Hestia September

Hestia September

Hestia September has a BA in Music Education, MA in Theatre Direction, and K-12 music teaching certification. She has worked in settings as diverse as inner city London, a Native American reservation, refugee camp school and “bush” village school in Malawi, as well as traditional public schools and theatres.

Hestia composes children’s musicals and develops arts-based curriculum. Her first...
Hestia September has a BA in Music Education, MA in Theatre Direction, and K-12 music teaching certification. She has worked in settings as diverse as inner city London, a Native American reservation, refugee camp school and “bush” village school in Malawi, as well as traditional public schools and theatres.

Hestia composes children’s musicals and develops arts-based curriculum. Her first musical, The Truth About Trolls, unpacks how we “other” people who look different from us. The Tale of Miss Beatrix Potter, her second musical and winner of Dandylyon Drama's New Works Residency 2020, was adapted for virtual production. She is currently composing multiple new works.

Hestia has a vision for increasing arts education access in communities experiencing extreme poverty. Keep up with her at hdseptember.com.

Plays

  • The Tale of Miss Beatrix Potter by Hestia September
    Cast: 
    8–28
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, musical + 2 more
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    Keyword: Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit + 7 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, musical, period, young audiences
    Keyword: Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit, women in history, children's literature, historical, musical, A woman struggling to find her own voice, friendship, 19th Century British Literature
    Book and lyrics by Thera Langham Knapp, music by Hestia D. September, The Tale of Miss Beatrix Potter tells the story of one of the world’s most beloved children’s authors and how her books came to be. It is a musical full of whimsy which travels between reality and the fantasy world Beatrix created. Throughout the musical, we meet Annie Moore’s family who inspired Potter’s creations, as well as the...
    Book and lyrics by Thera Langham Knapp, music by Hestia D. September, The Tale of Miss Beatrix Potter tells the story of one of the world’s most beloved children’s authors and how her books came to be. It is a musical full of whimsy which travels between reality and the fantasy world Beatrix created. Throughout the musical, we meet Annie Moore’s family who inspired Potter’s creations, as well as the curmudgeonly Farmer McGregor, warm but firm Mother Bunny, a host of sparkling, witty rabbits, sparrows, and country critters, and finally, the publishers who foolishly rejected her and her first book.

    Discover the story of a young, tenacious woman who wouldn’t take “No” for an answer, and created the most delightful animal characters in all of children’s literature – and learn that you can achieve ANYTHING if you have a good friend and you hold onto your dreams.