Jim Barne and Kit Buchan

Jim Barne has written music for films including THE GHOST TRAP, and the Oscar-nominated LIVING. He won the London Chamber Orchestra’s young composer competition, and Best New Score at the Horrorhaus Film Festival. 

Kit Buchan’s poems have been published in Poetry Review, The White Review, Magma, Five Dials, Clinic, PERVERSE and The Best British Poetry anthology, and commended in the Poetry London and Ware Poets competitions. He was among then ten poets shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition in 2025.

Their first musical TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) opened at Kiln Theatre in London in 2023, transferred to the West End in 2024 and opens at the American Repertory Theatre in Boston in 2025. Under its previous title The Season it was produced at the New Wolsey, Ipswich and the Royal & Derngate, Northampton in 2019, and won the Stiles & Drewe and Stage Debut awards for new musical theatre.

Their second musical CATASTROPHE BAY was performed at the Bristol Old Vic in 2022, and at Southwark Playhouse in 2024 with the National Youth Music Theatre. They met in 1997, when they were nine.