current projects
Winner of the 2024 Richard Rodgers Staged Reading Award
Developed at NYU Tisch, selected musical for 2025 Lucille Lortel 121 Project, selected musical for The Orchard Project's 2025 Summer series, honored finalist for the 2025 WAM Collaboration Award, selected musical for the National Alliance of Musical Theater's Alliances's 2024 Festival of New Musicals, winner of the 2024 Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, selected musical for the 2024 Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat, selected musical for Millikin University's 2025 New Musical Workshop, winner of Syracuse University’s New Works, New Voices developmental reading program, a finalist for the 2023 Eugene O'Neill National Musical Theatre Conference, finalist for the Olney Theatre Center Vanguard Arts Fund, song "Runaway Girl" one of the three winners of Taylor Louderman's Write Out Loud Songwriting Contest, featured on the NAMT Playlist, featured in the Vanguard Theater Illuminating New Voices New Work Festival, featured in New York Theatre Barn's New Works Festival, featured production at St. Olaf College Winter 2024
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With book/lyrics/story by abs wilson and music/story by Veronica Mansour, LIGHTHOUSE is a 6-women, fourth-wall-breaking pop country musical following our unreliable narrator "Bus," an 18 year old girl who wants nothing more than to escape her small Minnesota town.
But what Bus really wants to escape? Herself— and everything she fears she could become.
With a cast ranging from ages 18-73, LIGHTHOUSE explores anxiety and OCD, the lives of women in rural, conservative communities, and what it means to be yourself for the rest of your life. Ultimately, LIGHTHOUSE celebrates the idea that maybe, just maybe— every version of yourself is worth being.
UPCOMING
Photo by Rebecca J Michelson
TOUGH GUY
A famous extreme sports climber is ascending a mountain that has never been summited, live streaming as she goes. TOUGH GUY is a 90-minute choral musical about the self-destructive lengths we go to to belong, and who is (or isn't) coming to save you. What's really waiting for you at your tallest peak?
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KELLY NOWAK
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One summer day in 2005, a teenager goes missing from her small Michigan town and is never found. Eighteen years later, her family sits for interviews about what they think happened to her. Did Kelly drown in the nearby lake? Is she alive, trapped within a massive conspiracy? Or. . . is she somewhere a little more in between?
KELLY NOWAK is a 1-act musical, framed as a true crime documentary, that explores the need to hold any kind of tangible truth— no matter the rationality or cost.
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more to come.
In this immersive, concert style indie-pop musical, the girl band trio of historic poets Sara Teasdale, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho come together to answer (with the help of the audience) a single question: how do you handle loneliness when you aren't sure when that loneliness will ever end? Weaving together their poetry, comedy, and the kinds of conversations you can only have at 3am when the world seems small, "All We Know of Love & Fire" is a joyful, intimate— and sometimes mournful— exploration of community, art, and what keeps our inner flames alive. With book/lyrics by abs wilson and music by Wren Mied, the piece uses the original poetry of the three poets (with a bonus cameo by Amy Lowell) in its songs.
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Photos by Addie Symonds at @symondsaddie
Videos by Shuhei Hayashi @shuhei_hayashi
