GIDEON PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS
NO PASSENGERS
WORLD PREMIERE AS PART OF THE CINCY FRINGE FESTIVAL
WRITTEN BY MAC ROGERS
DIRECTED BY JORDANA WILLIAMS
JUNE 2 – 9 @ THE KNOW THEATRE
Gideon Productions, the company behind the Cincy Fringe hits God Of Obsidian (2017 Linda Bowen Full Frontal Pick) Musical Chairs (2018 Critic’s Pick Award), This House Will Never Let Us Go (2019 Critic’s Pick Award), and Be My Thief (2022) will present the World Premiere of playwright Mac Rogers’ (The Honeycomb Trilogy; the global hit podcasts The Message, LifeAfter and Steal The Stars) horror-inflected marital drama NO PASSENGERS, running from June 2-9 at The Know Theatre as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The production will be directed by Jordana Williams (Witness and Are You Afraid of the Dark on Audible; The Honeycomb Trilogy; Steal the Stars) and will feature Rebecca Comtois (Viral; Crystal Skillman’s Geek! with Vampire Cowboys), Mac Rogers (NYIT Outstanding Lead Actor Nominee for The Adventures of Nervous-Boy with Nosedive Productions), and Kristen Vaughan (Frankenstein Upstairs, The Honeycomb Trilogy, NYIT Outstanding Lead Actress Winner for Benefactors).
What are the proper condolences when a guy’s ex-wife just died but he’s standing next to his current one?
It seems impossible that Maddie Cardinal–literary giant and inveterate provocateur–is gone. Her ex Alan certainly isn’t handling the news well. He blows up his life, career, and second marriage to Diane, whose research into an obscure 19th Century spiritualist and medium may offer his only chance at clarity and closure. NO PASSENGERS is a haunted, darkly funny marital drama about the lengths people will go to resurrect the past.
NO PASSENGERS will run June 2 at 4pm, June 5 at 6:45pm, June 6 at 6:45pm, June 8 at 2:15pm and June 9 at 4pm, as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival at The Know Theatre (1120 Jackson Street, Cincinnati, OH). Tickets ($18) may be purchased online at www.cincyfringe.com. The show will run 60 minutes with no intermission.
MAC ROGERS (Playwright and Alan) is an award-winning playwright and audio dramatist. His sci-fi thriller podcasts The Message, Steal The Stars, and LifeAfter were downloaded over 7 million times. He recently co-wrote Quiet Part Loud for Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw, and adapted the Harrison Ford classic Witness for Paramount and Audible. His feature film First Time Caller (available now on Tubi) was praised in the New York Times. His plays God of Obsidian, Musical Chairs, and This House Will Never Let Us Go were all Cincy Fringe award-winners. His plays include The Honeycomb Trilogy (New York Times and Backstage Critics Picks and winner of the NYIT Award for Best Premiere Production), Viral (winner of Outstanding Play at FringeNYC 2009), and Universal Robots (nominated for four New York Innovative Theatre awards). Mac’s plays have earned acclaim from The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Out New York, The New York Post, and many others.
JORDANA WILLIAMS (Director) has directed many plays by Mac Rogers, including CityBeat Critic’s Picks This House Will Never Let Us Go, God Of Obsidian, Musical Chairs, and Ligature Marks, as well as The Honeycomb Trilogy (NY Times and Time Out NY Critics’ Picks), Universal Robots and Viral. She also directed Mac’s podcast thrillers Steal the Stars, a 2018 Audie Award finalist, Give Me Away, and The Earth Moves, as well as Witness for Paramount/Audible and Are You Afraid of the Dark? for Nickelodeon/Audible (2024 Webby winner). Other favorite directing work includes Kill Shakespeare at NY Comic Con, Sean Williams’ Almelem, Vince Gatton’s Alexandria, and The Particulars at FringeNYC.
REBECCA COMTOIS (Diane) previously worked with Mac Rogers and Jordana Williams on the Cincy Fringe award-winners This House Will Never Let Us Go, God Of Obsidian, Musical Chairs, and Ligature Marks, as well as Viral (Winner of FringeNYC’s Outstanding Production of a Play) and The Honeycomb Trilogy (NY Times and Time Out NY Critics’ Picks). Other roles with Gideon Media include Patty in Steal the Stars, Liz/Robin in Give Me Away and Rebecca in Ask You Father.
KRISTEN VAUGHAN (Maddie) is a three-time New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominee for Lead Actress, winning for Jane in Benefactors (Retro Productions). This is Kristen’s fourth Cincy with Gideon Productions, and with Gideon in NYC she was Amelia Cooke in The Honeycomb Trilogy and Victoria Frankenstein in Frankenstein Upstairs. www.kristenvaughan.com
Critical acclaim for Gideon Productions:
“Television is where you find complicated storytelling. Film is the home of epic sci-fi trilogies. Giant aliens are expensive. Mac Rogers’s “Honeycomb Trilogy,” a titanic story about humanity in crisis wedged into a small theater in Queens, laid waste to these truisms, and provided giddy, cerebral fun along the way.” The New York Times
“With a minimal but imaginative set, two very talented actors, and a powerful passionate script, God Of Obsidian is not to be missed.” The Sappy Critic
“A sexy, subtle, and startling exploration of apathy versus desire.” CityBeat on This House Will Never Let Us Go
GIDEON PRODUCTIONS crafts gripping plays that explore what’s strange about being human and what’s human about being strange, using familiar genres and cultural touchstones as a springboard to something wholly unexpected.
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