Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie are the award-winning musical theatre writing partnership also known as Noisemaker. Originally from Glasgow, the pair formed their company in 2012 after discovering a shared passion for creating stories that bring people together through music, song, humour and heart.

Their work includes CEILIDH (Grove Entertainment/Barbara Whitman/Trafalgar Theatre Productions), The Snow Goose, Hi, My Name Is Ben (Goodspeed Musicals), SCOTS (PPP/Edinburgh Fringe/54 Below; National Tour, 2026), Oor Wullie, The Snow Queen, Little Red and the Wolf, A Christmas Carol (Dundee Rep), Atlantic: A Scottish Story (Edinburgh Fringe/Big Light Podcast Series – Winner, British Podcast Award), My Left/Right Foot (National Theatre of Scotland/BOP), Legend Trippers (National Youth Music Theatre), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Faena Theater, Miami) and The Girl Who (AMTP/Edinburgh Fringe).

Scott and Claire were recipients of the 2025 Jonathan Larson Grant, presented by the American Theatre Wing, and are alumni of the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove, The American Musical Theatre Project at Northwestern University, and Walt Disney Imagineering/NMI New Voices. They are also cultural ambassadors for the American-Scottish Foundation. Upcoming projects include Porter, a new collaboration with Fiasco Theater and Signature Theatre, VA.