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The PRISM Festival of New Queer Musicals is a collaborative development festival dedicated to uplifting and celebrating Queer musical theater artists. Produced in partnership with The Makers' Ensemble, The Brick Theater, Brooklyn Art Haus, and Judson Arts, PRISM creates space for emerging and established Queer artists to develop bold new musicals in community. Centered on process, experimentation, and artistic exchange, the festival fills a vital step in the musical theater development pipeline, offering writers, composers, lyricists, directors, performers, and creative teams the time, resources, and support to deepen and refine their work while engaging directly with audiences. Each year, PRISM showcases a diverse cohort of new musicals that expand the possibilities of the form while reflecting the breadth, complexity, and joy of Queer experience. Through performances, developmental opportunities, and cross-organizational collaboration, PRISM serves as both an incubator for new work and a celebration of the artists shaping the future of musical theater.

Now, in the basement of a small-town parish, a mysterious empty coffin appears. A secret underground society must investigate why; Nightingale hears sounds of the past, while Rook sees visions of the future. Their supervisor, Swallow, needs answers, but the woman who claimed to know everything is missing.
if you bury me is a fantasy for queer imaginations, following a group of mystical storytellers as they learn what grows from the dead and what begins in the end. Directed by Dante Green, Music Directed by Sofia Geck.
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Mystical Tether is an in-development concert experience led by Britton Smith and three musicians, offering audiences a first look into an emerging theatrical song cycle about the spiritual and ancestral bond between a Black queer man and his grandmother. After witnessing his grandmother's transition, a grandson is drawn into an ancestral journey that carries him back to the American South in 1948, where he encounters the family secrets, impossible choices, and forgotten love that shaped generations before him. To break a curse of silence, he must confront an ancient wound before it is inherited once again. The performance holds two sonic worlds at once: the haunting textures of Mississippi Southern Gothic folk and blues, and the pulse of Bushwick's underground dance clubs. Through original music, storytelling, and movement, these worlds collide to create a ritual of memory, grief, joy, and queer liberation. Developed with filmmaker Satchel Lee and informed by interviews with Black queer men about their relationships with their grandmothers, Mystical Tether invites audiences into the early evolution of a work honoring the sacred ties that shape who we become. Directed by Miranda Haymon.
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