Musical Theatre | Hear Me Musical

"...a wonderfully idiosyncratic approach to musicalizing life that feels like

a successor to the work of Bill Finn.” - Drayton Alexander, Asolo Repertory Theatre

creator, librettist, lyricist

Anita Riggio

Sila Shaman

composer

Karen Dearborn

co-director / choreographer

Samantha Saltman

co-director

Katie Coleman

orchestrator, music supervisor

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“This is a universal story because everyone in this room has a beast.” - Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Broadway Producer

“An exciting and important piece!”

Bill Rauch, Director, CATS, THE JELLICLE BALL

"A visual feast!"

Brian P. Allen, Artistic Director

Good Theater, Portland, Maine

The Story

Hear Me is a wholly original, contemporary, women-led, cross-cultural, bi-lingual musical in American Sign Language and English, about confronting the personal beast that deters us from loving fully and living authentically.

At its heart, Hear Me is the love story --a three way--among "Claire," a Deaf, single mom and former dancer, "Will," a hearing man who is graphic novelist and is notoriously single, and "Beast," the inner voice, critic and protector, who lives inside Will's head and is visible only to Will and the audience.

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