On April 26, 2019, Reagon's Parable of the Sower rock-opera, based on the novel by Octavia Butler, was performed at the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The performance, created and written by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Reagon, and directed by Eric Ting, included over 20 singers, actors, and musicians.[13] Reagon has been a big fan of Octavia Butler's works and her themes of Afrofuturism and the eerily similar political climates led Reagon to create the opera.[14] In relation to the differences between the novel and the opera, Reagon notes: