A new American musical
made with hot glue & heart

An original ensemble musical set in the cutthroat world of DIY craft enthusiasts about community, passion, and making something new.

At the Boulder, Colorado craft show, you can get your fill of hand-made original arts and crafts, from Hawk’s metal medieval figurines to Elmer and Susan’s Lazy Susans. But this year, for the first time, the show is being adjudicated by Instagram Influencer Kiersten Cumin, with the winner receiving a deal to have their craft mass-distributed (with love) by All-Mart.

A fiery competition ensues, bringing up grudges old and new, turning neighbor against neighbor. In the middle of this wacky hodgepodge cornucopia is Brenda, who is looking for meaning following the death of her son who served overseas.

Craft Show is filled with characters befitting a Christopher Guest mockumentary - full of homespun heart set in a modern America where the D.I.Y. philosophy triumphs and “makers” make their dreams come true.

Featured

20s/ 30s Voluptuous and aggressively bubbly. She makes all things mermaid and lives a mer-life style, when she is not being an elementary school art teacher. Married to Vik.

Brett Macias

Music

Brett is a Mexican composer, lyricist, and playwright who has composed music for The New Group (daddy!), Repertory Theater of Saint Louis, City Center Encores! (NYC), the St. Louis Gateway Men's Chorus, Webster University, Stephens College, the Cockeyed Optimists, Prospect Theater Company, and Masterworks' Off-Broadway Production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE.

Brett wrote the music for the musicals FISHING THE MOON, THE LAVATORY, and BENEATH THE SURFACE with Caroline Murphy. He was featured in American Theater Magazine as a writing team to watch.

Concerts: Lincoln Center, The Green Room 42, Vitello's, and The Cutting Room.

IN DEVELOPMENT: TUESDAY with Caroline Murphy, AN UN-HERO'S JOURNEY with Jessica Carmona, MARSHA P., NBC, AND ME with Geri Brown, and BAYOULAND with Alexandria Beech. TUESDAY: New Horizons Music Festival, Musical Theater Factory, and Coastal Carolina University. BAYOULAND (previously titled GUMBO) was a selection by the Grand Jury for the New York Musical Festival Next Link Project, Musical Theater Factory, The PiTCH at Fingerlakes Musical Theater Festival, ASCAP Grow a Show, and Yale Institute for Musical Theatre.

Bret is also an orchestrator, musical director, arranger, and certified success coach who works with clients to help them find their most collaborative, creative selves and succeed through their own values.

Fred Sauter

Book & Lyrics

Fred wrote book & lyrics for the hit Off-Broadway rock musical Bedbugs!!!, a NY Times & Time Out NY Critics’ Pick, as well as The Astronaut Love Show, both with composer Paul Leschen. Fred wrote the libretto for the short opera Polar with composer William King Barnett, which premiered at BAM and NYU as part of “The Climate Opera Project.”

Fred was an associate producer and contributed songs to “The Rainbow Lullaby” album, created by Ryan Bauer-Walsh, released by Broadway Records. Fred is currently developing multiple new collaborative musical projects including The Four Horsemen with David Mallamud and Jordan Mann. He is also a singer, actor and drag performer. Recent appearances include Angela Di Carlo’s musical The Jo-Lynn Butterfly… Christmas Special at The Wild Project, cabaret performances at Pangea, and making his NOTS (Night of 1000 Stevies) debut at Irving Plaza.

Fred holds an MFA from NYU Tisch's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program and a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art, and studied voice training with the dearly missed Barbara Maier Gustern. Fred lives in Manhattan and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP.