
Alara Magritte
About
Alara Magritte (she/her) is a songwriter, playwright, and art director whose work finds itself enamored with the spectacle of the mundane and situated in the space between the grotesque and the gorgeous. She is a 2015 California Playwrights' Project winner for her piece "The Tangible Tollbooth." She has worked with many theatre organizations including Playwrights Foundation, the New York Musical Festival, Playdate Theatre, and Tony Award-winning TheatreWorks: Silicon Valley, as well as had her work featured across the country at La Jolla Playhouse, The Connelly Theatre, The Duplex, Midnight Theatre, and more. Alongside Daniel Rosen, she co-wrote and produced the original festive holiday collection This Year, and the spine-tingling Halloween album, Magritte and Rosen’s House of Haunts. Last year, the pair blended artistry with advocacy to produce the benefit concert “My Body, My Voice,” uniting singer-songwriters and musical theatre artists to support the nonprofit The Brigid Alliance in helping to provide equitable access to women's healthcare. As of 2024, Magritte is a cohort member of the Beth Morrison Projects’ Producer Academy and holds a BA in Playwriting from Purchase College.
Daniel Rosen (he/him) is a writer, arranger, and performer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He made his first foray into playwriting in 2014 when his one-act "Good Buddy" was selected for TheatreWorks Young Playwrights Project. In 2018, he produced the Vassar Devils' music video "Out of the Dark" and contributed arrangements and co-produced the Devils' 2020 studio album, Words Unsaid, a multiple-nominee at the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards. In 2021, he worked with Boomerang Theater Company to produce a TikTok musical Work from Home to raise awareness for the Performing Artists That Help community relief fund. Along with Alara Magritte, Daniel has co-written two full-length musicals, With Great Power and the award-winning Safe Hands, which received a sold-out extended run at the SheNYC Arts Festival and was most recently featured at Seattle Public Theater’s Distillery New Works Festival. In 2024, the pair had their repertoire performed at a composer / lyricist cabaret as featured artists at the Phoenix Theatre Company Annual Festival of New American Theatre and recently shared their holiday music at Urban Stages’ Winter Rhythms Festival. In 2025, the pair were commissioned to write the music to Jane Hubbard’s original play DIRTY, which premiered at Seattle’s Annex Theatre. magritteandrosen.com
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Bayou Baby Blues
An episodic podcast musical set against a bluesy Americana score, this Southern Gothic tale follows a woman’s journey through the foggy swamps of her family’s past to deliver her grandmother’s ashes to their final resting place and dig up the truth behind her infamous mother’s struggle with postpartum psychosis.
