joe barros
jen sandler
PRE-PREMIERES OF
NEW MUSICALS
DURING INCUBATION
produced + hosted by
wednesday - 5.26.21
FREE LIVE STREAM
@ 7PM ET
NEW
WORKS
SERIES
book + bars by
ZENIBA NOW
music + lyrics by
JAY ADANA
THE STORY OF THE SELF-LIBERATION
OF A BLACK SCIENTIST
AND CARTOGRAPHER
STUCK AT A CROSSROADS
The Loophole is the new musical from 2020 Richard Rodgers Award winners Jay Adana (music and lyrics) and Zeniba Now (book and bars). The live presentation will feature excerpts from the show and a conversation with the writers.
It's 1864 and Polly Danfield, a brilliant black mapmaker, has never left her white father's house. She’s free inside her library but when the outside world and mysterious Alligator Queen beckon, Polly must choose: the life she's known or love and revolution. With a blend of folk, rap, poetry and body percussion, this swampy epic recasts the American hero.
The Loophole has been developed with The Public Theater, the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows program and SPACE on Ryder Farm.
* FEATURING PERFORMANCES by *
JAY
ADANA
(THE WOODSMAN)
ZENIBA
NOW
(INTERSTATE)
JOHN-MICHAEL
LYLES
(A STRANGE LOOP)
book + lyrics by
KATHLEEN WRINN
music by
PETER HODGSON
AN EPIC NEW MUSICAL
BASED ON THE LOVE STORY THAT
BUILT THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
The Bridge, an epic new musical based on the love story that built the Brooklyn Bridge, has book and lyrics by Kathleen Wrinn and music by Peter Hodgson. The live presentation will feature excerpts from the show and a conversation with the writers.
When Emily Roebling’s husband falls mysteriously ill and is unable to continue as Chief Engineer, Emily must do the impossible: secretly take her husband’s place as Chief, in an era half a century before women were allowed to vote. With a genre-defying score as vibrant as New York City itself, The Bridge explores the forces that unite and divide us. It is a story of mistakes and forgiveness. Of great sacrifice and even greater hope. Of finding a way forward, across the uncrossable. Together.
The Bridge has been developed with the Catwalk Art Institute and Syracuse University.
* FEATURING PERFORMANCES by *
co-writers
HODGSON & WRINN
COMMUNITY
INNOVATION
EXPLORATION
EVOLUTION
ARTS WORKERS
COLLABORATION