





In the small Somerset town of Little Malden, a group of parents meet in a support group for those raising queer children. When they find themselves unexpectedly organising a parents’ float for the town’s first-ever Pride parade, they must confront their own beliefs, biases and fears in their determination to show up for their kids.
Written by Micha Mirto and Jordan Paul Clarke, Raising Gays is a brand new musical about those parents frantically googling pronouns, Pride flags and purple hair dye in a well-meaning - but often misjudged - endeavour to support their children.
The stakes could not be higher. There’s no manual and a hundred different ways to mess it all up.
Brimming with humour and heart - and completely gorgeous tunes - Raising Gays is a musical for everyone who’s ever had a kid (or a parent).
With a phenomenal cast of Damian Humbley, Sarah Ingram, Melanie La Barrie, Michael Matus, Joanna Riding and Sydney Sainté this is a script-in-hand concert reading, with piano.
Join us during London Pride weekend for our very first public sharing of this exciting new show - come along, we want to hear what you think!
THE WRITERS

MICHA MIRTO
Book and Director
A Bristol/London based director, writer and dramaturg. Directing credits include: Lethe (Pleasance & King’s Head Theatre), Newsrevue Edinburgh (Underbelly), Villain, Interrupted (Off West End Award finalist) and debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly at Bristol Old Vic. She was assistant director for Heidi Vaughan’s Macbeth (Tobacco Factory).
@michamirto

JORDAN PAUL CLARKE
Music, Lyrics and Musical Director
An award-winning writer, composer, musical director and improviser. He's a musical director of Olivier Award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and has toured with multi award-winning Mischief and Drag Race superstar Kate Butch. Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer 2023. As writer/composer: Friday Night Sinner (Soho Theatre), Angry Salmon (Theatre Royal Plymouth) and The Bob Ross Effect (with Sarah Louise-Young).
@jordanpaulclarke
Jordan was nominated for The Stage Debut Awards 2022 for best composer/lyricist for Public Domain at the Vaudeville Theatre (★★★★★ GScene, All That Dazzles, Everything Theatre) for which Micha was the Associate Director. They worked together on Oddball (Camden Fringe, ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Upcoming) and are now writing Raising Gays (finalist for the Stiles and Drewe Mentorship Award 2025).
THE COMPANY
THE PRODUCERS

SUZANNA ROSENTHAL PRODUCTIONS
An award-winning production company, bringing the best of live theatre and comedy to the West End, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and beyond.
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Productions include Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (West End, UK tour and Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria (Off Broadway and UK tour); Really Good Exposure (Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe Festival); ROTUS: Receptionist of the United States (Park Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe Festival); An Evening Without Kate Bush (Underbelly Boulevard and UK tour) and many more.
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