The Waiting is part of the 2022 SheNYC Arts Festival, a theater non-profit that provides women writers, composers, and directors with resources to jump-start their careers in the theater industry. Female creators, EmmaLee Kidwell and Maria Isabella Andreoli, share more on their show below, and hope to see you there! The Waiting is a folk musical that centers around widowed mother Chlo Evans shortly after the disappearance of her young daughter, Willow. As Chlo searches for her daughter, she discovers a parallel universe, The InBetween, where lost souls wait to pass through to the afterlife. Here Chlo learns that people she’s lost in life are not as far gone as they may seem. As Chlo’s understanding of her reality bends, will she be able to go beyond the pain of her loss, or will her soul stay trapped by the padlock of grief?