Jack Hart

Jack is a composer, playwright and actor from Bolton. They are currently supported by a Developing Your Creative Practise grant from ACE for one year of development as a musical theatre writer.

Jack is a collaborative theatre maker, they devised music and story for Outside Voice’s ‘Drop It’ R and D at The Lowry, a piece made exclusively by neurodivergent artists. Drop It was shortlisted for the 2023 Les Enfants Terribles Award.

Jack also worked as a deviser and composer on the new musical ‘There’s No Time: The World Is Dying!’ at Taunton Brewhouse with Scatter. In 2020 Jack was commissioned by Creative Youth to write a 20-minute musical. Recently Jack wrote the closing number for Scatter's first London Climate Cabaret at Omnibus Theatre.

As a solo artist Jack has released two singles on Spotify under their own label and they regularly gig in London at venues such as Katzpace, The Slaughtered Lamb and Fiddler’s Elbow.

Jack has written and directed three plays: Man Down (Actor’s Centre), Flesh and Puff (King’s Arms, Salford). Flesh featured a live rock score, which was devised and performed under the one woman play by Jack Hart, James Monk and David Hall.

As a non-binary, queer, neurodivergent artist Jack makes and is drawn to work which humanises LGBTQIA+ experiences and breaks down stigma around mental illness.