The Story
"In the heat of West Texas, a very lost Mia falls in love with Teo, a century-old spirit also in mourning. Inspired by Big Bend ghost towns and the revolutionary young people, past and present, who persist through war, grief and loneliness to bloom in the desert."
Creative Team
Gillian Rae Perry is a composer and songwriter whose work is dedicated to themes of mental health, vulnerability, and interconnectedness. Her music has been described as “sweet and sensitive” (Parterre Box) as well as “gentle, introspective, caring, important, and beautiful” (Music City Review). Perry’s work has been supported by organizations such as Opera America, New Music USA, The Toulmin Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, and the Central MN Arts Board. Her work has been presented by the New Jersey Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic, Chicago Opera Theater, Atlanta Opera, NOI+F, DesoDuo, MATA, BlackBox Ensemble, Aperture Duo, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, among others. Perry grew up on a bird farm in rural Texas, and her first compositions were written for the birds. https://www.gillianraeperry.com
Mo Holmes is a playwright and librettist, born in San Antonio and raised on the long stretch of road from Texas to Alabama. She is a winner of the Yale Drama Series Prize, the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize and Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award, and a Jane Chambers finalist. Her work has been developed and/or presented by Vox American Voices Opera Lab, The Bushwick Starr, The Fire This Time Festival, the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival and Good Apples Collective's Rootstock Reading Series in New York; and the Yale Schwarzman Center, the Playwrights’ Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Minnesota Opera, Atlanta Opera, DePaul University’s Climate Action New Play Collective, and elsewhere nationally. MFA: Columbia. https://newplayexchange.org/users/10585/mo-holmes