GATECRASHERS Development History

  • GATECRASHERS was selected as a finalist for the Discovery New Musical Theatre Festival at Ball State University, May, 2016.  
  • Porchlight Music Theatre in Chicago held a staged reading of GATECRASHERS in the spring of 2015 as part of Porchlight's Off the Porch program for the development of new musicals.  
  • Porchlight hosted the first table reading of GATECRASHERS in January, 2015.  
  • Laura and Joe enjoyed an artistic residency at Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL, where they developed GATECRASHERS during January, 2013.
  • Two original GATECRASHERS songs were featured in the ASCAP Chicago Dramatists Showcase for New Musical Theatre Work in November, 2012; another song was selected for the April, 2013 ASCAP Chicago Dramatists Showcase.