The Maenads

By Stephen Foglia
Directed by Phillip Christian Smith

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 6:30 PM
CABARET THEATER

FREE

$5 Suggested Donation

You can make reservations at literary@theaterforthenewcity.net

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Five modern-day men climb a mountain while roleplaying as drunken, Dionysus-worshipping women in order to break free of the prison of masculinity.

CAST
Fang Du
Alexander Stene
Charles Manning
DJ Davis
Kirk White

Writer
Stephen Foglia is a writer and director from St. Louis. His work has been presented at Undermain Theatre, Dallas Museum of Art, Dixon Place, IRT, Pete’s Candy Store, Barn Arts Collective, Shanghai Theater Academy, and the Ford Studio at the Pershing Square Signature Center, among other places. He has been a finalist for the Columbia@Roundabout series and the Against the Grain Festival as well as a semi-finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the Civilians Next Forever Initiative. Stephen is a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab. He earned his MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2017. He currently teaches theater and produces plays with students at Hunter College. www.stephenfoglia.com

Director
Phillip Christian Smith is a Black Queer member of New Dramatists (class of 2030), a Fire This Time Festival Playwright, Fresh Ground Pepper PGPG, a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee (current staff), Playwrights Realm and Lambda Literary Fellow, Winter Playwrights Retreater. O’Neill, PlayPenn, Trustus, and BAPF Finalist. Florida Rep PlayLab, Valdez conference. Co-Literary Director of Exquisite Corpse Company. He teaches acting at Pace University and playwriting at Hunter College. BFA UNM, MFA Yale School of Drama, MFA Hunter College. Roe Green Commission with Cleveland Playhouse. www.phillipchristiansmith.com