Drama Club Announces 2025 Musicals in Residence

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Posted: 2/19/25 at 11:31am

DRAMA CLUB ANNOUNCES WICKED GOOD LINEUP OF NEW MUSICALS 

DEVELOPING IN MAINE SUMMER RESIDENCIES


 

New York, NY – Feb 17, 2025 – Drama Club is thrilled to announce the 2025 Drama Club Camp Writer Residencies: an exciting slate of 62 diverse writers working on 32 new musicals who are coming upta camp this summer in Maine. 

 

Drama Club Camp Writer Residencies host writing teams of 4-6 new musicals together as a cohort for a week of writing and community in a 14-bedroom clubhouse nestled on 60 wooded acres with two lakes, miles of nature trails, writing cabins, and a new recording studio. Camp is free to attend and provides writers with everything they need to develop their new musicals - including chef-made meals and a community of supportive artists. Nightly group dinners are followed by sharing sessions that allow artists to hear their work and receive feedback.

 

“This year’s slate of artists is as talented as they are diverse. They are working on traditional musical theater and experimental work. I couldn’t be more excited to host them at Camp as they push their pieces further,” says Shannon Morrison, the program’s founder and artistic director. Campers in 2025 include multiple Larson Award, Rodgers Award, and Loewe Award winners, former O’Neill NMTC participants, alumni of the Johnny Mercer Grove, and leading academics. Of them, 52% percent identify as female or non-binary, 62% as LGBTQIA+, and 31% are people of color.

 

“This year’s submissions were off the charts. We had so many applications from all around the world that we added two more cohorts in 2025 to increase capacity by 40%,” says Scott Ihrig, co-founder and executive producer of Drama Club. 

 

“It’s only our second year of Writer Residencies, and I'm astonished at the top-notch talent in this year’s Campers. So many of these voices need to heard, whether in regional theaters, stock and amateur productions, or on Broadway stages. We’re honored to be a part of these writer’s journey. It's going to be a wicked exciting summer,” adds Morrison. 

 

The 2025 Drama Club Camp Writer Residencies:

BaKed by Amara Brady & Xander Browne

Bandit Queen by Sami Horneff & Amanda D’Archangelis

Beach Songs by Gaurav Mishra

Big Quarterly by Kim Kilby, Luke McLemore, & S. Todd Townsend

Creature by Sam Salmond & Jeremy King

Dopplecrats   by Josh Ben-Ami

Diamond by Morgan Smart

Discovery by Alex Higgin-Houser & Daniel Gibson

Esperanza by Jason Huza & Nicola Vazquez

Fat Girl Starving by Jessie Field & James Martinez Salem

Friends of Dorothy by Dani Koenig & Raiya Rofsky

Ghost Town by Kelly Dupuis & Scott Murphy

Goblins & Gates by Gonzalo Valencia & Michael Campbell

Heavyhead by Sylvana Joyce, Patricia Cotter, & Stephanie Salzman

Hourglass by Caroline Game & Matthew Nessida

J.O.Y. by Brandon Filette & Joely Zuker

Jeanne/Jean/Jennie by Rebecca Burkhardt & Cynthia Goatley

Meg, Jo, Beth, & Amy by Rebbekah Vega-Romero & Kim McClay

Mimosa: The Disobedient Plant by Lauren Kahane & Danny Ursetti

Nima and the Jenn by Kat Cartusciello & Thalia Ranjbar

Rosie by Jake Landau, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, & Sara Gottlieb

Seven Steps Around The Fire by Harrison Lewis & Emielyn Das

Spin Me Right Round by Michael Wartofsky & David Davila

Swamp Song by abs wilson & James Powers

The Artist by Brady Walsh & Hannah Corneau

The Ascendants by Stephen M. Barnett & Shannon Morrison

The Dog Dies by Dylan MarcAurele

The Final Days of Lycoming Mall by Ben Fish & Beto Gonzalez

Too Bright To See by Spicer Carr & Mika Kauffman

WITS by Christopher Inniss & Charles Inniss

You Wish! by David Kornfeld & Kyle Segar

Youngmee by Michelle Rocqet


 

ABOUT DRAMA CLUB:

Drama Club creates brave musicals with LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and emerging artists. We conceive, commission, develop, invest in, and produce new musicals. We also own and run Drama Club Camp - a musical theatre writing retreat in Mount Vernon, Maine that hosts single-show development retreats and free summer residencies for collaborative teams of writers. We are creating a community by expanding opportunities for new musical development. We are always looking for co-conspirators to develop new musicals.

Founded in 2020 by husbands Shannon Morrison (artistic director) and Scott Ihrig (producer), our credits include A Strange Loop (Broadway and London), and we are currently a producer of DRAG: The Musical at New World Stages off-Broadway. We are also developing four musicals from Camp and three commissions: Blind Date - a musical centering the blind aesthetic with a blind creative team; Discovery - a musical about NASA's astronauts journey from the Challenger disaster towards the return-to-flight launch of Discovery; and The Ghost & Mrs. Muir - a musical adaptation of the beloved novel with Grammy-nominated composer Carmel Dean.