Like Father | Associate Director

Alliance Theatre

Dir: Tinashe Kajese-Bolden

Written by Jacob Ryan Smith and Caroline Pernick

Like Father is a coming-of-age musical set against America’s true-crime obsession. After her father’s arrest, seventeen-year-old Chris moves in with her estranged mother, Michelle, and stepfather, Ben. When a hit true-crime podcast exposes their family's disturbing past to the world, they are forced to face the truth of what brought them together, or risk being undone by its consequences.

Driven by a bold, innovative folk-pop score, Like Father explores legacy, identity, and the cost of obsession, inspired by the loved ones left in the wake of infamous serial killers—and by the true-crime industry’s meteoric rise to over 250 million listeners worldwide.

Like Father emerged as the winner of the inaugural Open Jar Musical Shark Tank and was a semi-finalist at the Eugene O’Neill New Music Theater Festival.