Lucy Larcom

Semi-finalist 2023 Eugene O'Neill Music Theater Conference

Book, Music, & Lyrics by AJ Layague

Based loosely on the early years of 19th century American poet Lucy Larcom. She worked in the mills as a child after the death of her father, before becoming an influential poet.

A Good Boy

Semi-finalist 2021 & 2022 Eugene O’Neill Music Theater Conference

Book and Lyrics by Lynden Harris
Music by AJ Layague & Marc Callahan

A Good Boy, based on interviews with the families of death row prisoners, also received a Critical Issues Grant from the Humanities for the Public Good and the Cultural Arts Award from the Triangle Community Foundation.

She Stoops to Conquer

Keck Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

Directed by John Bouchard
Music by AJ Layague

A Comedy of Errors

Honored at the Women and the Silent Screen Conference XI: Women, Cinema, and World Migration, Columbia University, June 2021

Music by AJ Layague

“A Comedy of Errors is a perfectly timed bedroom farce in miniature, here enhanced by A.J. Layague’s raunchy jazz score. “

Amy Taubin, FILM COMMENT
May/June 2020 issue