CreativeMusical Theater · 2018

POP PUNK HIGH

Co-Creator & Lyricist

Part punk show, part late-night cult comedy, and part insanity, Pop Punk High is a place where everyone is pop punk, it's always the early-mid 2000's, and there's never been anything cooler than skating, shredding, and flipping off your lame-ass parents. Derek, a young poser, wants nothing more than to become king of Pop Punk High and win Amanda Bunkface's love. It seems all but impossible for a loser like Derek, but when he's granted three wishes by the ghost of Avril Lavigne, his wildest dreams may be possible after all.

Created by Ben Lapidus and Anderson Cook.

Sold-out DIY venues across NYCFeatured in Billboard, The FADER & Alternative PressToured Germany with Theater fur Neidersachsen

Press

Billboard — Pop Punk High Interview The FADER Billboard — Avril Lavigne Song Premiere BroadwayWorld — Review

Script Excerpt

Opening scene of the musical — the Promoter sets the stage before Derek's first monologue

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PROMOTER
Hey. Thanks so much for coming out and supporting the local scene. We have a great show tonight. Couple reminders - we got a merch table in the back. Please keep moshing respectful and safe. Now, the pop punk act taking the local scene by storm. They're taking us back to a simpler time. The year is 2006. Tony Hawk's Underground has just been released for PS2. Green Day hasn't gotten political yet, and pizza sales are at an all time high. Pop Punk music dominates the airwaves. And at Pop Punk High, everyone is trying to be the Pop Punk King. Hold onto your spliffs, flip off your parents, and turn off your Razr flip phones, cause you won't be able to hear them over the roar of POP PUNK HIGH!

Promoter exits and Derek takes the stage.

DEREK
I FUCKING HATE MY PARENTS. They just tried to get me to apply to college again. I don't know why they can't get it through their DUMB skulls that all I care about is hot chicks, shredding, and pizza. So they're like, "Derek, you should think about Oberlin" and I'm like, "YOU SHOULD BE LESS FUCKING OLD". All they care about is my "future", when right now, everything sucks. The hottest girl in school, Amanda Bunkface, doesn't even know I'm alive, I can't shred for dick, and or play anything on Guitar besides Hot Cross Buns. Everything sucks!