The Radium Girls

Music by Amanda D’Archangelis

Lyrics by Sami Horneff and Lisa Mongillo

Book by Amanda D’Archangelis, Sami Horneff, and Lisa Mongillo

Produced by High Octave Productions

Directed by Marissa Jaret Winokur


Women fighting to be treated humanely in the workplace. Corporations falsifying science to serve their own needs. Greedy executives silencing those who speak up. We’re talking, of course, about America in the 1920s. This is the setting for THE RADIUM GIRLS, a dark comedy inspired by the stories and spirits of the young women who worked the factory line at the U.S. Radium Corporation in the early 20th Century.

THE RADIUM GIRLS was most recently seen in a 29-hour reading in NYC featuring Andy Karl, Orfeh, Cara Rose DiPietro, Ashley Argota, Rachel Webb, Monica Tulia Ramirez, Nick Martinez, and more.

A world premiere, produced by High Octave Productions, is in development.

development Highlights

  • 2026 Choreography Lab at The Phoenix Theater Company

  • 2025 creative team retreat at Cabbage Hill Farm

  • 2024 Playbill Songwriter Series feature

  • 2024 Christopher Newport University selection at Feinstein’s/54 Below

  • 2023 Industry Reading directed by Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur, full details here

  • 2023 Latiné Musical Theatre Lab selection, showcased at Annual Benefit and 4xLatiné event

  • 2022 NAMT Annual Festival of New Musicals Finalist

  • 2022 Syracuse University New Works New Voices Finalist

  • 2020 developmental workshop leading to a virtual production at Western Connecticut State University, which won five national awards at the 2021 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

  • 2019 Eugene O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference Semi-Finalist

media

“I’m Your Man”

Performed by Jordan Donica and co.

“Glow”

Performed by Cara Rose DiPietro, Francesca Ferrari, and Katie Emerson

demos

The Writers

Amanda D’Archangelis (Music/Book) - Amanda is a composer and actress in NYC. She holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory, and is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She is the resident composer of Bluelaces Theater Company, providing theater and outreach for people with developmental differences; and a York Theatre Company 2019 NEO Writer. Credits include: SINGLE RIDER (Music & Book, Off-Broadway); THE BREAK (Music, Omaha Creative Institute); THE RADIUM GIRLS: A JAW DROPPING NEW MUSICAL (Music & Book, Winner at The Players Theatre BOO! Short Play Festival); BLATANTLY BLAINE- A “FAMILY” MUSICAL (Music & Lyrics); THE DISEMBODIED HAND... THE MUSICAL! (Music & Lyrics); COMING ATTRACTION (Music), a new musical about the life of Hollywood superstar Greta Garbo, premiered at Wilbury Theatre in Providence RI, January 2019; BLEEDING KANSAS (Music & Lyrics, won the Audience Choice Award and TheatreNow New York’s Soundbites Festival). She's composed and arranged for various projects, and her music has been performed at The Duplex, Green Room 42, The Bitter End, Rockwood Music Hall, Feinstein's 54 Below and more. www.amandadarchangelis.com

Sami Horneff (Lyrics/Book) - A born and raised New Yorker, Sami is a proud graduate of Brown University and an advanced lyricist/librettist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. In 2019, she was named one of The York Theatre Company’s New/Emerging/Outstanding (NEO) writers with Amanda D’Archangelis. Recent credits include SINGLE RIDER (Lyrics & Book, Off-Broadway); THE RADIUM GIRLS: A JAW DROPPING NEW MUSICAL (Lyrics & Book, five-time winner at The National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival); ArtsPower National Touring Theatre’s JUDY MOODY & STINK (Lyrics) based on the bestselling book series by Megan McDonald; COMING ATTRACTION (Lyrics), a new musical about the life of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, which premiered as a staged reading at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, RI and will be presented as a staged reading at the York Theatre; THE BREAK (Lyrics, Omaha Creative Institute); A NEVER-ENDING LINE (Lyrics, Off-Broadway); ROCK AND A HARD PLACE (Music & Lyrics); THE UNDER 5ERS WEB SERIES (Writer/Producer, 2016 Indie Series Award Nominee for Best Original Song); and two original songs for the feature film A RING FOR CHRISTMAS (UPtv). Her work has also been performed at The Green Room 42, The Metropolitan Room, The Duplex, Prohibition NYC, Northwestern University, The University of Alabama, Lied Center for Performing Arts, and Feinstein’s/54 Below. www.samihorneff.com

Lisa Mongillo (Lyrics/Book) - Lisa Mongillo is a writer and lyricist based in Brooklyn, by way of Chicago. She is an alumna of the College of William & Mary, a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, and a writer for Reductress. Credits include: PARTY PEOPLE (Playwright, Samuel French OOB Festival); THE RADIUM GIRLS (Lyrics & Book, NAMT Finalist, NMTC Semi-finalist, five awards at The Kennedy Center National College Theater Festival); WE ARE THE BENJAMIN HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL HORSE GIRLS! (Lyrics & Book, Out of the Box Theatrics’ New Works series); A NEVER-ENDING LINE (Lyrics, Off-Broadway, album released by Broadway Records); HOSPITAL KIDS (Lyrics & Book, Best Book at TNNY SoundBites Festival, City Theatre National Award Finalist). Upcoming: THE COLOR OF THINGS (Lyrics & Book, based on the children’s book by Vivienne Shalom), WYLER (Lyrics & Book, based on her own award-winning short musical), and FOREVER NOON (Lyrics & Book, Pendragon Theater Artist Residency). Her work has been showcased by the BMI Workshop and performed at Joe’s Pub, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, the Duplex, Feinstein’s/54 Below, the Metropolitan Room, The Green Room 42, and more. She has written and performed in comedy shows at the PIT, Stage 773, the Public House Theater, the de Maat Theater, and more. She was selected for the Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed and Mercer Songwriters Project at Northwestern. She studied at the Second City Conservatory and the Annoyance Theater; and is a member of Ring of Keys and the Dramatists Guild. www.lisamongillo.com