Opera/Theater

West love ‘89

Music by Sean Havrilla, Libretto by Troy Defour

In 1989, West Berlin, A Black-German woman named Baharnabé discovers Audre Lorde's ADEFRA activist group and her self identity through writing poetry. But, Baharnabé feels she is no writer or poet. In learning how to write her own story, she travels through time and memory while losing love and falling in love. But, ultimately she discovers her identity in what Audre Lorde has called 'Afro-German'.

Inside

Music by Sean Havrilla, Libretto by Peyton Marion

While a violent and terrifying world outside rages, time is obscured as three women from three decades in the 20th century find solace in a quiet waiting room, where they discover one another and a century's worth of reading material to pass the time.

Sixty Seven Moons

Words and Music by Sean Havrilla and Hali Alspach

Suggested by the paintings of Edward Hopper, "Sixty Seven Moons" is a musical that explores three listless characters, desperately searching for anything but what they already have.  

Sleepy Hollow

Music by Sean Havrilla, Words by Michael Radi

The intertwined stories of Katrina Van Tassel, Brom Bones, and the infamous Ichabod Crane, as each of them pursues what drives them most: Love, Mischief, and Curiosity. 

Correctional

Music by Sean Havrilla, Words by Sam Chanse

Ali is in prison for life, and Christine is the biographical theatre artist who has taken it upon herself to tell Ali's story. "Correctional" is an original musical about power and privilege in storytelling.  

Wait Forever

Music by Sean Havrilla, Words by Seth Christenfeld

Peter just wants to get home. Alice just wants to get away. The man with the violin won't stop playing. They're all stuck on a subway platform in the middle of the night waiting for a train that will never come.   

"Wait Forever" is a magical realist musical about two lost souls and a force that brings them together--it's a little bit Beckett and a little bit Chekhov and a little bit Steve Reich and a little bit of a lot of other things, too. It runs just short of 20 minutes.