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I Am Nobody Music and libretto by Greg Kotis Directed by Avery Rose Pedell Music direction and vocal arrangements by Stephen Anthony Elkins Presented by Theater of the Apes and Monday Night Musicals at The Magnet at The Magnet 254 W 29th St, Manhattan, NYC April 6-May 11, 2026 L to R: Ayun Halliday, Madeline Glave, Piatt Pund (rear), Emilio Cuesta, Greg Kotis. Photo credit: @sambrinkleypics Who among us hasn't felt at least some ambivalence about the amount of time that we spend with various screens, not to mention how those screens are shaping the world? As waitress and unsigned musician Naomi ( Madeline Glave ) says at the beginning of I Am Nobody , a comic play with music from Greg Kotis, "It's been a hard couple of years," and the world is "in a weird place." If this sentiment was true when the Covid-19 pandemic prematurely ended the original run of Kotis's guitar-driven musical in March 2020, it is arguably even more true now. With the world in at...

Theater of the Apes , an East Harlem-based company dedicated to presenting original, affordable, comic work, has announced casting for its remount of Greg Kotis ’ pandemic-clobbered original guitar musical I Am Nobody . Original cast members Emilio Cuesta (“Nathaniel) and Ayun Halliday (“Miriam") will be joined by Greg Kotis (“Mr. Charles”), Madeline Glave (“Naomi), and Eric May Liu (“Lucas”). The creative team includes Avery Rose Pedell (Director), Stephen Anthony Elkins (Music Director), Piatt Pund (Assistant Music Director) and Katie Walenta (Producer). From Tony Award-winner Greg Kotis ( Urinetown , The End of All Flesh ) comes a tuneful 21st-century parable about the myriad technological devices holding us prisoner that feels even timelier now than it did in March of 2020. In I Am Nobody , Lucas’ phone has seized control of his mind. It gives him no peace!!! His only recourse is to abscond with a batch of super-charged microchips, intent on unleashing a powerful cyber vi...

The End of All Flesh Written by Greg Kotis Directed by Avery Rose Pedell Presented by Theater of the Apes and FRIGID New York at the wild project 195 E 3rd St., Manhattan, NYC April 2-20, 2025 [UPDATES, 1 and 28 May 2025:  The production has been extended and will be presented as part of the “Monday Night Musicals” double-feature at The Magnet (254 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001) with performances on May 5 at 6:30 p.m., May 19 at 6:30 p.m., June 2nd at 6:30 p.m., June 9th at 6:30 p.m., June 16th at 6:30 p.m., and June 23rd at 8 p.m. Tickets $25 are available for advance purchase at www.magnettheater.com . ] Greg Kotis, Maithili Ginde, Sammy Pignalosa, and Ayun Halliday. Photo by Pam Rice.  As you may have noticed lately, the United States government seems set on accelerating, via a number of avenues, the climate apocalypse towards which humanity is already proceeding at quite a clip. Set in the postapocalyptic future that we seem so determined to bring about, The End of All F...