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Get Out Alive is the most fun you’ll ever have while talking about depression.

Equal parts raucous, tender, intelligent and triumphant, this afrogoth musical breaks new ground as an unexpectedly energetic retelling of a young woman’s experience with abuse, grief, and suicide. We are proud to be in partnership with Octopus Theatricals as we take our next developmental steps.

Using storytelling, song, dance, visual media and a DJ, Lynette’s offbeat approach to sharing her mental health journey shows that even when life leads us to a bad place, we can always make it out alive. More

 

The musical about depression took New York by storm!

Get Out Alive was created at AMTP in 2019 and since then has been showcased at Steppenwolf and made into an award-winning independent film. Fresh off a successful year of film festival screenings and a 5-week live performance run at The Den Theatre, Get Out Alive was presented to a Broadway audience as part of NAMT’s 34th Annual Festival of New Musicals. Nikki Lynette’s musical got an overwhelming response, and was the only musical to receive a standing ovation at both presentations.

 
 

Since its completion in 2021, the film adaptation of Get Out Alive has been invited into twelve festivals. The musical won Best Actress at BronzeLens Film Fest, it won Best Feature at Lake County Film fest, and won Best First Time Filmmaker at the Chicago Indie Film Awards. Learn More.

FESTIVALS THAT FEATURED THE FILM ADAPTATION

  • The 12th Annual BronzeLens Film Festival (Winner–Best Actress; Atlanta) Aug – 22, 2021
  • Chicago Indie Film Festival (Winner-Best First Time Filmmaker; Illinois) Aug 1 – 4, 2021
  • The 11th Annual Lake County (Winner–Audience Best Feature; Illinois) Nov 4 – 15, 2021
  • The 9th Annual AuContraire Film Festival (Canada) Oct 3-13, 2021
  • Cannes World (France) June 1 – 30, 2021 
  • Melbourne Lift-Off (Australia)  Nov 22 – Dec 20, 2021
  • The 23rd Annual Decibels Film Festival (San Francisco) Oct 28 – Nov 7, 2021 
  • The 22nd Annual Sound Unseen Film Festival (Minneapolis) Nov 10 – 14, 2021
  • The 30th Anniversary Pan African Film + Art Festival (Los Angeles) Feb 8 – 21, 2022
  • The African Diaspora International Film Festival (Washington) Aug 5 – 7, 2022

  • Black Harvest Film Festival (Chicago) Nov 4 – Nov 27, 2022

  • The African Diaspora International Film Festival (New York) Nov 25 – Dec 11, 2022

 

It’s not a musical.

It’s a movement.

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 “When I went into the psyche ward after a suicide attempt, I met all these people with the same issues as me, and they felt alone, too. I told them when I got out, I would use my platform to tell our stories — and I'm keeping my word.”