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. Queer romance period piece + BLACK MIRROR episode = love in the era of the post-human.

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.

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.​

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