Edgar Allan

A manic lullabye inspired by the childhood and short stories of Edgar Allan Poe.Eleven-year-old Edgar Allan has only one goal: to be the most remarkable boy at Manor House School. He has only one obstacle: Edgar Allan.Edgar Allan is a two-person musical created and performed by Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan. It follows a pre-adolescent Edgar Allan Poe in his first year at English Boarding School, as he seeks to gain academic ascendancy over the student body. All goes to plan until another boy named Edgar Allan arrives in class... which complicates his schemes of dominance. Edgar Allan is a dark, comedic riff on the obsessions, the mania, and the insanity that haunted the life and work of America's first professional writer.Edgar Allan premiered at the 2013 Twin Cities Horror Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has toured across the North American Fringe Festival Circuit. It was performed Off-Broadway as part of the Soho Playhouse Encore Series in 2017, and was featured at the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia for Edgar Allan Poe's 211th Birthday Bash in 2020.