Since George Washington took office in 1783, writing letters to the President has provided citizens of all ages, races, political parties, and backgrounds an outlet to express their most personal concerns, hopes, and dreams. Letters to the President offers a powerful look at the American dream by setting the White House’s most memorable mail to song. Opening with the letter written to Washington on April 16th, 1789 informing him of his election and closing with Obama’s letter to the incoming President on Inauguration Day 2017, the piece features letters that range from short to long, articulate to frenetic, angry to celebratory, and funny to somber. They are written by explorers, queens, astronauts, pilots, rabbis, children, and activists. They span topics from Western Expansion, World Wars and space exploration, to the Civil Rights Movement and Marriage Equality. Our project reimagines this historic canon of letters as a song cycle with each composition inspired by an individual letter and written by a roster of the most exciting emerging theater composers of this generation.