Regional: String (Village Theatre), Cake Off (Signature Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse), Cloudlands (South Coast Repertory), The Boy Detective Fails (Signature Theatre), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma). Off-Broadway: Scotland, PA (Roundabout Theatre Company, Drama Desk nomination, NYT Critic’s Pick), Old Jews Telling Jokes (Westside Theatre, NYT Critic’s Pick), Ordinary Days (Roundabout Theatre Company Keen Company revival, Drama League Award nomination).

When she’s not writing music, you can usually find her making French Macarons.Īdam Gwon (Lyrics) is a composer and lyricist whose musicals have been produced on six continents in more than half-a-dozen languages. She is currently scoring Lauren Gunderson’s play Georgiana & Kitty, which is running at Marin Theater Company. She has written numerous incidental scores including music for Silent Sky (TheaterWorks 2015) and Peter Pan & Wendy (Shakespeare Theater, 2019) (both by Lauren Gunderson), Gertrude and Claudius (Barrington Stage, 2019) by Mark Saint-Germain and many others. Jenny Giering (Music) Current projects include Alice Bliss commissioned by Playwrights Horizons and Stacey Mindich (2018 Weston Playhouse New Musical Award), and What We Leave Behind (co-written with Sean Barry, 2019 TheatreWorks Writer’s Retreat) for which she received a 2021 Barrington Stage Spark Grant. Full of humor, hope, grief, and sheer teenage joy, Alice Bliss presents a warm and compassionate exploration of an often-overlooked part of contemporary life through beautiful music and bold new storytelling.īased on Laura Harrington's acclaimed novel, Alice Bliss won the 13th Annual Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award.Īlice Bliss was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons and Stacey Mindich.Īlice Bliss was developed in part at a retreat at the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Weston, Vermont the Orchard Project ( Ari Edelson, Artistic Director Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals.Īlice Unwrapped was originally commissioned, developed, and presented by Premieres in New York City, Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director How do you hold onto normal when life is anything but? Set in upstate New York during the Iraq War, this intimate, stunning, and heart-wrenching new musical tells the story of losing everything and living anyway of a girl who hits rock bottom, finds her mom there, and begins to grow up. Sobrato Center for Nonprofits, Redwood Shores

In partnership with Montalvo Arts Center, and its Lucas Artists Program

Book by Karen Hartman, Music by Jenny Giering, Lyrics by Adam Gwon

Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington