Theatre
OFFSITE
Book by Dylan Schifrin
Music & Lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick
based on an original play with music by Dylan Schifrin, developed within the IAMA Theatre Company Emerging Playwrights Lab
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. But in this late stage capitalist near-future, working when you’re broken may be just as deadly as not working at all…
COLE PORTER IS MY IMAGINARY VR BOYFRIEND
Book by Charles Gershman
Music & Lyrics by Dylan Schifrin
When Sam discovers that his gay great-great uncle Stanley may have known his idol Cole Porter, he constructs an elaborate VR experience imagining a romantic relationship between them as undergrads at Yale from 1909-1913. Meanwhile, he’s still trying to get over his ex. Love in the era of the post-human featuring an original pop score in conversation with Cole Porter’s early work.
$LIBRA (“Libra Coin”)
or, Javier Milei’s Crypto Dance Party
Book, Lyrics & additional music by Dylan Schifrin
Music & Lyrics by Lucero Gamerro (RATTLESNAKKE)
On February 14, 2025, the president of Argentina Javier Milei launched the memecoin $LIBRA to thousands of investors. A few hours and millions of dollars later, it was nearly worthless. An immersive, genre-bending embodiment of the hype and devastation experienced by fictionalized victims of this cryptocurrency rug-pull scam.
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 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. Written and performed as a Senior Project in Musical Theater Composition at Yale College.
“Missing” @ MUSI-CAL feat. Cami Árboles
THE FOOD CAVES UNDER SPRINGFIELD, MO (or, how I learned to love socialism via one billion pounds of federal cheese)
Book, Music & Lyrics 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 Musicals Musical Theatre Lab.
“Don’t Cross the Cheese Wiz” @ 54 Below, The Lonely Artists Salon | feat. Amy Jo Jackson, Syd Bakal