Theatre
$CABS (or, why does no one want to work anymore?!!!)
Book by Dylan Schifrin
Music & Lyrics by Dylan Schifrin & Mark Sonnenblick
Talya’s got a chronic illness. Ian is caught in self-destructive cycles. Val runs the game. Glen wants to tear it all down. In the face of major cutbacks, six employees within a mysterious mega-corporation must hustle and girlboss their way through Antarctica because their boss really likes Survivor. Not working (or worse, striking??????) means certain death. But in this late stage capitalist near-future, working when you’re broken may be just as deadly.
Upcoming NYC Workshop, 2024
Workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, 2023
The Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, Semifinalist, 2022
The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Semifinalist, 2022
Staged Reading through the IAMA Theatre Company Emerging Playwrights Lab, 2022
BOOBTUBE
Book & Lyrics by Ryan Houlihan
Music & Lyrics by Dylan Schifrin
After a series of unsuccessful attempts securing affordable healthcare, a young woman embarks on a plan to fund her gender transition by becoming a conservative media darling. Exploring themes of conservatism, feminine rage, and what a desperate woman is capable of in a world governed by internet engagement, BOOBTUBE is an 80-minute fast-paced, hyperpop musical about a Trans woman’s deal with the devil: her soul for her body. (cw: anti-queer language used satirically)
Y2K
Book, Music and Lyrics by Dylan Schifrin
Riley grew up among Y2K-era doomsday preppers in rural Nebraska. So did her best friend Ben, and now he's in love with Riley's father Michael, the charismatic, omnipresent colony leader, even though Ben's supposed to be repopulation partners with Riley. But when Riley herself falls in love with one of the "sheeple" from outside the colony, she embarks on a secret mission to test her father's validity—with Ben or without. This queer apocalyptic musical about echo chambers, "us" vs. "them" mentality and the danger of misinformation has us follow Riley's escape as she grapples with uncertainty in a new world just as resistant to the truth as her own.
Staged Reading with After Hours Theatre Company, 2022
The Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, Semifinalist, 2021
New Voices Project, New Musicals Inc. | Disney Imagineering, Finalist, 2021
Creative and Performing Arts Award Recipient, Yale College, 2020
Showcase at MUSI-CAL, The Foundation for New American Musicals, 2019
demos orchestrated by Max Berlin
“Missing” @ MUSI-CAL feat. Cami Árboles
Shorts
THE FOOD CAVES UNDER SPRINGFIELD, MO (or, how I learned to love socialism via one billion pounds of federal cheese) | 10-Minute Musical
by Dylan Schifrin
Down in the U.S. federal government’s surplus food caves, Jack Monterey must go from unassuming cheesemaker to socialist hero by defeating the Big Dairy A.I. capitalist known as the Cheese Wiz.
Commissioned for the Prospect Theater Musical Theatre Lab, 2023
KEY CHANGE | One-Act Play
by Dylan Schifrin
A college junior comes out as trans to her all-male a cappella group, prompting discussions of history, tradition and masculinity. An interrogation of the all-male space written for high school and college-aged performers.
in process…
UPPIES | A Queer Historical Musical
Inspired by the exposé documentary film Smile Till It Hurts, UPPIES tells the story of the reactionary, political performance organization Up With People and its LGBTQ+ members during the late 1960s as they struggle to reconcile mission with identity amidst a democracy in crisis.
Finalist (Pitch), Musical Theatre Factory Makers Cohort III, 2023
Semifinalist (Pitch), The Civilians R&D Group, 2021 and 2022
“Don’t Cross the Cheese Wiz” @ 54 Below, The Lonely Artists Salon | feat. Amy Jo Jackson, Syd Bakal