Upcoming Events

October Factory Salon

Our monthly Factory Salons unite us to celebrate art, musical theatre, and community. Whether it’s a full performance with background singers, a quick melody plucked at the piano, a concept you sprouted over breakfast, or a design you’ve been developing for years, we’ll meet you wherever you’re at in the creative process.

Manifest Pussy

Musical Theatre Factory in association with Savage Godx presents Manifest Pussy by Shakina Nayfack Manifest Pussy is a rock concert/standup special/ritual sacrifice that follows Shakina’s pilgrimage to Thailand for gender confirmation. A journey of faith and trans liberation, Manifest Pussy combines Shakina’s raw and irreverent autobiographical storytelling with brand new songs by some of today’s hottestmusical theatre writers. Featuring original songs by Joe Iconis, Shaina Taub, Michael R. Jackson, Julianne Wick Davis, Zoe Sarnak, Lauren Marcus, Joel Waggoner, Nikko Benson,…

Lyons & Pakchar: Beau

After playing Lincoln Center's Broadway Songbook Series and bowing in the 2019 Adirondack Theatre Festival, composing team Lyons and Pakchar's latest new musical Beau, will arrive at Joe's Pub. In Beau, seven actor-musicians tell the story of Ace Baker, who's fatherless until age 12, when a phone call reveals his grandfather Beau has been alive all his life -- and his mother knew. Family secrets unravel as Ace rushes to make up for lost time with a man who changes his life, by putting a guitar in his hand. Their original folk-funk score is a multi-generational investigation and celebration on what it is to be queer, and come out victorious. L & P's other work includes Five Points, which is currently in development with Hamilton's Andy Blankenbuehler.

Women, Trans & GNC Roundtable

Monthly drop-in song clinic and safe-space sharing forum devoted to showcasing Women, Trans and Gender-non-conforming artists. In this supportive creative circle, musical theater creators, performers, directors, designers, choreographers, producers and dreamers who identify as women, trans or GNC each receive 15-25 minutes of uninterrupted sharing time, with the potential for feedback. In residence with Playwrights Downtown, Musical Theatre Factory provides a room to house, this commitment-free, all-support round table which seeks to subvert a dominant paradigm and bust through the…

SKiNFOLK & (A)sides: A Night with Jillian Walker

It’s sacred space. It’s an elegant lecture and calling down. It’s a performance of invitation, declaration, reclamation. It’s dramaturgy of the spirit. Join Jillian for a night of soul-singing that samples from an array of her original works; including selections from her ancestor-revering epic, SKiNFoLK: An American Show, which will have its world premiere at The Bushwick Starr in February 2020.

Manifest Pussy

Manifest Pussy is a rock concert/standup special/ritual sacrifice that follows Shakina's pilgrimage to Thailand for gender confirmation. A journey of faith and trans liberation, Manifest Pussy combines Shakina's raw and irreverent autobiographical storytelling with brand new songs by some of today's hottest musical theatre writers.  Featuring original songs by Joe Iconis, Shaina Taub, Michael R. Jackson, Julianne Wick Davis, Zoe Sarnak, Lauren Marcus, Joel Waggoner, Nikko Benson, Sam Salmond, and Teresa Lotz. Directed by Mei Ann Teo, Music Directed by Jacob Yates, Developed…

People of Color Roundtable

The People of Color Representation Roundtable exists as a one-of-a-kind experiment wherein a room of artists of all disciplines may share work with and solicit feedback from a group that is 100% exclusively comprised of people of color. Part writers circle, part discussion forum and part low-key performance salon, the POC Roundtable offer artists of color the rare experience of sharing work at any point in the development process with an all-POC audience in a safe space. Participating artists discover…

4×15: Round 32

The 4×15 Series showcases 15-minute staged segments from four new musicals. Each team receives 5 hours of rehearsal to workshop their piece. Join us for the next round of 4×15! Four new musicals will present 15 minutes of fully-staged materials for a public audience. This is a great opportunity to see what development of these new projects looks like at an early stage, and to hear from the authors and creative teams about their developmental process!

People of Color Roundtable

The People of Color Representation Roundtable exists as a one-of-a-kind experiment wherein a room of artists of all disciplines may share work with and solicit feedback from a group that is 100% exclusively comprised of people of color. Part writers circle, part discussion forum and part low-key performance salon, the POC Roundtable offer artists of color the rare experience of sharing work at any point in the development process with an all-POC audience in a safe space. Participating artists discover…

Women, Trans & GNC Roundtable

Monthly drop-in song clinic and safe-space sharing forum devoted to showcasing Women, Trans and Gender-non-conforming artists. In this supportive creative circle, musical theater creators, performers, directors, designers, choreographers, producers and dreamers who identify as women, trans or GNC each receive 15-25 minutes of uninterrupted sharing time, with the potential for feedback. In residence with Playwrights Downtown, Musical Theatre Factory provides a room to house, this commitment-free, all-support round table which seeks to subvert a dominant paradigm and bust through the…

Holiday Factory Salon

Our monthly Factory Salons unite us to celebrate art, musical theatre, and community. Whether it’s a full performance with background singers, a quick melody plucked at the piano, a concept you sprouted over breakfast, or a design you’ve been developing for years, we’ll meet you wherever you’re at in the creative process.

The Fari Chronicles: A Metropolis Story

It is the night before the Apocalypse and Fari, an Android-Unit turned space-time-continuum anarchist is at the center of the devastation. An evening of songs and scenes from the genre-bending score and time-twisting book of Metropolis, an afrofuturist musical, by AriDy Nox and Brandon Webster. AriDy Nox is and has always been a storyteller whose imagination is rooted in the shared experiences of black femmes who have resisted and continue to resist colonial violence. A multi-disciplined storyteller based in Brooklyn,…
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