Bellamy Brewster and Ewan Lloyd's LINES to Debut at Theatre 154 in Limited Run

Bellamy Brewster, and Ewan Lloyd will make their theatrical debut with LINES, a new psychological chamber play, running June 17–July 3rd at Theatre 154 in the West Village.

LINES was born from a single question: what does it actually cost to be chosen? As a black and queer artist who has spent years inside the machinery of entertainment, building worlds for some of the most recognized names in music and culture, Brewster became increasingly preoccupied with the invisible contracts artists sign just by showing up. The audition room, he found, was the purest version of that transaction. A space where desire, desperation, and institutional power collapse into a single moment.

Lloyd arrived at the same question from a different direction. After losing his agent, the person who had mediated his relationship to the industry, he moved to Brooklyn and began making theater with friends, in apartments and streets, outside the system entirely. That form of making clarified something: the system wasn't incidental to the art. It was the subject.

LINES was built around that shared obsession, and around New York itself, a city that has always asked its artists to prove they belong, over and over, at increasing cost.

LINES is a dark, theatrical work set inside an audition that becomes something far more dangerous. 

A group of artists arrives for consideration. They are told where to stand, what to do, and how to remain in the running. As the process unfolds, the rules harden, the room closes in, and the cost of being chosen becomes impossible to ignore.

The production assembles a team of collaborators across theater, film, and music: Producers Tobi Orisarayi (Big Little House) and Andrea Sastoque (Paranoiia Productions), Production Designer Pili Weeber (Black is King), Casting Director Katya Chernetsova (Marty Supreme, Bugonia), Costume Designer Edvin Thompson (Theophilio, CFDA), Composer Spencer Barnett (Jigsaw), Choreographer Gianna Reisen (Solange), and Lighting Designer Obid Abdurakhmanov.