, as well as extensive UK and US tours. His adaptation of the bestselling children’s book series ‘Oi Frog! And Friends’ opened in The West End in November 2019 before embarking on a UK tour.
‘The Beautiful Game’, written with composer Darren Clark, won the Xmas Factor All Stars award for best Christmas song of the last five years. Richy has contributed songs for Song Cycle For Soho (Soho Theatre) and MMD’s 25th Anniversary Gala (Novello Theatre).
Richy is a member of the BML Workshop, London and MMD Lab. He enjoys the support of his wife Nikki, and his children Jessica and Harry.
Richy's RECOMMENDATIONS
"One of the new British MT writers I admire is in fact not British at all. He is an import from a small country called The United States of America. The Michael Conley’s (his own prefix) is lousy with knowledge of the canon, which he wears as subtly or flamboyantly as the song dictates. His lyrics range from the elegantly sparseness of Berlin to the linguistic gymnastics of Porter as the character dictates. Michael is a master of character humour, entrusting the performer to discover the comedic moments, and leaving space for them to do so. He is also a mean book-writer, providing his collaborators with plentiful dramatic song moments and not moaning too much when they appropriate all his best dialogue to become songs."
