Dylan Schifrin

Dylan Schifrin

Dylan Schifrin is an award-winning early career LGBTQ and Hispanic playwright, composer/lyricist and librettist. Distinctions include: 2022 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (NMTC and NPC Semifinalist), New Musicals Inc. (New Voices Project Finalist), IAMA Theatre Company (Emerging Playwrights Lab Member), The Civilians (R&D Group Semifinalist), the National YoungArts...
Dylan Schifrin is an award-winning early career LGBTQ and Hispanic playwright, composer/lyricist and librettist. Distinctions include: 2022 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (NMTC and NPC Semifinalist), New Musicals Inc. (New Voices Project Finalist), IAMA Theatre Company (Emerging Playwrights Lab Member), 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?!!!) by Dylan Schifrin
    Cast: 
    7–9
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: corporate, hustle + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, musical, satire
    Keyword: corporate, hustle, cult, burnout, gay, LGBTQ
    Six new hires within a mysterious mega-corporation are sent to Antarctica to prove they make good leaders. Good thing they all love their jobs more than themselves—except one dealing with chronic illness, one trying to conquer past trauma and one who maybe wants to take down the entire operation. In this fevered musical interrogation of hustle culture, burnout and the Great Resignation, optimizing the machine means breaking yourself down.
  • Y2K: An Immersive Musical by Dylan Schifrin
    Cast: 
    7–20
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: apocalypse, doomsday + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, immersive, musical, political, satire
    Keyword: apocalypse, doomsday, prepper, Bunker, misinformation, paranoia, Fake news
    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 by Dylan Schifrin
    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: drama, zoom
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    Keyword: coming out, trans + 7 more
    Genre: drama, zoom
    Keyword: coming out, trans, singer, a cappella, History, tradition, college, gender, identity
    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.