We create brave musicals with emerging and traditionally excluded artists.
drama club producing
Creative & Lead Producing
Stewarding the highest potential new musicals to their greatest potential.
Co-Producing
Marshaling resources for shows that align with our values we believe have the potential for profits.
Producer Light
Assisting emerging writers in charting development pathways.
International Fellowships
Introducing global writing talent to the New York theatre community.
Drafts
Providing space and resources to read new musicals aloud as part of the development process.
Investing
Contributing to the legacy of musicals in the canon through investment.
drama club camp
Our 65-acre lakeside campus in Maine custom-designed to develop new musicals
Musical Theatre Writer Residencies
Free week-long residencies for emerging and traditionally excluded musical theater writers.
Commercial Musical Takeovers
Get away and collaborate in a focused, resourced, and almost-free way.
Collaborations
Empowering non-profits and mission-aligned teams to do their best work.
developing artists developing musicals
Drama Club is the brainchild of Shannon Morrison and Scott Ihrig. They have been together since 2007, and married since 2011. Together they operate IMC, an experience studio that designs and delivers bespoke experiences and events for brands. They also devote time to various non-profits, educational institutions, and political causes. They split their time between NYC, Maine, and San Francisco.
shannon morrison
founding artistic director
Shannon is a brave creator and a sought-after collaborator for Fortune 50 executives and theater professionals alike. He is passionate about bringing new musical theater voices to broad audiences as a musical theater “doula” and also creates musicals as an award-winning librettist.
He leads Drama Club as Artistic Director and has worked on Broadway incarnations of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Movin’ Out, Legally Blonde, the Pulitzer and Tony-Award winning musical A Strange Loop, and the off-Broadway hit DRAG: The Musical. Shannon is writing a new musical titled The Ascendants (with Stephen M. Barnett) and leads creative project development at Drama Club, including curating Drama Club Camp. Writing: Little Big Top (NYU Tisch); The Leading Man (Yale); Silence (Yale; John Golden Prize) Johnny Appleseed; The Aylee Inn; Ding-Dong!. He is a graduate of Yale and NYU, and serves as a Trustee for Kents Hill School in Readfield, Maine.
scott ihrig
founding executive producer
Scott is a passionate liberal queer entrepreneur and the CEO of IMC, the experience studio he owns with his husband Shannon.
Scott produced The Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes, founded a non-profit theatre in Iowa, and was an associate at a Minneapolis law firm.
A life-long activist, Scott works to expand human and civil rights, develop opportunities for the disadvantaged, and assist those in need. He served as board chair of TurnOut, a nonprofit that mobilizes volunteer communities to power queer and trans movements.
Scott loves a good spreadsheet, “cooks” with his phone, and travels with too many gadgets. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, he has a BA in political science from Grinnell College and graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School.
