zookeeper

Book & LYRICS by ellen Johnston
music by Emily Chiu

Two best friends, Jackie, experienced hitchhiker who may-or-may-not be the love child of Bob Dylan, and Akshaya, whose only experience with hitchhiking is her obsession with Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, travel across America without a car. They try to hitchhike out of New Orleans and get picked up by a local named Zookeeper, who takes them on an unwanted detour around the Bayou. Based on a true story.

(30 min)

PHOTOS

Development History

• (Spring 2019) Staged Reading
  Discover New Musicals, National Asian Artists’ Project, New York, NY

• (Spring 2019) Reading
  NYU Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, New York, NY