Lucy Moss

Lucy Amelia Nancy Moss (born 13 January 1994) is a British musical theatre composer, lyricist, playwright, writer, and director best known for co-creating the hit musical Six with Toby Marlow.

For its West End run, Six was voted Best New Musical of the Decade by readers of WhatsOnStage and received five Olivier Award nominations. Moss alongside Marlow won the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2022.

Before theatres reopened in 2021, Moss directed the virtual benefit performance of Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical. In 2022, Moss directed a new production of Legally Blonde: The Musical at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London.

Early life and education Moss grew up in Ealing, West London. Her father, Robert Moss, was a fund manager who died when Lucy was 14. Lucy became interested in musical theatre and dance through her local ballet school. which led to her first meeting with Toby Marlow, who was in the audience. That year, she also appeared as a dancer in a Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club production of the musical Rent, which featured Marlow and Zak Ghazi-Torbati in leading roles.

Career

Six

Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow co-created Six while in their final year at Cambridge. Marlow came up with the idea of a pop concert featuring the wives of Henry VIII and asked Moss to help write it, after being offered a slot at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by the Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society. Another review in Broadway Baby described SiX as "a brazen, glamorous and truly unforgettable history lesson". The show immediately received interest from producers. She is also co-director of most other productions of Six, including the UK & Ireland, North America, and Australia & New Zealand tours. On 31 January 2020, The Stage announced that Moss had broken the record for youngest female director of a Broadway musical, at the age of 26. In December 2019, Six was voted Best New Musical of the Decade by readers of WhatsOnStage. By February 2020, the cast recording of Six the Musical had reached 100 million streams on Spotify and Apple Music, making it the second most streamed musical theatre album after Hamilton the Musical.

Hot Gay Time Machine

Her second collaboration with Marlow was on Hot Gay Time Machine, which they created together with Zak Ghazi-Torbati. Moss directed and co-wrote the show, which was sold out at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and 2018. Trafalgar Studios, and Soho Theatre. Hot Gay Time Machine won the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence 2017.

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical

In December 2020, Lucy Moss directed Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, which was pre-filmed and streamed as a virtual performance while most theaters remained closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to producer Greg Nobile, he and writers Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley quickly agreed on Moss as their first choice for director. The show included the entire Broadway cast of Six, as an ensemble of "Rat Queens", and incorporated several tributes to Six.

Prior to the broadcast, Moss told The New York Times that although the crowdsourced origins of Ratatouille the Musical had been "on the cutting edge of tech and the most Gen-Z thing in the world", its creators still aspired for it to be as much like a "classical musical" as possible, albeit "in the least theatrical space ever – online".