“tequila in my coffee” is the first song from my upcoming EP: “HOW TO STAY BRIGHT”… ☕️🧚🏾‍♂️
…the entire EP is an homage to the flickering queer frivolity of my 20’s: an era of wigs, wings & whimsy, funding my dreams with restaurant jobs, learning to love and be loved, being stockholm-syndromed by my cell phone, conjuring levity in the face of immense grief, and cherishing my friendships as the sun set on my Saturn return…
…re: “tequila in my coffee”… well, I think the title says it all... this goes out to all the fairies trapped in the corporate machine!!!!!
John-Michael Lyles is a guitar-wielding, Vivace & Obie winning, multi-hyphenate creative! His debut EP, “HOW TO STAY BRIGHT” is being released on all streaming platforms over the summer of 2025! He wrote additional music for the Second Stage production of Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die & theme music for The Great Gay Dadcast. He was selected to participate in the Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows class of ’21, Musical Theater Factory’s 2nd MAKERS Cohort, the 2021 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and the 5th Avenue Theater’s First Draft: Raise Your Voice commission program. He is currently co-writing book, music and lyrics with David Gomez for "The King of Harlem", which was a 2022 finalist for the Relentless Musical Theater Award. 
photography by Laquann Dawson