REHEARSALS HAVE OFFICIALLY BEGUN!!
In a little over a month, Silverback Mountain arrives at @amttheater45 !!
Tickets are on sale now at the link in our bio 🦍🎟️
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💥🎙️ NEW SEASON NEW EPISODE 🎙️💥
AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it’s AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!! Produced by Alex Garrett
THIS EPISODE: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with Steven Brandon, Silverback Mountain Play producer…which premieres at AMT Theater two weeks from today!
LISTEN:
/episode/amt-after-dark-steven-brandon-silverback-mountain-producer-may-2026–72041253
ABOUT STEVEN BRANDON (producer):
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Steven Brandon was a successful theatre producer in Sydney starring in and directing productions of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and Urinetown: The Musical. Steven also produced productions of Rent, Lend Me A Tenor, Closer, Tick Tick Boom, and Noises Off.
Steven moved to Los Angeles to pursue writing and in 2010, he and his writing partner sold a single camera comedy pilot titled Single Girl Theory to ABC Family and in 2012 they were staffed on the CBS sitcom Friend Me starring Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Nicholas Braun.Since then Steven returned to his theatre roots co-writing and producing the hit parody Lost: The Musical at the Lillian Theatre in 2014 and Shame of Thrones: The Parody Musical at the Macha Theatre which then toured to San Diego and Off-Broadway playing at The Jerry Orbach Theatre in 2017.
Steven went on to produce other musical parodies including Dear Jerry Seinfeld and Han Solo Must Die before remounting both his Lost and Game Of Thrones parody musicals at The Whitefire Theatre in 2019.
In 2023, Steven produced Lewberger & The Wizard of Friendship Off-Broadway and is very excited to produce and direct The Jewish Priest, The Gangster, & The Magician at The Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2025!
🎭🎼PREMIERING AT AMT THEATER TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY…
SILVERBACK MOUNTAIN: A NEW GAY JUNGLE PLAY*
A chaotic adventure that blends screwball comedy, a love story, and a jailbreak into a musical romp. Featuring gay mountain people, a gorilla named Undatee, and Wendy Williams, the play explores the courage it takes to genuinely say “I love you” in a world that constantly tries to silence it.
Lucas, a 43-year-old New York artist with a chronic fear of commitment, and his boyfriend Andy, a high-achieving architect with a bottomless appetite for drama and a cheeseburger without the cheese, have been together for five years. Andy wants more, specifically, monogamy. Lucas wants space. And somewhere in the middle of that argument, they end up on a gorilla trekking trip to Uganda.
But when their relationship—and their identities—are unexpectedly exposed, the trip spirals into something far more dangerous than a breakup. Suddenly, it’s up to a disgruntled drag queen waitress and a coked out twink from Brooklyn to help save them from a situation neither of them saw coming.
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Previews: May 31st - June 4th, 2026
Opens June 5th until June 21st, 2026
#AMTtheater #silverbackmountain #newplay #gorillaplay #offbroadway
Meet Jackson Whittier, Kahlil Harvey, and Collins Rush, our incredible understudies who are ALL making their Off-Broadway debuts in Silverback Mountain THIS MAY!! 🎟️
Jackson was featured as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho at Post Theatre Company, Kahlil was recently in Sweet Charity at Pace University where he is currently a senior, and Collins has performed in a variety of regional theaters as well as the national tour of Elf on the Shelf!
Pleeeeeeaaaaase come see the show!
Link in bio 🫶
#silverbackmountain #lgbttheatre
Meet Jason Yanto and Olamide Asanpaola who are making their Off Broadway debuts as Kai and Tumaini in Silverback Mountain THIS MAY!! 🎟️
Jason was seen most recently in the hit 54 Below Show: Filipinos on Broadway and Olamide has been featured on Law & Order, Power Book III:Raising Kanan and more!
They reeeaalllyy want you to come see the show!
Link in bio ;)
#silverbackmountain #nyctheatre
HEY YOU!! Yes, you!
Tickets are ON SALE for Silverback Mountain!!
Don’t miss out. Get them today at the link in our bio.
Only a few weeks until we open! Get em while they’re hot!!
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Meet Leo Jasper Davis (“Treasure Island” and “Jesus Christ Superstar”) as Mamadu and Samuel Selman (Temptation Under the Sun) as Mustafa!
Get your tickets for Silverback Mountain now - link in bio!
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