WILL BE PERFORMED LIVE
3/1-2 @ The Catalyst Creative Collective
Tickets Available Soon
Is the newest project by Tucson’s own Rigby Theater Company, after the success of this fall’s Young Playwrights Showcase!
Bruisers is a song cycle: the musical theater equivalent of a short story collection, usually characterized by a series of songs that function both as self-contained narratives while also contributing to a larger thematic premise with the other numbers of the show.
One of a song cycle’s greatest strengths is that of its unique presentation of many different perspectives within one performance. Bruisers aims to source those perspectives from Tucson’s student playwrights and songwriters, using open submissions from our community.
After months of work, eight songwriters have made seventeen selected numbers. These seventeen are now the content of Bruisers!
Bruisers
Music by Ben Teller
Book and Lyrics by Jacob Toole
STUDENT SUBMISSIONS:
“Take Me Down” by Vi Trapp
“Chelsie’s Lament” by Grace Christian, music by Ben Teller
“Taxes In Space” by Joleen Byrd
“Goodbye Alexander” by Johanna Villanueva
“Between The Lines” by Cece Harris, music by Ben Teller
“Hiraeth” by Isis Rivenbark
“How To Get To Heaven” by Andrew Coss
“Developing Rabbitlike Tendencies” by Luca Cafiero
“Doves” by Vi Trapp
CAST
CREATIVE
Below is the guidelines for submitting songwriters. If you're interested in more about the project's nature, you can find it here.

Logo by Kylie Huerta-Rojas. Thanks to Kevin Larkin and the Catalyst Creative Collective, Tyler Pierce and the Unity Church of Tucson, and all submitting songwriters and actors. Your enthusiasm for this project is what makes this possible.