Jump Cut, an evening of songs generated from Prospect Musicals' 2025 Musical Theater Lab, will be presented February 20 at 7:30 PM at Symphony Space in the Peter J. Sharp Theater.
Prospect's annual Musical Theater Lab brings together writing teams selected through an open application to create short musicals in response to a curated assignment. This year's lab has a central theme of time. Each writing team randomly selected a length of time to 鈥渏ump cut鈥� as an inspiration for their piece.
Writers and writing teams participating in the 2025 Musical Theater Lab are Utsav Bhargava and Meredith Brandt; Letitia Bullard and Nathan Leit茫o; Stephanie L. Carlin; Antonio Del Valle; Danielle Koenig and Asher Muldoon; Andy Li and Jillian Ohayon; April Dae Okpwae; Sarah Rossman & Sequoia Sellinger; and Jo毛l Ren茅 Scoville and Ammon Taylor.
Performing their work will be Karl Amundson, Grammy nominee Saint Aubyn (Ain鈥檛 Too Proud), Jennifer Blood (Girl From The North Country), Genesis Adelia Collado, Jeffrey Cornelius (Dear Evan Hansen), Ben Diamond, Sarah Anne Fernandez (Wicked), Vidushi Goyal (That Parenting Musical), Jordan Aaron Hall (Matilda), Sarah Hogewood, Leslie Jackson (Caroline, Or Change), Dant茅 Jeanfelix (The Tempest), Gabriella Joy (The Color Purple), Jayson Kerr (Evita), Claudia Logan, Jesse Manocherian, Andrew Mayer (The Great Comet), Miyuki Miyagi, Emily Kristen Morris (Wicked), Nasir Ali Panjwani (Monsoon Wedding), Diane Phelan (Into the Woods), Senna Prasatthong, Heath Saunders (Company), Obie winner Nora Schell (Cats: "The Jellicle Ball"), Evie Schuckman, DeMone Seraphin, and Akron Lanier Watson (The Color Purple).
Directed by Prospect Associate Artistic Director Dev Bondarin, the evening will also feature music direction by Sheela Ramesh and D猫a Thatcher, stage management by Sam Kersnick and Chris M. Russo, and lighting by Isaac Castillo.
Creative consultant Tah-Janay Shayo帽e is working in collaboration with writer Antonio Del Valle and Prospect Associate Producer Sierra Lancaster and Artistic Associate Kate Semmens.
The program is co-curated by Bondarin and Producing Artistic Director Cara Reichel.
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