Musicals
SHE SINGS ME HOME
SHE SINGS ME HOME
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Artemis Montague
Additional Music by Angela Ortiz and Chris Bulle-Goyri
SHE SINGS ME HOME is about a young Black trans woman named MONIKA and a young Black cis woman named LILIANA who slowly fall in love in an under-21 mental ward while passing notes, creating alliances and friendships, and risking their safety in the process. Disaster strikes and worlds are rocked when secrets are put to the light.
It discusses intergenerational trauma, interpersonal and structural violence and -isms, and the need for a better system than the one we have in America. The music is within the Black musical canon, and it includes R&B, rock, blues, gospel, and pop music.
It was part of the Page to Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center in November 2020. The musical then had a successful concert at NYC's own The Green Room 42 on February 6, 2023, as well as a full workshop at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD as part of their 2nd Annual National Capital New Play Festival from May 1-6, 2023. It was awarded a 2024 MAP Fund Grant, and Montague funded a developmental reading of this show on February 3, 2025 at Caveat in NYC.
Playbill's Songwriter Series: Artemis Montague
OTHER WORKS IN-DEVELOPMENT:
HOW BABY AND THE ANCESTORS STARTED A REVOLUTION
This piece has Black, transgender, and queer characters and centers around the protagonist - Baby - who plans on participating in a political action outside Cook County Jail despite the odds...and the Ancestors. They developed the first draft at the MacDowell Artist Colony in July 2024.
RHAPSODY IN SUNFLOWER YELLOW
This Black-, trans-, and queer-led musical shows the breakdown on the protagonist – “Arti” - as they seek to write a musical about celebrated painter Vincent van Gogh but struggle with their own demons. “Arti” talks to “Vincent” as a friend, as a god, and as a figment of their own despair. It talks about artistic struggles with wanting notoriety, legitimacy, and personal agency; trauma of all kinds; and problems with love, friendship, and mental health. It is still rooted in jazz, blues, gospel, rock, R&B, and soul music.