WE’RE GOING TO SCOTLAND!
Get Out Alive will take it’s next developmental step at the Cove Park & Dundee Rep International Musical Theatre Writing Residency. We are honored to be among the 13 artists selected for this amazing opportunity.
A musical about depression.
Get Out Alive is the most fun you’ll ever have while talking about depression.
Equal parts raucous, tender, intelligent and triumphant, this afrogoth musical breaks new ground as an unexpectedly energetic retelling of a young woman’s experience with abuse, grief, and suicide. After a sold-out run in Steppenwolf Theatre Company's LookOut Series, the pandemic led to GOA being adapted to film in 2021. Twelve film fests and three awards later, we’re ready to hit the road!
Using storytelling, song, dance, visual media and a DJ, Lynette’s offbeat approach to sharing her mental health journey shows that even when life leads us to a bad place, we can always make it out alive. More
The musical about depression took New York by storm!
Get Out Alive was created at AMTP in 2019 and since then has been showcased at Steppenwolf and made into an award-winning independent film. Fresh off a successful year of film festival screenings and a 5-week live performance run at The Den Theatre, Get Out Alive was presented to a Broadway audience as part of NAMT’s 34th Annual Festival of New Musicals. Nikki Lynette’s musical got an overwhelming response, and was the only musical to receive a standing ovation at both presentations.
Since its completion in 2021, the film adaptation of Get Out Alive has been invited into twelve festivals. The musical won Best Actress at BronzeLens Film Fest, it won Best Feature at Lake County Film fest, and won Best First Time Filmmaker at the Chicago Indie Film Awards. Learn More.
FESTIVALS THAT FEATURED THE FILM ADAPTATION
The 12th Annual BronzeLens Film Festival (Winner–Best Actress; Atlanta) Aug – 22, 2021Chicago Indie Film Festival (Winner-Best First Time Filmmaker; Illinois) Aug 1 – 4, 2021
The 11th Annual Lake County (Winner–Audience Best Feature; Illinois) Nov 4 – 15, 2021
The 9th Annual AuContraire Film Festival (Canada) Oct 3-13, 2021
Cannes World (France) June 1 – 30, 2021
Melbourne Lift-Off (Australia) Nov 22 – Dec 20, 2021
The 23rd Annual Decibels Film Festival (San Francisco) Oct 28 – Nov 7, 2021
The 22nd Annual Sound Unseen Film Festival (Minneapolis) Nov 10 – 14, 2021
The 30th Anniversary Pan African Film + Art Festival (Los Angeles) Feb 8 – 21, 2022The African Diaspora International Film Festival (Washington) Aug 5 – 7, 2022
Black Harvest Film Festival (Chicago) Nov 4 – Nov 27, 2022
The African Diaspora International Film Festival (New York) Nov 25 – Dec 11, 2022
It’s a play.
It’s a film.
It’s a movement.
“When I went into the psyche ward after a suicide attempt, I met all these people with the same issues as me, and they felt alone, too. I told them when I got out, I would use my platform to tell our stories — and I'm keeping my word.”
