Creation story

Creation Story is a Southwest-inspired musical that remixes the Hopi emergence tale through a Chicanofuturist lens, blending myth, migration, and environmental collapse with rancheras, baladas, and desert-born sounds. Set in a shape-shifting world of stone and light, the piece follows a writer and her unruly characters as they unravel the mysteries of creation, destruction, and cultural memory.

April 2025 Creation Story will have a developmental workshops at Playwrights Horizons Downtown and The Dance Theatre of Harlem. 

Creation Story is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

Creation story team

  • ​Octavia Chavez-Richmond

    Playwright

  • ​Jen Anaya

    Music Contributions