A POP-LORE COMING-OF-AGE MUSICAL

When a college campus becomes a college carnival, four queer students must learn new ways of resistance and existence.

Gender Circus is a coming of age, pop-lore musical that blends reality and fantasy, challenges status quo, and champions authenticity… with bops.

Original Concept and Book by Liv Wilson

Lyrics by Liv Wilson and Déa Thatcher

Music by Déa Thatcher

About the Writers

Liv Wilson (they/she) is a playwright and librettist based on the East Coast. Their plays include Find My Friends (LimeFest @ The Tank), the best of all possible worlds (Pipeline New Works Fellow, The Workshop Theatre), and Better Red Than Dead (The Tank, BSU, UTEP). Liv writes for Cadence's TV series, Bloodlines and was a lead writer for the inaugural Episodic Theatre Project BARDCORE (Under St. Marks Theatre). Their work has also been developed and presented by Rorschach Theatre, Folger Theatre’s Works in Progress, Dramatic Question Theatre, National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, and various universities across the country. Liv is the recipient of the Howard Scammon Prize for Drama, the Martin Jurow Theatre Arts Award for artistic excellence, and the Pipeline New Works Fellowship, under the mentorship of David Lindsay-Abaire. They are currently pursuing a Masters in Social Work at Columbia University.

Déa Thatcher (she/they)composes music and songs for Theater, Film, TV, Orchestra, and Other Mixed Media. They write Musicals, Short Stories, Poems, and other Musings on a modern world, and got a start in community choir and theater in North Western, NJ. Déa is most influenced by musical vibrations, metaphysical interpretations, and alternative neural pathways. 

Select project titles include: Martin and Meelo, The Most Incredible Thing, The Only Way Out,Lost Letters, Untitled Queer Fantasy, a collection of Tone Poems, as well as a book of poetry. Her work has been developed at multiple stages including living room shares, table workshops, residencies, readings, concerts, commissions and productions. Member of The Dramatists Guild, Maestra, ASCAP, Untitled Musical Group and AFM Local 802. Training: Berklee College of Music. Currently: Déa plays accordion at Cabaret on Broadway and works as a composer assistant in NYC.