SOCIAL DISTANCE

SOCIAL DISTANCE is a R&B Musical that follows the days amidst the Coronavirus where four American friends of different ethnicities unite via technology while self quarantining in New York at the start of the pandemic: a black musician, a Chinese gamer, a South East Asian medical student and a BIPOC Social Media Influencer. In the spirit of Lieber and Stoller, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Songs for a New World, SOCIAL DISTANCE is a sung through R&B Musical that unites everyone via technology where the audience get to witness how each gets through life’s daily activities the best way they know how.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: (6)

DARNELL MYERS- (25-45) Black American Male Baritone Singer/ Songwriter Musician

WANG CHIN/ BANK TELLER #1- (20-40) Asian American Male Tenor Professional Gamer

ALIZÉ- (25-45) BIPOC American Female Alto Social Media Make-Up Influencer

SUNNAY/ BANK TELLER #2- (20-40) BIPOC Female Soprano NYU Grossman School of Medicine Senior

FLOSSIE MYERS- (50-70) Black American Female Alto

JACK MYERS- (50-70) Black American Male Tenor

  • Jerome Brooks, Jr.
    Writer
    COMMITTED The Musical
  • Project Type:
    Stage Play, Other
  • Number of Pages:
    52
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • City Artist Coprs Grant 2021
    NY
    October 27, 2021
    $5,000 Grant
Writer Biography - Jerome Brooks, Jr.

Jerome Brooks, Jr. was the 2023-24 Season Host of the Chamber Music Society (CMS) of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Beginnings. He joined the Recording Academy as a Voting Member in 2008 & has written, produced, engineered, & performed as an Artist on over a dozen projects in various genres like Progressive R&B, Gospel, Musical Theater, Pop & Urbano Latino which can be found on all streaming platforms. He’s done studio work with Emmy Winner RuPaul, Grammy Winner Mark B. Christensen, & co-wrote the 2011 Musical Soundtrack Love Happened By Chance feat Ayana George from MJ on Broadway.
In the summer of 2023 he was the Music Director for Tony Winner Tonya Pinkins’ 2023 Residency at Little Island in New York. She also directed staged readings of his show COMMITTED The Musical at Musical Theatre Factory & Emerging Artists Theatre. He’s a 2022 Outstanding Musical Director AUDELCO Award Nominee. His big screen debut was Josh McKee in Art = (Love)2. He was the Dueling Piano Player in Amazon’s Z: The Beginning Of Everything. He was the Choir Director & Vocal Arranger for POWER Season 5 Episode 1. He’s the 2020 recipient of the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust & a 2021 City Artist Corps Grant Recipient for his musical SOCIAL DISTANCE which had a SOLD OUT One Night presentation at The Players Theatre. He can be seen as the keyboardist in commercials & on the cover of the Rock Band 3 video game. He a member of The Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA & AEA with a BFA in Music Theatre /Piano Minor from Shenandoah University Conservatory. Off-Broadway he contributed additional arrangements to Grammy & Tony Winner Duncan Sheik’s Mother Courage and Her Children. He performed original material from his 20 track 2017 album MultiGenre Music During Grammy Week 2019 at LA’s El Portal Theatre. His Carnegie Hall debut was in 2022. He also performed at the Lincoln Center as a New Song Music Finalist, LA’s Taste of Soul Festival, The Apollo, The Triad, Iguana Club, Sugar Bar, Symphony Space, AUDELCO Awards, in Switzerland, Japan, Germany, Austria and Turkey. His compositions are all available to stream.

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Writer Statement

I think that we are now able to hear the stories of the pandemic in an artistic and creative way.
While Lin Manuel specializes in Hip-Hop, I specialize in R&B. SOCIAL DISTANCE is a Musical that documents what was happening in New York between a group of four friends during that historic pandemic time. It’s history and in order to preserve new history, I am passionate about using a new musical style of Urban R&B. I also want to blend the cultures on stage which would encourage the audiences that attend to show to also blend culturally as this show is about how family is created in New York when blood relatives are not present.
In my creative path thus far, I believe that Artistic Creativity develops cultural diversity so if there is any time to diversify the theater and have various types of shows that have a home on the stage we need to fully develop these products. When people want to know what was going on the last week of March in New York as over 600 people were dying everyday it’s my hope that they will want to visit the musical story of
SOCIAL DISTANCE.