Known today more from the folk song sung by Joan Baez and Paul Robeson ("I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night"), Joe Hill was a songwriter and IWW revolutionary in the early 1900s. The victim of a police frame-up in Utah, he was executed by a firing squad in in Utah 1915. This musical blends Joe Hill's music with sounds of today and asks, "how different was it really back then?"
Readings, auditions and rehearsals will begin soon, targeting a world premiere in September at Rustik Tavern in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.