New Musical S.I.M.P.S. Will Premiere Off-Broadway

Self Improvement and Male Preservation Society, or S.I.M.P.S. will play a limited engagement at IRT Theater in Manhattan’s West Village from Friday, January 24– Sunday, Feb 2, 2025. 

The show will star Aaron Arnell Harrington (Little Shop of Horrors Off-Broadway), Cory Jeacoma (Gatsby at A.R.T.; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway), Karl Josef Co (NBC’s “The Endgame”; Gentleman’s Guide…Murder on Broadway), Logan Farine (RENT 20th Anniversary Tour), John El-Jor (We Live in Cairo; Mean Girls 2024; American Idol), Walter Higginbotham (Rock of Ages), and Kamari Saxon.

S.I.M.P.S. features book and lyrics by Hamish Marissen-Clark (The Brotherhood of DIX, Toronto) and music by Alec Steinhorn (People You May Know, AMTP/Kennedy Center Award) The musical will be directed by Nicholas Polonio (Slave Play on Broadway) with musical direction by Patrick B. Phillips (The Wiz on Broadway, Suffs on Broadway). It is produced by Shannon Molly Flynn (PAC NYC, Normal Ave).

The production manager is Matthew Thompson, with scenic design by Cat Raynor, lightning design by Paige Seber, and sound design by Germán Martínez.  Visual Creative Direction and graphic design is by Julian “The Brain Wave” Alicea, key art photographed by Josh Aronson, and social media managed by Dylan MacDowell. 

ABOUT S.I.M.P.S.

Kevin Everyman is stuck. He knows that boys need to talk about their feelings, but he also knows that his voice is probably not what the world needs to hear. With this in mind, he joins the Self-Improvement & Male Preservation Society, or "S.I.M.P.S." – a cult of young men promising to teach Kevin how to protect the world from the dangers of his masculinity. But when the society uses harrowing violence to uphold its supposed progressivism, Kevin must reckon more honestly with his role in today’s gender landscape. A pulp-horror satire with a violent jazz-pop score, S.I.M.P.S. uses sensibilities like those of Fight Club, South Park, Michael R. Jackson, and Midsommar as it embarks on a daring, hysterical, complex interrogation of the manosphere. 

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