NEW PERSPECTIVES FESTIVAL
MAD Company is thrilled to announce our New Perspectives Festival, launching in May of 2025! New Perspectives will celebrate bold and innovative storytelling by featuring three new plays inspired by, based on, or written in response to a classic work.
ANNOUNCING OUR THREE PLAYS
OSHER AND THE INFINITE CURTAIN — By: Elise Wien — Inspired by Dybbuk by S. Ansky
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER — By: Helena Mueller — Inspired by The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
CATCH: OR; THE GODS ARE CHILDREN — By: Davis Alianiello — Inspired by Alcestis
The festival will take place at TheaterLab from May 8th through the 10th. Tickets will be on sale soon.
Stay tuned for more information regarding auditions, introductions to the playwrights, and updates as we near the festival dates.
Thank you to every single playwright who submitted their work. It was our privilege to read your wonderful pieces and it was no easy task making these decisions. We look forward to sharing more opportunities with you in the future!
If you have any questions, please email us at contact@madcompanytheatre.com.
GET TO KNOW OUR PLAYWRIGHTS
ELISE WIEN
Elise Wien creates works of tender absurdism – building worlds that reflect the cruel and chaotic nature of our own, with characters who must rely on each other to survive them. Dads experience enlightenment in YouTube Kabbalah seminars, Interns fall in love with robot replicas of their ex-girlfriends, and Teens write Barack Obama fan fiction.
She has developed work with The Tank, The Workshop Theater, Dixon Place, The Road Theatre Company, American Lore Theater, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and a graduate of Boston University’s Playwriting MFA program.
Osher & The Infinite Curtain
HELENA MUELLER
Helena Mueller is a playwright, director, and performer originally from Wisconsin and now based in NYC. She holds a BA in English and Theatre from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and an MA in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As Executive Director and a founding member of MAD Company, she has written and produced two original adaptations—Frankenstein and A Christmas Carol.
Helena is passionate about crafting female-centric stories that challenge tradition, reclaim narrative power, and illuminate the past.
The Yellow Wallpaper
DAVIS ALIANIELLO
Davis Alianiello writes plays that explore crises of belief and belonging. He has developed new work with the Boston Center for the Arts, The Wilbury Group, Playhouse on Park, and Theatre of the Electric Mouth. His plays are published by Playscripts and 1319 Press. His play Snake was a second place winner of the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting and a state winner in the Clauder Competition.
He is a recent graduate of the Hunter College Playwriting MFA. davisalianiello.com
Catch: Or, The Gods Are Children