Moxie Arts NY & the Moxie Incubator
September 2- October 7 2026
IN RESIDENCE: August 25 – October 12, 2026
The Moxie Incubator is an accelerated development program for new, unproduced works and aligns with Moxie’s mission of engaging audiences with stories centering women, created by artists of historically excluded genders. These pieces were selected through an open submission process to Moxie Arts NY and each received two rounds of development before these productions. Throughout this process, the nine cohort members rotated, so that all artists have worked together in different configurations across the three rounds.
Ticket Information for all three shows:
$25 General Admission
$45 Reserved
Show: you know, that Bakery out in bensonhurst by Gina Femia
Performances Dates:
September 2 at 7:30pm
September 3 at 7:30pm
September 4 at 8pm
September 5 at 2:30pm and 8pm
September 6 at 2:30pm
Show Length: 90 minutes
About the Play
Dell and Micki are sisters who work in a bakery. Been working there their whole lives, their mom owns the place. Even though they’re only four years apart, it may as well be 40, they’re that different. Dell is sixteen going on sixty, an old soul struggling to understand why their father died – he definitely didn’t kill himself, even if that’s what they all say. Micki is twenty going on sixteen, excited to be embarking on a new relationship – even if she ain’t supposed to. No matter, at least Dell’s got Adeline, her new friend opening her up to new experiences like blow jobs and alcohol. When Micki leaves her family, the girls’ lives are twisted into a turmoil neither could’ve ever predicted.
Please note this play explores themes of mental health, depression, talks of death/suicide, and abuse/abusive relationships.
Cast & Creative Team
Written by Gina Femia
Directed by Liza Couser
Produced by Andie Lerner
Dell – Zara Zeidman
Christina – Orville Amankwah
Micki – Em Rose Stern
Adeline – Uma Paranjpe*
Stage Manager – Peyton Otis*
Sound Designer – Grace Oberhofer
Lighting Designer – Yiyuan Li
Scenic Designer – Junran “Charlotte” Shi
Costume Designer – Seo Yun
Intimacy Director – Allesandra Bongiardina
Show: The Companion by Amy Greenspan
Performances Dates:
September 23 at 7:30pm
September 24 at 7:30pm
September 25 at 7:30pm
September 26 at 2pm and 7:30pm
September 27 at 2pm
About the Play
Joy, a lonely late 30-something, acquires a Companion (an AI in a human form designed to help with daily tasks) for her ailing father. After his death, the Companion becomes hers. Choosing to keep him, Joy begins to fall for her Companion. Joy is romanced by his perfection, ignoring the advances of a human blind date, Brian. A devastating loss opens her up to the opportunity for a true human connection.
Cast & Creative Team
Written by Amy Greenspan
Directed by Kalina Ko
Produced by Katie Brown
Cast and creative team to be announced soon!
Show: Carpal Tunnel by Cori Diaz
Performances Dates:
October 7 at 7:30pm
October 8 at 7:30pm
October 9 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2pm and 7:30pm
October 11 at 2pm
About the Play
It’s the vaguely present day in the year 20XX and master-of-the-novel Manna Benes wants you to meet her at the Roxbury Motel. Is this the worst thing that ever happened to you? Or is that writer’s block? A passion play and a family play and a tragicomedy and a history play and a surrealist play and a transgressive novel and an ekphrastic poem and a children’s book and a meditation on dance and a dance on meditation and an instruction manual and a coupon book and a pornographic magazine and a holy text. And a love story.
Cast & Creative Team
Written by Cori Diaz
Directed by Molly Shayna Cohen
Produced by Monika Orzelowski
Manna Benes – Stephanie Orta-Vazquez
Ziggy Zeta – Sahar Lev-Shomer
Cash Downey – Connor Riordan
Kitt Schuster – Katherine Humes
Aldene Bender – Mackenzie Moyer
Polly – Saige Larmer
O7 – Viola Albright
Stage Manager – Ari Richardson
Scenic Designer – Bridget Lindsay
*indicates a member of Actors’ Equity Association participating in this Equity Approved Showcase
Moxie Arts NY Artistic Director – Maggie Lee
Moxie Arts NY Managing Producer – Madelyn Paquette
About Moxie Arts NY & the Moxie Incubator
Moxie Arts NY is a Lilly Award-winning nonprofit theatre company founded in 2017 dedicated to engaging audiences with stories centering and created by people of historically excluded genders (including women, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists). Our programming provides opportunities for artists at all stages of career development, building community from the page to the stage, and everywhere in between. For more information visit www.moxiearts.org
IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council; A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation. Thank you to IndieSpace, and everyone who supports venues like ours in New York City.
ACCESS: IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility. Please reach out to Kori Rushton if you have any accessibility questions or concerns, krushton@irttheater.org
PLEASE NOTE: All sales final and there is no late seating at IRT Theater.