KARL AMUNDSON
COMPOSER. LYRICIST. PERFORMER. EDUCATOR.
AEA. New York City.
MUSIC & LYRICS - PROJECTS
(In Development)
FALLING FORWARD
To listen to the Concept Album of FALLING FORWARD, click here!
FALLING FORWARD was named a Eugene O'Neill NMTC Finalist (2025), named a Semi-Finalist for the NAMT Festival of New Musicals (2023, 2024), and selected for The 2020 New York Musical Festival (did not participate due to NYMF's 2020 closure).
FALLING FORWARD tells the story of Meghan, a queer 27-year-old sculpture artist, who is packing up her New York City apartment after the worst year of her life. Meghan will be moving back in with her mom in Michigan, giving up her life as a struggling artist. However, packing up her apartment proves to be a noisy affair, as the objects of Meghan’s bedroom — a Bong, a Self-Help Book, a Family Portrait, a Vibrator, and more — come to life, forcing Meghan to reckon with her role in the events of her shitty year. A raucous send-up of Gen-Z/Millennial culture today, this story packs a punch of heart and raucous theatricality as Meghan second-guesses herself through a fumbling search for security in our uncertain world.
FALLING FORWARD is written by Karl Amundson (music/lyrics) and Emily Fink (book).
(In Development)
THE BLIND LEMON
THE BLIND LEMON was named a Eugene O'Neill NMTC Semi-Finalist (2026).
Equal parts campy-spy-thriller and pulpy-dystopian-satire, THE BLIND LEMON is set in a near-future America renamed “Country,” now ruled by a theocratic regime of religious fanatics and their simple-minded puppet president, Dick Mason. When the activation tech for “The Blind Lemon”—a Cold War-era satellite weapon—goes missing from a high-security base, retired agent Dan Fran Cisco is dragged back into the field. Can he stop a terrorist plot that threatens to blind the nation? A story about blind faith, blind loyalty, and the fight for the common good, THE BLIND LEMON will leave you questioning everything: “Why God? Why Country?”
THE BLIND LEMON is written by Karl Amundson (music/lyrics) and Tom Meglio (book).
PURPLE CHUCKS
Karl's song Purple Chucks was a finalist in Taylor Louderman's Write Out Loud Contest. It was featured in Write Out Loud's 2020 Virtual Jam, and was performed by Broadway actor Gerard Canonico at the Write Out Loud concert hosted by Taylor Louderman at Feinstein's 54 Below in 2021!
LENORA DUPONTE: LIVE ON MARS! (in development)
Devised with Emily Fink, Katie Langham, and AC Horton, this new musical is about famed Broadway actress and socialite Lenora Duponte, who escapes Planet Earth in 2060, amid the flooding of New York City, to live on the Planet Mars and perform the first-ever live-streamed cabaret from Outer Space.