“The gravel-voiced Mellor, super dry and super droll, is an Olympic-level outraged bristler, and “Mahinerator,” Jerry Lieblich’s hilariously gruesome sci-fi monologue, fits him like a hair shirt.” - Helen Shaw, The New Yorker

COVID PROTOCOL: Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Patrons will also be required to wear masks when not eating or drinking.

FEATURING
Steve Mellor

CREATIVE TEAM
Jerry Lieblich - Writer + Co-Director

Meghan Finn - Co-Director

MEET THE TEAM

Steve Mellor

Steve Mellor (he/him) has appeared on Broadway (Big River), Off-Broadway (Nixon's Nixon) and regionally at Arena Stage, Long Wharf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Stage and Yale Rep. A longtime collaborator with Mac Wellman, Steve has appeared in Wellman's Harm’s Way, Energumen, Dracula, Cellophane, Terminal Hip (OBIE Award), Sincerity Forever, A Murder of Crows, The Hyacinth Macaw, 7 Blowjobs (Bessie Award), Strange Feet, Bad Penny, Fnu Lnu, Bitter Bierce (OBIE Award), and Muazzez. He also directed Mr. Wellman's 1965 UU. In New York City, he has appeared at the Public Theater, La Mama, Soho Rep, Primary Stages, PS 122, MCC Theater, The Chocolate Factory and The Flea. His film and television credits include Sleepless in Seattle, Mickey Blue Eyes, Celebrity, NYPD Blue, Law and Order, NY Undercover and Mozart in the Jungle.

Jerry Lieblich
Writer, Co-Director

Jerry Lieblich (they/them) plays in the borderlands of theater, poetry, and music. Their work experiments with language as a way to explore and expand textures of consciousness and attention. Plays include D Deb Debbie Deborah (Clubbed Thumb – Critic’s Pick: NY Times), Undying in Yidderland (Kulturhaus Mousontorum, Frankfurt), Everything for Dawn (Experiments in Opera), Tongue Depressor (The Public Theatre), Ghost Stories (Cloud City — Critic’s Pick: TimeOut NY), The Barbarians (Dixon Place), and Your Hair Looked Great (Abrons Arts Center). Their poetry has appeared in Foglifter, Grist, SOLAR, Pomona Valley Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Works and Days.

Jerry has held residencies at MacDowell, MassMoCA, Millay Arts, Blue Mountain Center, NACL, SPACE on Ryder Farm, UCROSS, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. They have received a EST/Sloan Commission, the Himan Brown Creative Writing Award (twice), and a Martha Boschen Porter Fund grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. They are a 2023-4 Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellow with Yiddishkayt, an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Page 73's I-73 Writer's Group, and Pipeline Theater’s Playlab group. MFA: Brooklyn College (Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney, chief instigators). www.thirdear.nyc

Meghan Finn
Co-Director

Meghan Finn (she/her) is the Artistic Director of The Tank. She previously served as the Associate Artistic Director at 3LD Art & Technology Center. Her directorial work has been seen at the Tank, the V&A, Serpentine Galleries, The Wexner Center, SCAD, The Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, Museo Jumex Mexico City, The Power Plant, Canadian Stage, Carnegie Mellon, Brooklyn College, MIT, NYU, the Great Plains Theater Conference and others. She has directed three world premieres by playwright Mac Wellman, including most recently The Invention of Tragedy (2019). Other recent credits include: I Am Nobody a new musical by Greg Kotis (Urinetown) at The Tank; as well as The Nine Dreams: Blake & the Apocalypse by writer Nick Flynn (film). She directed a short film by playwright Peggy Stafford called 16 Words or Less which has been screened at indie film festivals nationally and in Europe. She is a frequent collaborator of conceptual artist and sculptor Pedro Reyes, and directed Doomocracy for Creative Time. Finn collaborated with photographer Mitch Epstein on a live performance with cellist Erik Friedlander as well as celebrated premieres by Erin Courtney, Peggy Stafford, Gary Winter, Ben Gassman, Alexandra Collier, Carl Holder, Eliza Bent and Cori Copp. When We Went Electronic by Caitlyn Saylor Stephens which premiered at The Tank in 2018 toured in 2021 to The Roes Theater in Athens Greece and OnStage! Festival Rome and Milan. She holds a BA in Theater from The University of Southern California and an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College.

Ada Zhang
Production Stage Manager

Ada Zhang is very excited to return to the Tank! Previously, she worked on the breathtaking CyberTank production, Prometheus Bound, in fall 2020. Born and raised in Beijing, China, Ada is now a freelance stage manager based in NYC. Recent credits: Sugar Hill, An Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker, SIX Aragon Tour (1st National). M.F.A. in Stage Management, Columbia University.