The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with writer David Baird about his musical comedy Girl Versus Corinth.

What was the first musical that made you want to make musicals?

My senior year of high school, I did a production of Man of La Mancha - it was then that I committed to making musicals and theatre more than just a hobby. My first stab at writing music came after I finished my undergrad at NYU. I had to have a tonsillectomy and decided during recovery to write some music of my own. They were genuinely terrible wannabe pop songs, but I performed them at The Duplex in the West Village and decided then to make a writer of myself. Three years later - I'm still writing.

Tell us about your show in 3 sentences or less.

Medea’s back and she’s putting the pulse back in expulsion. Watch as this legendary infanticide vindicates her story through pounding electropop and feminist herstory. Armed with the waves of feminism, only she can dismantle the douche-bastions of the Patriarchy.

Describe the sound of your musical, it's like _______ meets _________

It's like Kelly Clarkson meets En Vogue.

Who is your favorite classic musical theater composer? And your favorite composer working today?

Classic? Cole Porter. Favorite today? Shaina Taub.

Why is it important to bring your show to Fringe?

Fringe is a community. It's a group of people dedicated to bringing as much new work to the world as possible. To be a part of that is to dedicate yourself to the future of the theatre - specifically to a future in which new works and new writers flourish.

What's next for your show?

We recently performed the show at Joe's Pub and at the Capital Fringe in DC - so I think our next steps are to step from the Fringe into the commercial world: have a longer run, record a studio album... The world is our oyster and we're not allergic to shellfish.