ONCE ON RUMSPRINGA Off-Broadway Festival Debut At Wild Project Theater

All Out Arts' 2022 Fresh Fruit Festival presents Once On Rumspringa, a new dark comedy about lesbian Amish meth-addicts on Rumspringa, written by ex-Lancaster queer Ellis Abigail Stump (Where I've Never Gone and The People's Toast), directed by Amir Malaklou (The Kite Runner on Broadway), and mentored by legends Lynn Nottage and David Henry Hwang. BYOBonnet.

Produced by Kyra Armstrong, the production includes scenic design by Ryan McCloy and lights, sound and projection design by Andrew Freeburg. The show is managed by Production Stage Manager Eszter Zador and Stage Manager Lingyi Wang.

Featuring Steven Bush, Sophia Caressa, Jake Fallon, Yasmin Pascall, Elizabeth Robbins, and Felix Teich. 

Amish best friends Sadie Smucker and Willa Stoltzfus share a run-down trailer, crystal meth addiction, and romantic tension thick as a milkshake. The teens have spent their Rumspringa together higher than Heaven, but today face their rite-of-passage choice: surrender their forbidden love, or flee Lancaster and be shunned forever. With 24 hours until the autumn baptism ceremony, six interrelated sinners must...come clean. Every transaction twists the six tighter into thrilling noir. This ensemble-oriented dark comedy sheds electricity-powered light on the rural drug epidemic and navigation of repressed identity.

Running Tuesday May 3 @ 8:30pm, Wednesday May 4 @ 8:15pm, and Saturday May 7 @ 3:15pm at the Wild Project Theater in East Village. Purchase tickets for just $22 here. Current students only, use code nyc22st84 for discount tickets (proof of student ID required at the door).