Sayan Kent

Sayan Kent

Musical Director

For the New Vic:  All My Sons, Soldier’s Three, The Dirty Hill, The Good Companions (as composer)

Theatre composing credits include: Faith (RSC), Ostrich Boys (Birmingham Young Rep, original production); Maggie May, Two (Liverpool Royal Court);  Zameen, Another Paradise, Paper Thin, Chaos, Bells, Calcutta Kosher, Sock’em With Honey (Kali Theatre); Spangleguts (London Bubble),;The Phantom Sausage (New Wolsey, Ipswich); The Turn of the Screw, Silas Marner, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Aladdin, Dick Whittington, Mother Goose (Belgrade, Coventry); Truckers (Harrogate Theatre); A Hard Rain (Royal Theatre, Northampton); Dinosaur Dreams (Unicorn); Country, (New Vic).

Her first opera Her Day premiered during Coventry City of Culture in 2022.

Television credits include: Skint (BBC4).

Playwriting credits include: Hecuba Birangona (Tristan Bates); My Big Fat Cowpat Wedding, Another Paradise, (Kali); Stripey Honey is Very Yummy, Tales of Birbal (Mashi Theatre);  Endless Light (Southwark Playhouse); Antigone’s Sister (Birmingham Young Rep); Aladdin, Dick Whittington, Mother Goose, and the adaptations Silas Marner and The Good Companions (with Bob Eaton);  In 2022, she wrote the libretto for It Takes a City (Royal Albert Hall, music by Toby Young, nominated for a classical Ivor Novello Award).

She is currently writing a play for National Theatre Connections.

Writing for screen credits include: Doctors (BBC); Don’t Blame Her (Integrate UK).

Sayan trained at Rose Bruford on the Community Theatre Arts course.