The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Jethro Compton

Book, Lyrics, and Direction

JETHRO COMPTON is an Olivier Award-winning British writer, director, designer, and producer working across theater, film, and musicals. His work has been translated into multiple languages and presented internationally across four continents. His stage adaptation of the classic Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was published by Samuel French in 2014 and has since been widely produced across North America. Compton is the Production Associate of Southwark Playhouse, London, where he originally produced The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2019.

Darren Clark

Music and Lyrics

DARREN CLARK is a multi-Olivier Award-winning composer and lyricist working exclusively for musical theater. Amongst his many shows are the Olivier and Off West End Award-winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which played at the Ambassadors Theatre in London’s West End, and the multi award-winning The Wicker Husband which won the inaugural MTI Stiles and Drewe Mentorship Award and was selected for the prestigious NAMT festival in New York. Clark’s love for musicals extends to family theater, having written the music and lyrics for the smash hit productions of The Scarecrows’ Wedding and The Jolly Christmas Postman. His wide-ranging and eclectic work also encompasses political musical theater, including the critically acclaimed productions of The Day of the Living and These Trees Are Made of Blood. Clark is also a passionate advocate for new British musicals. Four of his new musicals have been featured in MMD’s BEAM Showcases and he remains an active member of MMD today. He is the founder of New UK Musicals, a website that allows new UK-based writers to sell their sheet music and backing tracks to students, performers, and fans. As a producer Clark has created the hit community musical theater project ORDINARY PEOPLE which creates a brand-new musical based on the true-life stories of local communities, allowing locals to experience a different kind of musical and introducing them to a new generation of writers. Clark’s work has been generously supported by the PRS Open Composer Award, The Peggy Ramsay Foundation Award, The Help Musicians UK Award, the Musical Theatre Executive Trust Award, and Arts Council England. 

Chi-San Howard

Choreographer

CHI-SAN HOWARD Theater includes: Bird Grove (Hampstead); Double Indemnity (UK Tour); Dracula (Lyric Hammersmith); Hansel & Gretel and Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Ambassadors, West End); The Real Thing (Old Vic); The Earthworks and Chasing Hares (Young Vic); Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors (National Theatre); The Pillowman (Duke of York, West End); Private Lives (Donmar Warehouse); Les Miserables (Sondheim Theatre, West End / UK Tour / Netherlands / Belgium Tour); O, Island, Ivy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer (Royal Shakespeare Company); That Is Not Who I Am/Rapture (Royal Court).