Gaudino Creative Residencies: Truth Future Bachman Works-in-Progress Showing "SECOND SIGHT"

Brooklyn-based composer, playwright, and vocalist Truth Future Bachman deftly interweaves three of the most compelling cultural threads of our moment: musical theater, gender fluidity, and superhero/sci-fi parables. Join Truth, and collaborators Z Infante and Steven Tran as they workshop pieces from the third act in a series of queer and trans superhero musicals called Shapeshifters (following Luna & the Starbodies and Skyward: An Endling Elegy). Catch it here before this brand new musical, SECOND SIGHT, debuts at Lincoln Center on October 3rd.

Xander is a doctor facing an impossible choice. To escape the iron fist of the ‘Dissociate or Die’ policy, he flees to the outskirts of society, where musicians, poets, and baristas create an unlikely coalition. Here, bodies entwine and erotic acts of rebellion erupt in defiance. At the heart of it all is Sike, an oracle whose visions conjure unseen futures. But when Sike’s dreams awaken Xander’s dormant healing powers, the two find their revolution—and their desires—at the center of a war zone.

Sex, love, and music sew the seeds of change in Truth Future Bachman’s SECOND SIGHT.

Truth Future Bachman (they/them/theirs) is a “rising-star nonbinary composer” (Playbill), vocalist, and writer of socially focused musicals. NYTimes: “musically and vocally rich”, Truth is praised for “golden-voiced”, “soulful vocals” (Vulture). They were recently featured in Runnersworld and Teen Vogue.

Recent original musicals: SKYWARD: An Endling Elegy (Lincoln Center, Powerhouse), Luna & the Starbodies (Lincoln Center, Powerhouse Theater), Queer Time Rhapsody (Joe’s Pub, OSF) Horsemanship (Princeton Arts Fellowship), Shapeshifters (Musical Theatre Factory, The Delacorte), FARMED: A Live Podcast Album (Twenty Summers, WNYC, The Parsnip Ship, Fresh Ground Pepper), Chasing Fear (Cygnet, UCSD Amphitheater).

Other original musicals: Poof! (Ancram Opera House), Detentionicide (La Jolla Playhouse, Future of Storytelling Festival), The Name Game (Prospect Theatre Co.), Piano Bar (The Duplex), In Real Life: A Slenderman Musical (TFANA reading), Pyre Cantata (HERE), Coromandel (Dixon Place, HERE).

Truth has musically directed, supervised, or performed in nearly 100 off Broadway musicals and plays, notably Black Light (The Public, A.R.T.), Duat (SoHo Rep), and The Nomad (The Flea). Their short film Who Holds Us debuted at NewFest 2021. Truth is an artist in residence at Joe’s Pub at the Public, La MaMa E.T.C., and an alum of New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, and Joe’s Pub Working Group. 2023 Jonathan Larson Award Finalist, 2022 Richard Rogers Award Finalist, and 2021 Jerome Hill Finalist in music.

Truth has mentored multiple generations of artists through instruction at Princeton University, Williams College, Vassar College, Fordham University, University of the Arts, West Carolina University, Baruch College, Brooklyn College, Queens Theatre, Arts Connection, NYU Tisch, and NYU Abu Dhabi.

Truth is an avid marathoner who will complete four of the six Abbott World Majors in 2024.