South Carolina New Play Festival - Stuntboy

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Melvin Tunstall III and Greg Borowsky
Directed by Banji Aborisade, Music Direction by Nick Wilders

Stuntboy follows the middle-schooler, Portico Reeves, whose superpower is making sure his parents and two best friends stay safe from bullies. He lives in the biggest apartment building on the block, a building with fifty doors, all of which would be swell except for the secret that Portico’s parents are about to divorce. All this stress gives Portico “the frets”, which his mom calls anxiety. Plus, like all superheroes, Portico has an arch-nemesis determined to prove that there is nothing super about Portico at all. Melvin Tunstall’s show Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Family Show in 2018. Greg Borowsky is a songwriter and producer from South Africa behind some of South Africa’s biggest SAMA (SA Grammy) winning artists and is the co-writer and producer of the official “20 Years of Freedom” song for the South African Government.

Stuntboy is a commission by TheatreworksUSA. Based on the book Stunt Boy in the Meantime © Jason Reynolds and Raúl the Third, 202. Used with permission of Pippin Properties, Inc.