Upcoming Productions

KAYDIR!

Adapted/Translated by Alp Ünsal
from SOFT by J. Merrill Motz

March 26, 2026, Instanbul

The dating app said it was looking for "nice guys" and "hopeless romantics" for a new experiment...so here he waits, ready for anything. He is desperate. He is soft. He will bleed.

***CAUTION***

SOFT CONTAINS: Violence, blood & gore, swears galore, misogyny, male fragility, & mansplaining.

In all seriousness, SOFT contains potentially triggering content & unsettling subject matter.

SOFT is definitely not for children. But talk to them about it afterwards.

PS - SLYDE is not a real dating app, but it might be based on one.

Read an excerpt on New Play Exchange here

"Strong writing and acting allows the interplay to increase to a nerve-racking level of intensity." - Star tribune

"Then things get weird. Then they get more weird. Then they get dangerous." - MINNESOTA PLAYLIST

"When the end game becomes clear, the show makes a very pointed commentary" - PET SNAKE REGGIE

"your sympathies are twisted and turned back on you." - MN Fringe Audience Review

"a quiet, non-confrontational terror." - MN Fringe Audience Review

"Desperate, so lonely it could make you scream, and anxious as having to play Russian roulette with half the revolver loaded." - MN Fringe Audience Review

Past Tour Productions

SOFT
at 2022 Cincy Fringe!

Digital Program here

Sat, Jun 4 w/ special guest Katie Hartman
Tue, Jun 7 w/ special guest Alexx Rouse
Thu, Jun 9 w/ special guest Kat Reynolds
Fri, Jun 10 w/ special guest Hannah Gregory
Sat, Jun 11 w/ special guest Liz Carman

Buddy is BACK!!
2021 Digital Fringe Edition

Rewind-A-Buddy at the 2021 Cincy Fringe!
Available as a Livestreamed Performance at the following dates and times:
Sun 6/6 6:15PM EST/5:15PM CST
Wed 6/9 8:00PM EST/7:00PM CST
Thu 6/10 6:15PM EST/5:15PM CST
Sat 6/12 2:45PM EST/1:45PM CST
Thu 6/17 6:15PM EST/5:15PM CST

Rewind-A-Buddy at the 2021 Minnesota Fringe!
Available as a Video-On-Demand Performance Aug 5-15

Critter cuts Cincinnati!

KNIFESLINGIN’! at the 2019 Cincy Fringe!

Sat Jun 1 7:00, w/ Special Guest Star Liz Carman
Sun Jun 2 4:00 w/ Special Guest Star Kate Mock Elliot
Tue Jun 4 8:30 w/ Special Guest Star Les Kurkendaal-Barrett
Thu Jun 6 7:45 w/ Special Guest Star Donna Kay Yarborough
Fri Jun 7 6:30 w/ Special Guest Star Derek Snow
Sat Jun 8 9:00 w/ Special Guest Star Chris Wesselman

Art Academy Room A664
1212 Jackson Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202

“This premise sounds like Duck Dynasty on steroids and would normally not appeal to me as a theatergoer, since it smacks of the worst elements of Trump’s America. But Motz is a skilled playwright who takes elements from this group and makes it the subject of humor that everyone, both right and left-leaning, can laugh at.”

cincinnati city beat

CRITTER HITS THE ROAD

CRITTER IS BACK! (MERRY CRITTERMAS!)
Sunday, October 28th, 2018 7:30
w/ Special Guest Star Michael Terrell Brown
Phoenix Theater, Minneapolis, MN

CMU Theatre and Dance Solo Performance Festival
Saturday, November 3, 2018
w/ Special Guest Star Keeley Stanley-Bohn
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

Infringe Fest New Orleans
Friday, November 9, 2018
7:00 PM
GrandPre’s
834 North Rampart
New Orleans, LA
w/ Special Guest Star Sadie Bowman

Saturday, November 10, 2018
7:00 PM
Marcer Manor
1000 North Rampart
New Orleans, LA
w/ Special Guest Star Casey Haeg

Sunday, November 11, 2018
9:00 PM
Cafe Istanbul
2372 St Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA
w/ Special Guest Star Zeb Hollins III