Dina Gregory

Dina Gregory is a storyteller and librettist who hails from Devon, England. She is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford University, and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her musicals, plays, songs, arias and choral anthems have been performed at venues large and small, both in the USA and the UK. As lyricist/librettist, her works include “My Marcello,” released by Broadway Records (2021), “Words Apart,” published by Choristers Guild (2020), “Grateful” (Hear Her Song/Canales Project, 2019), “Where No Bell Tolls,” commissioned by the National Opera Studio (2018), and frequently performed choral piece “Angel Breathing Out” (J.W. Pepper Editor’s Choice Award, 2007). As bookwriter-lyricist her works include “T-Room, The Musical” (Endstation Theatre Company, 2023), “Hello Sky,” a piece about artist Georgia O’Keeffe (OperaLancaster, 2010), “Falling” (Daegu International Musical Festival, South Korea, 2010), “Willy & Rupert,” an original musical comedy (The O’Neill, 2005), and “In Nomine Amoris” (Vivian Ellis Prize winner, 1997). As author, Dina has penned over twenty stories for Audible, including the short stories “Gingerella” and “The Haberdasher Prince” (upon which this opera is based) and Audible Original adaptations of two children’s classics: “The Wind in the Willows” (2020) and, most recently, “The Little Mermaid” (2023).