plays
The Gray Man
“The fablelike script, by Andrew Farmer, is fascinating...steeped in gothic storytelling.”
The Gray Man isn’t real. He’s a ghost story, a bogeyman mothers make up tales about to keep their children safe. A grieving young man named Simon listens to these bedtime stories outside his apartment window and yearns to leave the city he’s so afraid of. But when he meets a little girl with an old soul who speaks of missing children, Simon can’t help but feel trapped in his tenement house, where a familiar shadow waits in the darkness.
Photos by Suzi Sadler
“Above all, there is Farmer’s skill at planting oddly unsettling details...armed with plenty of theatrical imagination, [he] proved to be remarkably skilled at the practice of raising goose flesh.”
“A consummately constructed, extremely effective horror tale... Farmer’s play roots itself in the familiar—the fairy tale, the ghost story, the bedtime story—and renders it strange and estranging.”
Our Farm
The Theatrical Assembly of Self Realized Animals is out to prove their independence from mankind by exposing the lies of a much celebrated, slanderous novel. But when the creative infrastructure begins to crumble, the stage becomes a slaughterhouse and every actor is on the chopping block.
“Offbeat, funny and tense...”
“The writing is at once funny and frightening, absurd and thought-provoking.”
Photos by Chris Bowser
I Heard Sex Noises
Developed with Claire Rothrock, Ryann Weir and Annie Tippe
Orgies. Drugs. Arson. Lawn Gnomes. Best in Show meets The Crucible in this mockumentary look at the Roosevelt Island Garden Club’s descent into chaos. Inspired by true events covered in The New York Times. The rest we made up.
Photos by Marielle Solan
The Queen of The May and Her Harvest Kings
Written with Evan Watkins
1929′s newly crowned May Queen cordially invites you to an Evening of Competition, the likes of which this decade has never seen! It’s sure to be a roaring night of rigorous sportsmanship, delicious musical ditties and enough coleslaw to keep your stomachs happy and your belts tight! Don’t miss out as Ohio’s own Golden Gladhart Twins compete for her creamy white hand in marriage.
Photos by Sasha Arutyunova
The Fall of Hotel Mudafier To The Toltecs
Hotel Mudafier: the last beacon of luxury in a world consumed by violence and chaos. Documenting its legendary destruction and told through the eyes of wedding dress designers, senators, mistresses, pool boys, euthanasia clinicians and gossip columnists, this story seeks to answer that age old question: "What the hell is going on?"
MUSICALS
LEMMINGS: 21st Century
Book by Andrew Farmer
Songs by Henry Koperski
Directed by Annie Tippe
A sequel to National Lampoon’s legendary off-Broadway musical sketch hit Lemmings, which helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Christopher Guest and Harold Ramis, National Lampoon’s LEMMINGS: 21ST CENTURY is a satire of modern Millennial corporate music festival culture. LEMMINGS: 21ST CENTURY is written by Larson Grant Winner, Andrew Farmer, with a score written by downtown music-comedy guru Henry Koperski, and directed by red-hot theater artist Annie Tippe. Consulting Producer Patrick Catullo (Oh, Hello On Broadway, David Byrne’s American Utopia) and Line Producers/General Managers Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia (Jacqueline Novak’s Get On Your Knees, Oh, Hello On (Off) Broadway).
Finn The Fearless
Book by Andrew Farmer
Music and Lyrics by Andrew R. Butler
Finn the Fearless is a storytelling folk-musical, told by a rowdy traveling gator show, about an unusual boy's journey to meet the devil, deep in the swampy heart of Florida.
Blessing
Book By Andrew Farmer
Music and Lyrics by Andrew R. Butler
Commissioned by Playwrights Horizons
It's Spirit Week in Blessing, AL, the little ol' town that lives up to its name with sunny skies, friendly faces and the fact that it hasn't been hit by a hurricane in over 92 years. Or is it 93?
But as storm clouds stir up forgotten secrets and unspoken sins, the good folks of Blessing are forced to take a closer look at their lives and consider just how blessed their little town really is.
Boats And
Book By Andrew Farmer
Music and Lyrics by Nate Weida
Humans have been wiped out and all our crap's been left behind. A sweeping combination of music, comedy and wild physicality tells us the epic tale about all the big and small stuff we make and trash and store and use and surround ourselves with every day.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward tulane
Adapted from Kate DiCamillo's The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Book by Andrew FarmerMusic and Lyrics by Andrew R. Butler
Commissioned by Theatreworks USA
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost.