Sunflower Eyes Productions

Sunflower Eyes Productions seeks to tell the stories of historically looted, abused, or ignored identities and communities via musical projects, theatre pieces, and films. This includes those of transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming folks; Black and Indigenous people as well as other people of Color; women and femmes; disabled communities, and LGBTQIA2S communities. This includes musicals, EPs, full albums, short and feature length films, and other live performances.

Sunflower Eyes Productions is run by a Black, mixed, chronically ill, nonbinary, and queer person named Artemis Montague (they/them), who seeks to address the harm perpetuated and enacted against forcibly marginalized communities and artists. 

Sunflower Eyes wants to adjust the Weltanschauung of theatre and film, disrupting the day to day monotony and inequity with filmmakers, storytellers, playwrights, and musicians on creating works that accurately and diversely represent the scope of the world around us. They want to change the landscape on which we create, using all storytelling avenues and standpoint epistemology to change the narrative on everyone and everything that we see in our world through the view of sunflowers:

“Let the sunflowers remind us to always face the sun and, when we cannot, hold onto each other for guidance.”

The first project of Sunflower Eyes Productions is SHE SINGS ME HOME: a Black-, trans-, and queer-led modern musical about the mental health industrial complex and the love we can find, even in the darkness of a mental health ward. It was written in full by Artemis Montague, and focuses on a fictionalized version of part of their childhood.

Montague has written 130+ songs, and they are currently developing an demo, having their 2nd musical about art and Vincent van Gogh arranged (RHAPSODY IN SUNFLOWER YELLOW), writing an animated musical screenplay about chosen family and a sci-fi fantasy screenplay for adults.