Theater
Musicals
Marathon
Book & Lyrics by Kara Cutruzzula
Music by Kristoffer Bjarke
Marathon is a journey of endurance, hope, and finding connection over 26.2 miles.
History:
29-hour developmental reading at Open Jar Studios on Dec. 6, 2024.
Director: Tyrone L. Robinson
Featuring: Liz Callaway, Thom Sesma, Ethan Carlson, Stephanie Bacastow, Tracy Sallows, and Leana Rae Concepcion
Fever Dreams
Fever Dreams takes a surrealistic look at the ways pain, love, and loss intersect over centuries to tell the stories of four imperfect artists—illustrator, composer, singer, art therapist—and discovers that the art which binds us will ultimately heal us.
Music by Shoshana Shattenkirk
Lyrics by Kara Cutruzzula
Book by Justin Schwartz
History:
Development at the New Musicals Lab at the Ferguson Center with director-in-residence Ilana Ransom Toeplitz, July 2021
Digital presentation for Across a Crowded Room at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts, Nov. 2020
Letters From May
Tracing the life of an artist from age 22 to 82, Letters From May asks the questions, What does it mean to be a creator? And what do you have to leave behind?
Lyrics by Kara Cutruzzula
Music by Kristoffer Bjarke
Available for licensing via Theatre Now New York/MTI
History:
Production at the Sound Bites 10-Minute Musical Festival, May 23, 2022 (dir. Tyrone L. Robinson)
Digital presentation at the Sound Bites 10-Minute Musical Festival, Nov. 2020
Reading at the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, 2019
Composer Kristoffer Bjarke and Stephanie Bacastow as May Dalton at the Sound Bites Festival 2022. (Credit: Tricia M. Baron)
The Eyes of Vienna
An artist. An empress. An afternoon. When Elisabeth, the Empress of Austria, visits famous painter Hans Makart, neither could imagine what would happen next. A 20-minute, two-character musical.
Book and Lyrics by Kara Cutruzzula
Music by Joshua Cerdenia
History:
Production at the Tulane Chamber Musical Festival, Tulane University, Dec. 2020
Reading at Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, 2019
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Musical
It's 1958 in New York and perfect housewife and mother Miriam "Midge" Maisel is on top of the world...until she isn't.
Book and Lyrics by Kara Cutruzzula
Music by Ron Passaro
Created as our second-year project in the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop in 2020, our musical ode to Maisel culminated in this digital presentation.
Plays
Kidnapping Oprah (Austin Film Festival Second-Rounder 2022)
Montecore (Reading — Spring 2021)
Old Hollywood (Reading — Dramatists Guild of America, 2019)
Short Plays & One-Acts
Idiom (Reading — Spring 2021)
The Brother and the Cat (Reading — Spring 2021)
George and Sally on the Moon (Reading — The Barrington Collective, 2018)
Flower Farm (Workshop — Step1 Theater Project, 2018)
Did You See? (Production — TADA! Theater, Nylon Fusion Theatre Company, 2017)
Excuse Me, Mr. Brantley? (Production — Wild Project, Cherry Picking Festival, 2017)
Earlybirds (Reading — The Barrington Collective, 2017)
I Want to Believe (in Love) (Production — The Apartment Theater, 2016)
Strangers in the Night (Production — The Secret Theatre, LIC One-Act Festival, 2016)
Bigfoot Goes to Work (Production — Jimmy’s No. 43, ESPA at Primary Stages, 2016)
Dot Dot Dot (Production — Manhattan Repertory Theatre, 10-Minute Festival, 2016)
The Truelogy Episode (Production — Jimmy’s No. 43, ESPA at Primary Stages, 2015)
Monologues
“Windows” (Monovlog Series, 2019)
”The Little Things” (Monovlog Series, 2019)
”Kidnapping Oprah” (Cherry Lane Theater, ESPA at Primary Stages, 2018)
”Cuffing Season” (Cherry Lane Theater, ESPA at Primary Stages, 2017)
”When to Quit” (Cherry Lane Theater, ESPA at Primary Stages, 2016)