Written by Adrienne Burke-Moran

Music Composition by Erin Burke-Moran

Original work developed and produced by the creative team of Punctuate4 Productions. 

In 2017, Adrienne and Erin Burke-Moran set out to walk the Appalachian Trail. They did not go because their lives were broken. They went because the world was loud, and the woods were quiet. What follows is not an escape story, exactly. It's the story of two people who love each other moving through the same wilderness at different speeds: one looking for air, one looking for answers, both carrying more than they know how to name.

With a script written and shaped by Adrienne’s lived experience and original music drawn from Erin’s life as a touring musician, Thru Hike traces the strange clarity that arrives when the noise falls away — marriage, grief, burnout, fear for the future, and the private question beneath it all: What kind of life can we honestly choose?

This workshop production invites audiences into the first life of a new musical as it begins to find its shape on stage.