FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND SCHOOL OF THEATRE PRESENT
About
Show Me Eternity
Dillon and Caps (writing team) are an emerging musical theatre writing duo based in NYC. Sam Caps [she/her] is a composer, lyricist, singer, and actor whose work explores the intersection of pop, folk and contemporary musical theatre. Annie Dillon [she/they] is a writer and theatre artist with a passion for bringing a queer, feminist lens to classic stories. Both graduated with a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from NYU Steinhardt, where they met and began their collaboration. They have written two musicals: a campy, contemporary adaptation of Pride and (SheNYC at the Connelly Theater, SheNYC (Amas Culture Lab LIC, 54 Below, New York Theater Festival at Teatro Latea, Michigan State Dramaturgy). Their work received the Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists, the SheNYC award for Best Score, and the Broadway World Off-Off-Broadway Awards for Best New Score and Best New Book of a Musical. Both are members of the
Director
Daniella Caggiano, Director - (she/they) is a queer disabled director, intimacy director, and proud native Fun (in a real funeral home, starring Jenn Collela), (benefitting The JED Foundation), performed Show Me Eternity, (3x extended, winner Best Play, SheNYC). They are an alum of Roundabout’s Directors Group, MTC Directing Fellowship, The Drama League Residency, and alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Daniella has also assisted or associate directed for rockstars Leigh Silverman and Rebecca Taichman. Most recently, Daniella directed a reading , a sci-fi jukebox musical featuring the songs of the Goo Goo Dolls. She holds an MFA from The
Bianca Lupsha - Piano
Lambert Hsieh - Violin
Liam Sabo - Cello
Special Thanks BAND
Student selection committee members – Jessie Roddy, Caitlyn Primous, Bo Bailey
This piece was previously developed with the support of Culture Lab LIC through their Emergence Artist Residency.
Excerpts from Dickinson’s work are used with permission from the publishing entity, Harvard University Press, and are adapted from the following source:
THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942, by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965, by Mary L. Hampson.