Briana Harris (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based librettist, lyricist, and composer. She is a member of the BMI Librettists Workshop, the Theatre Now NY Musical Theatre Writers Lab, and a graduate of the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Concerts of her work have included songs from her musicals Pompeii Rising (co-libretto/ co-lyrics), The Spectacle of Spectres: An Evening in the Green-Wood Cemetery (libretto/lyrics/music), and The Axeman’s Jazz (libretto/lyrics, music by Michael Meketa). Her short musical Corona Island (lyrics, libretto by Rachel Kunstadt, music by Terea Lotz) debuted online in 2020, produced by the Astoria Performing Arts Center, and the “Wear A Mask” PSA she wrote and produced with Andi Lee Carter was selected as a winner for NYU Global Public Health’s Art for Health Initiative. Her short musical Rejected! (book/lyrics, co-lyrics/music by Andi Lee Carter) premiered online at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and selections were included in the 2020 Sound of Arts Festival. She developed a virtual space opera, The Dragon Transfer, with the NYU Advanced Opera Lab and American Opera Project (music by Gavin Knittle), released in December 2021 and currently on TikTok. (@thedragontransfer)