Angie, an actor, has just landed her weirdest gig yet: improvising scenes with active-duty cops, helping to train them to respond to people in acute mental crisis. But when the backstage tensions and workplace hijinks begin to pull focus from the training’s actual goal—to save lives—Angie tries making things a little more real. Funny and compassionate, this world premiere looks at the intricacies of empathy and asks what it costs to pretend to be someone else.
Runtime: TBD.
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The Scenarios is generously underwritten by Joan and David Maxwell.
Matthew Capodicasa (he/him)’s plays include Noise in the Line, Next/Life, All the People You’ve Been, The City in the City in the City, You Remind Me of You, Frelmetsch the Maneater, and The City Of. His work has been presented or developed at The Kennedy Center, Primary Stages, Great Plains Theatre Conference, BLUEBARN Theatre, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, Theater Masters, and the Capital Fringe Festival. He is a recipient of a Judith Champion Launch Commission from the Atlantic Theater Company, a winner of the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, and a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Heideman Award. He has film and television projects in development with Anonymous Content, Protozoa Pictures, 3311, Wattpad, Video House, Endless Media, and XYZ Films. He has a BFA from NYU/Tisch and an MFA from Fordham. He is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School and currently teaches at NYU.