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.
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Environment Warnings: This production of The Scenarios includes the use of herbal tobacco.
The Scenarios is generously underwritten by Joan and David Maxwell.
Matthew Capodicasa's (he/him) plays include 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 Primary Stages, Great Plains Theatre Conference, BLUEBARN Theatre, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, and the Capital Fringe Festival, among others. 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. Film and television: projects in development with Anonymous Content, Protozoa Pictures, 3311, Wattpad, Morning Moon, Space Bandit, and Video House. You can also hear him nerd out on various podcasts from the Glass Cannon Network. BFA, NYU/Tisch; MFA, Fordham. Graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School. He currently teaches at NYU.
“A Mental Health Solution to a Mental Health Crisis:”
De-Escalation Trainings for Police Officers
Setting the Scene: Matthew Capodicasa
Mental Illness, Violence, and Police Interactions: An Overview
“Making the invisible visible for a little while:” An Interview with Matthew Capodicasa