Production History
I’m Repeating Myself
By Chad Kaydo
Directed by Carsen Joenk
The Brick, February 27 to March 15, 2025
Produced by The Omnivores and RHONDA
A strange summer provokes questions about family, mortality, porn algorithms, and whether or not you’re still single because you’re “too picky.” I’M REPEATING MYSELF wonders how we get over a lifetime of tiny wounds to take care of the people we love…and maybe ourselves too. Playwright Chad Kaydo joins a cast of actors playing his friends and family—as well as multiple versions of Chad himself—across boundaries of age, race, and gender, mixing queer irreverence with earnest, emotional immediacy.
“This gentle, slightly melancholy production seems to suggest that intimacy is hard, no six ways about it.”
Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times
“A simple, hilarious, devastating, finely-observed piece about family and the way we tell stories… Kaydo has a light touch. He lets us listen and find the echoes and connections ourselves.”
Kallan Dana, Culturebot
With Matthew Antoci, Alma Cuervo*, Enette Fremont, Chad Kaydo, Frankie Placidi, and Jon Norman Schneider*
Scenic Design: lucas a degirolamo
Costume Design: Kindall Almond
Lighting Design: Ebony Burton
Sound Design: Jordan Rose Bernstein
Associate Sound Designer: Lola Basiliere
Dramaturg: Christine Scarfuto
Production Stage Manager: Jared Six
Assistant Stage Manager: Corinn Morgan
Production Manager: Daniel Weissglass
Co-Producer: Theresa Buchheister
Associate Producer: Mark Toubman
Line Producer: Sarah Jones
Art: Rob Wilson
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Sex and the Abbey
By Diana Ly
Directed by Emily Lyons
The Brick, August 22 to September 7, 2024
Produced by The Omnivores, Wiley Water Productions, and The Song Collective
The Abbey is in trouble—and only Hrotsvit can save them! The canonesses need to impress Emperor Otto (who’s visiting tonight!) with a performance of a new drama by Hrotsvit, the first western woman who ever dared to write a play. Embroiled in lustful conflicts, the stress of daily prayers, and impassioned moral arguments, can these women save Gandersheim Abbey from male takeover? Find out in this hot goss from 10th Century Saxony!!
“A medieval miniature…after the peace of the show’s sixty-five minutes, the world outside feels too rough for our flourishing.”
Helen Shaw, The New Yorker
“Philosophical, funny, tender, deeply felt”
Kallan Dana, Culturebot
With Jen Anaya*, Tia Cassmira, Francesca Fernandez*, Belle Le
Scenic Design: Kim Zhou
Movement Director: Charlotte Bydwell
Lighting Design: Yang Yu
Sound Design: Chiara Pizzirusso
Projection Design: Cinthia Chen
Costume Design: Saawan Tiwari
Production Manager: Madelyn Wiley
Stage Manager: Eulàlia Comas
Assistant Stage Manager: Sam Kersnick
Technical Director: Alex Theisen
Assistant Technical Director: Shannon Dodson
Intimacy Director: Kimi Handa Brown
Associate Scenic Designer: Patti Panyakaew
Assistant Lighting Designer: David Aab
Dramaturg: Christine Scarfuto
Latin Consultant: Lauren Holmes
Marketing: Carmen Vienhage
Production Intern: Kingsley Du
Additional Technicians: Jacqueline Scaletta, Jennifer Leno
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The Omnivores Summer 2024 Reading Series
The Brick and Brick Aux, August 21 to September 4, 2024
Unfinished Sketches (later titled I’m Repeating Myself)
By Chad Kaydo
Directed by Theresa Buchheister and Carsen Joenk
With Matthew Antoci, Theresa Buchheister, Julia Brothers, Ben Holbrook, Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Chad Kaydo, Marcella Murray, and Jesse Pennington
Scenes from a strange summer—never meant to be performed—become a theatrical essay about family history, mortality, patterns we struggle to break, and why we write (and watch!) plays at all.
Snowbirds
By Lauren Holmes
Directed by Will Steinberger
With Jeff Biehl, Gilbert Cruz, Langston Darby, Eva Kaminsky, Naomi Lorrain, Tom Nelis, Jay Sanders, Danielle Skraastad, and Jeena Yi
Recent retirees Tom and Joan have hit the road in their new RV, ready to experience the next phase of their lives. When cash gets tight, they pick up work in a warehouse. What happens when our working lives never end?
Edging Men
By Ian Robles
Directed by Ian Robles
With Jorge Sánchez Díaz, Charles Manning, and Pauli Pontrelli
Women are gone for good. The last humans aren’t allowed to go outdoors for their own sanity. Meanwhile, Polo and Gonzo stand at the very edge of the world fantasizing about love and ways to live their best life.
Untitled Generation Ship Play
By Diana Ly
Directed by Nana Dakin
With Pun Bandhu, Shreya Muju, Lindsay Rico, Jackie Rivera, and Brenda Wehle
Twelve years after the forced evacuation of the planet, the mayor of a city-spaceship commissions a play about Earth. Led by a cynical ex-theatremaker determined to avoid sentimentality, a ragtag group cull through their fading memories to figure out what they want to say about their lost home, from their new floating one.
Hippolytus in Space
By Phillip Christian Smith
Directed by Jack Serio
With Will Dagger, Daniel K. Isaac, Justin Mark, Robin Miles, and Thomas Jay Ryan
Creon brings his young husband Phraedric, and his friend Brad, to a roaming space station to care for his troubled son Hippolytus, who has been left in isolation for five years due to an interstellar pandemic with an AI named Serena as his only company. When Creon returns to the Earth Planet to arrange marriages for his children, Phraedric's feelings for his stepson come to the fore, as does Brad's meddling.
Reading series produced by Mark Toubman
The Denizens
By Phillip Christian Smith
Directed by Jack Serio
The Brick, September 7-8, 2023
It’s 1997. You’re young, you’re hot, you just got accepted into The Denizens, New York theater’s top trainee actor company. It’s a real job, even though they don’t get paid, right? Come to orientation and learn about how you’ll get to meet famous actors when you work as a waiter at the gala, how some of the girls have even gotten meetings with Harvey in his suite, how the gay ones should be hiding who they are the second they walk in the lobby to audition, and how other than the legit character actors, no one should be fat—it’s all standard fare for an intern in the 90’s, right?
With Abby LAST NAME and Jack LAST NAME
Produced by The Omnivores
Associate Producer: Jess Lauricello