The Bone Harp
Written by Laura Stratford
Music by Heidi Joosten
Jenny and Jessa are outsiders, living on the outskirts of town with their father, the village gravedigger. Since their mother ran away ten years ago, they’ve found companionship in the Boneyard, a ghostly realm they can only enter together, populated with the spirits of the town’s former inhabitants. When a new spirit appears in the Boneyard, the girls must question everything they thought they knew about their family, and decide which world they want to live (or die) in.
If It Was Her
Heidi Joosten
Heidi is a Jeff-Award winning music director, composer, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, and teacher. Since 2014, she has collaborated on over 125 new theatrical, comedic, and concert productions in the Chicagoland area. Previous and upcoming Chicago credits include Assassins (Theo Ubique, Jeff Award), American Psycho (Kokandy Productions, Jeff nomination), Beauty and the Beast (Chicago Shakes), Don't Quit Your Daydream (The Second City 111th Mainstage Revue), Grease (Drury Lane), Children of Eden (Broadway in Chicago), and Alice by Heart (Kokandy Productions, upcoming).
National credits include Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse (assoc. conductor, 1st National Tour), Avatar: The Last Airbender (assoc. conductor, 1st National Tour), Barbie: Live in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl (score supervisor). Notable theatrical writing credits include The Bone Harp (with Laura Stratford), Queer Eye: The Musical Parody (with Evan Mills), Micro (with Adam Qutaishat), and Saint Hildegard (with Elizabeth Swanson, Davyd Reddyk, and Ethan Krupp).
Heidi holds degrees in composition from UW-Eau Claire and CCPA. She is a proud member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and the Chicago Federation of Musicians. www.heidijoosten.com / @heidijoosten
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Laura Stratford
Laura is a Chicago-based musical theatre writer, member of the Dramatist’s Guild and ASCAP, and the Founding Executive Director of Underscore Theatre Company. Her work has been produced by Underscore, the Midwest Fringe Tour, EX-Pats Theatre, the Actor’s Training Center, NYMF, and CreateTheater, and she is the librettist for The 57th National Mathlete Sum-It, licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. She wrote and composed nine songs for season two of the podcast Arden. Other notable theatrical writing collaborations include: The Bone Harp, Pr0ne, Liberal Arts: The Musical!, Spa Fire: The Children of the One Percent, and Grounds: A Fresh-Brewed Musical. Learn more about her work at www.lauracstratford.com.