Annalisa Dias' & Ronee Penoi's musical theatre partnership (FLORA musicals) is the result of six years of personal collaboration. We met in 2014 through The Welders, a playwriting collective in Washington DC (based on 13P), where we predominantly worked together in a producing capacity.
We soon realized that we had many shared values and beliefs:
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About the projects
#RESIST: THE MUSICAL#RESIST: THE MUSICAL is a comedic satire that unravels the ways the inherent narcissism of the #resistance (as seen online) may actually be a manifestation of the same kind of individualist showmanship that gave rise to the era of Trump. In #RESIST, residents of the Big City are excited to vote for their first female president. When things don't go as they expected, Big City residents turn to social media to unleash their rage and to hashtag-resist. Except, this doesn't go quite as they planned either. In the age of the #resistance, our new musical aims to skewer white feminist ideology, performative wokeness, and the liberal fantasy of a post-racial America. Songs include, "How Did This Happen?" “Let’s Hashtag Resist,” "A March Will Solve Our Problems," and "Take a Back Seat, Becky." |
THE CARLISLE PROJECTTHE CARLISLE PROJECT unravels the complicated legacy and trauma of Indian boarding schools in an expressive song cycle. The project uses song, satire and ceremony to tell the harrowing history of Carlisle Indian School and the brutal assimilation enforced under its motto “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” In this musical song cycle, indigenous women separated by time, place, and experience grapple with the generational trauma and erasure that Carlisle caused, and explore what it means to be Native American now. Songs include, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely," "You Were There," "Stories," and "Man on the Bandstand." |
Demos & Recordings
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More coming soon!
Special Thanks
Ronee and Annalisa's work has been supported with developmental funding and opportunities by Baltimore Center Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Dickinson College, The Tank: Tank-aret, the Network of Ensemble Theatres NET/TEN program, Dartmouth College, the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage Residency program, and numerous individuals who personally donated through Indiegogo.