PIPER HILL'S WEBSITE!!!
How We Came to Build The House That Looks Like Me at PRISM Festival 2026
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, Myaamia and Kaskaskia land. Now I live on Canarsee-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.
My Sims musical -- How We Came to Build The House That Looks Like Me -- tells the story of the guys who live inside of me, with visuals animated using The Sims 3 and 4. This musical won the 2025 Vivace Award for Muiscal Theater! Hooray! It can take on many forms. It is primarily a live musical with an 8-person cast, and is happening at PRISM Festival September 16th-20th. Tickets are here! Emlyn Doolittle is directing. Full cast to be announced soon! It will also someday exist as a YouTube-playlist-machinima-movie-musical where I play all the characters. 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 performed six of the songs from the musical live at The Makers' Space in Williamsburg back in January. You can watch videos of that performance here!. Max Addae and Allie Murillo accompanied me on some of those songs.
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 2025, I adapted one section of the game into an interactive live musical for ANTFest, which was a blast. The cast and creative team included Max Addae, Barnaby Woods, Kate Budney, Hamed Sinno, Jackson Hill, and Trevor Van de Velde.
In the meantime, I've been a core collaborator with Spirits Go Blah (César Alvarez, Emily Orling, Sarah Benson, Dante Green, El Beh, Eamon Goodman, and more). I’ve worked on César's musicals THE POTLUCK and NOISE, as well as EGG and The Elementary Spacetime Show, which were co-written by César and Emily. I've acted, played keyboard, music directed, score supervised, projection designed, sun backup vocals, and run/designed captions for them. I also made a music video for César's song "Starfish". I've also had a lot of other lovely past collaborators. Check out the "skills/experiences" section for more info.
I've also been gigging as a sound engineer, sound designer, performer, accompanist, and afterschool teacher. I've worked at The Tank a lot. 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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