We are proud to have made semi-finals in the 2023 Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference ! Mayflower Avenue, A Play With Songs
Written by Nicole Alifante and S.C. Stowe
As of September 2026 this project is currently under construction.
Nicole and Stephanie are working on updates.
Please contact us if you are curious about where we are in our process.
Stay tuned!
Artistic Statement for Mayflower Avenue, A Multimedia Play With Songs
It’s morning in America…..again. Mayflower Avenue is a living room drama meets futuristic, dystopian magical realism fueled by a mashup of genre shifting contemporary songs. Set in a suburban NY enclave, on the eve of yet another election in the distant but near future, Mayflower Avenue offers an unrelenting glimpse into the intimate lives of four neighboring families, each poised on the edge of personal and national change. Why now? Because America continues to struggle to define itself and we struggle collectively to defend the tenuous experiment we call democracy.
We call Mayflower Avenue a “play with songs” because it is uniquely dialogue heavy for a musical. It’s really a play that features stand-alone songs sung by the characters that will leave the audience humming. It is a collective project, made with love and humility, examining what community means, what racial reckoning and healing looks like and helps the audience to pause, examine where we are and reimagine how we move forward if American Democracy is a fragile experiment and the laboratory is on fire.
The Mayflower Avenue creative team believes that theater should be challenging, transformative, and healing. Whether Mayflower Avenue finds a production in the next year - or in the distant but near future, it will continue to ask its audience a fundamental question…What will we cling to - and what will fall away in our shared search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Here in the Fall of 2026, Nicole and Stephanie are looking at how our country has changed since we starting writing in 2017. We are hunkering down and updating. If you are a producer or a theater company interested in knowing what this jourey has been and where we are headed, please contact Nicole at 917-312-9930. Let's talk about the endless possibilities that this play can deliver to your audience and beyond!
Our cast, youtube videos and facebook page are a reflection of our past work. We honor where we were and look forward to where we are going.
With Deep Gratitude,
Nicole and Stephanie
