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  • THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR GALA A GREAT SUCCESS

    Thanks to everyone who joined us to honor Josh Silverman, and to everyone who contributed to make it a truly special night.

    It’s not too late to contribute to the Josh Silverman Fund! DONATE HERE

  • MEET OUR 26/27 GROUP COHORTS!

    A very warm welcome to the incoming writers and directors taking part in Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group and New Play Fellowship!

    Directors Cricket Brown, Marissa Joyce Stamps and Jillian Jetton will work on plays by Daniel Holzman, Aaron Ricciardi and Nikhil Mahapatra respectively – stay tuned for a Winterworks announcement.

    And we’re looking forward to getting to know Agyeiwaa Asante, Ida Cutler, Carlin Feck, Fiona Gorry-Hines, Salwa Meghjee, Derick Edgren Otero, Jacob K. Robinson and Amy B. Tiong in this year’s writers’ group!

  • THANK YOU FOR COMING TO SUMMERWORKS 2026

    Whether it was your first Summerworks or your 29th, we are so pleased you could join us. CLICK HERE for photos, essays and press from this season.

    We’ll be spending the summer incubating and planning for the fall, but we have lot of news to share, so watch this space!

  • SUMMERWORKS 2025'S SOLD-OUT CRITIC'S PICK COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE RETURNS

    Tickets for Ro Reddick’s COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE are on sale now! The Summerworks 2025 Critic’s Pick, directed by Knud Adams, will return for an extended run co-produced by MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS & INFO

  • OUR NEW ANTHOLOGY - ON SALE NOW

    We’ve been eager to put out a second anthology since Funny, Strange, Provocative was published in 2007, and the last year finally provided us with the time to take on this long-awaited project. We are thrilled to announce that Unusual Stories, Unusually Told, published by Bloomsbury/Methuen, is now available!

    In it you’ll find seven Clubbed Thumb plays that span 18 years of our history, as well as essays and interviews about the work, and the often atypical processes that led to their productions.

    Read more about the book and get your discounted copy (and our first anthology) HERE

USUS

by T. Adamson
directed by Emma Miller
with: Ugo Chukwu, Annie Fang, Crystal Finn, Yonatan Gebeyehu, David Greenspan, Mary Lou Rosato and Jon Norman Schneider

sets Yi-Hsuan (Ant) Ma
costumes Phuong Nguyen
lights Marika Kent
sound Carsen Joenk
choreographer Sunny Min-Sook Hitt
stage manager Siena Yusi

It’s 1318 and six Franciscan friars are caught between the purity of their beliefs and a Pope who likes stuff. The it-shay is about to hit the an-fay.

MAY 16 – MAY 28, 2024
Part of Clubbed Thumb’s 27th Summerworks at the Wild Project

A Note From The Author

T. Adamson

On Usus

Crystal Finn

An Interview With The Playwright

T. Adamson

Usus, Disillusionment and Power

Jesse Jae Hoon

COACH COACH

by Bailey Williams
directed by Sarah Blush
with: Purva Bedi, Cindy Cheung, Becca Lish, Kelly McAndrew, Susannah Millonzi and Zuzanna Szadkowski

sets Colleen Murray
costumes Dan Wang
lights Masha Tsimring
sound Johnny Gasper
fight choreography Kelly Bartnik
stage manager Allison Raynes

A group of coaches – with the same credentials, but different specialties – gather for a weekend retreat. Some of them will leave as Platinum Practitioner Life Coaches with Dr. Meredith Martin’s Action Coach Academy for Thinking Coaches. Some of them will not.

JUNE 3 – JUNE 13, 2024
Part of Clubbed Thumb’s 27th Summerworks at the Wild Project

A Note From The Author

Bailey Williams

Work Retreat In A Rental Home: Some Thoughtwork On Coach Coach

T. Adamson

The Thousand Selves You’ll Never Save: On Coach Coach

Liza Birkenmeier

They Spent Their Savings On Life Coaching

Katie Bishop, NY Times

An Interview With The Playwright

Bailey Williams

In Coach Coach, The Ouroboros of Self-Improvement

Billy McEntee, The Brooklyn Rail

FIND ME HERE

by Crystal Finn
directed by Caitlin Sullivan
with: Kyle Beltran, Lizbeth Mackay, Keith Reddin, Constance Shulman, Miriam Silverman, Kathleen Tolan, Shannon Tyo and Frank Wood

sets dots
costumes Brenda Abbandandolo
lights Isabella Byrd  
sound Mikaal Sulaiman
stage manager Caroline Englander

A patriarch dies at 100 years old and three sisters open his will. One sister is worried she is next. One sister is determined never to be next. One sister is becoming invisible.

JUNE 19 – JUNE 29, 2024
Part of Clubbed Thumb’s 27th Summerworks at the Wild Project

A Note From The Author

Crystal Finn

A Scenic View

Ken Rus Schmoll

There’s No Logical Way To Be In A Family

Bailey Williams

An Interview With The Playwright

Crystal Finn

Review: Three-Sister Harmony in Find Me Here

Sara Holdren, NY Magazine

WINTERWORKS 2024

The culmination of our New Play Directing Fellowship – featuring:

Lauren Zeftel directing
MY SIX THERAPISTS
by Julia Izumi
with Purva Bedi, Alma Cuervo, Ethan Dubin, Polly Lee, Jon Norman Schneider, Shannon Tyo and Amelia Workman
designer Afsoon Pajoufar | stage manager Cara Kienitz

Carsen Joenk directing
WATCH ME
by Justice Hehir
with Sarina Freda, Greg Keller, Layla Khoshnoudi, Izabel Mar, Nicole Rodenburg, Felix Teich and Carmen Zilles
choreographer Sunny Min-Sook Hitt | stage manager Matthew Pezzulich

Miranda Cornell directing
CHAIRS
by Hayley Stahl
with Jess Barbagallo, Jordan Bellow, Susan Blommaert, Cindy Cheung, Emily Davis, Annie Fang, Portia, Connie Shulman and Naren Weiss
designer Kelvin Pater | stage manager Alisa Rabin

GRIEF HOTEL

a return of Clubbed Thumb’s Obie Award-winning production – in residence at The Public Theater

written by Liza Birkenmeier
directed by Tara Ahmadinejad

featuring the original cast:
Susan Blommaert, Bruce McKenzie, Nadine Malouf, Ana Nogueira, Susannah Perkins and Naren Weiss

sets by dots
costumes by Mel Ng
lights by Masha Tsimring
sound & composition by Jordan McCree
production stage manager Allison Raynes
Presented in partnership with New Georges

Loss is fast, but grief is slow. Aunt Bobbi’s going to try to make everyone feel better, even though her parties are cursed.

MARCH 20 – APRIL 27, 2024
at The Public’s Shiva Theater

Listen to the hit single, Roads Go

Asher Lowden

A Note From The Author

Liza Birkenmeier

Grief Hotel: A Theory Of Relativity

Sarah Lunnie

Every Place You Go Can Burn Down

Madeleine George

Review: Grief Hotel, Where You Check In To Yourself

Sara Holdren, NY Magazine

Review: Grief Hotel, Misery Loves Company

Melissa Rose Bernardo, NY Stage Review

Check In To Grief Hotel: Wading Through Woe with Liza Birkenmeier’s Latest

Billy McEntee, The Brooklyn Rail

Grief Is A Funny Thing. No Really.

Joey Sims

The 2024 Summerworks Reading Series

featuring plays-in-progress from the 23/24 Early-Career Writers’ Group.

Fri May 24th:
Unfortunately People Will Die… by Nikhil Mahapatra

Fri June 7th:
His Majesty, Her Self by Alle Mims

Mon June 10th:
Dokkaebi by Ashil Lee

Tue June 11th:
Episodes by Kallan Dana

Mon June 24th:
adoration by Jose Sebastian Alberdi

Tue June 25th:
Rollback by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Wed June 26th:
Olives by Daniel Holzman

Thu June 27th:
Untitled Beauty Play by Alexa Derman

Also featuring plays from the recent graduates of Brown University’s MFA Playwriting Program: Ro Reddick & Harley Elias

 

Summerworks art by Zachary Blumner | Grief Hotel art by Jacob Quinn | Graphic Design Maggie Hoffman