Musicals and Operas

Faustine tells the story of a burnt-out but brilliant PhD student who sells her soul to the devil in exchange for a dissertation. What lengths will Faustine go to to get what she thinks she deserves? Watch Faustine's fast-paced, hilarious downward spiral in this 60-minute horror musical that critics say left them “awe-struck and wanting more.”

Ulysses Missa is an a cappella musical adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses that subverts the structure of a Catholic Latin High Mass. Using the form of the Mass, it tells the story of Leopold Bloom as he confronts the inevitability of his wife, Molly’s, upcoming affair with Blazes Boylan. Celebrate one of the greatest works of modernist literature with sirens, prostitutes, a cyclops, the ghost of King Hamlet, and bullying barmaids. Featuring "beautifully eclectic songs that were not only reminiscent of Catholic hymns, but also Philip Glass and Frank Zappa."

In this modern-folk song cycle, we meet the mythological she-demon, Lilith, in a hotel room after a one-night stand with her cab driver. She's on the run, from herself and the demons she seems to create wherever she goes. How many lifetimes do we have to live before we get to see our redemption story through? Philadelphia critics found the score "tonally cohesive and very refined.” 

Together with her collaborators Vera Vaughan Hough and Lydia Brinkmann respectively, Sarah is working on the following two pieces:

Emerging

A new musical about the 17-year periodical cicadas. Think Gilmore Girls meets Proof

Lydia and Sarah Are Sick

An immersive, duet operetta about illness, cults, and despair