LIGHTHOUSE

With graduation in the rearview mirror, Bus is desperate to run away from her Minnesota hometown and everyone in it. The only problem? She can’t outrun herself. LIGHTHOUSE is a sweeping pop-country musical that celebrates the idea that maybe, just maybe every version of yourself is worth being.

The Writers

abs wilson (Book, Lyrics & Story) is an NYC-based playwright/lyricist. She’s a Richard Rodgers Award winner (2024), Eugene O’Neill NMTC winner (2024), NAMT winner (2024), selected writer for Syracuse’s New Works New Voices program (2024), Write Out Loud winner for song “Runaway Girl” (2023), NMTC & NAMT finalist (2023), Vanguard Commission recipient (2023), THE SEVEN winner (2023), and David Einhorn Prize finalist (2022). She’s had work done at Playwrights Horizons, Paper Kraine, the Tank, the Brick, Fusion Theatre, St. Olaf College and Syracuse University, with songs performed at 54 Below and Joe’s Pub. She holds an MFA from NYU Tisch’s Musical Theatre Writing Program.

Veronica Mansour (Music & Story) has most recently been honoured as recipient of the Jonathan Larson Grant, Richard Rodgers Award, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and as one of four writers selected for the DreamWorks Theatricals, MTI & NBCUniversal Emerging Writers Program. Veronica is also a Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award Nominee, Write Out Loud Contest winner and two time Winner of the Eugene O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference. Veronica is an accomplished cellist and vocalist, having performed with and for many artists such as Kristin Chenoweth, Todd Rundgren, Chloe Agnew, and Philip Glass before pursuing her MFA in Graduate Musical Theatre Writing at NYU.

Development History

LIGHTHOUSE was developed at NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program as our thesis project (2022-2023). Since then, LIGHTHOUSE been selected for the Richard Rodgers Award (2024), Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference (2024), NAMT Festival of New Musicals (2024), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2024), Syracuse University’s New Works, New Voices (2024), Olney Theatre Center Arts Fund finalist (2023), Write Out Loud winner for “Runaway Girl” (2023), Vanguard Theater’s New Work Festival feature (2023), NY Theatre Barn’s New Works Festival feature (2023), and recipient of a developmental production at St. Olaf College (2024).

Connect

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