National Alliance of
Musical Theater's
Festival of New Musicals
In October 24, LIGHTHOUSE was one of the 8 shows selected for NAMT's Festival of New Musicals. The festival had over 800 attendees that year, and we got to present 45 minutes of LIGHTHOUSE for an industry audience.
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I'm trying to think of more descriptive stuff to put here but tbh that's truly what it was. People were super nice. Would recommend NAMT. Photos by Addie Symonds! Thanks Addie.
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's
National Music
Theater Conference
LIGHTHOUSE was selected as one of the three winners for NMTC, and in July 2024 received a 2-week workshop with 3 public presentations.
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During those two weeks, we had the chance to write some new songs, fully revamp the book, and hone the piece into something that better supports the show's message without losing everything we've always loved about the show! This workshop was pivitol in our development of the piece!!! Also apparently you spell it "pivotal" and nobody told me and that's been up on the website for literally forever wow.
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Photos by Emma Brown.
some of our other
DEVELOPMENT
In the past two years, we've been lucky enough to develop the piece through such a wide variety of developmental opportunities— each of these have led us to the next, newest version of the show, a piece lightyears different than the one we started out with.
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Among many, some of these opportunities include Syracuse University's New Works, New Voices program, workshops with Millikin University and St. Olaf college, and two writing residencies with Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and the Lucille Lortel Theater's 121 Project.
Taylor Louderman's
WRITE OUT LOUD
Songwriting Contest
"Runaway Girl" from LIGHTHOUSE was selected as one of the three winners of Write Out Loud's 5th volume. "Runaway Girl" was one of the first songs we wrote for the show— and it hasn't changed much since— and so it was extra thrilling to see this song brought to life with the Write Out Loud team.
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"Runaway Girl" is recorded by Jessica Vosk and performed at 54 Below by Jane Bruce.
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Photos by @rebeccajmichelson
NEW YORK THEATRE BARN:
New Works Series
Hosted at Playwright's Horizons, 30 minutes of book/music material was presented alongside another new musical for New York Theatre's Barns Fall 2023 New Works Series. This presentation was directed by Susanna Wolk (&Juliet, Waitress), music directed by Davey Maglione, and starred Jane Bruce (Jagged Little Pill), Katie Thompson (Oklahoma, Giant), Darcie Hingula, Mylinda Hull (Mr. Saturday Night), Kerstin Anderson (My Fair Lady), and Morgan Riley (Freestyle Love Supreme). Our musicians include Morgan Parker, Will Shish, Mohan Ritsema, Nate Luek, and Veronica joining on the cello. While the songs in the presentation are all in the full-length version of LIGHTHOUSE, the majority of the book for the piece is original material written for the 30-minute presentation, showing the world and characters of LIGHTHOUSE.