Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie

ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story. Through performances and community engagements, ReWritten weaves together dance, music, visual art, projection, and text, to reflect on the often-overlooked and discounted intimate relationship between authors Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Their relationship has been characterized as one of the most mysterious and fruitful friendships in American letters, yet the letters from Hawthorne to Melville are missing. ReWritten springboards from this historic gap and time-hops between then and now to ask: What can you write that you can’t say out loud? When you look between the lines of history books, where can you find your story? When have you had to say no to a dream?