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DC Premiere

The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical

Jun 3 – Jul 13, 2025
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Let’s get wild in this exciting new musical about the infamous author from the mind of Joe Iconis (Be More Chill) and directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley (Come from Away).

A collision of politics, counterculture and rock and roll in human form, Hunter S. Thompson is impossible to pin down. Careening from the 1940s to 2005, Thompson invents Gonzo journalism, attempts to take down a corrupt president, and quests for equality for his fellow weirdos, outsiders and freaks. However, this anti-hero’s drug-fueled tornado leaves a trail of destruction as he grapples with his legacy in a world that has left him behind.

Funny and unique, as anarchic and irreverent as the writer himself, this explosive rock musical will spark a revolution for the rebel inside us all.

“Funny, freaky, informal, fiercely independent… an emotional passing of the torch to the future activists of the world, a celebration of and a primal call to the freaks and misfits.” – San Diego Magazine‘s review of the original sold out production at La Jolla Playhouse

Music and Lyrics by Joe Iconis
Book by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss
Music Supervised by Rick Edinger
Choreography and Musical Staging by Jon Rua
Directed by Christopher Ashley

[A] rock ’n’ roll hymn to outsiders and misfits... The show splendidly commits to unfiltered, maximalist expression

The New York Times

Performance Info

Seating Chart

  • Running Time

    Running time is approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.

  • Content Warnings

    This show contains adult language, depictions of drug use and violence, and discussions of traumatic subjects.

  • Recommended Age

    Recommended for ages 18+.

  • Effects Warnings

    This show will use strobe lights, gunshot and explosion sounds, and theatrical haze.

Specialty Performances

Discussion Nights

June 17 at 7:30PM & July 9 at 7:30PM
Go behind the scenes with an exclusive post-show discussion following select Tuesday and Wednesday performances.
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Pride Night

June 27 at 8PM
A special Friday event for members of the LGBTQ community, family and friends with a lively post-show reception.
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Accessibility

Signature Theatre offers several accessibility options to ensure our Theatre is welcoming to everyone.

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Accessible Performances

ASL Interpreted
Recommended Seats

July 8 at 7:30PM

Masks Required

June 28 at 2PM

July 9 at 7:30PM

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Digital Program

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The Cast

George Abud

George Abud

Nixon

George Abud is a proud Arab-American actor, director, and playwright. BROADWAY: Lempicka directed by Rachel Chavkin (Marinetti, OBC Recording); The Band’s Visit starring Katrina Lenk & Tony Shalhoub (Daytime Emmy Award, OBC Recording); The Visit starring Chita Rivera & Roger Rees (OBC Recording). SELECT OFF-BROADWAY: La MaMa: The Beautiful Lady directed by Anne Bogart; The Duke on 42nd: Emojiland (Nerd Face, Drama Desk nom., OOBC Recording); Classic Stage Company: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Raúl Esparza, Nathan The Wise alongside F. Murray Abraham. FILM: Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler & Zoë Kravitz (dir. Darren Aronofsky). DIRECTING: Brooklyn Art Haus: Riders to the Sea; Off-Brand Opera Company: Threepenny Opera (upcoming). PLAYWRITING: The Guthrie Theater: The Ruins (world premiere). 
Josiah Rey Cajudo

Josiah Rey Cajudo

Puppeteer

(he/him) REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical; Performance Riverside: The Little Mermaid. EDUCATION: MFA UC San Diego, BA UC Riverside. Josiahcajudo.com @josiahreycajudo
Darlesia Cearcy

Darlesia Cearcy

Jann

(Dar.lee.see.ah) BROADWAY: appeared earlier this season as “Lucille Wilson” in A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, Tony Award-winning revival of Once On This Island (Erzulie: Goddess of Love), How to Dance in Ohio (Johanna), The Color Purple (Nettie), Shuffle Along (Lottie Gee), The Goodbye Girl, Ragtime (Sarah, Helen Hayes nomination). REGIONAL: Westport County Playhouse: Next to Normal (Diana, CCC Award nomination); Berkshire Theatre Co.: Nina Simone: Four Women (BTG Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical). TV: The Watcher, High Fidelity, Madame Secretary, FBI, House of Cards, Rescue Me, Mercy and Nurse Jackie. Urvisionhousse.com
Tziah Coli

Tziah Coli

Understudy

she/hers DC AREA: Olney Theatre/Round House Theatre: FELA! (Swing, Helen Hayes Outstanding Ensemble). EDUCATIONAL: The House That Will Not Stand (Maude Lynn Albans); Rhyme Deferred (Shameka Hoeclean). AWARDS: Owen Dodson Collaborative Vision Award 2025; Andrew A. Isen Young Artist Gift 2023. EDUCATION: British American Drama Academy: Midsummer in Oxford; Signature Theatre's Overtures. Howard University: BFA Musical Theatre, Class of 2025. IG: @tziahcoli 
Giovanny Diaz De Leon

Giovanny Diaz De Leon

The Kid

he/him REGIONAL: The Old Globe: The Pros and Cons of Feeding Stray Cats (Victor); San Diego Symphony: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo); La Jolla Playhouse: Redwood, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (The Kid); New Village Arts: The Ferryman (Oisin); CCAE Theatricals: Witnesses (Dawid). @giodiazdeleon
Tyler Dobies

Tyler Dobies

Understudy

he/him NATIONAL TOUR: Junie B’s Essential Survival Guide to School. NEW YORK: Culture Lab LIC: Show Me Eternity. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: Disney’s Frozen; Constellation Theatre Company: Desperate Measures; Imagination Stage: Nate the Great, Miss Nelson is Missing; Monumental Theatre Company: tick, tick…BOOM! (Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Musical). REGIONAL: Boston Lyric Opera: Carousel; Seattle Repertory Theatre: Here Lies Love; Village Theatre: Songs for a New World; Intiman Theatre: THE RACE 2020. OTHER: E-Ticket to Broadway. EDUCATION: NYU Steinhardt www.tylerdobies.com
Lorinda Lisitza

Lorinda Lisitza

Virginia

OFF-BROADWAY: WPTheater: Malicious Compliance; Urban Stages: ReWrite (Miss Marzipan); Lucille Lortel: The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks; Jean Cocteau Rep: Mother Courage (title role), Threepenny Opera (Jenny); York Theater: Darling of the Day, I and Albert, The Grand Tour, Take Me Along; Triad Theater: Berlin To Broadway (NY Revival, original cast). REGIONAL: Music Man, 2x's (Ethel & Eulalie Shin), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jolene), On the Town (Madame Dilly). CONCERTS: Joe Iconis and Family, Spot-On Touring Soloist for Symphonies, Broadway by the Year @Town Hall. TV: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Price is Right. AWARDS: 3 MAC Awards, Backstage Bistro Award, Nightlife Award, Jr. Pierogi Eating Champion of Porcupine Plain. FAVORITE ROLE: Cancer survivor. Get your mammograms. Instagram: LoLisitza 
Meghan McLeod

Meghan McLeod

Flower Child

She/Her NEW YORK: The King in Yellow. TV: Apple TV+: Dear Edward. FILM: Well Managed, Last, Topper. EDUCATION: BFA Carnegie Mellon. @Megw99
Eric William Morris

Eric William Morris

Hunter S. Thompson

BROADWAY: King Kong, Coram Boy, Mamma Mia! SELECT OFF-BROADWAY: 2ND Stage: Joe Iconis’ Things to Ruin; Ars Nova: Joe Iconis’ Bloodsong of Love; 2nd Stage/Vineyard: Michael R. Jackson’s White Girl In Danger; Asylum NYC: Cellino V Barnes; MTC: Richard Greenberg’s The Perplexed, 59E59: Songbird. SELECT REGIONAL: Two River Theatre: Be More Chill (Original Cast Recording), Songbird, The Ballad of Little Jo (Original Cast Recording); The Old Globe: The Last Goodbye, Dog & Pony. SELECT FILM/TV: “Fleishman is in Trouble’”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, “Only Murders In The Building”, “Mind Hunter”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, Pinball. ALBUMS: Do You Understand?  @theericwmorris 
Stephen Russell Murray

Stephen Russell Murray

Understudy

he/him SIGNATURE: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, Private Jones, Which Way to the Stage, Spin, Sunday in the Park with George, Shakespeare's R&J. DC AREA: Folger Theatre: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Way of the World; Olney Theatre: Kinky Boots, The Music Man; Constellation Theatre Co.: Head Over Heels; Spooky Action Theater: Professor Woland's Black Magic Rock Show, Maple & Vine; Imagination Stage: Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood; A Year With Frog & Toad; Keegan Theatre: Chicago, Spring Awakening, What We're Up Against, American Idiot; 1st Stage: Never the Sinner, The Chosen; 4615 Theatre: Separate Rooms, A Delicate Ship; Pointless Theatre: Rhinoceros. EDUCATION: MFA Classical Acting, The Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy. www.stephenrussellmurray.com
George Salazar

George Salazar

Oscar

George Salazar is proud to be the son of two immigrants who came to this country in search of the American Dream. BROADWAY: Be More Chill (Drama Desk/Outer Critics Circle nominations); Godspell. NATIONAL TOUR: Spring Awakening. OFF-BROADWAY: Be More Chill (Lucille Lortel award); The Lightning Thief (Drama Desk nomination); tick, tick… BOOM!; Here Lies Love. REGIONAL: Pasadena Playhouse: Little Shop of Horrors, La Cage aux Folles, Head Over Heels; La Jolla Playhouse: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical; IAMA: The Bottoming Process; Barrington Stage: Broadway Bounty Hunter. FILM: Disney’s Snow White. TV: Superstore; American Crime Story: Impeachment; Nancy Drew. ALBUMS: Be More Chill (OC & OBC); Two-Player Game (with Joe Iconis); The Jonathan Larson Project; The Lightning Thief; Godspell. This and everything for STL.
Ryan Vona

Ryan Vona

Juan

he/him BROADWAY: Once, Parade, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour. OFF-BROADWAY: Irish Rep: The Streets of New York. REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical; Connecticut Rep: Jesus Christ Superstar; Asolo Rep: Beautiful…; Two River: Love In Hate Nation; Pasadena Playhouse & 92Y: You I Like; Pittsburgh CLO: Mamma Mia!; Sharon Playhouse: Little Shop of Horrors. OTHER: Detroit, Baltimore & Sioux Falls Symphonies, Grand Teton & Lake Area Music Festivals. @ryanvona
Tatiana Wechsler

Tatiana Wechsler

Sandy

she/her BROADWAY: Mr. Saturday Night. OFF-BROADWAY/NEW YORK: Classic Stage/Fiasco Theater: Pericles; Red Bull/Fiasco Theater: The Knight of the Burning Pestle; The Acting Company: X: Or Betty Shabazz v. The Nation, Julius Caesar, Othello; National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene: The Golden Bride. REGIONAL: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Penelope (Penelope, world premiere); Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (first woman to play Curly), Love’s Labor’s Lost; Two River Theatre: Love in Hate Nation (world premiere); Paper Mill Playhouse: Benny & Joon. FILM: award-winning short film Netuser. OTHER: Many readings, workshops, and concerts, including solo show Dusk at 54 Below. EDUCATION: NYU New Studio: BFA.
Jason SweetTooth Williams

Jason SweetTooth Williams

Steadman

SIGNATURE: Disney's Freaky Friday. BROADWAY: Be More Chill (Mr. Heere). OFF-BROADWAY: Signature Theatre: Be More Chill; Transport Group: Crossing Brooklyn, Once Upon a Mattress (Prince Dauntless opposite Jackie Hoffman); AMT: The Witness Room; Ars Nova: Bloodsong of Love. REGIONAL: Old Globe: Benny and Joon; La Jolla Playhouse: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical; LJP, Cleveland Playhouse, Alley Theatre: Disney's Freaky Friday; Paper Mill Playhouse: Gun & Powder; TV/FILM: WeCrashed (opposite Jared Leto), FBI, Bull, Marvelous Ms Maisel, American Horror Stories, Only Murders in the Building. RECORDINGS: Joe Iconis' ALBUM, Monster Songs, BE MORE CHILL (OBCR), Freaky Friday (Studio Cast Recording), THINGS TO RUIN, The Joe Iconis Rock n Roll Jamboree. SOCIALS: Instagram, X, Facebook: @jasonsweettooth

Creative Team

Enhance Your Experience

Inside Signature with Joe Iconis

Tony Award nominated writer and performer Joe Iconis has been called “the future of musical theater” by The New York Times. Now the Be More Chill creator sits down with Director of Artistic Development Anika Chapin to discuss his inspirations, his family of artists and his nearly two decades of development on The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical.

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An Interview with Joe Iconis and Anika Chapin

Director of Artistic Development Anika Chapin interviewed writer Joe Iconis on his process of creating The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical.

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Food and Drink Specials

Head to Ali's Bar in the Mead Lobby before the show to enjoy our specialty menu items inspired by the show, including a Breakfast of Champtions Egg Sandwich, Key Lime Pie, and a summery delight drink that's a twist on Hunter S. Thompson's favorite bourbon. 

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Press Reviews

A frenzied, frothing act of theatrical resurrection

The New York Times

A catchy, energetic and modern masterpiece

TheaterMania

Explosive... with surging moments of pop, spark, and sizzle

BroadwayWorld

It's really really terrific... [Joe Iconis's] music and lyrics are better than ever

Broadway Radio

Strikes a timely chord

The Washington Post

Fists-full of uptempo earworms

MD Theatre Guide

Throughout this wild and beautiful musical, there is poignancy, love, fear and loathing, hope and hilarity. Highly recommended!

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