Another new play!
This one I’ve been working on with @cass_d17 since 2023 and I’m so thrilled to get it on its feet. It’s dark and twisted and upsetting and deranged. Like Tumblr in 2008. Like being a teenage girl.
We’ve got an incredible cast in @nnataliasotoo , @anacmorgan , @jakefornyc , and @ned_bannonn , and I can’t wait for you to see them in action!
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Excited that I get to do this with some truly excellent people who were way too ready to match my freak. We've gotten very ambitious with this one and I'm so delighted to get to share it with you! The public!
I wrote this play because I'm afraid (all the time) that its the end of the world and that I'm not doing enough. I'm also afraid of people from San Francisco. Come with me on this journey. Let's be afraid together.
Ticket link in bio!
Sunday, July 27 at 9:30pm
60 min runtime
The Tank - 312 W 36th
@eis_to_meet_you@akaina.ghosh@jacob.ritts@kurzunski
gl !!
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About the Plays
Choreomania
by Madison Wetzell
A scream into the void in which the void is also me screaming. Includes: fun facts about death, a conceptual exploration of puppets, an encounter between strangers, and a dance number.
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Help us premiere Madison’s play by donating to the GoFundMe link in our bio. <3
Another thing about Madison is she will answer any question, case in point x 9, due to a compulsion towards honesty as well a deal with the hollow of a tree she discovered in a daydream.
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Meet the Playwrights
Madison Wetzell
Hometown
Phuket, Thailand (sort of)
What is a play that has inspired you?
The Bacchae
What is a song that has inspired you?
I’m in my Chappell Roan summer.
What is your hidden talent?
All my bones crack in a way that can’t be good.
Favorite thing about Brooklyn College?
The friends we made along the way. Also the turtle pond.
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Meet the Playwrights
Madison Wetzell
If your Weasel Play was an ice cream flavor, what would it be?
Morbidly dark chocolate with birthday cake sprinkles and some awkward silence.
Describe someone else’s Weasel play in just three words.
Three words on Leslie’s play: Apocalyptic cowboy poetics.
What is heaven to you?
Rolling around in a bucket of homemade pesto.
What is hell?
Parallel parking with an audience.
Behold, a Play - Right
Look Upon MadiSonne as you Would
that Mighty Ball:
Mouth agape,
Reaching with fallow tongue
Toward Shining Succre ! -
A Sheep Before Goddd
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Madison Wetzell
Madison Wetzell got an MFA from Brooklyn College! Very recently! Before that she lived and worked in the Bay Area. Her full-length work includes Mediocre Heterosexual Sex (Buffalo United Artists, Readings: Z-Space, Threshold Theater, Provincetown Theater), The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestors (Readings: Shotgun Players, Risk Theater), The Body Play (Readings: 3Girls Theatre, Town Hall Theatre, The Bechdel Group) and Crush/Slash (Reading: Brooklyn College). Other work has been developed with or presented by Exquisite Corpse Company, PlayGround SF, Shotgun Players, 3Girls Theatre, Soundwave, PianoFight, Liar Liar Theater, The Rathskeller Club, The Lower Case, and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. Madison was the winner of Risk Theatre’s Modern Tragedy Competition and PianoFight’s Shortlived. She received an honorable mention for the Jane Chambers Award, has been a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre National Playwrights Conference, has twice been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and is a 2025 finalist for the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition.
