Stage Shows
The Fantastical Fellowship: Final Quest for the Crisis Crystal XXVII
The Fantastical Fellowship tells the story of a magical heroine destined to save the planet... until she fails and it's up to her ragtag fellowship of misfit friends to aid her. Spoofing fantasy works and satirizing the myth of the individual, the show engages the entire audience. Saving the world isn't a job for just one person, after all.
Under the working title of The Fantastical Seven, the show received a staged reading at New York City Center on August 24th, directed by Phoebe Brooks, stage managed by Lauren Linsey, and produced by Daisy Theatricals and Joey Nasta.
The Fantastical Fellowship received a full production at Under St. Mark’s in January and February 2024, directed by Phoebe Brooks, stage managed by Amelia McGinnis, and produced by Andrew Agress and Greg T. Nanni. The successful run had several sold-out performances and received praise from audiences and critics alike:
“I couldn’t stop smiling” -The Theatre Times
“Delightfully ridiculous” -No Proscenium
“So much fun. HAPPY FACE PLUS” -Hi! Drama
The Midnight Rush
Online theater is often impersonal and cold without the visceral responses of a live audience. The Midnight Rush blends horror and camp aesthetics with audience engagement to create an interactive theatrical experience online akin to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Audiences engage in real time with the performance through digital reactions, opportunities for unmuted “callbacks,” and the using filters and costumes to aid in the world-building of the production. The show tells the story of creatures from outer space hiding on a train, and the who’s-who of characters from bumbling scientists to young bohemian lovers who get caught up in the search for a star that fell to Earth.
The Midnight Rush debuted on Zoom in April 2021, directed by Jorge Schultz, created by Andrew Agress and co-written by Kanika Vaish, as part of the Collaboration II MFA Class advised by Ann Bogart, Christian Parker, and David Henry Hwang.
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The Slide Show, Or, A Petition for the Position of Artistic Director at a Major Seafood Chain and Other Theatrical Presentations
Long subtitle not enough? The Slide Show is a compilation of various comedic and satirical musings on theater, accompanied by projected images. If you've ever attended a presentation party, The Slide Show streams live over OhYay. The first ten audience members have the option to be a part of the digital "live studio audience" with the rest watching the live stream.
The Slide Show played at The Pittsburgh Fringe, FringePVD, and the Minnesota Fringe in summer 2021. It was directed by Liv Rigdon, created by Andrew Agress and co-written by Aleksander Sayers, Amelia Johnson Jones, Kathleen Finch, and Davis Cowart, and produced by Octopode Theater Co.
That Sinking Feeling
By all accounts, shipwrecks are no fun. An iceberg appears on the horizon and before you can shout “ahoy!,” your mouth fills up with salt water, your ship is reduced to driftwood, and James Cameron is planning his next blockbuster. It always goes down the same way, right? Wrong! That Sinking Feeling takes a laugh-out-loud tour through history’s true tales of disaster on the high seas, finally answering those questions like: Whos the worst person to be stranded on a desert island with? What if Moby Dick was a sex thing? How many sharks is too many sharks? And why on earth do people keep getting back on boats?
Directed by Raphael Stigliano and written by Andrew Agress & Raphael Stigliano, That Sinking Feeling played at FringePVD and Minnesota Fringe in summer 2019.
Taking Ages
A hysterical historical tour through time, Taking Ages uses the medium of sketch comedy to retell various famous and infamous events like you’ve never learned about them before. Answering such questions as why England had so many kings, what Sacagawea’s role as relationship coach was, and what FDR really feared, the show ultimately begs the questions of who gets to tell history and how do we know history books are “right?”
Taking Ages premiered at Spingold Arts Center in spring 2017. Directed by Raphael Stigliano, written by Andrew Agress, and stage managed by Maddie Lenchner, it won the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award for Best Original Play.