Super-Cycle 18 is coming!
It’s Fall and have we got a show for you! Three glorious weeks of SERIALS, back in the 98-seat theater at The Tank (312 W 36th Street in Manhattan) are happening across October, November and December. This Super-Cycle is packed to the brim with 37 actors, 15 new episodes, 10 directors, 9 writers, and a partridge in a pear tree!
Show dates:
October 23 – October 25
November 6 – November 8
December 4 – December 6
Thursdays are a school-night-manageable 7pm (with an Indie Theater Celebration thrown in for good measure).
Fridays and Saturdays arrive ready to party at 9:30pm.
The returning shows, based on audience voting, feature the long-running The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown by A.J. Ditty as well as the newer chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island (and it’s going to be sooo great) by Jack Ventimilla and Georgia Wright’s Manhattan-Nanny-Fantasia Age of Sagittarius. Last cycle they had us singing along, dancing in the aisles, lying in stitches, and running for our lives from Baby Monsters (and Baby-Mama Monsters).
What will happen this cycle? Will chiara and lauren survive the dismantling of Democracy with their friendship intact? Will Teddi perfect the ultimate Sagittarius AI-Enema hybrid? Will Bungo make it to its episode 9 conclusion in week 2? Or will we all go down in flames like a post-apocalyptic Troy?
We are downright aquiver over our new writers for this cycle!
Week 1 has SERIALS returning favorites with brand-new delectable play ideas for your consideration: Cody Hom of Science Project fame and Last Dictator scribe Amalia Oliva Rojas. They are the cat’s knees and the bee’s pyjamas! In week 2, our new contenders are hunk of titilating SERIALS fresh meat Charlie Tynan and our very own hometown top gun hero Natalia Mar Urzua. Finally, in December the incoming pilot episode storytellers will be big cheese new company member Jack McManus (Julius Beagle) and the copacetic crackerjack Madison Fargo… it’s gonna be wizard!
The full list of participating artists this go-round:
Abby Wild, Ali Andre Ali, Alice Lussiana Parente, Andrew Barlow, April Tuiolosega, Bennett Clarkson, Christine Pollnow, Colby Ourand, Dan Victor, Elizabeth Winterbourne, Emani Brielle, Emily Conlon, Emily Oliveira, Emmie D’Amico, Eric Berger, Ethan Fox, Eva Rubin, Georgia Kate Cohen, Henri Brusasco, Hunter Levi Rothstein, Jahdiel Rodriguez, Jennifer Soraya Rose, Jessie Cannizzaro, Josh Bloom, Josh Boerman, Karen Marulanda, Kristan Seemel, KP Sgarro, Laine Flores, Madeleine Bundy, Marina Fess, Marx, Michael Ortiz, Natalia Mar Urzua, Nate Netzley, Nathaniel Stornelli, Nicholas Louis Turturro, Nikki Cannon, Paige Esterly, Peter Charney, Rose Stark, Sam Rodriguez, SMJ, Stephanie Orta-Vasquez, Zac Diamond, Zavier Aujay-Barnhart
Cycle 17 Recap
As summer draws to a close, so must our summer cycle. Cycle 17 brought us fun times, fighting babies, time travel, homoerotically charged friendship, and enough breadsticks and radioactive goo to go around.
Week one started out with some strong returners: episode 2 of Jack Ventimilia’s reality TV spoof chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island (and it’s gonna be sooo great); episode 3 of Sarah Jae Leiber’s music-fueled Beatles fever dream Baby, It’s You; and episode 6 (!) of AJ Ditty’s post-apocalyptic retelling of the Odyssey, The Adventures of Bungo Calamity, Apocalypse Clown. They were joined by two pilot episodes by two Serials newcomers: The Strongest Babies in New America by Leah Plante-Weiner, and Age of Sagittarius by Georgia Wright.
But, much like the runtiest baby in the fighting ring, two of these brilliant episodes left the week defeated, and we waved goodbye to both The Strongest Babies in New America and Baby, It’s You! (though rumor has it a newly finished full-length script is now available on Sarah Jae Leiber’s NPX…)
Week two introduced us to two time-traveling pilots. We traveled to the 19th C merchant marine with nukes in tow for The Merry Wavecrash by writing duo Phil Jameson and Jeremy Kaplowitz. And Time Warpz by Serena Norr saw us visiting a disturbingly crooked 1950s diner to dance the jitterbug with its arch denizens! Unfortunately, neither of these pilots will be continuing into the future with us, as they were beat out by an Upper East Side mother (who is actually Nick Turturro in drag), a cringy marriage proposal in Olive Garden, and overcoming familial abuse by screaming The Killers at the top of your lungs with the entire audience in support– I mean, The Age of Sagittarius, chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island, and Bungo Calamity, Apocalypse Clown.
We can’t wait to see where these returning storylines will go next, and we can’t wait to see you all back at the Tank in the fall!
Cycle 17 Announcement
It’s the Serials Summer Cycle again! By popular demand, the reurning shows are the Beatles-adjacent Baby, It’s You [episode 3] by Sarah Jae Leiber, the Odyssey-adjacent The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown [episode 6] by A.J. Ditty and the Tropical Reality Show-adjacent chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island (and it’s going to be sooo great) [episode 2] written by Jack Ventimilla. They’ll be up against by two new pilot episodes written by Leah Plante-Wiener and Georgia Wright in the first week! The winners of that week will face off against pilots by Serena Norr and the writing team of Phil Jamesson & Jeremy Kaplowitz in our second weekend of new play hijinks!
Join us July 17-19 and July 31-August 2 at The Tank and vote for your three favorite plays to return for another episode !
Recap of Cycle 16: May 1-3, 15-17 2025
Here’s a quick little recap of our Spring Fling SERIALS Cycle 16. It was a doozy: full of upsets, continuing favorites, and exciting new storylines!
Last cycle’s double pilot upset was repeated in the first week as Baby, It’s You by Sarah Jae Leiber and Cody Hom’s Double Double displaced The Good, The Bad and the Undead and Flared Base, both on their episode 2. We were sad to see Kenjiro Lee’s zombie-infused Western reinterred and Ben Schrager’s medical drama by way of putting things up your rectum discharged but happy as always to have pilots come back! This Cycle also saw the light of Paige Esterly’s Everything I Know I Learned from The Simpsons pilot episode burn intensely but briefly across the SERIALS firmament only to disappear beyond the horizon… or Burbank, CA. Gone but not forgotten!
Baby, It’s You proved to have staying power and will continue into next Cycle following the mad adventures of a group of Beatles super-fans as they try to track down those Lovable Lads from Liverpool. Evelyn, a 1960s coed has particular designs on Paul: she needs him to get her pregnant. To be fair, he did tell her he was the only one who could do it–in song–when he visited her in a dream in her dorm room!
Double Double, the tale of three witchy sisters banding together to take over the family potion business, itself went down after just two episodes. Man, that second episode is so hard to land! In its place and continuing into next Cycle is current holder of the very-long-titled-Serial award: chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island (and it’s gonna be sooo great) by SERIALS newcomer Jack Ventimilia. Our heroines are on a journey to test their bond– on national television, of course!
The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown by A.J. Ditty continued its gut-busting run with episode 4 & 5 which saw our wily swashbuckling clowns face off against cannibals, sirens, ex-girlfriends, mutant meth-addicted flying pig-men and Klops Corps Founder/CEO Sydon Klops. They even visited Florida…erm, I mean, Mime Country. We’ll follow them into our July-August Cycle as they track down a lost soul in Hell… Michigan… Hell, MI. Will Bungo ever make it home?
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Cycle 16 Announcement
Welcome Back you SERIALS stans! Introducing Serials Summer Cycle 2025! With another double pilot upset; The chosen (by you, the audience!) three returning plays are The Good, The Bad, And The Undead [episode 2] written by Kenjiro Lee, The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown written by A.J. Ditty and Flared Base [episode 2] written by Ben Schrager. They’ll be joined by two new pilot episodes written by Sarah Jae Leiber and Cody Hom!
Join us May 1st- May 3rd at The Tank and vote for your three favorite plays to return for another episode May 15th- May 17th!
Recap of Jan-Feb Cycle 15
In case you missed the new year cycle of SERIALS, here’s a quick little recap for you.
Fan favorite, Watagatapitusberry [episode 6] by Karen Marulanda, featuring the Afternoon DeLITS, who gave us reggaetone, kick ass choreography by the talented Henry Lombino and high telenovela stakes, ended its reign. We laughed, we cried, we shook ass, and we made an entire theater shout “OOO HE’S SO NASTY” at the top of their lungs.
Sybil Creepe’s House of Mysteries [episode 3] by Laurel Anderson, featuring the Breakfast Babes, who gave us spooky queer Wicked x Haunted Mansion lovechild romance that filled the room with laughs and gasps galore was also not voted back for the Summer SERIALS cycle.
But after a double pilot upset, two new challengers entered the competition; The Good, The Bad and the Undead by Kenjiro Lee, featuring Midnight Snaxxx and Flared Base by Ben Schrager featuring Dinner Party. These two silly SERIALS will be returning next cycle for episode 2!
And last but not least, The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown [episode 3] by A.J. Ditty, featuring Lunch Bunch. Nefarious old clowning partners, kidnapping, and some kick ass dance moves scored this Serial a place in our upcoming Summer SERIALS cycle as well.
New Year, New Cycle
Our next Cycle (number 15 since the return) will take place at The Tank at the end of this month and over Valentine’s Weekend in February.
Nick Sienkiewicz and Anne Huston admire the scenery in Sybil Creepe’s House of Mysteries by Laurel Andersen. Photo by Madison Scheps. Last cycle ended in a major upset with two new shows taking the top spots: The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown penned by SERIALS old-timer AJ Ditty (B.B.’s Inferno) and Sybil Creepe’s House of Mysteries by our belovèd erstwhile performer Laurel Andersen. These return in week 1 alongside the unstoppable Reggaeton juggernaut Watagatapitusberry by Karen Marulanda. We’ll have two more highly competitive pilots entering the fray, one by longtime favorite SERIALS writer Paige Esterly (Connie Lingus) and another by young upstart Grace Tomblin Marca. All in Week 1!
That’s Jessie Cannizaro in the first ep of B.B.’s Inferno all the way back in 2016 at the old Flea Space downstairs. Photo by Scott Feterman. And in Week 2 we’ll see two new pilots including the eagerly-awaited return of champion Kenjiro Lee (Egg Quest) to the Serials stage (puppets? probably!) along with a blast from the way past– Ben Schrager on the keyboard putting up some Old School Serialized Magic for your viewing pleasure.
That’s Crystal Arnette and Ben Schrager being eponymous back in 2015 in The Psychopath Retreat by Sofya Weitz at Anciens Regime #SERIALS. This cycle also sees the return of past favorite directors BUBECK and Alex Church-Gonzales as well as the versatilely-talented SMJ. Serials regulars like Will Vonada, Marx, and Nate Netzley will mix it up with old guard Serials directors like Tom Costello and Kristan Seemel– do these old dudes still have what it takes to put a show up in 6 hours? We’ll find out! And some brand new blood is always a welcome addition to the nearly instant theater fuss: A.G. Levy will show us her take on Serialized Theater, and we can’t wait to see what new tricks new kid Sarah Shapiro has in store for us.
Nathaniel Stornelli takes convincing by Madeleine Bundy in Bungo Calamity by AJ Ditty. Photo by Madison Scheps. The stage will be full of Serials Favorites including April Tuiolosega, Zavier Aujay-Barnhart, Sarah Alice Shull, Jem Palmieri, Marx, Nathaniel Stornelli, Maddie Bundy, Jessie Cannizzaro, Emmie D’Amico, Natalia Mar Urzua, Hunter Levi Rothstein, Andie Fuentes, Stephanie Orta-Vazquez, Maddie Ryan, Christine Pollnow, Emily Oliveira, Jen Jarnagin, Eric Berger, Georgia Kate Cohen, Nicholas Louis Turturro, Macy Lanceta, Sanjna Narayan, Nikki Cannon, and Max Bowen. AND the acting return after a brief hiatus of our tireless hosts Elizabeth Spindler and Michael Ortiz (glad to have you back on stage, buddies)!
New faces in the performance ensemble will include Henri Brusasco, Ashley Renée Hurd, Jennifer Soraya Rose, Marina Fess, Josh Bloom, and Kristin KP Sgarro. Can’t wait to see what they’ll be putting down!
Will Vonada, Jen Jarnagin & Sabrina D’Andrea cower behind Hunter Rothstein’s Supreme Leader in Egg Quest: The Saga of the Breakfast Burritto by Kenjiro Lee. Buy your tickets on The Tank’s website (button below). Shows are:
Week 1 — 1/30 @ 7:00pm, 1/31 @ 9:30pm, 2/1 @ 9:30pm
Week 2 — 2/13 @ 7:00pm, 2/14 @ 9:30pm, 2/15 @ 9:30pmAll performances take place at The Tank 98, 312 West 36th Street, First Floor, in Manhattan, NYC. Livestream is available through the same ticket link! As always, each weekend is a completely different set of shows with brand new writing, directing and acting so come at least twice!
Andie Fuentes, Hunter Levi Rothstein & Natalia Mar Urzua backup Stephanie Orta-Vazquez on the mic in Watagatapitusberry by Karen Marulanda. Photo by Madison Scheps. Join us after the show for Serials Saloon in The Tank lobby and hatch a plan for your next great theater adventure with our talented artists. And we’ll see you in the Spring for another two week Cycle (details soon)!
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