About the season
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mind dream theater is excited to share season two of our flagship show - in which seven theater artists are commissioned to respond to a theme with whatever their beautiful minds conjure for the world of audio.
Oh wow gee whiz, Mr. Ollie, you’re MK ULTRA stinky. CONTRAry to how I look, I’m super GLADio I’m here to clean your bedpan. What’s that about Operation Cyclone? You need a Paperclip for what? A Condor? That’s very funny, Mr. Ollie!
Credits
Written & Directed by Allyson Dwyer
With Catrin Lloyd-Bollard as Book and Peter Mills Weiss as Ollie
Sound Design by Hannah Birch-Carl
Mastered by Kegan Zema
Recorded at Spaceman Sound
About the artist
Allyson is a theater artist from New Jersey who creates work about the Internet, communication, alienation, systems and time. Recent plays include u are the dream (Exponential Festival, The Brick, Most Unwanted & mind dream theater), Arrow of Time (1319 Press, Exponential Festival, mind dream theater, NYC Indie Theater Film Festival, Young-Howze Theatre Journal Awards Best Audio Production), Extraordinary Machine (EST/Sloan), Gumshoe (Arthouse), Plato’s Gooncave (?! New Works at The Brick). She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb ECWG, Soundlab at The Brick, The Road’s UC4, The Alcove at The Lucille Lortel and Arthouse Inkubator. She’s also the founder and artistic director of mind dream theater.
Say hello: allysondwyer.com
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Two of Nueva Manila's greatest military leaders must choose between love of country and loving each other.
Credits
Written by Kenneth Keng
Directed by Molly Shayna Cohen
With Sergio Moritz Ang as Fleet Admiral Maurice Gaerlan, Carlos Enrique as General/Emperor Edmund Figuracion, Petrina Ampeire as Lord Archivist, Sam Schotland as Provisional Councilman Go, and Kenneth Keng as Assistant Archivist, Sergeant Cordero, and Skywatch Officer Cruz
Sound design by Hannah Birch-Carl
Mastered by Kegan Zema
Recorded at Spaceman Sound
Sound content warning: use of gunshots
About the artist
Kenneth Keng is a New York-based Filipino-Chinese playwright and performer who makes work about falling in love with a culture devouring his own.
Selected honors include: 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the North American Cultural Laboratory, 2026 New York State Council on the Arts/NYSCA Grantee, 2025/26 Artist-in-Residence at the cell theatre, 2025 Princess Grace Fellowship (Semifinalist), 2024 Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature, 2024 The Civilians/Princeton Next Forever Initiative (Finalist), 2023/24 Artist-in-Residence at the University Settlement/Performance Project. In NYC, Kenneth’s plays have been selected for staging at the Target Margin, A.R.T., Brick, JACK, Life World, Chain, Tank, Maker’s Space and Speyer Hall theatres. kennethkeng.com
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It's A's 250th birthday and her best friends I, E, and F are throwing her a surprise party to celebrate. Or are they?
Credits
Written by Alyssa Haddad-Chin
Directed by Adam Kassim
with Sophie Zmorrod as I, Emma Callahan as E, and Paula Ali as F
Sound design by Hannah Birch-Carl
Mastered by Kegan Zema
Recorded at Spaceman Sound
About the artist
Alyssa Haddad-Chin (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based, Lebanese American, playwright and arts facilitator from Upstate, NY. She is the recipient of the 2025 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award for Playwriting, an official selection for the 2026 Colorado New Play Summit at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, a 2025/26 member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, and under commission at Noor Theatre and the Alcove at Lucille Lortel Theatre. Her work has been developed with NYTW, The Playwrights Realm, Mercury Store, Keen Company, Premiere Stages at Kean, The People’s Theatre, B Street Theatre, and others. She is the Company and Community Manager at Target Margin Theater, a Resident Artist at Breaking & Entering Theater Collective, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. A collection of her short plays is published with 1319 Press. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. alyssahaddad.com
Releases July 21st
In an abandoned restaurant at the outset of the end times, poetry legend Hosanna sits for a puff piece on her life and legacy. But when the interviewer, Aesop, reveals himself to be a devotee of her work, Hosanna throws down the gauntlet, challenging him to enter the world of the word and embrace his true calling.
Credits
Written by Nic Adams
Directed by Angel Desai
With Rebecca Robertson as Hosanna and Becca Blackwell as Aesop
Sound design by Nic Adams
Music by The Brothers Adams
Recorded by the company
Mastered by Kegan Zema
About the artist
Nic Adams is an NYC-based educator, cultural organizer, and writer. His work has been presented at We Are Here, Judson Memorial Church, Joe's Pub, The Bushwick Starr (with Target Margin), JACK, and The Brick, among other venues, and by The BEAT Festival, The Performing Garage Presents (with Oye Group), and The Exponential Festival, for which he’s served as the Producing Director since 2017. Adams’ poetry has been published online at B O D Y Literature, and his short play, Grief Leash, is represented by Tiny Scripted. MFA in playwriting, Brooklyn College ('23).
nicadams.com | IG: @nniiccoollaass
Releases July 28th
No judgment when you are waiting, only the stark reminder that you are alive. A darkly comic portrait of a person witnessing the world.
Credits
Written by Caridad Svich
Directed by Allyson Dwyer
With Lianne El Souki and Harold Lehmann
Sound design by Robin Margolis
Mastered by Kegan Zema
Recorded at Spaceman Sound
About the artist
Caridad Svich (playwright) has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama, an Obie for Lifetime Achievement and the ATCA Primus Prize, among other honors. Key works include 12 OPHELIAS, RED BIKE, IPHIGENIA CRASH LAND FALLS... , THE WAY OF WATER and IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES (based on Julia Alvarez' novel). They have edited several books on performance, among them TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS and TOWARD A FUTURE THEATRE (Methuen Drama). Feature Film: FUGITIVE DREAMS on Apple TV. She is published by TRW Plays, TCG, Intellect and more. She is founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. website: https://caridadsvich.com
Releases August 4th
In this pungent breath of not-so-fresh air, a bunch of bad attitudes in toupées converge for a short amount of time to yell incoherent stuff at you and shove their fingers in your face! They hope you enjoy!
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Written & Directed by Leonie Bell
With Nic Adams as Frank Bass, Ben Holbrook as Brad, Allyson Dwyer as Georgie, Alyssa Haddad-Chin as Radio Girl, Kenneth Keng as Bridget, and Leonie Bell as Sheila
Sound design by Leonie Bell
Mastered by Kegan Zema
Recorded at Spaceman Sound
About the artist
Leonie Bell is a German-American theater artist + sound designer from Berlin, based in New York. In NYC, she has presented work at Target Margin Theater, BAM, Performance Space NY, BAM, The Brick, and other venues. Leonie makes dark humor landscapes in the form of theater performances + short films, which are frequently populated by pseudo-historical narratives, center matriarchal lineages, and imagine nature as a main character. Leonie’s pieces often feature a mix of genre-fluid song and movement, lo-fi tech, bilingual text, snacks, voluntary audience participation, and a big mess. Sound design awards: 2023 “Mix it Up” Sound Designer of the Year (Young Howze Theatre Awards), 2021 Indie Shorts Awards Cannes (Phosphor), 2020 La Mama DesignFest. Leonie produces much of her work through her free-form theater company LOCAL GRANDMA. Fall 2026: Im Dunkeln sieht man besser (transl. I’ll be back tomorrow). leoniebell.org
Releases August 11th
"There is Only My Voice," a continuation of the Theatre Immaterial collection of theatrical guided meditations, attempts to soothe all your anxieties about the future by helping you to focus on one singular point in your mental space, totally free from any interference. A literal meditation on whose voices we allow to shape our realities.
Credits
written & directed by Ben Holbrook
with Ben Holbrook as Voice One, Thea Brooks as Voice Two, Cristina Pitter as Voice Three, Andrew Butler as Voice Four and Nate Weida as Voice Five
Sound design by Jonah Kue
Mastered by Kegan Zema
Recorded at Spaceman Sound
About the artist
Ben Holbrook is a Brooklyn-based (originally from NC) playwright and filmmaker whose works have been produced, developed, or commissioned by: The High Line, The Exponential Festival, The Brick, Theatre Untitled, Maker’s Ensemble, Fundamental Theater Project, Ruddy Productions, The New York International Fringe Festival, The Memphis Fringe Festival, The Motor Company, Voices of the South (TN), Ugly Rhino(LA), Seoul Players (SK), Holiday House, Find the Light (LA), The Irish Arts Council, 45th Street Block Association, and Paper Lantern Theatre Company (NC). His films have been seen at the Big Apple Film Festival, The Imaginarium Convention, The Comedy of Horrors Festival, The Sickest Short Films Festival, and The Films Open Mic Festival. He's been awarded the Williamstown Theatre Festival Artist Residency, the Edward Albee Foundation fellowship, the Drama League Rough Draft Residency (partnering with Sam Underwood), Fresh Ground Pepper’s Playground Playgroup Residency, The WildWind Performance Lab Residency at Texas Tech, The New Concepts Theatre Lab at UNC-Greensboro, Magic Time at Judson Church, has been a finalist for Juilliard’s playwriting fellowship and the O’Neill’s National Playwright’s Conference, and is the inaugural recipient of the Peter Shaffer Award for Excellence in Playwriting and a winner of the 47th Samuel French OOB Festival. More info at https://baholbrook.com
Releases August 18th