Evie Press is a musical theatre writer, director, dramaturg, and film-maker, based in Leeds and working across the UK. After spending their teenage years training to be an opera singer, she premiered her first musical, Leaves On The Line, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 to 5-star reviews. She was featured at BEAM 2025, the UK’s largest showcase of new musical theatre, as an Artist Spotlight, which championed them as an exciting, unique voice in the industry and as an artist to take note of.
Evie graduated from Leeds Conservatoire with a Masters in Musical Theatre Creation in 2024, and has premiered two original musicals since. Whittington, performed at the Leeds Conservatoire Festival of New Work, and Choreomania, performed at the Birmingham Hippodrome with British Youth Music Theatre. She is deeply passionate about developing new and fresh stories that resonate and respond to wider culture, and about expanding the public perception of musical theatre as an art form, rather than a genre.
A Bit About Me
In film, Evie developed her skills from the age of 8 through the charity The Offshoot Foundation, for whom she now directs, edits and facilitates. Her largest project to date was Deaf Perspectives, for which she directed 8 films on d/Deaf cultural heritage with two groups of high school students, half of whom were d/Deaf and half of whom were hearing. She cares hugely about inspiring the next generation of creatives and cultivating young people’s senses of pride in their imagination and skills.
Beyond their work, Evie is also deeply passionate about the Monster of the Week games she plays with friends from high school, the use of YouTube and fandom as a space to cultivate creative voices, and why Walter from The Muppets is Walt Disney propaganda in disguise. Further information on all of this can be made available upon request.
A Bit More About Me
Hi! I’m Evie. I’m a librettist, composer, filmmaker, director, dramaturg, and songwriter, and I want to welcome you to my website!
You might think- wow, that’s a lot of job titles for one person. And you’d be right (my business cards need an extra fold to fit it all in) but it speaks less to any desire to be in control and more to the fact that I love to create and facilitate visions. When I write musicals, I picture the whole stage and the intricacies of choices made by everyone onstage and behind the scenes. When I film, I’m thinking of the edit, the music, the effect of each shot type. For anything I work on, the storytelling isn’t just structural, it’s world building, and it supports both audience engagement and all those working on a piece along with me.
I did a BA in Sociology and an MA in Musical Theatre Creation, so critical reflection is second nature to me. All of my work is informed by a combination of my sociological moral compass and my absolute adoration of theatricality and intimacy through big ideas and detailed people, exploring form and genre through following and breaking their rules, and facilitating the development of others’ creativity and expression.
As a creative and artist, I can critically support and creatively feed other people’s work as much as my own and I invite others to do the same with mine. I want to make work that leaves people with a fire in their stomach, an emotional release, from a project that leads with empathy in front of and behind the scenes.
