Staged Readings | Workshops

Jane Lumley’s IPHIGENIA AT AULIS (2023-2024)

A full production of Jane Lumley’s 1553 translation of Euripides’ IPHIGENIA AT AULIS has been in development by the company for several years and has been the center of a number of readings and workshops. The text is the oldest surviving dramatic work by a woman in English and the first translation of Euripides into English: it has a vanishingly small production history, especially in the US, where it has never received a full staging.

An invited reading at Brick Aux in March 2023 was followed, in March 2024, by a a weeklong workshop of this landmark translation thanks to IndieSpace. We will continue to develop the project Oct/ Nov 2024 through a two week workshop with Coffey Street Studio, culminating in evening sharings Saturday Nov 2 & Sunday Nov 3.

The cast features Alex Sarrigergiou, Bea Castro, George Olesky, Jeff Burchfield, Joseph Medeiros, Jonah O'Hara-David, Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Sigrid Sutter, and Sophie Dushko. Directed by C.C. Kellogg, with lighting design by Sarah Woods, movement direction by Roya Carreras, costumes by Beau Watson and dramaturgy by Kat Hipkiss.

Dekker’s THE WONDERFULL YEARE (April 2020)

On April 1st, 2020, Invulnerable Nothings hosted a livestream reading of Thomas Dekker's THE WONDERFULL YEARE. This bestselling 17th c pamphlet explores the death of Queen Elizabeth 1, urban plague outbreak, and many other strange & significant happenings in 1603 London. Playwright Dekker composed, printed, and distributed THE WONDERFULL YEARE while his city's theaters were dark. This livestream event featured voices in quarantine across the US and UK reconsidering an overlooked Elizabethan text during a parallel moment of global pandemic.

Featuring, in order of appearance, Kristin Winters, Daniel Lewis-Jones, Matthew Davies, Allegra Marland, Savannah Hankinson, Kate Handford, Blake Kubena, Charlie Munn, Uchechi Kalu, Vincent Santvoord, Nathan Winkelstein, CJ Turner-McMullan, Amber Quick, Hannah Wolfe, Adrian Collins, Sarah Quigley, Kat Hipkiss, Joseph Medeiros, Michael Milligan, Lauren Guglielmello, and Jake Robertson. Stage managed by Allie Marotta and conceived/directed by C.C. Kellogg.

This Zoom performance was included in The Guardian's Best Theatre and Dance to Watch Online as well as in TimeOut’s The Best Live Theater to Stream Online. A recorded version of the work is available to researchers— please email invulnerablenothings@gmail.com to request a link.

WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW (intended April 2020)

Our rehearsed reading and the UK premier of Monica Byrne’s WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW was scheduled for April 3rd, 2020 at The Bush Theatre and was canceled due to the global pandemic. Produced in association with Theatre Handmade to benefit International Planned Parenthood Federation, the cast featured Allegra Marland as Theresa, Amarah Jae St. Aubyn as Ann, Anna Burnett as Lucy, and Kemi Aowderu as Joan, directed by C.C. Kellogg.

THE PUSSY GRABBER PLAYS (February 2019)

In conjunction with BKE Productions, New River Press, and Theatre Handmade, Invulnerable Nothings was pleased to present the London premier of The Pussy Grabber Plays at The Playground Theatre on Feb. 20, 2019. This sold out event featured performances from Greta Bellamacina, Nina Bowers, Tallula Christie, Peta Cornish, Kate Handford, Kat Hipkiss, Allegra Marland, Georgie Oulton, Tilly Vosburgh, and Kristin Winters, among others, as directed by Jaclyn Bethany, C.C. Kellogg, and Joanne Williams in benefit of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

In The Pussy Grabber Plays, playwrights Julia Brownell, Sam Chanse, Halley Feiffer, Sharon Kenny, Melissa Li, Sharyn Rothstein, Natasha Stoynoff, Bess Wohl, and Anna Ziegler individually explore the stories of Rachel Crooks, Tasha Dixon, Jill Harth, Samantha Holvey, Jessica Leeds, Natasha Stoynoff and Karena Virginia, 7 brave women who spoke out about their sexual assaults by President Donald Trump. To find out more about this significant cycle of short plays, please visit the official Pussy Grabber Plays website or see our recent interview in Ingenue Magazine.

HIPPO (July 2018)

Hippo, Lily Akerman's inventive reimagining of Euripides' Hippolytus, anthropomorphizes two teenagers’ spiraling message chains as they text their way through the loneliness of adolescence. The play received a staged reading as the opener of The 2018 Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwrights Festival and was later presented by Invulnerable Nothings at London’s Stockwell Playhouse/ LOST Theatre on July 22, 2018, in a staged reading directed by the playwright and featuring Mary Lou McCarthy, Callan Purcell, and Aimee Pollock. 

 LOVE'S  LABOUR'S LOST (April 2016/ August 2018)

Originally presented as part of The New York Public Library's commemoration of Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary in April 2016, this gender-inverted telling is currently available as an interactive educational workshop featuring cue scripts. InvulNos Love’s Labour’s also appeared at the 2018 New York Shakespeare Convention and is available in workshop format for drama programs with students 13 and older.