The Singularity Play

What happens when machines and corporations take control of our stories before we have a chance to tell them ourselves?
In an unused room inside the Google offices in Manhattan, a theatre troupe gathers to rehearse a new play written by an advanced artificial intelligence named Denise. What begins as an experiment in performance quickly slips into something stranger, darker, and far less controllable. The actors try to make sense of a script written by a machine, but the deeper they go, the more the lines blur between rehearsal and simulation, creator and creation, art and algorithm.
Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play is an existential comedy, a sci-fi horror story, and a slippery theatrical puzzle about creativity, control, desire, and the unsettling future we may already be living inside.

*Michigan Premiere*

 

 

 

About the director:
Kyle Los is the Executive and Artistic Director of Actors’ Theatre and is a multidisciplinary theatre artist working in West Michigan as a Director, Sound Designer, Composer, Scenic Designer, and Actor. His directing credits include: HYENAS (Director), PARADISE LOST (Assistant Director), PETTY CRIMES (Co-Director), HUNDRED DAYS (Director), SWEAT (Co-Director), and AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Assistant Director) with Actors’ Theatre, EURYDICE (Assistant Director) with Grand Rapids Community College, THE FOREIGNER (Assistant Director) with Aquinas College, and THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT (Assistant Director) with Mixed Roots Collective. As an actor, he was most recently seen on stage as Frank in WITCH with Actors’ Theatre, and has received Grand Awards for his performances in HAIR (Circle Theatre Grand Rapids), and VENUS IN FUR and OTHER DESERT CITIES (Actors’ Theatre). He was recognized as a part of the Grand Rapids “40 Under Forty” in 2014.

 

About the playwright:
Jay Stull is a playwright, director, dramaturg, and teacher. His plays include: THE SINGULARITY PLAY, MY UTOPIAS, UNDONE, ANTARABHAVA 2, STREEPSHOW!, 6 MO @ NH (co-written with EllaRose Chary), and THE CAPABLES. 

Ongoing collaborations include with: David Greenspan and Ken Rus Schmoll as a dramaturg and Associate Director on Gertrude Stein’s libretto FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS (Lucille Lortel at Target Margin) and Mona Pirnot's I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN (Atlantic Theater Company); with Keenan Tyler Oliphant and Johnny Lloyd as a co-writer on baldwin[GIOVANNI]brando (New York Theater Workshop - Adelphi Residency); and with Crystal Finn and Ken Rus Schmoll as a dramaturg on a piece about Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, and David Markson’s 1988 postmodern novel, Wittgenstein’s Mistress. He is the former Literary Manager of The Amoralists and a former Steering Committee Member of the Literary Wing at the Lark.

His work has been supported by fellowships or residencies at Yaddo, the NYTW, the NYFA/NYSCA Artist Grant in Playwriting, Exponential Fellowship, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Civilians R&D Group, and the Early Career Directing Fellowship at Clubbed Thumb. He teaches theater at NYU-Tisch in the Playwrights Horizons Theater School and at Harvard College in the Theater, Dance, and Media concentration. MFA: Columbia.