Gaudino Creative Residencies: Truth Future Bachman Workshop "The song makes a space, and the songwriter is its architect"

The song makes a space, and the songwriter is its architect. But how does an artist’s inner landscape transform into music and lyrics? And how can these sounds be used to create story, meaning, and vision that lives beyond the writer and in the world? In SONGSPACE, artists will work with composer, vocalist, and writer Truth Future Bachman to build a generous and collaborative space that explores the songwriting process through sensation, intention, and action.

Musical experience is welcome, but not required. All that is necessary is the desire to engage, collaborate, and take a giant leap into the unknown.

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.