Amm(i)gone
Created and Performed by Adil Mansoor
Co-directed by Lyam B. Gabel and Adil Mansoor

AMM(I)GONE MAKES IT OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE. Presented by PlayCo, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater.
WHERE: The Flea 20 Thomas Street New York, NY 10007
WHEN: March 13, 2025 - April 7, 2025 
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Amm(i)gone National Touring Production Team 
Co-Media Designer: Joseph Amodei 
Co-Media Designer: Davine Byon
Sound Designer: Aaron Landgraf
Set and Lighting Designer: Xotchil Musser
Stage Manager: Jazzy Davis
Tour Production Manager: Colin K Bills
Associate Tour Producer: Kate Bussert

“Alif Lam Meem”(original music in Amm(i)gone)
Co-composed by Shahzad Ismaily and Aya Abdelaziz
Vocals by Aya Abdelaziz
Arranged by Aaron Langraf

Project Description

Amm(i)gone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, is an apology to and from a mother.

Creator and performer Adil Mansoor explores queerness, the afterlife, and obligation using canonical texts, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations between him and his mother. Since discovering his queerness, Mansoor’s mother has turned towards her faith in an attempt to save her son in the afterlife. In an effort towards healing, Mansoor has invited his mother to join him as dramaturg and co-conspirator. In reading, discussing, and translating various adaptations of the source play, together they mine Greek tragedy, Islamic traditions, and their own memories to create an original performance locating love across faith.

Can prayer substantiate care? Can care manifest as artistic methodology and inquiry? Can Mansoor and his mother contend with Antigone’s fate?

Collaborators

Amm(i)gone was developed with:
Creative Consultant: Sharlene Bamboat 
Video Consultant: Bleue Liverpool
Photo Embroidery: Rebecca Harrison
Slide Film Consultant: Caldwell Linker
Translation Consultant: Ned Moore
Costume Consultant: Rachel Vallozzi 
Assistant Director: Pria Dahiya
Production Stage Manager: Leslie Huynh
In-process Stage Managers: Ferdinand Moscat and Pixie Colbert
Virtual In-process Board Operator: Erin Roussel
Premiere Board Operator: Britt Pierce
Kelly Strayhorn Theater Programming Director: Ben Pryor
The Theater Offensive Director of Programs: Tonasia Jones

Amm(i)gone is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater in partnership with The Theater Offensive and NPN/VAN. “Amm(i)gone” was developed as a Hatch Arts Collective project.

Amm(i)gone development was additionally supported by the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier; the Point Foundation’s Andrew A. Isen Internship; The Heinz Endowments; Opportunity Fund; PNC Charitable Trust; A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation; Arts, Equity, Reimagined Fund; Workhorse Collaborative; and Dreams of Hope. Amm(i)gone was developed as a Hatch Arts Collective project.

Amm(i)gone’s National Tour is produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and PlayCo in association with Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

Development and Performance History:

• Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, May - June 2024

• Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, DC, April - May 2024

• Kelly Strayhorn Theater and University Settlement, NYC, January 2023

• The Andy Warhol Museum and Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, June 2022

• The Theater Offensive, Boston, June 2022

• Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, April 2022

• Prelude Festival NYC, Virtual work-in-progress, October 2021

• The Theater Offensive, Virtual work-in-progress, March 2021

• Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, work-in-progress, August 2019

• Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance, NYC, work-in-progress, June 2019

For Touring Engagements Contact: 
Bonnie Davis
Bret Adams, LTD
bdavis@bretadamsltd.net
212-765-5630

Images from Premiere performance at Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios.
Images by Kitoko Chargois

Images from the development process, 2019 - 2022.
Live performance photos by Beth Barbis.