Producer Tracks

A cohort of Producers powers every show at the festival—building the production frameworks, shaping artistic development, and bringing each performance to life from behind the scenes. This page spotlights the rare moments when that same cohort steps forward with work they’ve curated themselves. These Producer‑led shows reveal the creative instincts, aesthetic choices, and festival‑ready strategies that usually stay offstage.

Explore the productions selected and shaped by the Producer cohort, and experience the festival through the vision of the people who make its artistry possible.

Producer Tracks

  • Gum Preston

    In Account, you come in and sit down and I tell you my complete financial history while scrolling through my debit and credit card purchases and pulling up my bank accounts, then you tell me what class I am. Thank you in advance for your help. It's a financial confessional that includes, shame, fraud, generational bag fumbling, and unproductive leftist angst.

  • Grace Lazarz, Patrick Burke, Claire Bronchick

    Betsey Ross Groundhog Day is a historical fiction dramedy following Betsy Ross stuck in a time loop. Betsy is trapped in the prison of colonial America, perpetually locked into the year between making the American flag and her wedding night. This piece grapples with the divide between the real person and the national memory of Betsy. How does she face her cult of personality in the mirror day over day, year over year?

    Punxsutawney Phil goes head to head with the Mother of our Country in a brawl for the ages.
    Punxsutawney Phil goes head to head with Buff Betsy in a bareknuckle duel where scars are formed and stars and stripes are born.


    Punxsutawney Phil goes head to head with ComedySportz Betsy in ill-fitting uniforms and a timer that just won’t QUIT!


    Punxsutawney Phil goes head to head with Betsy Yas in “Never Have I Ever”, and someone leaves crying…


    Punxsutawney Phil goes head to head with Truth Betsy in a wet t-shirt contest, and we promise you’ll get hard.

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  • Vanessa Kamp

    Familiar objects are inverted and become the agents of new sonic territories; a wayward speedwalker bares all in a hottt striptease; an aspiring backwoods man’s strutting makes the space feel too small; an enigmatic clubgoer gives a poignant nod to contemporary French cinema; maybe we’re in some guy’s garage where he’s the DJ.

    Multiple characters transit and inhabit sensorial spaces and soundscapes where themes of touch are at once literal and expansive, and act as catalysts to create simple, lush, and elegantly surreal passages and scenes.

    Unadorned analog technologies create unexpected and immersive visuals and sound where action unfolds in diverse registers ranging from humor to drag to the surreal.

    Is there anything that isn’t touching?
    - Christopher Speedwalken, cast member of Houndstooth

  • Nick Jonczak

    New Works from Nick Jonczak

    I’m showing three different works in progress and I’d love to see you at all three of them!

    Sat, Sep 12 at 8pm — NEW WORLD VULTURES
    A group of men’s rights activists gather at a cabin for a summit on how to defeat feminism once and for all. Their plan is bound to work, if they can get out alive.

    NEW WORLD VULTURES is a shocking and absurd portrait of an empire in collapse.
    Staged reading of a script.

    Sun, Sep 20 at 12:30p — SNATCH
    Why are there no modern rights of passage for young boys to become men? As a queer person, why do I care about being a man?

    I’ve been training to hold a 35lb kettlebell over my head for an hour hoping it might teach me how to be a man. Come see if I’ve learned anything.

    Hour long performance art experience.

    Sun, Sep 27 at 8pm — NIGHTCRAWLERS
    10 days ago the lights went out. Then, They came.

    NIGHTCRAWLERS is a tragic horror adventure play about what we owe each other when time is short and there is no dawn after dark. Perfect for the start of spooky season!
    Staged reading of a script.