Joel Weber Knopf

Spring 2024: 

•  Recording demos for a new project It’s my second collab with a bookwriter. I’m excited for it to take shape. 
• Performing in Theatre in the Woods’ dinner theater production in Peekskill. So jazzed to meet local musicians!  
• Playing guitar in the pit for a production of The Last Five Years at Hudson Valley MOCA. This one tested my guitar chops! 

Spring / Summer 2023: 

• Last Ibex was selected for CoNMF (Colorado new musical festival!) Presentation in August 2023. 
• Last Ibex was a finalist in Normal Ave’s new musical series.

Fall 2022 / Winter 2023: 

• I’m in the BMI musical theater workshop as an auditor! 
• 12/12/2022 unstaged reading of the The Last Ibex at The Tank [watch it!]
• Shared excerpts from Sex Ed, a new musical, at Piper Theater’s Playwrights-in-Progress session
• Started @lastibex Instagram! 
• Convened the first-ever Open Mic’N’Cheese, a monthly musical theater song swap over vegan mac’n’cheese 

Fall 2021:

• Organized a DIY writer’s retreat in December 2021
• Hosted a full-length reading of The Last Ibex in Brooklyn, NYC. Check out my Patreon for more details!
• Performed at Young Ethel’s in Brooklyn