The Infinite Wrench

With new plays every week, TIW is The Neo-Futurists’ ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live theatre. This week: 9 world-premiere plays and a wrench that moves us all.

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The Infinite Wrench

THE INFINITE WRENCH is a mechanism that unleashes a barrage of two-minute plays for a live audience. Each play offers something different, be it funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irreverent, ...
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The Infinite Wrench: 30 QUEER PLAYS IN 60 STRAIGHT MINUTES

Our annual Pride tradition returns! Slaying gender roles, celebrating deviance, being sweet, kind, nasty & proud. Every year, we’re thrilled to put together our Pride-centric menu of 30 plays inside ...
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Jorge Silva

Jorge Silva is a writer/performer, producer, and the Managing Director for The Neo-Futurists.  Silva, a native Chicagoan, was previously the Producing Coordinator for the Goodman Theatre serving as the producing ...
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Writing and Performing the Two-Minute Play

More sessions of our Writing&Performing classes are now available for enrollment! This summer! Click below!
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Play: Men Talking About the End of the World

Pride is coming up, and every year we throw a special event of The Infinite Wrench: 30 Queer Plays In 60 Straight Minutes. It's a show we love doing, bringing ...
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Tours

We enjoy performing, teaching workshops, and giving presentations outside of our home space, either for a single event or a longer tour. If you’d like to hire us to come ...
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Joanna Jamerson

Ensemble Member (2017–NOW) / Writer of many plays, including “dedicated to the cement man on lsd on lsd,” “my trip to australia, but with a better ending,” and “ef for ...
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Trent Creswell

Ensemble Member (2017-NOW) / Writer of many plays, including “NEO-FUTURIST T-SHIRT LAUNCHER,” “A’Capella Karaoke Unabridged,” and “V for Vendetta// D for Dumbass.”
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Jasmine Henri Jordan

Ensemble Member (2017-NOW) / Writer of many plays, including “Disruptive,”” “Jasmine’s Plato’s The Apology,” and “A Two-Minute Pitch for a One-Minute Play.”
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Neil Bhandari

Ensemble Member (2017-NOW) / Writer of many plays, including “superbluebloodmoon,” “A Tender Ballad for the highly Cultured Lovers of Fine Art in the House Tonight,” and “The President’s Actual Butt.”
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Connor Shioshita Pickett

Ensemble Member (2017-NOW) / Writer of many plays, including “four noble truths, two-sided ladder, no-fold path: a neo-futurist zen buddist performance studies fable” and “The humble beginnings of organized religion!”
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Ida Cuttler

Ensemble Member (2014-NOW) / Writer of many plays, including “Reverse Mermaid,” “Everyone is Welcome in Nonsense Corner,: and “I took a minute before my lunch break to replace all of ...
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Nick Hart

Ensemble Member (2014-NOW) / With the Alamo in the rearview, Nick Hart rides back into the Wrench this week.
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Kate Hardiman

What you think I do: What I actually do: [see above .gif] — Kate Hardiman is a technician, designer, stage manager, and production manager about town. She works in the ...
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Diana Slickman

Diana is featured in the latest show by our friends at Theater Oobleck, Mickle Maher’s It Is Magic. Check it out! (runs until June 29, 2019). *** Diana Slickman is ...
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Greg Kotis

Greg Kotis is the same Greg Kotis who wrote Urinetown and Yeast Nation, among many other plays both short and long. Like his wife, Ayun Halliday, Greg was one of the original New York ...
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Ayun Halliday

Ayun was a member of both the Chicago Neo-Futurists and the original yearlong run of the first New York Neo-Futurists. She lives in NYC with her husband, fellow Neo alum Greg ...
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Heather Riordan

Heather is featured in the latest show by our friends at Theater Oobleck, Mickle Maher’s It Is Magic. Check it out! (runs until June 29, 2019). *** I have been ...
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Tim Reid

Tim Reid has been an ensemble member with the Neo-Futurists since 2008. He has created and performed work with Emmy Bright, Gabriel McKinney and Ellie Heyman, and studied clown, buffoon, ...
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Chloe Johnston

Chloe returns as a cast member in The Egg Wrench! (May 12) ~ Chloe Johnston has a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. She hates when you call her ...
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Megan Mercier

megan mercier: the bio (unrevised & unedited since 2008) megan was born in Georgia, grew up in Alabama, and went to kindergarten twice. she has never broken a bone nor ...
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