June 25 2022

This summer, New York Theatre Barn and the Fire Island Pines Arts Project will partner to create Barn on Fire, a new summer residency on Fire Island for three musical theatre writing teams and their original culture shifting musicals in development. Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell will serve as a mentor to the residency which includes the new musicals Sueños: Our American Musical, Buried, Little Miss Perfect, and How to You: A Musical Guide to Black Boyhood.

Joining the writers and creatives teams for the residency will be actors Robi Hager (Spring Awakening, Little Duende), Brynn Williams (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, SpongeBob SquarePants), Sirius XM Radio’s Julie James, Nyseli Vega, Steven Alan Black, Rachael Cell, Florencia Cuenca, Jason Hurtado, Liz Lang, Carley Lovito, Skie Ocasio, and Nyseli Vega.

Learn more here.