Sarah de Tute
Sarah works nationally and internationally within the theatre industry as a musical director/pianist/composer and educator. She is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Recent musical director credits include: The High Life (Scottish tour) (National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, nominated for best music and sound and best production and winner for best ensemble at the 2026 CATS awards), Get Jack London workshop, Damien Gray and Kip Winger (Hartshorn-Hook Productions), Good Night, Mad Night, Strange Night A Cabaret (The Playhouse, Derry NI), The critically acclaimed actor musician Storyhouse original of Kinky Boots ( Storyhouse, Chester), Little Shop of Horrors (The Playhouse, NI), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, MD and Composer( Grosvenor Park, Chester), Beyond Belief, The Life and Mission of John Hume, the critically acclaimed 2nd installment of Derry Playhouse’s Peace-building Trilogy (The Guildhall, NI), The Producers ( The Playhouse, NI), CATS Asia Pacific tour and London (Really Useful Group), Ultimate Broadway (Shanghai, GWB Entertainment), Love of a Nightingale MD and Composer (Ciromedia), The Coup,Coup,Club (Northern Premiere)(Darren Clark, Slunglow, Red Ladder), Because of You- Musical Supervisor (SimG Productions), Evita (Leeds Grand Theatre), Joseph (Bill Kenwright Ltd)
Other theatre credits include Strictly Ballroom (Global Creatures in partnership with West Yorkshire Playhouse), Showboat (Gillian Lynne Theatre), Night of a Thousand Voices (The Royal Albert Hall, London), Sunday Night at The Theatre Royal (Drury Lane Theatre, London), Conductor for Sing the Musicals at The Bridgewater Hall, The Sage, Sheffield City Hall and at the SECC for BBC children in need. Recordings include work for BBC Radio with The Orchestra of Opera North and broadcasts for Australian and Asian Television. Musical director for Sweeney Todd, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Assassins, Into the Woods, Sweet Charity (RCS). Visiting musical director of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, ArtsEd and Leeds Conservatoire and a mentor for The MA and PGDip musical directing programmes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Course leader/music director and vocal coach for The Musical Theatre Company (The Playhouse, Derry). Sarah is delighted once again to be a tutor for the NODA summer school, which always promises to be an exciting and incredibly rewarding week for all involved.
Session: Discovering the Golden Age of Musical Theatre
Spend a week practically immersing yourself in the riches of musical theatre giants as you develop knowledge and performance skills in singing, text, lyric, character and song interpretation.
This course champions the innovative creative genius of the writers and composers of what are often referred to as ‘legit” musicals. With a director and musical director, you will discover and celebrate this vital, informative chapter in the long history of musical theatre and its many forms.
You will tackle genre defining works from the likes of Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, Loesser, Lerner and Lowe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Meredith Wilson, Bernstein and all their respective librettists and book writers.
During the week you will:
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Work with a director and musical director in a rehearsal format on songs and scripts
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Explore, in-depth, the storytelling mechanisms found in an expansive selection of musical theatre repertoire
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Learn and employ multifaceted, fresh approaches to performing, understanding and realising classical material in a space
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Develop your confidence, creativity and technical ability as a performer
This course welcomes singers/actors who gravitate towards character driven storytelling, who love a performance challenge, who are comfortable with movement/staging and who enjoy working in a supportive and energetic rehearsal room.