Teeth
A blood-soaked musical comedy that sends up Evangelical purity culture through the story of a young woman with a frightening anatomical anomaly.
Dawn O’Keefe is an Evangelical teen with a bizarre secret: two rows of gleaming white teeth perfectly placed to preserve her chastity. When the supposedly upright Christian men around her prove more interested in taking advantage of her body than in protecting it, they quickly learn to keep their hands (and other appendages) to themselves. From Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winner Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) and Anna K. Jacobs (POP!), and based on the cult classic film of the same name, Teeth is a toe-tapping, gut-busting, blood-curdling musical send-up of purity culture, patriarchy, and our sex-obsessed and sex-repressed society.
Michael R. Jackson was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2022. His musical A Strange Loop was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical. Jackson’s other work includes the book, music, and lyrics for the musical White Girl in Danger. His awards and honors include a New Professional Theatre Festival Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a Whiting Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, an Antonyo Award, a Fred Ebb Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and a Dramatist Guild Fellowship. He is an alum of Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group and holds a BFA and MFA in playwriting and musical theater writing from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Anna K. Jacobs is a Jonathan Larson and Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award-winning composer, lyricist, and book writer. In addition to Teeth, her stage musicals include POP!; Anytown; Harmony, Kansas; Echo; and Stella and the Moon Man. She also contributed music and lyrics to the multi-composer works, Witnesses and Letters to the President, and penned the screenplay for The Real Gemma Jordan, which she is now adapting into a stage musical with composer-lyricist Rob Rokicki. Jacobs and her playwright-collaborator, Anna Ziegler, are currently working on A House Without Windows, a new musical about the life and disappearance of child prodigy author, Barbara Newhall Follett, which was commissioned by Barbara Whitman Productions and Grove Entertainment. She is also writing the book for a new musical adaptation for Disney Cruise Line Entertainment.
