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BACHELORS OF FINE ARTS. dark comedy. 1 act. 50 minutes. (book, lyric, and composition) co-composed and co-written with Hope Johansen.

A song cycle about stalkers, and the institutions that breed them. 

  • Production at Edinburgh Fringe.

THE SHADOW. dark comedy. 1 act. 20 minutes. (book and lyric), with compositions by Jacob Richter.

Hans Christian Andersen cannot get laid. His Shadow can help, maybe.
A meta adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Shadow.

  • Reading at NYU GMTWP.

 

Riley is writing a thesis musical with Yuanji Qu as part of their final year of New York University's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program. More on that soon. 

©2025, Riley Elton McCarthy.

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