How to Be Human: A Musical With No Songs

Genre: Sci-Fi Satire / Absurdist Comedy

Setting: A silent, color-coded future governed by regulated gestures and corporate order

Awards: 2026 Finish Line Script Competition Honorable Mention
Target Audience: Adults 18-49, fans of absurdist satire, design-driven comedy, dystopian workplace stories, and formally inventive indie films

Comps: The Lobster (absurdist social rules), Severance (corporate control and sterile workplace dystopia), Brazil (bureaucratic dystopia and comic dehumanization)

Logline: In a silent, color-coded future where every gesture is regulated, a rule-bound technical writer discovers a vibrating anomaly that teaches him rhythm, forcing him to defy the company that manufactures order before it deletes the part of him that has come alive.