Theater of Wonder (TOW) : A new 2022 ShoutOut program

TOW is theater of astonishing, touching, miraculous plays for young audiences and openhearted adults. It aims to produce plays with music, movement, and ecologically conceived, minimalist costumes, sets, and props, in collaboration with artists from various mediums.

What’s Buggin’ Greg tells the story of fifth-grader Greg Samsa who wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned into a giant cockroach. How can he face his schoolmates? Can he still perform the lead in his school play? Or is he doomed to be a science exhibit for the rest of his life? Inspired by Franz Kafka and Shakespeare, the comedy is recommended for ages 7 and older. Winner of the Macy’s New Play Prize.

Director: Jessica Bauman

Jessica is a community-engaged theater maker who divides her time between Brooklyn and Stone Ridge. She adapted and directed “Arden/Everywhere,” a retelling of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” as a refugee story, produced Off-Broadway with a cast of professionals, and non-professionals from the refugee and immigrant communities. Her work has been seen at the Spoleto Festival, New York Theater Workshop, New Georges, Joe’s Pub, Juilliard and many other venues. She recently collaborated with artists from Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, CA on “The Frontera Project.”

Playwright: Darrah Cloud

Darrah’s plays include The House Across the Street, The Stick Wife, Our Suburb, The Mud Angel, Dream House, Braille Garden, The Sirens, Heartland, The Boxcar Children, Honor Song for Crazy Horse, Understudy Jesus, and the stage adaptation of Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!, filmed by American Playhouse. She has written for CBS, Fox and NBC. Alum of New Dramatists, co-directs Howl Playwrights in Rhinebeck. Darrah is the Town Supervisor of Pine Plains, NY.

Future Plays: Playing Dog, Cheri Magid; Joan the Girl of Arc, Darrah Cloud