Barb Jungr is a renowned musical theatre writer and an award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer. She has worked extensively in children’s theatre discovering the joy of writing for the stage after working with the inspirational Cal McCrystal on the music and songs for three pantomimes at Newbury Corn Exchange. Subsequently she was the lyricist for Birmingham Theatre Company’s “The Jungle Book” (2011) directed by Neal Foster.
Her joy of working for productions for children grew at the acclaimed Little Angel Theatre “Home of British Puppetry” where, in collaboration with director Peter Glanville, she created “The Fabulous Flutterbys” (book, music, and songs), and she co-adapted and wrote songs and music for “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt,” which has toured extensively ever since. With director Samantha Lane, she co-adapted and wrote songs and music for “The Singing Mermaid,” “The Smartest Giant in Town” (Olivier Award nominated in 2023 for Best Family Show), “Charlie Cook and His Favourite Book,” and “A Squash and a Squeeze” (2025).
In 2019/2020 she was co-writer with Samantha Lane of “The Pixie and the Pudding,” for which she wrote music and songs, and she co-wrote and recorded music for the Little Angel Theatre film “Mother Christmas” in 2020. In 2025 she and Lane again collaborated again on Dermot O’Leary’s Toto The Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape which Jungr co-adapted and composed music and songs for stage and in 2026 Pip and Posy launched at The Little Angel Theatre before touring nationally again with Jungr’s songs and music.
For Polka Theatre she wrote lyrics and music for “How to Hide a Lion,” she was composer and lyricist for Michael Rosen’s “Chocolate Cake,” which she co-adapted, and she was composer and lyricist for “Jack V Giant.”
In mainstream theatre she was lyricist and co-writer of 2018’s “Liver Birds Flying Home” for The Royal Court, Liverpool. She is the originator and lyricist of Soho Songs which she performs in October 2026 at Wilton’s Music Hall, produced by Denise Silvey’s Cahoots Productions. “The Worthing Girls”, which she is currently developing with book writer Sue Teddern, had 2 sold out concert workshop performances at The Connaught Theatre, Worthing, in September 2025, produced by James Seabright and directed by Samantha Lane. It is in further development for 2027 re-titled Old Birds.