Overview

God Save the Queens

The King’s Wife imagines a secret history of Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn (the first wives of Henry VIII) and the untold story of their friendship and struggle for power in a male dominated era. A revolutionary pop musical by two-time Grammy-nominated songwriter, Jamie Floyd, and award-winning playwright, Mêlisa Annis, this bold reimagining of history explores the enduring legacy of extraordinary women. 

24/25 Woodward/Newman Award Winner

Recommended for ages 16+. Note: For detailed content warnings, click here.

Supported by the McCarty New Works Initiative

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Pay What You Will: To keep live performance affordable and accessible to our community, we’re offering Pay What You Will ticket pricing on Thursday evenings and for all preview performances (June 4-12) of The King’s Wife! Book tickets for a Pay What You Will performance and you’ll get to choose your own ticket price (from $5-$75). Just select your seats, then you’ll be prompted to choose your ticket price.

Pay What You Will Thursdays and our Community Access Ticket Program are generously sponsored by Jessika and Bryan Hane.

The Queen’s Bash

A Fundraiser Fit for a Queen!

In typical Constellation fashion, we’re going to blow the doors off the John Waldron Arts Center! Once a year, the braintrust at Constellation puts together an event of food, fun, and frivolity like no other. This season, we’re pulling out ALL of the stops. The Queen’s Bash will feature a themed pre-show meal, pre-show entertainment, multiple bars with featured craft cocktails, AND a performance of The King’s Wife, all for the low low price of $75! And as a fundraiser, there will be plenty of additional opportunities to support the amazing work that Constellation does in our community! Attire for this event is “creative black tie.” What does that mean? You decide! If you want to dress for the theme, feel free to don a crown or tiara and we’ll roll out the red carpet!

Two opportunities to attend: Saturday, June 7 and Saturday, June 14, 2025

Mêlisa Annis (bookwriter) is an award-winning playwright and theater-maker. Mêlisa has developed and presented work at and with Playwrights Horizons, Rosalind Productions, Primary Stages, BMG Music, The Lark, Parsnip Ship, The New School, The Playground Experiment, Rattlestick Theater, Tangent Theater, RAL Productions, Red Bull Theater, The Ambassadors Theatre Group (London), Arcola Theatre (London), Berkley Rep, Theatre for a New City, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre. Radio Drama: Mêlisa was lead writer on radio series For Spacious Skies which was awarded the True West Award, CO, her play Beginnings was awarded the Spirit of The Festival Award, Ireland, and she is currently developing a radio series based on love letters sent between soldiers during the American civil war. Mêlisa was the recipient of the Parity Commission for her play Charlie’s Waiting, and is excited to be continuing development of her play The Inheritance of a Long-Term Fault with Clutch Productions. Mêlisa is a frequent contributor to the BBC, BBC Wales and S4C and she’s a proud Welsh speaker. Diolch mawr i Peter.

Jamie Floyd (composer, lyricist, & co-arranger) is a Nashville-based, independent 2x Grammy-nominated songwriter and recording artist. Her songs have been recorded by artists such as Kelly Clarkson, Kesha, Miranda Lambert, Ronnie Dunn, Madi Diaz, Sturgill Simpson, Lizzy McAlpine and Brian Wilson. She has written extensively for film and TV, including the finale for Dolly Parton’s A Country Christmas Story. As an artist, she has toured nationally and internationally, performing at Stagecoach, The Grand Ole Opry, The Bluebird Cafe and the Country Music Hall Fame to name a few. Floyd’s journey in the music industry, including her experience as the “Grammy-nominated waitress,” was featured alongside Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris & Jason Isbell in the critically acclaimed documentary “The Last Songwriter,” which advocated for the Music Modernization Act. In addition to The King’s Wife, she is currently working working on two other new musical theatre projects: That Boy Ain’t Right and Killin’ It: A Howdy Horror Murder Mystery Musical. Her latest single “Sad Girls Do” was featured on Spotify’s “Fresh Finds: Best Of 2023″ playlist, which highlights the best of all-genre independent releases.

Tamilla Woodard (director) has directed at theaters nationally and internationally, including at WP Theater, Clubbed thumb, The Atlantic Theatre Company, The Alliance, The Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Classical Theater of Harlem, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts with TheaterWorksUSA, and The Cleveland Public Theatre, among others. She currently chairs the Acting Program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and is a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre and the co-founder of the site specific international partnership PopUP Theatrics, which creates large-scale immersive theatrical works. She was previously the co-artistic director of Working Theater and served as the BOLD associate artistic director of WP Theater. Tamilla also served as the associate director of the Tony Award-winning Hadestown on Broadway in its premier season. Recent: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at The Folger Theater, Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home, and The Democracy Project, a site specific work for Federal Hall written by Tanya Barfield, Larissa FastHorse, Lisa D’Amour, Melissa James Gibson, Michael R. Jackson and Bruce Norris. Film: The Kilbane’s Weightless. Tamilla was named one of 50 Women to Watch on Broadway, is a proud board member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and is a recipient of the Josephine Abady Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women. Click here to visit Tamlilla’s website.

Jared Stein (music Supervisor, co-arranger, & orchestrator) has spent his career as a music director and music supervisor for live theater, film and television. His credits include the Broadway and touring productions of American Idiot, Hair (revival), Spring Awakening (1st National and Deaf West Theater), and Rent. While in Los Angeles, he served as associate musical director for both live television productions of Grease and Rent. He appeared as a guest music director on Disney+’s series Encore!, and recently completed 5 seasons as music arranger/producer for Freeform’s Good Trouble. His first feature film as executive music producer, Your Monster, was accepted to Sundance Film Festival in 2024. Jared lives in Bozeman, Montana between projects, and is the co-founder and executive artistic director for A.I.R. (Arts Incubator Ranch), a new non-profit dedicated to educational opportunities and developmental residencies for artists from around the country. www.airmt.org