Perpetual Sunshine & The Ghost Girls
Featuring an all-women+ cast and an original through-composed 1920-2020s mashup score, Richard Rodgers Award-winning musical Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls tells the true story of the capitalist exploitation and knowing radium poisoning of workers by the U.S. Radium Corporation—and the women who fought back.
The Writers
Sara Cooper – Book & Lyrics
Sara Cooper is a Playwright-Lyricist. Highlights: Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, Richard Rodgers Award (2022), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2021), New York Theatre Barn New Works (2021), 5X15, Beck Center/Baldwin Wallace (2021), NAMT 15-Minute Challenge (2020); ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award (2021); HoT, Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals (2022), Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove (2020); The Memory Show, LAMB Theatre (2022), New Bard, London (2016), Transport Group (2013), WaterGateMedia, Seoul (2012-2013), Barrington Stage Company (2010), NAMT (2010); Barrington Stage Spark Grant (2020); Elevator Heart, Moxie Arts (2019), Tisch (2016); Jonathan Larson Grant (2014). MFA GMTWP, NYU. Dramatists Guild, ASCAP.
Lynne Shankel – Music
Lynne Shankel – As composer: bare: The Musical (additional music); Red Velvet (original music, The Old Globe), HoT (Goodspeed Festival of New Works 2022, Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove 2020, New York Theatre Barn New Works Series 2020) Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls (2022 Richard Rodgers Award, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat 2021, 5×15 Festival 2021). As composer/lyricist: Postcard American Town (SDSU New Works Initiative winner 2020, New York Theatre Barn New Works Series 2019, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat 2018). 2021 ASCAP Lucille and Jack Yellen Award. Album: Bare Naked on Yellow Sound Label. Lynne teaches Musical Theatre Composition at the University of Michigan.
Development History
• Richard Rodgers Award (2022)
• New York Theatre Barn Choreography Lab (2022)
• The ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellin Award (2021)
• Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2021)
• New York Theatre Barn New Works Series (2021)
• Featured in NYU Faculty Concert, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (2021)
• 5X15, Beck Center and Baldwin Wallace (2021)
• National Alliance for Musical Theatre 15-Minute Musical Challenge Winner (2020)
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A3 Artists Agency
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