Vicky & Frank is in development with 8-time Tony-Award-winning producer Joey Parnes and Carson Gleberman. A workshop will be presented in NYC on June 22nd and 23rd, 2026. Please contact the Parnes Office to discuss attending, as well as potential partnerships.

Vicky & Frank is a gothic musical comedy set in middle America circa 1950 and loosely based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It follows Vicky Godwin, a brilliant 17-year-old who’s building a reanimation device in her garage. After petitioning the school to allow her to take shop class, Vicky befriends Frank Neetins, a popular boy hiding his own dark secret: he’s gay. Finally, she succeeds in reanimating a dead dog—Prince Charming—who promptly grows to monstrous size and starts eating people. As if that weren’t enough, Vicky misinterprets her burgeoning friendship with Frank as romance…and ends up pushing him off a cliff. (Don’t worry. She reanimates him, too.) But when local police mistakenly attribute the rash of killings to Frank, Vicky will have to clear his name herself—all while navigating the murderous canine, a suspicious local journalist, her doting police chief father, her fraying friendships, and her complex feelings for Frank.

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Creative Team

Tommy Wallach

Tommy is the author of five YA novels, including the NYTimes bestseller “We All Looked Up.” He is the creator of the miniseries Unspeakable: The JonBenet Ramsey Murder, starring Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen (forthcoming in 2026). Tommy is co-owner of Hatch Escapes, creators of the THEA Award Winning immersive experience “The Ladder” and tabletop game “Mother of Frankenstein.” He was signed to Decca as a singer-songwriter.

Book, Music, & Lyrics

Catie Davis

Catie’s recent projects include: The Ghost of John McCain (Off Broadway), Forget Me Not (Riverside Theatre), and The Magnificent Seven (Flint Rep). Catie associate directed Beetlejuice (Broadway, Australia, National Tour), Moulin Rouge (Broadway), Company (Broadway), Baby J (Netflix), and Ben Platt Live from Radio City Music Hall (Netflix).

Director

Beowulf has designed 34 Broadway shows, including Susan Stroman’s New York, New York (for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critic's Circle Award) and James Lapine's Act One (for which he won the Tony). He has received four additional Tony Award nominations: The Scottsboro Boys (dir. Susan Stroman), POTUS (dir. Susan Stroman), Flying Over Sunset (dir. James Lapine, winning the Drama Desk award), and Therese Raquin (dir. Evan Cabnet). 

Set Design

Beowulf Borritt

Andrea is an Olivier and Drama Desk Award-nominated music director, arranger, and composer. She is currently the Music Director & Music Supervisor of the Broadway musical Suffs, for which she also wrote vocal and incidental arrangements. Andrea was the Music Director, Music Supervisor, and Additional Arranger for the Tony Award-winning musical The Band's Visit (Broadway, Nat’l Tour) and the Broadway musical Tootsie. 

Music Director

Andrea Grody

Katie Spelman

Katie made her Broadway choreographic debut with The Notebook. She was the associate choreographer on Moulin Rouge for the Boston, Broadway, and Australian companies, as well as a dance consultant on the West End and first US national touring productions. She was an associate on Amelie, American Psycho, and Once on Broadway.

Choreographer

Linda Cho

Linda is a two-time Tony Award winning Costume Designer. She received the Tony Award of a Broadway musical for The Great Gatsby and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and she was nominated for a Tony, Outer Critic’s Circle and Drama Desk Award for the Broadway production of Anastasia. Her work in ballet and opera can be seen at The Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, American Ballet Theater, and others.

Costume Design

Jessica has collaborated on the Broadway productions of Hadestown (Tony and Drama Desk Award), A Beautiful Noise, Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Disaster! The Musical, The Assembled Parties, and Fela! (Tony Award). Off Broadway & Regional credits include: Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theater); Twelfth Night, Othello, and Julius Caesar (Public Theater); Water for Elephants (Alliance Theater; SUZI Award); and Kiss My Aztec (Berkeley Rep, CT Critics Circle Award).

Sound Design

Jessica Paz

Nicholas has worked on projects for Michael Curry Design, Walt Disney Entertainment, Broadway, The Jim Henson Company, Blue Man Group and many more. Recent projects include the 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (Pyeonchang), Little Shop Of Horrors (NYC 2019), and Sesame Street Television (2013-present), Islamic Solidarity Games Opening Ceremony (Baku 2017). His work on the 2015 European Games was nominated for an Emmy.

Puppet Design

Nicholas Mahon

Lorenzo Pisoni

Lorenzo has been part of the creative teams for many Broadway musicals including Parade, MJ, Beetlejuice, Disney’s Frozen, as well as numerous straight plays. As a physical comedy, specialty movement, and violence director, he’s collaborated with Joe Mantello, George Wolfe, Erica Schmidt, Alex Timbers, Michael Grandage, Rob Ashford, Jeremy Herrin, Tina Landau, Alan Arkin, Elaine May, and Bill Irwin for both theatre and film projects.

Fight Choreography/Movement

Joey Parnes Productions (Lead Producer)

Joey has over fifty Broadway credits as a producer, executive producer, or general manager, including the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival of Hello, Dolly!; Meteor Shower; 1984; A Doll's House, Part 2; Bright Star; The Humans (Tony Award); The Glass Menagerie; Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge (Tony Award); Shuffle Along; Blackbird; Arthur Miller’s The Crucible; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Tony Award); Betrayal; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award); The Merchant of Venice; HAIR (Tony Award); Equus; and the original production of Dreamgirls. He served as the Executive Producer (1994-1996) and the Interim Executive Director (2011) of The Public Theater, supported Barrington Stage Company in the role of Interim Managing Director (2024), and served as the Coordinating Producer of the Tony Awards (2001-2008) and as the Producer of the Drama Desk Awards (2012-2021).

Carson Gleberman (Producer)

Carson is a supporter of American theater as an investor, producer, and non-profit leader. Co-producer: The Kite Runner, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Bright Star (Tony nomination), and Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award). Investor on and off Broadway and in the West End. Board member of Page 73 Productions, which supports early career playwrights toward their first New York City productions.