Spring 2023

Alley Theatre | Houston, TX

World Premiere Production

The first developmental production of Cowboy Bob will appear at the Tony Award winning venue, Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas in March of 2023.

FALL 2022

Edgerton Foundation | NY, NY

Edgerton Foundation new play award

Over the last 17 years, the Edgerton Foundation has awarded over 15 million dollars to 491 productions, enabling many plays to schedule subsequent productions following their world premieres. Thirty-seven have made it to Broadway, including: Skeleton Crew, Paradise Square, Curtains, 13, Next to Normal, 33 Variations, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), Time Stands Still, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, A Free Man of Color, Good People, Chinglish, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bronx Bombers, Casa Valentina, Outside Mullingar, All the Way, Eclipsed, Bright Star, and Hamilton. Nineteen plays were nominated for Tony Awards, with All the Way, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen,andOslo winning the best play or musical awards. Twelve plays were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with wins for The Hot Wing King(2021), Cost of Living (2018), Hamilton (2016), The Flick (2014), Water by the Spoonful (2012), and Next to Normal (2010).

Summer 2022

Northwestern University | Evanston, IL

American Music Theatre ProjecT - WORKSHOP

The Cowboy Bob team is scheduled to participate in the American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University with public presentations on Friday, July 22nd and Saturday, July 23rd.

SUMMER 2020

Festival of New Musicals | New York, NY

National Alliance for Musical Theatre - FESTIVAL

The Festival of New Musicals was created to provide a forum to celebrate new musicals from around the country. The Festival has since then introduced 300 musicals and over 500 writers to musical theatre producers from around the world. 

As a direct result, more than 85% of the musicals presented have gone on to subsequent readings, workshops, productions and tours; been licensed; and/or recorded cast albums.

WINTER 2019

Feinstein’s / 54 Below | New York, NY

New York Stage & Film - STAGED CONCERT READING

SUMMER 2018

Powerhouse theater |
Poughkeepsie, NY

Vassar + New York Stage and FilM (NYSAF)

NYSAF was founded in order to provide artists with a rigorous and nurturing environment to support the artistic process and to facilitate the sharing of knowledge from one artistic generation to the next.

Along with Cowboy Bob, other notable productions that received vital incubation with NYSAF include: the Tony Award-winning Hamilton, Hadestown, The Humans, Doubt; OBIE Award winning The Invisible Hand, Pulitzer-finalists The Wolves and 24-Decade History of Popular Music; Broadway musicals Head Over Heels, American Idiot, Bright Star; Off-Broadway’s The Fortress of Solitude, Sanctuary City; the award-winning Peanut Butter Falcon; multiple collaborations with Halley Feiffer, Beth Henley, Warren Leight, Mozhan Marnó, Billy Porter; and hundreds more.

SUMMER 2017

Yale School of Drama | New York, NY

Yale InstituTe for Music Theatre

FALL 2016

Ars Nova | New York, NY

PROJECT RESIDENCY

Dubbed by The New York Times as a “fertile incubator of offbeat theater,” Ars Nova provides artists a testing ground for new ideas and is designed to support early career directors.

Ars Nova said, “Cowboy Bob is the killer new musical from the creative minds of Molly Beach Murphy, Jeanna Phillips and our very own director-in-residence, Annie Tippe. It rocked to a sold out house and we hope you’ll come give the waitlist a try so you don’t miss your chance to see it!”

National Alliance for musical theatre (NAMT) Submission video

Proof of Concept