Emily Bate has co-composed, performed and music directed several shows with Erin Markey, including Boner Killer (Fusebox Festival, Austin TX; Joe’s Pub, NYC; The Yard, London; Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK; Marlborough Theater, Brighton, UK; TBA Festival, Portland, OR; Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Luminato Festival, Toronto), Hey Girl! That’s My Girl (Greenwich House, NYC; L’Etage, Philadelphia), A Ride On The Irish Cream and the forthcoming Little Surfer (Joe’s Pub for Under The Radar Festival, NYC). They are currently working on In the Most Shocking Presidential Election in the History of the United States of America, Erin Markey’s Mother Emerges as First Lady, and Quarantine Sunrise.
The music in A Ride On The Irish Cream (Joe’s Pub, NYC; A.R.T., Boston; FringeArts, Philadelphia; OnEdge Festival, Chicago; Abrons Arts Center for American Realness, NYC) is “accessible, often punchy pop-rock” (New York Times), whose “soaring musical numbers” (Artforum) are “startlingly gorgeous, and packed with heavenly harmonies” (New York Post).
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