SPLIT

BOOK BY & CONCEIVED BY MICHELE LOWE

MUSIC, LYRICS, & CO-ORCHESTRATIONS BY ZOE SARNAK

DIRECTED BY JACK CUMMINGS III

SPLIT

A New Musical by Michele Lowe & Zoe Sarnak

Commissioned by Transport Group in 2018, Split tells the powerful story of Lillian, a former research scientist at Los Alamos during WWII, and her daughter Amy, as they embark on a road trip to the Grand Canyon in the summer of 1953. This mother and daughter are bound by family ties and a love of science, but Lillian’s secret goal is to set Amy’s life on a different course. By the end of their journey, it will be amy who changes her mother’s life forever.

THE JOURNEY SO FAR

NOVEMBER 2019
1-WEEK READING

NOVEMBER 2020
MUSIC RETREAT

JANUARY 2021
DEMO RECORDINGS

NOVEMBER 2021
SCRIPT RETREAT

JULY 2022
3-week WORKSHOP

MARCH 2023
1-WEEK READING

SEPTEMBER 2024
DEVELOPMENTAL PRODUCTION with
the new london barn playhouse

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Michele Lowe (Book Writer, Conceiver) is currently at work on her play Before We Knew Anything (1963-1964). She made her Broadway debut with The Smell of the Kill which will be produced in Greece and Norway in 2027 and has had over 500 productions around the world. Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, winner of the Francesca Primus Prize, two Edgerton New Play Awards and the Richard Frankel Award. She is the only playwright to be a finalist with two plays in one season for the ATCA Steinberg/New Play Award. Other plays include: String of Pearls (Outer Critics nom for best play), Moses (solo show) Inana, Victoria Musica, Backsliding in the Promised Land. Michele is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She lives in New York and coaches writers and rabbis across the country. www.michelelowe.net

Zoe Sarnak (Music, Lyrics, Co-Orchestrations) is a Drama Desk–nominated and Larson Award–winning composer, lyricist, writer, and orchestrator, as well as a finalist for the Ebb and Kleban Awards. Upcoming and recent works include: Galileo (with Danny Strong and Michael Weiner) opening on Broadway in 2026; NY Times Critic’s Pick The Lonely Few (with Rachel Bonds) at MCC and Geffen Playhouse; Empire Records (with Carol Heikkinen) at McCarter Theatre; Particle Fever (with David Henry Hwang and Bear McCreary) premiering at La Jolla Playhouse in February 2027; A Beautiful Mind (with Sarah Treem); Shook (with Mike Lew) co-commissioned by the Goodman and Northern Stage; The Invisible Line (with Christopher Oscar Peña and Mark St. Germain); and others soon to be announced. Her work has been developed and produced at Second Stage, The Public, Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, and MCC, among others. Her music has been featured by NY Times Live and the Guggenheim.

Split is made possible by the Joanna & Steven Sanders New Works Program.