A strange summer provokes questions about family, mortality, porn algorithms, and whether or not you’re still single because you're “too picky.”

I’M REPEATING MYSELF wonders how we get over a lifetime of tiny wounds to take care of the people we love...and maybe ourselves too.

Playwright Chad Kaydo joins a cast of actors playing his friends and family—as well as multiple versions of Chad himself—across boundaries of age, race, and gender, mixing queer irreverence with earnest, emotional immediacy.

I’M REPEATING MYSELF will have a three-week, 16-performance production at Obie winner The Brick in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, February 27-March 15, 2025. Tickets are available now!

I’M REPEATING MYSELF is a fiscally sponsored project, so donations are tax deductible, and eligible for corporate matching programs.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Chad Kaydo is a queer playwright from Ashtabula, Ohio, who writes intimately observed plays obsessed with friendship, mortality, and the existential questions hidden in the quotidian.

Currently developing WHERE IS MISS STONE? with Clubbed Thumb, he is a member of the Clubbed Thumb 2024-2025 Early Career Writers’ Group. His work has been supported by Fresh Ground Pepper, HB Studio, Playhouse on Park, the Quickening Room, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Theater Masters. He produces and hosts Quick + Dirty, a development series at Brick Aux for short works by new collaborators. M.F.A., Hunter College.

In former lives, he was editor in chief of an event magazine, and editorial director for brands including J.Crew and Bergdorf Goodman, bringing fundraising, marketing, and production experience to this project.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Carsen Joenk is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the weird, wild, and unfamiliar, with experience directing and producing experimental new work.

She is the co-artistic director of Rat Queen Theatre Company, a 2023-2024 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and a founding member of the interactive media company Sour Milk. Carsen is a former Mercury Store Directing Lab Member, Wingspace Directing Mentee, Oregon Shakespeare Festival FAIR alumna, and National Alliance of Musical Theatre Directing Observer.

She has developed and presented work with Colt Coeur, Rattlestick, Exponential Festival, Fresh Ground Pepper, EST/Youngblood, Gingold Theatrical Group, Ice Factory/New Ohio, La MaMa, Art House Productions, Seattle University, Hunter College, and more.

Produced by RHONDA and The Omnivores
Co-Producer: Theresa Buchheister
Associate Producer: Mark Toubman
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Art by Rob Wilson
At The Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Ave.

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