Lighthouse 

Abs Wilson  – Book, Lyrics & Story

Veronica Mansour – Music & Story

 

Lighthouse is a 6-women, fourth-wall-breaking pop country musical following our unreliable narrator Bus, an 18 year old girl who wants nothing more than to escape her small Minnesota town. But what Bus really wants to escape? Herself— and everything  she fears she could become. With a cast ranging from ages 18-73, Lighthouse  explores anxiety and OCD, intergenerational relationships, and what it means to be yourself for the rest of your life. Ultimately, Lighthouse  celebrates the idea that maybe, just maybe— every version of yourself is worth being.

Veronica Mansour is a composer/lyricist/artist. She is a 2024 Richard Rodgers Award Winner and Jonathan Larson Grant winner, 2024 Dramatist Guild Fellow, and was recently nominated for a Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award (Musical Theatre Composition), selected as one of four writers for DreamWorks Theatricals, MTI & NBCUniversal Emerging Writers Program (currently commissioned to write How To Train Your Dragon Jr.), and one of three 2023 Write Out Loud Contest Winners for her song “Runaway Girl” (performed by Jessica Vosk, written with abs wilson). Current works: Lighthouse (NAMT Winner 2024, Eugene O’Neill NMTC Winner 2024 & Finalist 2023, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat 2024, Syracuse NWNV 2024, Olney Theatre Center Vanguard Arts Fund Finalist 2023, New York Theatre Barn New Works Series 2023, Vanguard Theater New Works Festival Commission 2023, St. Olaf College World Premiere 2024, NAMT Finalist/Playlist) and The Dark Lady (Eugene O’Neill NMTC Winner 2023, Syracuse NWNV Finalist, 2024 Musical Theatre West New Works Festival, 2024 Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, 2024 South Carolina New Play Festival). Past works: CYRANO (music/lyrics, University of Notre Dame, named part of NAMT’s “Other Shows You Should Know About Jukebox”, NAMT Playlist, 2023), An Old Family Recipe (book/music/lyrics, Regional BroadwayWorld “Best Streaming Musical”, premiered as a film at the University of Notre Dame in the Spring of 2021). Veronica is a proud member of Maestra, BMI, the Society of Composers and Lyricists, and the Dramatist’s Guild. She has an MFA in Graduate Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Abs Wilson is a playwright/lyricist originally from Minnesota and now based in NYC. She’s a recipient of the 2024 Richard Rodgers Award, selected writer for the National Musical Theatre Alliances’s New Musical Festival (2024), Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference winner (2024), selected writer for the musical theater Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat (2024), selected writer for the Syracuse New Works New Voices program (2024), Write Out Loud Contest winner for her and Veronica Mansour’s song “Runaway Girl” (2023), National Musical Theater Conference Finalist (2023), NAMT finalist (2023), recipient of the Vanguard Theater New Works Festival Commission (2023), THE SEVEN New Works winner (2023), finalist for the Olney Theater Center Vanguard Arts Fund (2023), featured on the NAMT playlist, and finalist for the David Einhorn Prize (2022). She’s had work done with Theatre Barn at Playwright’s Horizons, Paper Kraine, the Tank, the Brick, Fusion Theater, Syracuse University, and St. Olaf College, with songs performed at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, the Composers Concordance Marathon, and a play published in Some Scripts Literary Magazine. She got her MFA from NYU Tisch’s Musical Theater Writing Program and her passion for theater at the National Theater Institute’s 2020 Summer Intensive theatermaking program. abs is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild & ASCAP. Past Works: I CRAVE THE HEAT, As Long as the Light, SPACE OVEN, All We Know of Love & Fire, HE DID IT., Dutch Kassidy & the Skydance Guy, ASTRONOMER / STAR-WEAVER., DEAD ANY WAY. Current Works: LIGHTHOUSE, RAT KING, Swamp Song, UGGO.