Shapeshifters

SHAPESHIFTERS is a music-theatre multiverse dedicated to LGBTQ+ superheroes. Using the lens of superhero science fiction, SHAPESHIFTERS encourages queer and trans casts and audiences to consider what “others” them as their super power. Equal parts entertainment, education, and empowerment, SHAPESHIFTERS assembles a community over digital and theatrical mediums.

The SHAPESHIFTERS cannon of musicals currently includes Shapeshifters: A Queer Comic Book Musical (2020), Luna & the Starbodies (2022), and SKYWARD: An Endling Elegy (2023).

The next piece is currently in development.

SHAPESHIFTERS: A Queer Comic Book Musical

Non-binary teen MEL, is a high school bully, caught between the worlds of boy and girl. Misunderstood by teachers, classmates, and parents, MEL’s world is lonely and savage. But when MEL unearths a universe called Queer Time, their flaws become their super powers. MEL assembles a chosen family of LGBTQ superheroes known as THE SHAPESHIFTERS, who save young teens from untimely endings.

An action-packed musical that combines the suspense of Watchmen with the camp of GLEE, and Drawing influence from the underground roots of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and POSESHAPESHIFTERS is a universe LGBTQ superheroes unlike any seen before. SHAPESHIFTERS calls on audiences of every age, gender, and sexuality to find their tribe, sing along, and find the hero within.

SHAPESHIFTERS at The Public Theater’s “Queer & Now” at the Delacore Theater in Central Park (2019).
Ballyhoo Theatre in Seattle documents their process of bringing SHAPESHIFTERS to the stage with their unique ensemble (2023).
University of the Arts’ students cast album of songs from SHAPESHIFTERS (2020).