Wishing To Grow Up Brightly
Book by Amanda Morton, Matthew Decker & Brenson Thomas
Music by Josh Totora
Lyrics by Amanda Morton and Josh Totora
Directed by Matthew Decker
A bold new musical inspired by the real-life story of Amanda Morton (The Color Purple, Broadway’s Gutenberg! The Musical!, KPOP), co-created with longtime collaborator and Theatre Horizon co-founder Matthew Decker, alongside Josh Totora and Brenson Thomas. After the death of her father, Amanda Newton—a Korean-American adoptee—returns to her childhood home to help her mother pack up. There, she discovers a trove of his preserved memories, created by a tech company called reMemorex, and is pulled into a surreal and intimate journey through loss, identity, and the questions that have quietly shaped her life. As Amanda searches for connection in the fragments he left behind, she begins to confront a deeper longing: how do you create a sense of home when it was taken from you before you even knew what it was?
Wishing to Grow Up Brightly has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
ANNOUNCING OUR NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mydera Taliah Robinson has been named as the next leader of Theatre Horizon.
Read all about Mydera’s ascension and the future of our company in a letter from our Board President, Chad Eric Smith
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We were on The Kelly Clarkson Show!
Theatre Horizon’s Autism Drama Program was featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show. We were able to share the history of our Autism Drama Program and its impact on students on National Television.