Georgia Stitt

Georgia Stitt is an award-winning composer, lyricist, music producer, pianist, and activist. Her original musicals include Snow Child, Big Red Sun, The Danger Year, The Big Boom, The Water, Mosaic, Samantha Spade, Ace Detective (Outstanding New Musical from National Youth Theatre), and the upcoming Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Stitt has released five albums of her music: Bell Tower, A Quiet Revolution, My Lifelong Love, This Ordinary Thursday, and Alphabet City Cycle. She has a large library of published choral music (including “The Promise of Light” and “De Profundis”) and is currently writing an oratorio called The Circling Universe. 

Stitt has worked in the music department on projects including NBC’s The Sound of Music (Live!), Off-Broadway’s Sweet Charity (starring Sutton Foster), the films of The Last Five Years (starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan), 13: The Musical, and the recent Broadway revival of Parade. Significantly, she is the founder and president of Maestra Music, an organization that provides support, visibility, and community for women and nonbinary theater musicians, and through that work she has won an Obie Award and a Lilly Award and has been featured in Forbes, Billboard, Playbill, Opera News, and The New York Times. She is also in leadership at the Dramatists Guild and the Recording Academy and teaches musical theater writing at Princeton University.