An improvised musical featuring old-timey bluegrass tunes and a rotating cast on traditional instruments like banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, washboard, egg shakers and kazoo …
Playing monthly in NYC. Schedule here.
The End of All Flesh
The End of All Flesh is a rollicking, post-apocalyptic, cautionary bluegrass tale by Greg Kotis (Tony Award-winning co-author of Urinetown.) Join Ma, Pa, Boy, and Girl in their hard won mountain home, as they sing about environmental collapse, changing gender norms, the generation gap, questionable survivalist practices, and a glimpse of what’s to come.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW: Tickets on sale in now!
Wednesday 4/2 at 8:10pm
Friday 4/11 at 9:50pm
Friday 4/18 at 8:10pm
Sunday 4/20 at 7:00 pm
More info HERE
Juliet’s Nurse hits the road, deploying her eyewitness observations to correct the record regarding "the greatest love story ever told".
Inspired by actress / Brooklyn Theater fire survivor Kate Claxton's historic lecture tour.
Love! Death! Aging! Teenagers!
Written and performed by Ayun Halliday.
Directed by Spencer Kayden
Inquire about bringing this solo show to your theater or festival!
My God. Who is this glamorous lady? SOMEBODY CAST HER, even though she uses a passport photo taken by a random employee at the UPS Store as her professional headshot! Current dream roles: The Nurse, Mother Courage, Pippin’s grandma & any Chekhov you’d care to throw my way…
I’m not just some starlet sipping soda at Schrafft’s, waiting for you to discover me, though…
I AM ALSO THE QUEEN OF THE APES!!!
Theater of the Apes
Human See. Human Do.
Theater of the Apes was formed pre-pandemic as an ongoing theatrical concern of Kotis, Kotis, Kotis & Halliday. While we continue regrouping, enjoy a peek at some of the shows I’ve cooked up under its auspices!
In which an aged book is pulled from the vortex and resurrected as a one-night-only New York City variety show.
Other Shows
Some theatrical oddities from beyond the realm of Theater of the Apes…

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Shayna Strype with Yael Nachajon

Necromancers of the Public Domain: The Spinner Family

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Rubin & Rubinstein

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Bryce Edwards

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Dejen Tesfagiorgis

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Katie Kay Chelena

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Pearl Rhein

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Ellia Bisker, Heather Cole, and Jeff Morris

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Trav S. D.

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Ayun Halliday
A raucous mid-life meditation on the comedy of existence, the hell of long term relationships, and the play where “nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes…”.

Chris Lindsay-Abaire awaiting Marjorie Duffield’s return from LA during rehearsals in Brooklyn

Zamboni Godot: Marjorie Duffield, Chris Lindsay-Abaire and the Zamboner Chorus awaiting the New Year’s Eve ball drop

Zamboni Godot: Chris Lindsay-Abaire (Didi) awaiting arrival on Ellis Island

Zamboni Godot: Sandye Renz, Laura Hart, Joanna Cox, Kate Ryan, Tiina Dohrmann and Angie Pflanz at the Louvre

Zamboni Godot: Marjorie Duffield (Gogo) awaiting triage with Tiina Dohrmann and Joanna Cox

Zamboni Godot: Marjorie Duffield and Chris Lindsay-Abaire working the polls

Zamboni Godot: Zamboni Godot: A rainy line for the Ellis Island ferry

Zamboni Godot: Marjorie Duffield (Gogo) on a country road. A tree. Evening

Zamboni Godot: Chris Lindsay-Abaire and Marjorie Duffield await rescue on a desert island

Zamboni Godot: Chris Lindsay-Abaire awaiting death
Three middle-aged women & three teenage boys attempt to survive in a post-digital, pre-apocalyptic agrarian landscape, with dialogue culled from social media. Like. Like. Heart emoticon. Like.

Fawnbook: The Boys dream of a Fawngirl (Mayim Richman)

Fawnbook: Ayun Halliday eulogizes her dear friend, goddess-sister, and colleague of the Priestessly Way (Chris Wells)

Fawnbook: Chris Lindsay-Abaire, Benny Rendell and an apron full of baby mice

Fawnbook: Marjorie Duffield intercepting transmissions on the tomato can phone

Fawnbook: Ayun Halliday and Max Piersol tend to Nick Balaban as the Burn Survivor

Fawnbook: Chris Lindsay-Abaire and John Albert

Fawnbook: Benny Rendell in the dirt pile

Fawnbook: Sarah Kotis and India Kotis as the Fantasy Fawngirls

Fawnbook: The Nuclear Survivor (Nick Balaban) brings horrible news

Fawnbook: Lottie Probst as the Little Fawngirl
A teenaged deep-dive expedition through “The Little Mermaid,” eschewing Disney’s happy ending for the explicit trauma of Hans Christian Andersen’s original.

The Mermaid’s Legs: Valentina Giovannini with the Prince’s Ship

The Mermaid’s Legs: Emily Mondrus pours sweet nothings into Dan Allen’s ear

The Mermaid’s Legs: The crones (Max Hamilton and Kaiulani Ellington) lose control of a mermaid (Milo Kotis)

The Mermaid’s Legs: Mermaid Emily Mondrus loses her tongue

The Mermaid’s Legs: Quintin Harris, Milo Kotis and Artemisia LeFay are all eyes

The Mermaid’s Legs: Mermaid Quintin Harris, untroubled by a tempest

The Mermaid’s Legs: Three little girls re-tell the Disney version

The Mermaid’s Legs: The entrance to the Sea Witch’s lair

The Mermaid’s Legs: Mermaid Leo Lion loses his tongue

The Mermaid’s Legs: Mermaid Milo Kotis takes no comfort from a conch
An autobiographical root-vegetable-based NICU puppet show.

NeoNatalSweetPotato: Yeah, my dream was shattered but my baby is alive.

NeoNatalSweetPotato: The play that led to the article that led to a piece in an anthology that led to my first book…

NeoNatalSweetPotato: Salad bin

NeoNatalSweetPotato: Liza and son

NeoNatalSweetPotato: Putting on a brave face
The Neo-Futurists
I also logged a decade with the Neo-Futurists, writing and performing in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes and a handful of other Neo-Futurist productions in both Chicago and New York. Speaking of babies… look at me! Look at Greg!

Bagel: Postcard

Bagel: Ayun Halliday

Farang: Postcard

Farang: Ayun Halliday

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: Ensemble

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: Ensemble

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: Ensemble

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: Ensemble

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: Ensemble

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: Ensemble

Wind Up Variations by Rob Neill: Eevin Hartsough, Ayun Halliday, Daniel Mirsky, T Thompson
Make a Donation to the Apes!
Thanks to the fiscal sponsorship of Fractured Atlas, Theater of the Apes has the ability to accept your tax-deductible donations. We use these little windfalls to pay casts and crews and save up to take it on the road, and believe the Queen of the Apes when she says we will thank you in the program.
Fractured Atlas is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions for the purposes of Theater of the Apes are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.