Jennifer Lucy Cook (she/her) is a composer and lyricist based in Los Angeles specializing in music for the stage and screen, choral work, and pop songwriting. Recent choral commissions include Phoenix Chorale, Vox Femina Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, and she will debut a new piece at Carnegie Hall this Spring. She is the recipient of the Chorus Austin Composition Prize, the Cantus Emerging Composer Award, the HerVoice Female Composer Prize, and the Edwin Fissinger Composition Prize.

Her piece Time is in the top ten bestselling concert choral works overall for  J.W. Pepper in 2024, and was awarded a Director’s Choice and along with her arrangement of “What Was I Made For,” both received a J.W. Pepper Editor’s Choice for 2024.  

She is currently working with Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken on his “A Whole New World for Alan Menken” solo show, with upcoming performances at the London Palladium and in Osaka, Japan. She is an alumnus of the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writer’s Grove with Goodspeed Musicals. Other theater commissions include Full House Theatre Co., British Youth Musical Theatre, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

She earned a Master’s degree in Musical Theater Writing from Goldsmiths University in London and a Bachelor’s in Media Music from Brigham Young University. Her musical recaps of the Bachelor went viral on TikTok and she also loves interacting with the music community there.

She spends (maybe too much!) time absorbing ideas, interacting with people interpreting her work, and socializing with the music community at large. She loves making videos and joining in the larger conversation. 

Despite writing music in such a wide range of genres, Jen’s music is united by a keen love for storytelling with song. She prioritizes specific, highly emotional lyrics, melodic earworms, and infectious rhythmic grooves, and conceives of every piece from a dramatic, narrative-driven perspective.