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.

Creation story team

  • ​Octavia Chavez-Richmond

    Playwright

  • ​Jen Anaya

    Music Contributions

Production history

In April 2025 Creation Story had developmental workshops at Playwrights Horizons Downtown and The Dance Theatre of Harlem 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

Workshop design concepts by Calypso Michelet, Artwork from Firelei Baez’s Encyclopedia of Gestures