Creation Story
This Southwest-inspired musical remixes the Hopi creation tale of four previous worlds. Creation Story follows a writer and her disobedient characters as they wander from the jungles of Eden to the caverns of the underworld searching for signs of life and history. As the worlds of creator and created collide, so do the forces of human and mother nature, rupturing the world and threatening the very existence of life on earth.
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Octavia Chavez-Richmond (playwright) is a writer, actor, and storyteller known for Knives Out (2019), Free Guy (2021) and Lolita Express (2020). Her work has been featured at international film festivals and regional theaters. She holds an MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Repertory where she received the David Wickham Playwriting Award.
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Jen Anaya (music contributions) is a queer Indigenous Mexican theater/music/art/ritual space maker, doula, energy healer and baby whisperer born and raised in the desert of Yavapaiv Apache, Cocopah and O'odham land. A proud jack of all trades, they have performed in rock bands, web series, art installations, plays, operas, films, solo shows, healing rituals and musicals throughout Munsee Lenape land, Turtle Island and the world. From La Mama to The Kitchen, Harvard Art Lab to Radio City Music Hall, La Jolla Playhouse to The Getty Museum, the mountains of Greece to Harpa in Iceland, Jen has been weaving music, theater, art, movement and healing together every chance they get. They are a founding member of Constellation Chor, a contributor to You Are Here Creations and a 2021 FORGE Fellow. Post-lockdown Jen has done the zoom/in-person dance as an actor, singer, instrumentalist and sound healing practitioner with San Diego REP, San Francisco's PlayGround, Rhinebeck Writers’ Retreat, The Tank, Loom Ensemble, Denman Theater and Dance Company and Broadway Advocacy Coalition, They are a certified Reiki and 13th Octave La Ho Chi practitioner. When not working on a contract, Jen can be found having fun with the young folks at the 52nd St. Project, working on their EP and an immersive multi-disciplinary piece that focuses on the healing of intergenerational trauma.
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A first reading of the play took place on March 11th in NYC (images below). A workshop of the play took place at the Dance Theater of Harlem and then presented (as a stage reading) at the Flea Theater in NYC, May 2024. (Third Picture below)
