C O D E W O R D S
Written by Emma Grasso Levine in collaboration with Audrey,
Directed by Audrey
Written by Emma Grasso Levine in collaboration with Audrey,
Directed by Audrey
Code Words, a new musical, uplifts the true stories of the ingenious, brave women who broke code during WWII. Under an oath of silence, these women concealed their legacies for over 70 years, while powerful men took credit for their discoveries. Our musical centers on Ann, Gertrude, Dorothy, and Crow, codebreakers whose close, complex connection to each other drew us in. The play reckons with the forced secrecy of Ann and Gertrude’s romantic relationship due to 1940s discrimination against queer folks, and the risk that being true to their identities posed to their work and survival.
Workshopped at Playwrights Horizons in 2020
E V E R Y T H I N G B U T M Y N A M E
created by Audrey and Alec Publicover
created by Audrey and Alec Publicover
An immersive musical that begs the question: do words tell us more about each other... or less?
You come from there and I come from here. Yet, don’t we both come from somewhere? Yes, that’s right, we both come from a place. And while our two names sound different, they are both made up of sounds. From our voice boxes. A larynx all the same. Our mouths shape the sound and out pops an “ah” instead of an “o”. And so, we are put into a box, filed by a system created to “simplify”. But we can’t simplify human beings. I am everyone I have ever met. So are you. Yet we are none of them at all. I am Audrey. But I am not a name. And you are not the sounds that make up your name. Not a noun. An assortment of atoms, but that doesn’t suffice. I would like you to come with me and be the question mark at the end of the story. Because how can just one story suffice for an infinity of moments?
Premiered at Playwrights Horizons, Downtown in 2020