My Tango, “Creature of the Night” can be traced back to the 1990s to a project that I intended to work on together with the Australian author, Marsha Berry. She sent me her libretto for “Vampires in the Kitchen”, but nothing ever came of the project.

Idea: Several night shift workers from all parts of society meet in a kitchen and talk about their lives. It turns out that they all like working the night shift because they are vampires. An old prostitute also tells her story.

I dug out my o...