Noah Mease's OMEGA KIDS to Bring Superhero Tales to the Stage at Access Theater

New Light Theater Project and Access Theater will present OMEGA KIDS by Noah Mease, directed by Jay Stull.

OMEGA KIDS begins performances Thursday, March 2 for a limited engagement through Sunday, March 25. Press opening is Sunday, March 5 at 8 PM.

This is the story of two Michaels, who spend a rainy Saturday night on the floor of an unfurnished apartment talking about OMEGA KIDS - a comic book about a ragtag team of teenage superheroes. Between the reboots and retcons, apocalypses and alternate universes, fiction and reality blur as the Michaels test the limits of their new friendship. Obie Award-winner Noah Mease's play is an intimate look at how people forge connections through pop culture and comic book superheroes.

OMEGA KIDS, developed at Dixon Place's HOT! Festival, features Fernando Gonzalez (Minor Character at Under the Radar/The Public Theater) and Will Sarratt (When I Started Dating Men at Dixon Place).

The design team features Brian Dudkiewicz (scenic design), Alex Rozansky (costume design), Scot Gianelli (lighting design), Eben Hoffer (sound design), and Noah Mease (prop and comic book design). The technical director is Jeremy Pape.

The performance schedule is Thursday at 8 PM; Friday at 7:30 PM; Saturday at 8 PM; Sunday at 3 PM & 7 PM. Please note the following schedule adjustments: the Sunday, March 5 performances are at 5.30 PM & 8 PM; there are added performances on Friday, March 10 & 24 at 9:45 PM and on Saturday, March 18 at 3 PM. Performances are at Access Theater (380 Broadway, at White Street, two blocks south of Canal). Tickets are $25. To purchase tickets, visit www.omegakids.brownpapertickets.com.

Noah Mease (playwright) is a playwright and prop designer. His plays include Republic (with Alec Duffy/Hoi Polloi - JACK; Manbites Dog Theater), Omega Kids (Access Theater; Dixon Place's Hot! Festival), and The Silo (Ars Nova's ANT Fest). He's developed work with The Tugboat Collective, Fresh Ground Pepper's PlayGround PlayGroup, The Brick Resident Artist Program, and Teatro IATI's Cimientos Writers' Group, among others. He also designs props for new plays and received an Obie Award in 2016 for his work on Annie Baker's John (Signature). His work is currently on Broadway with Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Other design work includes Hadestown (NYTW), Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova; Signature Center), An Octoroon (Soho Rep.; TFANA), and multiple projects with The Debate Society, including The Light Years (Playwrights Horizons).

Jay Stull (director) is a director and playwright. Recent New York directing credits include: Strange Country by Anne Adams (NLTP), Utility by Emily Schwend (The Amoralists at The Rattlestick), As Far As The Day Goes by Jenny Schwartz (Clubbed Thumb, workshop production), Omega Kids by Noah Mease (Dixon Place), Take Me Back by Emily Schwend (Walkerspace), Leave Me Green by Lisi DeHaas (Gym at Judson), and Enter at Forest Lawn and Rantoul and Die by Mark Roberts (The Amoralists). His written and directing work has been seen at or developed by LAByrinth, Ars Nova, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, The Flea, Dixon Place, Fresh Ground Pepper, the Lark Play Development Center, Ugly Rhino, The Culture Project, and Joe's Pub. He was a Directing Fellow with Clubbed Thumb and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and The Civilians R&D Group. He is an alumnus of Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground Play Group, Pataphysics at The Flea, and Bowdoin College.

New Light Theater Project, led by Artistic Director Sarah Norris and Producing Director Michael Aguirre, is an award-winning theater company based in downtown New York. NLTP places writers at the center of their process of developing new works and reinterpreting classic stories, while creating an environment-for both artist and audience-that is open, engaging, and affordable. NLTP believes in illuminating other artists through a network of shared resources and continually expand their network by cultivating collaborations with artists around the world.

Since 1992, Access Theater has been a home to New York City's leading downtown artists. When not producing its own work, Access serves as a cost-effective curated arts venue seeking innovative, not-for-profit producing organizations devoted to new works in the Off-Off Broadway community. Offering a well-maintained, subsidized and therefore affordable, downtown venue for the showcasing of emerging artists and their efforts, Access has served as host to an impressive roster of theater artists.

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