Musicals

Six Weeks Notice

SIX WEEKS NOTICES tells the story of Meg, an overly-productive woman living with cptsd who loves wrestling and whose worth is tied to her growth who believes she’s finally “ready” to take the next steps in her life, until, she learns she’s six weeks pregnant during what was supposed to be a cancer screening.

From then on Meg, enacts an “emergency plan” to stay on track for the new life she’s “earned” but in pushing herself to keep up with her full-time job, interviews, a series of doctors appointments, and her partner, her stress levels rise so high, her old behaviors/symptoms resurface, and she begins a complicated miscarriage she almost doesn’t survive.

In the ER Meg has to face the fact that she’s not in control of anything and finally lean on the people around her who love her whether she’s at her best or a full-on AEW heel through which she learns that there’s more to life than being a 24/7 self-improvement project and that you don't need to earn happiness.

Development history: UCross Residency, BMI Librettist Workshop

Mad-Made is a site-specific immersive musical about a tour-guide who's obsessed with the miracle ship the Jeanie Johnston. More information TBD.

The Great Hunger

Blood/Sweat/Tears

BLOOD/SWEAT/TEARS is a horror movie, inside of a musical, inside of a play about Ginny (and her movie and musical counterparts). Ginny is a bookwriter & lyricist fighting to get the final draft of her musical script approved to go into rehearsals. But as her creative team coerces her into changes, Ginny begins rewrites that drastically impact the plot of the musical, and therefore the horror movie. Turning a story that should be one of determination and success into a disturbing tale about survival, as reality and fiction begin to blur during Ginny’s final evaluation.

BLOOD/SWEAT/TEARS is like if Inception, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Whiplash had a baby – and that baby sang like 50% of the time.

Development History: The TANK Limefest, The Workshop Theatre, HARP Theatricals, Live Arts

Ali is currently working with Hire Survivor's Hollywood to bring their toolkit to theater and use a workshop to hire survivors of sexual harassment, abuse, and assault.

Lyrics by Ali Keller, Music by Emily Rose

A song cycle about that feeling you get when you all of a sudden realize you ARE the adult in the room, but you haven't figured out how to adult yet.

...The F*ck Am I Doing?

Development History: New York Musical Festival, performed selected songs performed at Jimmy's No. 43 during Primary Stages event, The COW Community virtual production, the Brighton Fringe Festival.

See videos from those performances below.