DIRECTOR/CO-CREATOR Jonathan Levin
PLAYWRIGHT/CO-CREATOR Josh Luxenberg
PERFORMER/CO-CREATOR Joshua William Gelb
BASED ON THE STORY BY Stanislaw Lem
SCENIC & COSTUME DESIGNER Peiyi Wong
VIDEO DESIGNER Jesse Garrison
LIGHTING DESIGNER Marika Kent
ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGNER Florian Staab
PROPS DESIGNER Jonathan Levin
PROPS CO-DESIGNER Suki McCarty
COMPUTER VOICE Jes Bedwinek
ADDITIONAL VOICES Fayette Louise Jared, D.M.J., Esme Rosenberg
END CREDITS MUSIC PERFORMED BY Emily Hope Price
The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy is performed without an intermission.
Adapted with permission from the Estate of Stanislaw Lem.
Production design support provided by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund,
a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).
With support from the Polish Cultural Institute.
An early version of The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy was originally livestreamed to Theater in Quaratine’s YouTube channel in 2020, then under the co-creative direction of Joshua William Gelb and Katie Rose McLauglin, in a co-production with Sinking Ship.
Programs supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The Lortel Theatre’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
THEATER IN QUARANTINE is an Obie and Drama League Award-winning digital performance laboratory. Established in response to the pandemic by director, performer, and creative technologist Joshua William Gelb, TiQ has live-streamed dozens of visually distinctive, original works to its YouTube channel, performing out of a closet in the East Village measuring only 8 sq feet. Embracing 21st century solutions to the question “what is “theatrical” TiQ has become a leading practitioner in the emerging field of live-stream digital performance. TiQ has been presented by NYUSkirball, Colgate University, The Invisible Dog, New Georges, A2SF, Theater Mitu, La MaMa, CultureHub, UMD, Exponential, CulturalDC, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Japan’s NHK TV, The New Yorker, been a five-time NY Times Critics’ Pick as well as one of Vulture’s “Top 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020” and the Times’ “Best Theater of 2021.” Upcoming: [Untitled Miniature], presented by HERE Arts Center this March in person and on-line at URHERE. TiQ’s full archive can be found and streamed anytime on their YouTube channel.
SINKING SHIP PRODUCTIONS creates original physical, visual theater that asks “What does it mean to be a human in this world?” The work, like the answer to that simple question, is complex, absurd, existential, ephemeral, surreal, surprising, funny, poetic, and strange, grounded in emotional storytelling, the tactile familiarity of objects, and futile humor of being alive. Sinking Ship works with a core group of Associate Artists, combining physical theater, puppetry, music and movement. Productions have grappled with concepts such as the creation and destruction of the universe as imagined by science fiction writers, how a man’s search for connection could ultimately lead to complete isolation, and the limits of human understanding through the search for extra dimensions of space in theoretical physics. Founded in 2008, Sinking Ship’s original works include Cassandra, an Agony, a modern telling of the myth of Cassandra (commissioned by the Getty Museum in L.A.), A Hunger Artist, based on the story by Franz Kafka (premiere at Connelly Theater, 2017, nominated for Drama Desk Awards; UK premiere at Edinburgh Fringe, 2017), Powerhouse, about the idiosyncratic composer Raymond Scott (New Ohio Theatre, O’Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist; NY Times Critics’ Pick), there will come soft rains, a triptych of science fiction stories (FringeNYC, extended at Barrow Street Theater, 2008). www.sinkingshipproductions.com
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE’s mission is to foster both new and established artists, increase awareness and appreciation of Off-Broadway, and uphold fair and equitable business and artistic practices in service of creating a larger, more diverse community of theatre makers and audiences. The Company builds on the legacy of its founder, Lucille Lortel (1900–1999) who was a champion of work by Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, Jean Genet, Adrienne Kennedy, Larry Kramer, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Sam Shepard, and Wendy Wasserstein. In addition to its Off-Broadway theatre, which has been in continuous operation since 1955, the Company is renovating a three-story carriage house in Chelsea that will act as the Company’s new headquarters. Its programs include The Alcove at the Lortel, a commissioning and development program for early and mid-career playwrights; the 121 Project, a bespoke development program for new musicals; NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship, Fellowships in NYC Theatre at Bennington College, the New York Emmy-Winning Dangerous Acts: A Series Uplifting Black Writers from Our Past (in partnership with HBCUs), Lucille Lortel Awards and Playwrights’ Sidewalk, Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDB.com), and Non-Profit Theatre Strategic and Management Services. For more information, please visit www.lortel.org.
NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP empowers visionary theatre-makers and brings their work to adventurous audiences through productions, artist workshops and education and community engagement programs. We’re proud to be a home base for many of the most significant theatre-makers of our time, nurturing groundbreaking playwrights, empowering inimitable auteur directors, and giving invaluable support to tremendous talents in the earliest days of their careers. We’ve maintained decades-long relationships with legendary theatre-makers like Will Power, Ivo van Hove, Dael Orlandersmith, and Caryl Churchill, who have shaped our very understanding of what theatre can be. Since our founding in 1979, we’ve produced over 150 fully-realized productions including Jonathan Larson’s Rent; Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright’s Quills; Claudia Shear’s Dirty Blonde; Rick Elice’s Peter and the Starcatcher; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh’s Once; and David Bowie and Enda Walsh’s Lazarus. Enabling our artists to push boundaries generates work like Nathan Alan Davis’s Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Anaïs Michell’s Hadestown, Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Family Cycle, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, Kristina Wong’s Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord and Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s Here There Are Blueberries. NYTW productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, 25 Tony Awards, 2 Grammy Awards and numerous Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. More info at www.NYTW.org.
UNDER THE RADAR is the United States’ premier festival of experimental theater and performance art. Produced by ArKtype with Festival Director Mark Russell, UTR has been reimagined in its 20th annual season as a city-wide celebration that incisively speaks to our moment. Rather than being tied to a single host institution, Under the Radar’s current iteration is curated collaboratively with an array of renowned arts organizations and curators, each harnessing the connective nature of the festival format to introduce some of the world’s most innovative multidisciplinary voices to wider audiences. The 2025 edition of UTR will include over 33 distinct programs at 24 theater spaces, presenting more than 250 performances in only 16 days from January 4 to 19. The depth, breadth and excellence of this year’s festival serves as proof that collaboration can power the American theater through this era of existential crisis into a reinvigorated future of conjoined artists ready to embrace diversity, challenge and reinvention.
CREATIVE TEAM
Jonathan Levin (Director & Co-Creator) is a theater director, performer, puppeteer, and the co-Artistic Director of Sinking Ship Productions. Recent directing/co-creation credits include Cassandra, an Agony at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Footnote for the End of Time (with Theater in Quarantine). Jon co-created and performed A Hunger Artist at the Connelly Theater and on tour, for which he earned two Drama Desk nominations (Outstanding Solo Performance and Outstanding Puppet Design) and was awarded Summerhall’s Lustrum Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Additional SSP directing credits include Powerhouse at the New Ohio Theatre (NY Times Critics’ Pick), Flatland, an EST/Sloan commission, Ocean at Mabou Mines Suite and There Will Come Soft Rains at FringeNYC (Excellence Award for Outstanding Direction). Jon is also a founding member of the Krumple Theatre company, with which he has co-directed and performed work throughout Norway and in NYC since 2014. As a puppeteer, Jon has collaborated and performed with Wakka Wakka on SAGA, Animal R.I.O.T. and The Immortal Jellyfish Girl. Jon is a graduate of the École Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq and holds a BA in theater and neuroscience from Oberlin College. www.jon-levin.com
Josh Luxenberg (Writer & Co-Creator) is a playwright, director, and curator. He is Sinking Ship’s Co-Artistic Director, and was the Director of the historic Connelly Theater in the East Village, overseeing the revival of the iconic Off-Broadway venue. Credits with SSP include: Cassandra, an Agony (J. Paul Getty Museum), The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (with Theater in Quarantine, a NY Times Critics’ Pick for the original streaming edition), A Hunger Artist (Connelly Theater, nominated for two 2018 Drama Desk Awards, and winner of Summerhall’s Lustrum Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017), Powerhouse (New Ohio, O’Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist, NY Times Critics’ Pick). He has developed work via residency and commission at the Orchard Project, Mercury Store, LMCC, Mabou Mines, Mt. Tremper Arts, The Freight, EST/Sloan, the Getty Museum and others. Josh co-wrote The Dial, an interactive narrative augmented reality installation created by NightLight Labs (Sundance Film Festival 2019). His programming at the Connelly includes Marin Ireland’s Pre-Existing Condition, Kate Berlant’s Kate (directed by Bo Burnham), Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns: The Musical, Will Arbery’s Plano (Clubbed Thumb; Drama Desk-nominated), Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Diaries 2018 (New York Theatre Workshop),The Bengson’s The Lucky Ones, and more.
Joshua William Gelb (Performer & Co-Creator) is a theater director, performer, designer, and creative technologist. During the Covid shut-down, Gelb founded the Obie and Drama League Award-winning digital performance laboratory Theater in Quarantine, live-streaming dozens of visually distinctive, original projects to its YouTube channel from his closet in the East Village. Gelb has been in residence at NYU Skirball, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, CultureHub, Theater Mitu, Abrons Arts Center, Ars Nova, UMD, Mercury Store, and is currently a HARP resident artist at HERE Arts Center, where his durational performance, [Untitled Miniature], will premiere in the spring. With Sinking Ship he directed and co-created A Hunger Artist, and has appeared in several works in progress. As a performer Gelb has also appeared regularly in Little Lord productions including Babmif*cker Kaffeehaus and Skinnamarink (NYTW Nextdoor) as well as his own production of Jazz Singer (Abrons Arts Center). Gelb received his MFA in directing at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama where he graduated as a John Wells Fellow. www.joshuawilliamgelb.com
Peiyi Wong (Scenic & Costume Designer) is a Bessie Award-winning scenographer and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She designs sets, installations, and costumes for performance and film. With Sinking Ship she designed the set and costumes for A Hunger Artist, and costumes for Powerhouse and There Will Come Soft Rains. With TiQ she was the visual and costume designer for Julia Izumi’s All the Different Ways Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died (co-produced w/ New Georges). Additional credits – set design: Public Obscenities (TFANA | Woolly Mammoth), The Whitney Album (Soho Rep, Hewes Award nomination), Weightless (WP Theater), A Good Day to Me Not to You (Waterwell), HOUSECONCERT (Object Collection), A Delicate Balance (Transport Group | NAATCO), SPEECH (Lightning Rod Special), Memoirs of a…Unicorn (NYLA, 2018 Bessie Outstanding Design) – set + costume: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group), MukhAgni (The Public UTR) – costume design: Namour (ARRAY feature film, Netflix). Faculty at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, NYU Tisch. MFA, CalArts. www.peiyiameliawong.com
Florian Staab (Original Music & Sound Design) is a composer and sound designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Staab was born and raised in Germany and received a BA from Oberlin College and MFA from UIUC/Krannert Center. He is an associate artist with Sinking Ship Productions and teaches at Playwrights Horizons Theater School. His designs have been heard at the Public Theater, Irish Repertory Theatre, Harlem Stage, Trinity Repertory Company, City Theatre Pittsburgh, Center Theatre Group, Mint Theater Company, Pearl Theatre Company, The Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Drama League, New Saloon, Chicago Opera Vanguard and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to his theater work, Staab is a recording and mixing engineer and designs sound for narrative fiction podcasts. He recently directed Bill Irwin’s On Beckett / In Screen for the camera. www.florianstaab.com
Marika Kent (Lighting Designer) (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer. Recent/upcoming: Ulysses; Seagull (Elevator Repair Service), Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me (The Wooster Group), Catch as Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons), Sweeney Todd; Clyde’s; Choir Boy; Gem of the Ocean; School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play (Portland Center Stage), Fences (Trinity Rep), POTUS (Arena Stage), Bernarda’s Daughters; Amani (National Black Theater). Marika teaches design at NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School and is a proud member of USA Local 829. www.marikakent.com
Jesse Garrison (Video Designer) is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist, video designer and co-founder of NightLight Labs, an interactive media studio (nightlight.io). Specializing in crafting unique systems for XR, installation and performance, he has created interactive work at new architectural projects, events and festivals around the world. His notable achievements include: The Woods, a solo interactive experience at Automata in LA, co-creating The Dial, an AR / projection mapping installation which premiered at Sundance 2019, creating projected content for The Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera, leading AR development for the Builders Association’s Elements of Oz and developing Hear Their There Here with Geoff Sobelle, a site-specific audio experience for St. Ann’s Warehouse.
Sarah Lillian (Production Stage Manager) (she/her) is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College andrecently finished the professional apprenticeship
in stage management at the Juilliard School. She has previously acted as stage manager for Millbrook Playhouse, Bristol Valley Theater, Annie Saunders and Becca Wolff’s Our Country, Mercury Store, and worked as the production/stage management apprentice at Perseverance Theatre. Sarah is thrilled to be working with this amazing cast and crew. Thank you to all my fans, friends, and family xoxo
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Follow on instagram: @sarahlillian.sm
Suki McCarty (Co-Props Designer) is a Brooklyn-based Props Designer, Scenic Artist and member of USA 829. Some of her past credits include her work at Life and Trust, The Santa Fe Opera, and The Juilliard School. She recently has worked as a scenic charge for the Saks Fifth Avenue holiday windows and the Macy’s windows amongst other display work.
Bios are provided by each artist. Where opinions are expressed, they represent individual views.
SPECIAL THANKS
Leo Allen, Mark Rosenberg & Jennifer Vilaga, Jenny Gamello, Molly Freilich, Kaija Matiss, Kathryn Prescott, Martha Shane, Christina Shea-Wright, Trey Gilmore, Cecilia Shore, Andrew Garrison, Ilya Kondrashov Hirschfeld, Shoshanah Tarkow, Mary Jo Kirschman & Steve Luxenberg, Susan & Richard Levin, Cam & Victor Gelb, Wojciech Zemek and the Estate of Stanislaw Lem, Mark Russell, Tommy Kreigsman, Caridad Svich, Marta Mozelle MacRostie, Evan O’Brient, Michael Bulger and Clubbed Thumb, Rebecca Zuber and Brookfield Place, Yaching Cheung, Eric Wright.
PRODUCTION
General Manager
Mau Le Viness
Production Manager
Carly Levin
Production Stage Manager
Sarah Lillian
Video Associate
Matthew Deinhart
Video Assistant
Ethan Karas
Closet Originally Constructed by
Colgate University School of Drama
Closet Technical Director
Frankie Charles
Additional Closet Engineering
Joseph Silovsky
Audio Engineer
Iz Fuerter
Costume Construction
Kara Feely and Emma Creekmore
Head Electrician
Evan Spiegel
Electricians
Persephone Squires and Lilith Phillips
Additional Props Construction
Ariel Lauryn
MARKETING & PUBLICITY
Press Representative
John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency
Marketing Associate
Rascher Alcasid
Trailer Editor
Joshua William Gelb
Trailer B-Roll
Yaching Cheung
Graphic Design
Josh Luxenberg
SINKING SHIP
Co-Artistic Director
Josh Luxenberg
Co-Artistic Director
Jonathan Levin
THEATER IN QUARANTINE
Founder
Joshua William Gelb
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
Executive Director
George Forbes
Artistic Director of New Play Development
Caridad Svich
Artistic Director of New Musical Development
Michael Heitzman
Operations Manager
Zebulon Brown
Head Treasurer
Maya McCullough
Artistic Director of High School Playwriting Fellowship
Kimille Howard
Senior Director
Nancy Elaine Hurvitz
Senior Director
Jeffrey Shubart
Digital Designer
John Hayek
Press
John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency
General Manager
Alana Canty-Samuel
General Manager
Mau Le Viness
General Manager
Karla Liriano
Marketing Associate
Rascher Alcasid
Development
Lynn Stirrup, Stirrup Executive Advisory Services
We gratefully acknowledge our Lucille Lortel Off-Broadway Champions.
BENEFACTORS
Cynthia & Herbert Fields
Ira Gilbert
Michael Hecht
LEADERS
Anonymous
Priscilla Almodovar & Eric Dinallo
Louis Antonelli
Eileen Begg
Kathleen Chopin
Rick Swift & Megan Flanigan
Friedman Family Foundation
Magalie Lussier-Valade
PATRONS
Anonymous (2)
Leslie Bhutani
Ana & Eric Cantor
Katharine English & Paul Wood
Roberta Garza
Kevin Hansen
William S. Hoover, MD
Gregory & Zainab Ahmad Jensen
Donna Karan
Diana Krall
Ann Miner
Niclas & Alberto Nagler-Alvarez
Sheila Nevins
Laura & Gerry Rosberg
Amy & David Scharlin
Ann Kottler & Richard Schindler
Michael Stern/The Bigwood Foundation Inc.
Wendy Vanden Heuvel
Christina Weiss Lurie
and many others!
NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP
Artistic Director
Patricia McGregor
Associate Artistic Director, Theatre & Productions
Aaron Malkin
Associate Artistic Director, Workshops & Development
Rachel Silverman
Casting Director-in-Residence
Claire Yenson
Artistic Programs Manager
Leo Angulo
Literary Manager
Salma Zohdi
2050 Artistic Fellows
Derick Edgren Otero, Nikki Massoud, Andres Santiago Piña, Danica Selem, Christie Zhao
Chief of Staff
Waverley Engelman
Executive Assistant
Evie Mason
Interim Producer
Audra LaBrosse
Senior Associate Producer
Yang-Yang Chen
Production Manager
Mia Haiman
Assistant Production Manager
Kaycie Sweeney
Technical Director
Drew McCollum
Costume Shop Manager
Jeffrey Wallach
Director of Development
Allie Lalonde
Associate Director of Development
Leah Cox
Director of Special Events
Phoebe Moore
Development Associate
Fatima A. Maan
Development Associate, Individual Giving & Special Events
Bibiana Torres
Interim Director of Education
Psacoya Guinn
Community Engagement Coordinator
Gaven D. Trinidad
Director of Internal Operations / Interim Managing Director
Megan E. Marshall
Director of Finance
Amanda K. Dravecky
Operations Manager
Kirsten Ruch
Finance Associate
Robert Loria
Office Manager & Receptionist
Kim Moarefi
Human Resources Consultant
Kokoro Consultants / Jamie Joeyen-Waldorf, CEO
Custodians
Carlos Arevalo, Felix Solis, Jr.
Director of Marketing & Communications
Caitlin Baird
Media, Memberships & Communications Manager
Uno Servida
Tele-Commerce
Justin Jutras
House Managers & Box Office Representatives
Nathan Braun, James Chozo, Zenzele Clarke, Victoria Cyzewski, JJ Ivey, Jessica Jaffe, Nathaniel Johnson, TyWaune Lewis, Lauren Linsey, Jonathan Low, Natalie Martzial, Cristina Neely, Chazz Padilla, Choice Plasencia, Alana Roberts, Lili Rosen, Olivia Songer, Dylin Taylor, Rose Viets, Ashley Villanueva, Jo Wiegandt.
2050 Administrative Fellows
Shania Benjamin, Marty Chandler, Tyra Jefferson, Salwa Meghjee Black Theatre Coalition Artistic Director Fellow Jasmine Mitchell NYTW Press Representatives Print Shop PR / Matt Ross, Nicole Capatasto, Josie Miller, Grace Walker, Claire Wojciechowski
Lobby Refreshments
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UNDER THE RADAR
Festival Founder + Director
Mark Russell
Co-Creative Director/Producer-in-Residence
Meropi Peponides
Co-Creative Director/Artist-in-Residence
Kaneza Schaal
Festival Producer
Thomas O. Kriegsmann & Sami Pyne | ArKtype
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Our theatre lives on the island of Manhattan.
Manhattan has always been a gathering and trading place for many Indigenous peoples, where Nations intersected from all four directions since time immemorial. It was a place to gather and sometimes to seek refuge during times of conflict and struggle. The staff and trustees of New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Sinking Ship, and Theater in Quarantine pay respect to all of their ancestors past, present, to their future generations.
We acknowledge that our theatre, and our work, is situated on the island of Manhattan (Menohhannet— On the Island), traditional lands of the Munsee Lenape, the Canarsie, Unkechaug, Matinecock, Shinnecock, Reckgawanc and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
We respect that many Indigenous people continue to live and work on this island and acknowledge their ongoing contributions to this area.
We encourage each of you to honor the Indigenous communities that first inhabited the land on which you’re now standing.
We would like to thank Safe Harbors NYC for contributing to this statement.