Fintan Kealy is a composer and musical director. He met his writing partner Clare Packham at the University of Bristol, where he studied MA Music with Innovation. He was the recipient of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation’s Associate Musical Director role at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he was mentored by Wendy Gadian. He is also an Associate Artist of PINCHY theatre.
Fintan is one half of the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Writing Team Placement 2025, his role being Music Coordinator for the 2025 season.
Together with writing partner Clare, Fintan has created work such as FLITCH, a musical about the Great Dunmow Flitch Trials and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Madge, a solo show about Margaret Cavendish, where performance art meets experimental musical theatre. Clare and Fintan’s work has been showcased in BEAM2023 at Oxford Playhouse, presented in a masterclass with Claude-Michel Schonberg, and they have been finalists for The Pleasance’s Charlie Hartill Award in 2024 and 2025. Their genre-bending comedy musical Killing Time in Darkminster was produced at Lincoln Arts Centre in May 2025.
As part of their placement the pair will be writing a new show, which will be developed as part of BYMT’s 2026 season.
