musicals in Development

The Waiting was the first musical I authored with Maria Isabella Andreoli, beginning as a college project and growing into something much deeper. The show revolves around a mystical purgatory where the inhabitants have forgotten all of their memories of their past lives and live the same sunny day on repeat. The world is shifted, however, as a young girl goes missing in Vermont and causes the veil between worlds to thin. The story centers around love transcending death, and how we keep those that we have lost alive in our memories. 

Impressions is a piece revolving around the women behind famous male artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Rodin.  These women have a variety of relationships to the men (family, lovers, apprentices), and varying degrees of agency due to time period, gender, and social status. Over the course of the musical, we explore how a muse is often responsible for artistic inspiration yet uncredited in the work, how the people close to artists are often exploited for emotional support and validation, and how art immortalizes both the creator and the subject. 

Set in a dystopic future on a commercial space station revolving Earth, prodigy physicist Ana Smithmyer attends a party with her girlfriend Gwendolyn Gray. They try a new drug - called “Destiny” - toted to help the user “see their future.” In Ana’s trip, she sees herself building a scientific contraption that may be able to save dying humanity on Earth. But as she builds the contraption, her relationship with the drug becomes more and more complicated. Ana has to separate her genius from her growing drug habit - and try to save humanity - all at once.