Biography
Brandi Underwood is a playwright, dramaturg, and director located in Indianapolis. For the past six years, she has been creating opportunities for new work to be produced and developed within Indianapolis. She’s also a librettist and musical theatre collaborator. She currently works as creative director with American Lives Theatre, whose mission is to tell modern and contemporary stories of what it’s like to be an American. With American Lives, Brandi developed the Indianapolis Short Play Festival, which is a festival that continues her mission to bring new relevant work to Indianapolis. She was a founding member of Fat Turtle Theatre Company, where she created an incubation playwriting program, developing and producing three new plays by three Indianapolis playwrights. While helping to facilitate new work and theatre within the city, Brandi continues to work on her current project Oak Island: A New Musical. She premiered the piece at the Indy Fringe Festival in the summer of 2021.
Oak Island: A New Musical
Book & Lyrics
Full Production with American Lives Theatre planned for (May 2022)
Fully-Staged Concert with American Lives Theatre in association with their new works initiative (Feburary 2022)
Indy Fringe Festival Preview Concert produced by American Lives Theatre (August 2021)
Table reading with the Indiana Playwrights Circle (November 2018)
Table reading with Fat Turtle Theatre (April 2018)
Paradise (One-Act Play)
1st annual Indianapolis Short Play Festival (August 2020)
FREAKS (Full-Length Musical)
Book & Lyrics
Reading by Fat Turtle Theatre in Indianapolis, IN (October 2016)
Six Years (Full-Length Play)
Reading by Fat Turtle Theatre in Indianapolis, IN (October 2016)
Less Traveled (Ten-Minute Play)
Reading by Indianapolis Playwrights Circle (October 2018)
Semi-finalist selected for the Indianapolis Ten-Minute Play Festival (January 2018)
DMV (Ten-Minute Musical)
co-written with Joe Barsanti | Book*
Songs I Wrote In Therapy (Play with Music)
co-written with Joe Barsanti | Book*
Her Own Little Broadway (Full-Length Musical)
Book & Lyrics
Music by Tristin Montgomery
Additional Lyrics by Josiah Ray McCruiston
Ego (One-Act Play)
Directing
SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR- AMERICAN LIVES THEATRE-2021
LETTERS SENT- NEW PLAY BY JANICE HIBBARD FAT TURTLE THEATRE-2018
GO BE JOAN- NEW PLAY BY NATHANIEL ADAMS- FAT TURTLE THEATRE-2018
GODSPELL- FAT TURTLE THEATRE- 2017
WAITING FOR GODOT- CENTER STAGE THEATRE- 2016
