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Briana Harris

NY

Briana Harris (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based librettist, lyricist, and occasional composer whose historically rooted, research-driven work brings overlooked stories and unexpected worlds to the stage. A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, she is a member of both the BMI Advanced Bookwriting Workshop and Theatre Now New York’s Musical Theatre Writers Lab. Her musicals, including PLUTO: A Rock Opera, Pompeii Rising, The Spectacle of Spectres: An Evening in the Green-Wood Cemetery, and The Axeman’s Jazz, have been featured in concert at venues across New York. During the pandemic, she leaned into digital experimentation, creating three virtual one-act musicals and an I.S.S.-based space opera, The Dragon Transfer. Her bilingual work The Song of the Earth / 大地之歌 was named a semi-finalist for the 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, and her sci-fi comedy Tyromancy Live! An Immersive Cheese Musical recently had a reading at Theatre Now. Collaboration is at the heart of her practice, and she is honored to create with five long-term artistic partners: Andi Lee Carter, Henco Espag, Michael Sanchez Meketa, Ziyan Yang, and Gavin Knittle. She is the co-producer and host of Verse Intro Cabaret, a monthly series spotlighting new voices in musical theatre. She's also the creator of three board games: No Reservations, Smokoland, and Act Your Age.

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Our office is on the original homeland of the Munsee Lenape tribal nation. Theatre Now acknowledges the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and we honor and respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land on which we and our artists live and work.

 

As an organization and as artists, we often gather in virtual space. Take a moment to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technologies, structures, and ways of thinking we use every day. We are using equipment and high-speed internet not available to all communities. Even the technologies that are central to much of the art we make leave significant carbon footprints, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect indigenous peoples worldwide. Theatre Now invites you to join us in acknowledging all this as well as our shared responsibility: to make good of this time, and for each of us to consider our roles in reconciliation, decolonization, antiracism, and allyship.

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