On Feb. 11 , , , Donald Webber Jr., , , and participated in the reading of聽Afterland.
In the age of "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent," Afterland聽"takes place in a post-apocalyptic world and follows two eccentric, wayward tribes as they stake out their territory and attempt to create a new civilization and world order where none exists."
The musical features music and lyrics by Benjamin Velez and book and lyrics by Kathryn Hathaway. The pair began writing聽Afterland in聽2011 and developed much of the early material in the BMI Workshop. In June 2014, the Yale Institute of Music Theater hosted a two-week developmental workshop and brought Mark Brokaw to the piece. Brokaw聽(Cinderella, ) directed the latest reading, which was held at The York Theatre in Manhattan as part of Velez and Hathaway's year-long residency through their NEO program.
The writing team met during their undergraduate years at Columbia University, where they co-wrote the 114th Annual Varsity Show 鈥�
Hathaway's plays and musicals have been performed and developed at Ars Nova, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Flea Theater, New Dramatists, The Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, The Prelude Festival, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Joe鈥檚 Pub, the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and the Yale Institute For Music Theater. Velez is a composer/lyricist in the Advanced BMI workshop. His work has been featured at NYMF, the NEO concert series, the Cutting Edge Composers series, the Yale Institute for Music Theater and, most recently, as part of the 4@15 series at the NYU Steinhart School. He is currently collaborating with and David Kamp on the original musical Pain In The Aztec. *
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