Dylan Schifrin

Dylan Schifrin

Dylan Schifrin is an award-winning early career playwright, composer/lyricist and librettist. Distinctions include: Jonathan Larson Grant (2022 Finalist), Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project (2023 Participant), The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (NMTC and NPC Semifinalist), New Musicals Inc. (New Voices Project Finalist), IAMA Theatre Company (Emerging Playwrights Lab Member), Musical Theatre Factory (Makers...
Dylan Schifrin is an award-winning early career playwright, composer/lyricist and librettist. Distinctions include: Jonathan Larson Grant (2022 Finalist), Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project (2023 Participant), The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (NMTC and NPC Semifinalist), New Musicals Inc. (New Voices Project Finalist), IAMA Theatre Company (Emerging Playwrights Lab Member), Musical Theatre Factory (Makers III Cohort Finalist), The Civilians (R&D Group Semifinalist), the National YoungArts Foundation (Finalist in Playwriting), The Foundation for New American Musicals (MUSI-CAL, SHOWSEARCH Finalist). Dylan is a member of ASCAP, the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and UNTITLED Musical Project, a new writers group for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ musical theater writers based in NYC. Dylan's writing for TV has been distinguished by ScreenCraft and Stage 32, among others. B.A. Yale College, Musical Theatre Composition (with distinction).

Plays

  • $cabs (or, why does no one want to work anymore?!!!)
    Talya is sick. Ian is caught in self-destructive cycles. Val runs the game. Glen wants to tear it all down. In the face of major cutbacks, six employees of a mysterious near-future mega-corporation must hustle and girlboss their way through Antarctica because their boss really likes SURVIVOR. Not working (or worse, striking??????) means certain death. But in this late stage capitalist reality, working when you’...
    Talya is sick. Ian is caught in self-destructive cycles. Val runs the game. Glen wants to tear it all down. In the face of major cutbacks, six employees of a mysterious near-future mega-corporation must hustle and girlboss their way through Antarctica because their boss really likes SURVIVOR. Not working (or worse, striking??????) means certain death. But in this late stage capitalist reality, working when you’re broken may be just as deadly. Music/Lyrics by Dylan Schifrin and Mark Sonnenblick
  • Y2K: An Immersive Musical
    Riley grew up among Y2K-era doomsday preppers in rural Nebraska. So did her best friend Ben, and now he's in love with Riley's father Michael, the charismatic, omnipresent colony leader, even though Ben's supposed to be repopulation partners with Riley. But when Riley falls in love with one of the "sheeple" from outside the colony, she embarks on a secret mission to test her father...
    Riley grew up among Y2K-era doomsday preppers in rural Nebraska. So did her best friend Ben, and now he's in love with Riley's father Michael, the charismatic, omnipresent colony leader, even though Ben's supposed to be repopulation partners with Riley. But when Riley falls in love with one of the "sheeple" from outside the colony, she embarks on a secret mission to test her father's validity—with Ben or without. This immersive musical about echo chambers, "us" vs. "them" mentality and the danger of misinformation has us follow Riley's escape as she grapples with uncertainty in a new world just as resistant to the truth as her own.
  • Key Change
    A college junior comes out as trans to her all-male a cappella group, prompting discussions of history, tradition and masculinity. An interrogation of the all-male space written for high school and college-aged performers.
  • THE FOOD CAVES UNDER SPRINGFIELD, MO (or, how I learned to love socialism via one billion pounds of federal cheese)
    Down in the U.S. federal government’s surplus food caves, Jack Monterey must go from unassuming cheesemaker to socialist hero by defeating the Big Dairy A.I. capitalist known as the Cheese Wiz.