Past Seasons
2025-2026 Season
Grift City
Written by Anthony J. Piccione
Directed by Sydney Dubitsky
Performed on June 21st, 2026 at Brooklyn Art Haus
In the year 2104, Raven Grimm is a cop-for-hire that is contracted under the Private City Police Department, in a sprawling metropolis where the entire local government has been privatized. After the disappearance of a notable young actress, Raven takes a new case that leads her down the path toward investigating the most influential quadrillionaire in the entire city, in this dystopian satire where the line between homo sapiens and artificial sapiens has become more blurred than ever.
Swimming Lessons
Written by RJ Beardmore
Directed by Em Hausmann
Performed on May 17th, 2026 at Brooklyn Art Haus
When Arizona reveals to Claire that her sister is a mermaid, they totally have to break out of the psych ward to go find her! Through road trips and ren faires, convenience stores and border patrol, Arizona and Claire reveal what it means to get better, get worse, and do it all together.
Love Letters: A True-ly Short Epistolary Romance (Giving Voice to Autistic Speakers
Written by Sofia Ghassaei
Directed by Jamie Lazan
Performed on April 19th, 2026 at Brooklyn Art Haus
Love Letters is the first musical play written by an autistic nonspeaker. Its author, 19-year-old award-winning poet, Sofia Ghassaei, has difficulty controlling her speech and body movements due to apraxia, and had no reliable means of communication until age thirteen, when she learned to share her thoughts by pointing to letters on a letterboard. Her one-act play is augmented with original songs by herself and autistic nonspeakers. Two autistic nonspeakers, Melody and Luke, fall in love via email, only to struggle with sensory realities when they meet in person. Love Letters is a universal story of first love - found and lost – and of expectations not matching reality. Five (speaking) actors conjure the world of autistic nonspeakers and their communication aides. The actors playing the aides double as nonspeakers for some songs. With an informal coffee house vibe, performers at times use direct address and may play an instrument.
Pluck
Written by Jan Rosenberg
Directed by Daniella Caggiano
Performed on February 15th, 2026 at Brooklyn Art Haus
It’s 2003. Fourteen year-old Cleo and Bea are twins. Cleo can’t stop running away from womanhood. Bea can’t stop running away, period. When we don’t have the words for what we’re becoming, we make up myths instead. A play about gender identity, dysphoria, twins, and monsters in the age of AOL.
When All Things Have Changed
Written by Elizabeth A. Dudak
Directed by Jamie Lazan
Performed on November 16th, 2025 at Brooklyn Art Haus
When All Things Have Changed is about a triptych of the many forms of grief - being left in marriage, starting over when your kids are grown, the loss of a mother you once knew because of dementia, and the various reactions to loss and moving on. Each of the three acts touches on different aspects of Catherine moving along in her acceptance of the life she is now living.
Shiva for an Atheist
Written by Darrin J. Friedman
Directed by Emmie D’Amico
Performed on October 19th, 2025 at Brooklyn Art Haus
In an emotional account of family connections and inherited trauma, a dying matriarch reveals long-held secrets from her past to her granddaughter Eve. As Eve struggles with the burden of this newfound knowledge, she becomes obsessed about her own future, particularly as her wife is expecting a child and her fear of how generational abandonment has plagued this family. Desperate to break the cycle of fractured relationships, Eve begins on a journey to uncover the truth behind her family’s troubled history. By confronting the past and facing her fears, Eve hopes to heal the deep-rooted wounds and create a brighter future for her unborn child. This poignant account explores the impact of generational trauma, the complexities of family dynamics, and the power of love and redemption in shaping a family’s legacy.
Staples Play (or the Book of Jobs)
Written by Juice O’Rourke
Directed by Jesse Hartley
Performed on September 21st, 2025 at Brooklyn Art Haus
Donna and Eloise have been working at Staples together ever since Eloise came on reluctantly two months ago. Amidst the fluorescent lights and discussions of spirituality, they come to alternate conclusions about the satisfaction of their jobs as strange customers who border on the absurd enter and exit this revolving door, each one a unique test of retail faith.
2024-2025 Season
Crosswords
Written by A.J. Johnson
Directed by Megan Lummus
Performed on June 15th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space
Gene and Val are content with their white-picket-fence life until a serial killer’s ciphered note lands in their morning newspaper. As they attempt to unravel the killer’s message in hopes of putting an end to the fear and death terrorizing their community, the couple realizes they have their own secrets hidden in cross words and blissful oblivion. They must decide if they will continue trying to solve the mysteries entangling their relationship, or return to the comfort of ignorance.
Revolution
Written by Kyle A. Smith
Directed by Dave Osmundsen
Performed on May 18th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space
Revolution follows Klay, a young autistic man spending most of his time at Blessed Tavern in an afterlife reserved for people who have committed suicide. Like everyone here, he wants out. As unrest brews outside the tavern, Klay learns to appreciate what he has with the help of a new friend, as others go to extraordinary lengths to escape their afterlives. Revolution is a play about finding contentment in the here and now, rather than facing the unknown.
Is This Beauty?
Written by Bailey Jordan Garcia
Directed by Em Hausmann
Performed on April 20th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space
Anthony and Emma are two college freshman who, very quickly, start to fall in love -- while simultaneously, their older selves, Tony and Charlie face their crumbling marriage. This play looks at what a change in time, success, sexuality, gender, and love can do to a couple.
Epoxy Resin Nightmare
Written by Annabel Webster
Directed by Maryanna Tollemache
Performed on March 16th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space
Epoxy Resin Nightmare is a poetic non-linear coming of age fever dream that follows a fervently religious mother-daughter duo and their mirrored obsessions with sex, immortality, and post-mortem preservation.
AcaDeca
Written by Alexandria Passanisi
Directed by Megan Lummus
Performed on February 16th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space
While studying for the Academic Decathlon, two lonely, autistic high school girls find companionship in each other through “West Wing” fanfiction, shared diagnosis, and the power of 80s pop culture. The duo struggles to recognize and accept their diagnoses while maintaining this budding friendship. “AcaDeca” is a story of identity, acceptance, and being really good at academic competitions.
altitude
Written by Daniel Prillaman
Directed by Annika Beth Nelson
Performed on November 17th, 2024 at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space
In this highly energetic stoner comedy, we follow the story of Casper and Denton. When their car breaks down and leaves them stranded by the side of the road, Casper and Denton encounter a mysterious girl in a deer mask, a woman who may or may not be a human police officer, and loads of unexpected (and unwanted) free time. At least Denton has weed. A semi-hostage stoner comedy adventure about the things we have control over, the things we don’t, and the difference between the two.
Whitehare
Written by Adin Lenahan
Directed by Em Hausmann
Performed on October 13th, 2024 at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space
Levi Leavitt’s life is falling apart around him: a marriage in shambles, a child incarcerated, a sister-in-law who appears out of nowhere, and the eerie presence of a monster born from the internet. A comic-gothic-melodrama about the traumas living just below the surface of a small house in Mascouten, Illinois...bear witness to the secrets, the repression, the horror, to Whitehare!
Yahoo Boys
Written by J. Corey Buckner
Directed by KM Jones
Performed on September 15th, 2024 at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space
Wealthy conmen from Nigeria have conned their way into your theatre. They begin spinning a tale of woe designed only to pull donations from your wealthy donors. But one con man goes too far and steals from what she assumed to be an easy mark. Now she’s angered Gods and put the very performance of the play at risk. Can Miriam survive the deadly game she unwittingly started?
2023-2024 Season
An Interpretation of Anna
Written by Natalie Sacks
Directed by Ash Singer
Performed on June 16th, 2024 at spit&vigor theatre company’s Tiny Baby Blackbox
An Interpretation of Anna tells the story of Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud‘s youngest daughter and a psychoanalyst in her own right. She finds her world turned upside down when heiress Dorothy Burlingham arrives in Vienna and requests that she treat her children. Together, the women found a school, fall in love, build a family together, and work to protect the Freuds from the encroaching threat of antisemitism coming out of interwar Germany.
My Brother Jake
Written by Dave Osmundsen
Directed by Allen MacLeod
Performed on May 19th, 2024 at spit&vigor theatre company’s Tiny Baby Blackbox
My Brother Jake tells the story of an autistic theatre artist who has managed to have what some would call an “inspiring” career. Ethan, his higher-needs twin brother, has lived in his shadow their whole lives. When Jake’s life and livelihood are at a crossroads, past resentments come to the surface, and Ethan makes an impassioned bid for agency.
No Entrance
Written by Courtney Taylor
Directed by Abby Davis
Performed on March 17th, 2024 at spit&vigor theatre company’s Tiny Baby Blackbox
No Entrance is an experimental comedy about sex, gender, and trauma. After being diagnosed with vaginismus, recent college grad Charlotte takes a strange and queer journey, reconnecting with Victoria, a trans inventor from her past who runs a DIY lab with her sidekicks Curly and Helen. Chaos and self-discovery ensue in this off-the-rails play, alongside riffs on No Exit, Frankenstein, and common tropes in queer storytelling.
Axioms
Written by Audrey Clyburn
Directed by Abigail Gabor
Performed on February 18th, 2024 at spit&vigor theatre company’s Tiny Baby Blackbox
Axioms tells the story of Eliza, a lonely, hyper-logical mathematician, who has had a fight with her best (and only) friend. She retreats to her mind palace to find a solution using the only tools she has: memory, axiomatic set theory, and stuffed animals. She keeps trying to apply mathematical principles to situations from her life, and the math keeps getting more complex, until she finally has to ask whether there's a solution to be found there at all.
Impossible Theories of Us
Written by John Mabey
Directed by Zinc Tong
Performed on November 19th, 2023 at spit&vigor theatre company’s Tiny Baby Blackbox
Two people unite against a crisis and divide on how to break through. But sometimes fantasy is the perfect reality for impossible futures. Gina, a transgender woman, and Keith, a cisgender man, navigate the complexities of life and death over the course of their relationship. But as emerging technologies offer the chance to connect with those who’ve passed away, both must decide what being alive truly means.
Skinny Legend
Written by Liv Shoup
Directed by Jaye Hunt
Performed on October 15th, 2023
Skinny Legend tells the story of Katy - a big, beautiful fat liberation and body positivity influencer. When her “traditionally handsome” fiance Theo takes her to his hometown in Malibu, their lifestyles clash as Katy faces his old friends – the former cool kids and current pyramid scheme girlies. Theo’s former best friend, Caitlin, tries to push Katy into her pyramid scheme: a fake weight loss program. Katy rejects her, so Caitlin and her friends plot to make Katy’s life miserable – miserable enough that she will leave Theo. As Katy reckons with her reality as a plus size woman, she learns that Caitlin’s friends, though skinny and traditionally beautiful, have all struggled with body issues as well. Katy becomes determined to use her social media platform and take down Caitlin’s harmful scam, while showing the world that the politics of body image go far beyond fat versus skinny.
The Flight Patterns of Migratory Birds
Written by Andy Boyd
Directed by Maggie Dunn
Performed on September 17th, 2023
The Flight Patterns of Migratory Birds is a coming of age comedy which follows a weight loss competition in a small Midwestern town, a budding romance between two park rangers at the local bird sanctuary, and a diner run by a mother/daughter duo whose relationship is showing serious strain. When these three collide, 15 year-old Jenny will learn valuable lessons about self-acceptance, care, and the perils of a lentils-only diet.
