National Music Theater Conference - Lighthouse

Book, Lyrics, & Story By Abs Wilson

Music & Story By Veronica Mansour

With graduation in the rearview mirror, Bus is desperate to get away from her Minnesota hometown and everyone in it. The only problem? She can't outrun herself. LIGHTHOUSE is a sweeping pop-country musical that celebrates the idea that maybe, just maybe, every version of yourself is worth being.

abs wilson is a playwright, lyricist, and poet originally from Minnesota and now based in NYC. She is a recipient of the 2024 Richard Rodgers Award, selected writer for the Syracuse New Works New Voices program (2024), Write Out Loud Contest winner for her song with Veronica Mansour, "Runaway Girl" (2023), National Musical Theater Conference Finalist (2023), NAMT finalist (2023), recipient of the Vanguard Theater New Works Festival Commission (2023), THE SEVEN New Works winner (2023), finalist for the Olney Theater Center Vanguard Arts Fund (2023), featured on the NAMT playlist, semifinalist for SheNYC (2022), and finalist for the David Einhorn Prize (2022). Her work has been developed or produced at the Theatre Barn at Playwrights Horizons, Paper Kraine, the Tank, the Brick, Fusion Theater, and St. Olaf College. Her songs have been performed at 54 Below, Joe's Pub, the Composers Concordance Marathon. Her plays have been published in Some Scripts Literary Magazine. abs received her MFA from NYU Tisch Musical Theater Writing Program, her BA from St. Olaf College, and her passion for theater at the National Theater Institute's 2020 Theatermakers Summer Intensive. abs is a member of the Playwrights Center, Dramatists Guild, and ASCAP. www.abswilson.com

Veronica ("Ronnie") Mansour is a composer/lyricist/artist. She is a 2024 Richard Rodgers Award and Jonathan Larson Grant winner. She was recently nominated for a Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award (Musical Theatre Composition), selected for DreamWorks Theatricals, MTI & NBC Universal Emerging Writers Program, and a 2023 Write Out Loud Contest Winner ("Runaway Girl"). Current works: How to Train Your Dragon Jr. (DreamWorks Theatricals commission), LIGHTHOUSE (Eugene O'Neill NMTC Finalist 2023, NAMT Finalist 2023, Olney Theatre Center Vanguard Arts Fund Finalist 2023, New York Theatre Barn New Works Series 2023, Vanguard Theater New Works Festival Commission 2023, St. Olaf College World Premiere 2024, Syracuse New Works New Voices 2024), and The Dark Lady (2023 National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Musical Theatre West New Works Festival Winner 2024, Syracuse New Works, New Voices Finalist 2023, Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals). She holds an MFA in Graduate Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Veronica is a proud member of Maestra, BMI, the Society of Composers and Lyricists, and the Dramatists Guild. https://www.veronicamansour.com/

Location: Rose Barn Theater - indoors.

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