Award-winning New York Neo-Futurists launch THE INFINITE WRENCH at The Second City New York
A collective of writer-director-performers now in their 21st season of writing and performing original work rooted in non-fiction
2018 Fresh Fruit Festival Honeyberry Award for Unrecognized Service to the LGBT Community
2006, 2011, & 2017 NYIT Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production
2015, 2014 & 2012 Drama Desk nominee for Unique Theatrical Experience
“An entertaining forum for discussing the issues.” - The New Yorker
The Neo-Futurists - brilliant minimalists, all - actually get the plays across, in all their fatal glory, even as they are racking up guffaws." - New York Magazine
“The hardest working theater group in the city right now." - Time Out New York, 2017
"This long-running Off-Off-Broadway gig proved itself equal to anything the big boys offer.” - Forbes Magazine listed Best Theater of 2015
THE INDIE-THEATER DYNAMO NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS
LAUNCH THE INFINITE WRENCH THIS MONTH
AT THE SECOND CITY NEW YORK
New York, NY (January 16, 2025) – Co-artistic directors Kyra Sims and Rob Neill and the award-winning New York Neo-Futurists (NYNF), a collective of writer-director-performers now in their 21st season of writing and performing original work rooted in non-fiction, announce after 20 years in Manhattan they are launching The Infinite Wrench at The Second City Black Box (64 N 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11249) in Brooklyn.
"An impish illustration of how lively entertainment can be created from theatrical spare parts." - The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)
Dive into a bold and unpredictable fusion of theater, storytelling, and sport with the New York Neo-Futurists every Friday and Saturday at 9:30 PM, starting January 17th. Each night, the NYNF team takes on the challenge of performing 30 original plays in roughly an hour. Through their unconventional storytelling, they deliver quick, powerful slices of life—crafted from the ensemble's own experiences—that can be funny, profound, elegant, gross, topical, irrelevant, or downright absurd. Don’t miss this whirlwind of raw and captivating theater!
“We are thrilled to bring all the theatrical chaos, creativity, and joy that defines The Infinite Wrench to such a vital and iconic institution as The Second City,” says Neill. “It’s incredibly exciting to return to Brooklyn and share our unique brand of devised storytelling in this vibrant community again.”
“We have already felt so welcome in the space,” added Sims. “We are impressed by the New York venue and its programming and are honored to partner with another company with Chicago roots.”
“The Second City New York is so excited to welcome the New York Neo-Futurists here for the run of The Infinite Wrench. We are ecstatic to be partnering with a theatrical institution of the NYNF’s caliber and are honored to have their one-of-a-kind performances presented on our stages”, remarks Kevin Condardo, Managing Director of The Second City New York.
The Infinite Wrench at The Second City Black Box 64 N 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11249 plays: Fridays and Saturdays at 9:30 PM
Tickets are $10-$50 and are now available online at https://www.secondcity.com/shows/new-york/the-new-york-neo-futurists-present-the-infinite-wrench-nyc. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the theater a half-hour before the performance.
Running Time: 70 minutes
The Second City opened its doors in 1959 as a small comedy cabaret and has since grown to become the world's most influential name in improvisation and comedy, celebrating its 66th year in business in 2025. The Second City's stages, Touring Companies, and Training Centers across North America have proudly been the launch pad and artistic home for many of the funniest performers, writers, directors, and comedic minds on the planet. For decades The Second City's corporate education and entertainment arm, Second City Works, has supported global businesses using the same methods pioneered on its stages to drive individual growth and organizational improvement. For more information on The Second City, visit www.secondcity.com, www.secondcityworks.com and follow The Second City on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter/X.
The New York Neo-Futurists are a prolific, dynamic ensemble of multidisciplinary artists who write and perform original work rooted in the truth of our own lived experiences. They fuse elements of poetry, game, and performance art to create ever-changing theater and other artistic experiments to respond to the world around them. Since opening in Brooklyn in 2004, the New York Neo-Futurists have premiered over 7,000 short plays in their radical theater mechanisms Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (2004-2016) and The Infinite Wrench (2017-present) and have become a downtown New York institution. The NYNF has been a stalwart presence in the Off-Off Broadway community since its inception; they have won numerous Innovative Theatre Awards, earned multiple Drama Desk Nominations, and were honored at The 2018 Fresh Fruit Festival Awards with the Honeyberry Award for Unrecognized Service to the LGBT Community. The Infinite Wrench unleashes a barrage of two-minute plays, and while each one offers something different, be it funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, or terrifying, all are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. In addition to performing The Infinite Wrench year-round, the NYNF has created four seasons of their NYT-recommended podcast Hit Play and taught workshops in devised storytelling. www.nynf.org
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