Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alum and adjunct professor Sara Cooper (Cycle 18)
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alum and adjunct professor Sara Cooper (Cycle 18) alongside her collaborator Lynne Shankel and her new musical PERPETUAL SUNSHINE AND THE GHOST GIRLS was featured at the 2022 Festival of New Musicals hosted by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.
Held over two days in New York City every fall, the Festival produces 45-minute presentations of eight new musicals before an industry-only audience with the experience and resources to move the work forward.
Featuring an all-women+ cast and an original through-composed 1920-2020s mashup score, Richard Rodgers Award-winning musical PERPETUAL SUNSHINE AND THE GHOST GIRLS tells the true story of the capitalist exploitation and knowing radium poisoning of workers by the U.S. Radium Corporation—and the women who fought back.