Alanya Bridge

Alanya is an award winning music theatre composer.

Her writing credits include WHAT WE BEGAN (2012), CONNECTED (formerly Connect Four) (Metro Arts, Brisbane 2013, The Arts Centre, Gold Coast 2015, Harvest Rain Theatre Company, Brisbane 2015, Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne 2015), the showcase SOMETHING MORE (The Box, Brisbane 2013), SONGS SO FAR (Brisbane Powerhouse 2014, Leicester Square Theatre, London 2015), Short and Sweet Festival (Gold Coast 2014), Composer Spotlight for Musical Theatre Tuesdays (Theatre Royal Stratford East, London 2015), From Page To Stage (Tristan Bates Theatre, London 2016), The Ribbons Of Life (St Giles-In-The-Fields Church, London 2016), Home Grown (Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne 2016), Bridge To Broadway (New Globe Theatre, Brisbane 2016), Songwriters Night (Playlight Theatre Company, featured in March, May & October, New York 2017), Sound Bites 4.0 (The Pershing Square Signature Theatre, New York 2017), In The Works (The Duplex, New York 2017), JUST A PHASE (R&D). 

Alanya studied in London at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, has a Master of Music (Distinction), and is a Licentiate of Trinity College, London. Alanya is currently undertaking a Masters in Musical Theatre Writing at the TISCH School of Arts, NYU, New York, and is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She is the recipient of the Wirripang Publishing award for New Composition and Specialist award for best Vocal Composition in 2013, a 2017 MAC Wallowitch Award finalist, and received the Rhona Morton Scholarship twice, for both her A.T.C.L. and L.T.C.L.

An Australian composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, and singer/songwriter, Alanya's other composing works include the documentary Lost For Words with Hartflicker Moving Pictures in 2013, and has recorded three CDs of original compositions.  Sheet music for her compositions can be found at ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com and alanyabridge.com.