I AM NOBODY RETURNS! April 2026
Greg Kotis‘ guitar-powered, pandemic-cheated musical road trip rides again in a brand new production at The Magnet Theater, NYC, opening April 6, 2026. Tickets on sale now.
Lucas hasn’t known a moment’s peace since his cell phone seized control of his mind. Spiraling into madness, he absconds with a batch of super-charged microchips, prepared to unleash a cyber virus to destroy the modern world.
In hot pursuit are Naomi, a troubled barmaid who has mistaken Lucas for a holy man with a holy plan, and Nathaniel, his co-worker at the microchip plant, who’s so besotted by Naomi he’ll drive her anywhere she wants to go.
Will they reach Lucas before he destroys modernity?
Will this modern world tear them apart?
Will another pandemic clobber this 15-song original musical before it can get a single review?
I AM NOBODY
a guitar-powered 21st century musical road trip by Greg Kotis
Directed by Avery Rose Pedell (Bone by Bone / The End of All Flesh)
Music direction & vocal arrangements by Stephen Anthony Elkins (Pedro Pan / The End of All Flesh)
With:
Emilio Cuesta (The Beast. in Me / I Am Nobody, 2020)
Madeline Glave (Hairspray / Sweeney Todd)
Ayun Halliday (The End of All Flesh / I Am Nobody, 2020)
Greg Kotis (The End of All Flesh / The Wayfaring Strangers)
Piatt Pund (The Wayfaring Strangers / IDK)
Assistant Music Director: Piatt Pund (The Wayfaring Strangers)
Producer: Katie Walenta (The End of All Flesh / I Am Nobody, 2020)
Costume Design: Ayun Halliday (Lunchtime / Zamboni Godot / The End of All Flesh)
Lighting Design: Brian Chase (The End of All Flesh)
Fight Choreography: Zelda Gay (I Am Nobody, 2020)
Orchestrations: Michael Cassedy (HALF-LIFE)
In the absence of a New York Times review, we are lucky to be able to share this endorsement of the original production from an anonymous audience member who caught what ended up being its final performance at The Tank and sent this lovely message :
I saw I AM NOBODY on Thursday night and I am so grateful that I saw it – thank you for the beautiful production. I brought a friend who didn’t know anything about the show and I asked her what she thought afterwards – “Oh!”, she exclaimed,”It was wild and beautiful!!” I completely agree with her and I know that everyone who watched the show last night would agree too. It felt so good to be in the theatre, seeing a new piece full of music, love, humour, fighting, driving, and singing …it was a reminder for me of why I love theatre and why I moved to this city a million years ago 🙂
THIS MODERN WORLD IS TEARING US APART, STILL
WE COULD NOT SURVIVE IN ANY OTHER PLACE OR TIME!
THIS MODERN WORLD HAS HELD US LIKE A PRISONER. BUT
WE ARE BOTH THE VICTIMS AND THE CULPRITS OF THIS CRIME.
(Naomi bows. Nathanial, smitten, claps enthusiastically. Lucas broods.)
