Set Designer

The Witnesses compels us to question not only if we can change but if we have time to do so while the world appears to be ending. Infused with C.A. Johnson’s brutal honesty, exacting humor, and heartfelt exploration of human relationships, the story pulses with urgency, vulnerability and unexpected warmth.

While an apocalyptic plague rages, five individuals unite in their weekly support group to forge a sanctuary of care and companionship. Centering on the darkly funny and wildly magnetic Millicent and her chosen family of misfits, this play explores the undeniable physical urge for human connection.

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The Witnesses

Bratton Theater

Set in the early 2010s at a Catholic university where boys are “burying” their faces in girls’ breasts as part of a schoolwide prank, Nosejob tells the story of a few sorority friends who plot revenge against a group of lecherous jocks. That is until one of the girls, Devon Chase—athletic trainer for the football team—finds herself distracted by more pressing urges.

Nosejob

Theatre Exile

It’s the 10th century! A plague rages on in Germany! Everyone is turning into foam! When two overzealous hermits find an abandoned orphan named Mary, they scheme a saintly rescue mission to protect her purity at any and all costs. Mary, however, has other plans for herself, in this new play inspired by Hrosvitha of Gandersheim’s closet drama-comedy Abraham, or the Rise and Repentance of Mary.

Mary Gets Hers

The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space

Arson. Affairs. Incest. Murder… are only the beginning of problems for the Whistler siblings. Mora’s gotta find her birth mother, Neel’s gotta find himself, and Illy’s gotta keep her piece of the sky… but the birds have other plans. Julia Izumi’s Regretfully, So the Birds Are is a wild, farcical tragedy that gleefully flips the human quest for self-discovery on its head.

Regretfully, So the Birds Are

WP Theater

I wish girls fought more. Like beat the shit out of each other for fun. I wish that was like a socially acceptable thing to do. Fight club, you know? If it was me and you, I think I’d win.

Set Designer

You-Shin Chen

Events

Past events

9 - 23 Aug, 2025

The Witnesses · Chautauqua Theater Company

7 - 21 Sep, 2024

Nosejob · Philadelphia Fringe Festival

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