Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alums Emily Chiu (Cycle 26) and Molly Reisman (Cycle 27) will have their new musical KEATON AND THE WHALE workshopped at Ghostlight Theatre Camp in July 2021.
Each year, Ghostlight Theater Camp produces two festivals of classic plays, musicals, and new and devised works.
In this new musical, a lonely artist named Keaton meets the loneliest whale in the world, who sings at 52-hertz, a frequency no other whale can hear. The Whale has been swimming alone and singing to only his shadow for who knows how long until one day he hears a mysterious voice reply. Unfortunately for The Whale, this voice is actually the terrible sound installation of tortured graduate student, Keaton. Keaton and the Whale is a story about loneliness and the beauty of communication in all of its many forms.