RISK HALLELUJAH 

HI YOU, WE’RE REALLY GLAD YOU’RE HERE.

A QUEER GOSPEL AGAINST EMPIRE

A Musical and Concept Album In-Process

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risk HALLELUJAH is

An unapologetically Queer musical about Jesus‍ ‍where everybody portrays Jesus at some point //‍ ‍A ritual of healing-in-action through the stories of this radical anti-empire ancestor //

A love song to Trans and Queer wholeness in brazen defiance of the Christian Right’s co-opting of the teachings of Christ

risk HALLELUJAH is for

QUEERS healing from spiritual violence:

May RISK HALLELUJAH be an invitation Home

to knowing we are always already sacred.

ACTIVISTS rooted in the spiritual + political as intertwined/

ANYONE dedicated to sabotaging Christian supremacy:

May RISK HALLELUJAH nourish and fortify action.

CHRISTIANS who are yearning to honor the anti-empire roots of their faith (whether they know it or not)

May RISK HALLELUJAH inspire generative transformative discomfort.

Meet the Team

  • Orion Johnstone

    WRITER - COMPOSER

    (they/he) is a Trans faggot theater director, writer-composer, and community minister: T4T, Tree4Tree, and in the mood to compost empire with you. Recent theater work: Director of Rent (NYU/Tisch Mainstage), Composer/MD for Light Shining In Buckinghamshire (NYTW) w/director Rachel Chavkin, Co-Director of Diana Oh’s {my lingerie play}: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! (Rattlestick), and Music Supervisor / Contributing Composer of the TEAM’s Primer For a Failed Superpower. They studied Theater at NYU-Tisch and Justice Ministries at Auburn Seminary, and they were a founding member of Alt*Div with a focus on conflict transformation as spiritual practice. They are who they are because of the communities and individuals who have loved them into being and listened them into fullness. You can learn more about their work-love and lineages at: www.orionjohnstone.com

  • Nehemiah Luckett

    DIRECTOR

    has been performing, composing and conducting for over 30 years. Recent projects include: SPUNK by Zora Neale Hurston directed by Tamilla Woodard at Yale Repertory Theatre in Fall 2025 (Composer, Arranger, and Music Supervisor), the original Spring 2025 Theater Production with Stew Stewart, Brisa Areli Muñoz, and the Theater, Dance and Media students at Harvard University (Arranger, Music Director, and Music Supervisor), ; and Brick by Brick (Composer) with Ross Wade. Projects in development include: Love Out of Time (Composer + Librettist) a queer Bible-based Afrofuturist opera, Triple Threats (Composer) with Tracey Conyer Lee, RISK HALLELUJAH (Director) with Orion Johnstone, Brick by Brick (Composer) with Ross Wade, and A Burning Church (Composer) with Zhailon Levingston and Alex Hare. Nehemiah is the Founder/Chief Dreaming Officer of Dreaming The Future Together and a member of ASMAC, ASCAP, and The Dramatist Guild. He currently lives in the Bronx with his husband and a variety of plants. Visit NehemiahLuckett.com for more info.

  • Dria Brown

    PRODUCER
    is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and creative doula working between New York City and Los Angeles. As the founder of The Creative Doula Studio, her work lives at the intersection of storytelling, civic imagination, collective care, and gathering. Through live performance, public programming, and cultural strategy, she creates conditions where artists, organizers, and communities leave differently than they arrived.

    During her tenure as Producing Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Broadway Advocacy Coalition, she led national programs, public convenings, and artist-centered initiatives that positioned creative practice as a force for justice and civic engagement.

  • Joshua Dumas

    RECORDING ENGINEER

    Joshua Dumas (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based musician and new media artist exploring social and ecological justice across dance, theatre, video, broadcast, and sound. He performs in Mending with Kate Adams, solo as Tired Circuits, and produces "Bad at Goodbyes" – a podcast about endangered species. Recent credits include "seapony" at Dixon Place, "Love You More" at the Tank, "RISK HALLELUJAH First Drafts EP" engineering, "You Must Wear a Hat" with the Interstitial at TheaterLab, "La Musica Deuxième" at Torn Page, and "Four Studies" at PS122.