Story Cycle
Empowering the next generation of storytellers to find and raise their voices through musical theatre songwriting.
Through a series of weekly classes, students devise new musical theatre works that tap into the stories, experiences, and desires of their generation.
No prior songwriting experience is required, allowing artists at all levels to be led by their willingness to learn and a desire to tell their story.
Story Cycle is sponsored by the Murry Foundation and offered at no charge to the participants in an effort to promote equity, diversity and inclusion.
Friday, April 19 at 7:00pm at The Lex (2323 Alexandria Drive)
THE STORY CYCLE CLASS OF 2024
Cricket Brown (Western Hills High School/BCTC)
Caleb Carothers (Home School)
Amaris Johnson (Bryan Station High School)
Eden Johnson (Bryan Station High School)
David Lin (Home School)
Sally Thalacker (SCAPA Lafayette)
Skylar Van Lanen (Home School)
Kody White (West Jessamine High School).
Story Cycle Artist-in-Residence
Weekly Classes will be led by Story Cycle Coordinator, Joseph Wrightson. A Guest Artist-in-Residence will work with the students over the course of the year (via Zoom) and will join the students in-person for the Story Cycle Concert in April.
2023-24 Guest Artist-in-Residence - DOUGLAS WATERBURY-TIEMAN is an actor, musician and writer originally from Lexington, KY. He graduated from Lafayette/SCAPA in 2008 and received his BM in Musical Theatre at Belmont University. Performance Credits include: Off-Broadway; The Robber Bridegroom, Soot and Spit. Regional; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 9 to 5, Once, Cotton Patch Gospel, Fiddler on the Roof. TV; Succession. Fiddle: Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas, The Hudson River Band aboard the The Disney Magic cruise ship. Currently he is the fiddler for the General Jackson Showboat in Nashville, TN. Founding member of the NYC based theatrical band The Lobbyists, whose Off-Broadway production Seawife was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Music and appeared in the 2019 National Alliance of Musical Theatre Festival. Featured at Goodspeed's Festival of New Musicals in 2019 as a recipient of the Frank Young Fund grant for his musical Johnny & The Devil’s Box, which received an award winning run at the Cumberland Co. Playhouse in 2022. Book writer; Deep Water Ballad featured at Elon University in April 2023 and Jenny and the Paper Pirates commissioned by The American School in Switzerland, both with composer Chris Rayis. He is the founder of New Musical Theatre Nashville, an organization that supports the creation of new musicals. He currently lives in Franklin, TN with his wife/collaborator/co-star Annabelle, almost two year old Oliver and golden doodle Dandy.
Story Cycle Albums
Story Cycle has released three albums, available for purchase via the Bandcamp platform. Proceeds from the purchase of a song or the entire album will help to grow and continue this important program.
All proceeds help to continue the Story Cycle Program
for deserving young artists in Central Kentucky.
