PIPER HILL'S WEBSITE!!!
Small Dragon on Noah's Ark at ANT Fest
Here's what I've been up to in the past couple of years (a playlist):
Here are some pictures of me:
Here's a little about me:
Hi! I'm Piper Hill (he/him), a performer/composer/theater artist/gamer from central Ohio, the traditional lands of the Myaamia and Kaskaskia people. Now I live on Munsee-Lenape land in Brooklyn. I make game musicals. By game musicals, I mean musicals that are games, games that are musicals or musicals that are made out of games.
Here's my Masters Thesis if you feel like having a goofy time.
I’m working on a machinima-musical animated from in-game footage of The Sims 3 & 4, where I play all the characters. It's called How We Came to Build The House That Looks Like Me. It will eventually be a YouTube playlist with videos released serially, but also will sometimes take the form of a live performance. Songs/videos from this musical (“A Deal” and “Character Creation Stage (“decide rn”)) have been featured in short video festivals, including the Insomniac Film Festival and Snake House’s Single Channel Video Festival.
I'm also making an RPG called Small Dragon that has songs in it, so it's a musical too. It's about constructing a retroactive trans boyhood through artifact and fantastical and spooky mini-worlds, and also friendship and dress-up games. In 2024, I received the New Music USA Creator Fund to help me develop an alpha demo of the game. You can download it at the link at the top of my website!
In the meantime, I've been a core collaborator with Spirits Go Blah (César Alvarez, Emily Orling, Sarah Benson, and more). I’ve worked on César's musicals THE POTLUCK, and NOISE, as well as EGG, which was co-written by César and Emily. I've acted, played keyboard, music directed, score supervised, projection designed, and run captions for them. I also made a music video for César's song "Starfish.” I’ve also acted and done projection design for shows by Attractive Nuisance Theater. I was the Artistic Associate on Dan Fishback's 2024 workshop of Dan Fishback is Alive, Unwell, and Living in His Apartment. I co-directed Olivia Shortt's 2023 performance of The Museum of the Lost and Found: gaakaazootaadiwag. I am also in a project called Amooz Boosh, with artists H Sinno and Trevor Van de Velde.
I've also been gigging as a sound engineer, sound designer, performer, accompanist, and I teach afterschool classes to elementary-schoolers. I often work at The Tank. Some other things... I’m currently an MFA Student at Bard College (during the summers!) I did an MA at Dartmouth in “Digital Musics,” I went to UChicago and Oberlin for undergrad, and my favorite non-creating activities include karaoke, hanging out with friends, watching cartoons, and playing video games. FREE PALESTINE!
Here are some links to things:
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