Musicals
Lizzie Hagstedt was a 2021 Jonathan Larson Award Grant finalist and the recipient of a 2023 Cross Arts Collaborative Residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Two of her musicals Sophie Blanchard's High-Flyin' Rock'n'Roll Extravaganza and Wild West Show were 2025 semi-finalists for the O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference. Since writing her first musicals while studying musical theatre at University of Miami, she has become a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop.
Current projects include Oneida with lyricist/librettist Beth Blatt (Seven Dials Theatre in London, Vox Festival at Dartmouth, the Tank NYC, etc.), Wild West Show with co-creator Lisa Helmi Johanson (winner Muriel O'Neil American Heritage Commission, 2024 readings at Asolo Rep and New Musicals Lab), and Sophie Blanchard's High-Flyin' Rock'n'Roll Extravaganza with her own damn self (2024 Moxie Arts Incubator and Asolo Rep Ground Floor).
Her musical Hereville with lyricist/librettist Robby Sandler received a concert staging at the 2023 The Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival and at the Center for Jewish History. Misha Loves Jaja More than Cheese with lyricist/librettist Jerry Colker received two readings at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills directed by Andy Cadiff. And Rose Petals with lyricist/librettist Sarah Rebell received a NYMF reading. She has scored several plays for Asolo Rep including a musical adaptation of the Odyssey, Looking for Ithaca with text by Jess Shoemaker, which toured Florida in 2022.
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Sophie Blanchard's High-Flyin' Rock'n'Roll Extravaganza
An all lady/trans/GNB rock band tells the story of the daredevil life and pyrotechnic death of the first female professional air balloonist Sophie Blanchard.
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(Semi-titled) Wild West Show
This new musical explores the lives of several badass 19th Century women, often in their own words, in the format of a wild west show. My collaborator is Lisa Helmi Johanson.
Oneida
With a score that straddles classical music and folk, Oneida tells the story of the rise and fall of the 19th century utopian society. You probably have some of their silverware in your house. My collaborator is Beth Blatt.
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Hereville
A Jewish musical fantasy for family audiences based on the award-winning series of graphic novels by Barry Deutsch that I'm currently working on with my collaborator Robby Sandler.
