Pamela Enz's AFTERWARDS comes to LaMama this September

POETIC THEATER PRODUCTIONS ​
​Proudly Presents the World Premiere of

A lyrical love song to sexy art and lovemaking, AFTERWARDS is a spark of long-lost New York that ignites with rocket velocity.

Written by PAMELA ENZ
​Directed by DANNY ROCCO

LIMITED OFF-BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT
​SEPTEMBER 11 – 19, 2026 AT SHARES AT LA MAMA

TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT POETICTHEATER.COM

POETIC THEATER PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Pamela Enz’s AFTERWARDS, directed by Danny Rocco. AFTERWARDS will play nine performances only at Shares at LA MAMA (74A East 4th St, NYC 10003). Performances begin Friday, September 11 at 7:30 pm and continue through Saturday, September 19 at ​ 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15-$25 and available at poetictheater.com.

AFTERWARDS is a spiritual, theatrical novella, a sequel to Enz’s play City Girls and Desperados. Enz’s elliptical, transcendent storytelling revolves around a crew of hipster artists orbiting the steadying center of legend to legends; Sam Shaw - creator of the famous (Marilyn subway shot) and esteemed Cassavetes producer, whose lawsuit of biblical proportions with his only son evolves into a blueprint for forgiveness that gives this piece its resonant heart. Sam’s son is shattered by his refusal to say “Yes, I do, I do love you.” after an argument with the love of his life, French film Goddess Françoise Dorléac, just before she drives away to her fiery death. This tragedy ripples through decades across oceans, snuffing out the possibility of love for generations. Characters ballet with younger versions of themselves as they unravel multiple dimensions of time, identity, death, reality, and truth through a maze-like world, desperately in need of empathy.

These collaborators reunite as a plea for a softer, kinder world through building a play that is likewise linguistically nimble and beautiful. Rocco and Enz meet at a truly fortuitous time to remind audiences of the power of language, the need for empathy, and that the purest, most effective route to empathy is live theater. A balm for all the tenderhearted people whose hearts are too big for this world; AFTERWARDS offers the sanctifying power of mythic love.

Falling Sideways Off the Edge of the Earth creates a richly compelling space of play that exemplifies its own recommendations.” - Thinking Theater NYC (about Enz’s previous work)

“Pamela Enz is one of our city's most unsung, eloquent, long-standing playwrights. AFTERWARDS is a lyrical love-song to love and love-making; to art and artists. It has a spark of a former New York, and a forward-moving velocity that will never leave our city. This production is attracting fine New York talent, in the premiere, historic La Mama. For the avid theater-goer, this is a not-to-be-missed Village event. AFTERWARDS is a spiritual sequel to Pam's play ''City Girls and Desperados', which I got to direct a reading of when we first met in 2011 while doing a residency at Edward Albee's barn in Montauk. Pam's language is transcendent - always on the asymptote of unreality. Never on the surface, the play dives deeply into their entanglements and cuts to a frighteningly real center”. - Danny Rocco

"Playing with space and time, AFTERWARDS explores the ephemeral turning of individual people’s life experiences, culminating in a single community of narrators connected by shared emotions. Pam’s piece spoke to me because the essence of this story aligns with fundamental human emotions like love, hate, fear, and forgiveness, allowing audience members to come out feeling: "I'm not alone." - Sarah T. Schwab, President of Cardinal Flix

The production stars Elizabeth ​ Inghram (Girl Most Likely) as Dani Afterwards, Elizabeth Kenney (Theatre Camp) as Dani Younger, Monique Vukovic (Workplace Injuries) as Susan, David Gueriera (Waltzing with Brando) as Andrew Afterwards, Conor Andrew Hall (Flight Risk) as Arthur Younger, Michael Christian (Wilhelm Reich Unleashed) as Sam and Patricia Marjorie (Mrs. Loman) as Lili the Therapist / Lili in Love / Memory Rita / Broken Rita.

The production features composition by Elliott Randall, scenic design by Éve Laroche-Joubert, and technical direction by ​ Chico Kramer. Hao Bai is the lighting designer. Ray Archie is the sound designer and audio engineer. Produced by Jeremy Karafin. Associate producer is Raquel Almazan. Additional associate producers are Aislinn Curry and ​ April Sandmeyer. Stage Management by Michele Correggio. Publicity by Katie Rosin/Kampfire PR.

BIOGRAPHIES

PAMELA ENZ (Playwright) Self-described as a Hybrid Collagist, Enz has a practice of overlapping multiple mediums. Her solo show of a series of shorts, 3D-HOWLING, showcased at Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo, N.Y., included an interview with mentor Sam Shaw (Cassavetes producer) who shepherded Pamela through the making of “oh, belly, belly…”, starring Christopher Lawford & Adam Hann-Byrd, the lead character in Jodie Foster 1st film “Little Man Tate”. Short films include “sushi suicide” screened at ASHWAGH Hall in East Hampton and “Easier Said Than Done,” which premiered at The Cork International Film Festival. Pamela’s screenplay “Didja..didja didja..find a gun?” was chosen for the NO BORDERS section of the IFFM. Most recently, Theater for the New City produced “City Girls & Desperadoes” with Julie Atlas Muz and Austin Pendleton.

AWARDS include: Edward F. Albee Fellowships, many PEN grants, the Franklin Furnace Emerging Performance Award, Cuts & Burns residency Outpost & The Tennessee Williams One Act Play Award. PRODUCTIONS: @IRT Theater, MainStage@ Dixon Place, The Brick, The Secret Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Theater for the New City, The 92nd St. Y, and on WBAI radio. PERFORMANCES: “MANIFESTO” for the Movement Research 2016 gala at Judson Church honoring Anita Durst and Nicky Paraiso, “Gifts of the Spirit” with Ron Athey at Participant INC., Amanda Palmer’s video “Floating in a Cocktail Glass”, & most memorably with Anna Deavere Smith on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum. https://www.poetictheater.com/pamela-enz/

DANNY ROCCO (Director) is the author and director of the 55-actor play CONVENTION. He is the internationally produced playwright, director, and pioneer of the Script Writing Score, whose writing has been developed and produced in New York, Los Angeles, Cape Cod, Colorado, Romania, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Irondale Theater Center. He is supported by Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Byrdcliffe, Catwalk, the Arctic Circle Residency, and Atlantic Acting School. A graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, he is the creator of the Script Writing Score and co-creator of Swseng, a new ‘present-tense’ writing software. He is the Artistic Director of Brontosaurus Haircut Productions. https://www.danny-rocco.com/danny-rocco

ÈVE LAROCHE- JOUBERT (Scenic Design and Movement ) "Creating is a vital necessity: preserving physical and psychological balance, opposing the absurdities of our societies with a poetic presence — to oneself, to others, to the world. A multidisciplinary artist who creates, engineers, sculpts, and performs her own work Ève's distinctive synthesis of sculpture, movement, and critical inquiry has brought her work to audiences worldwide. Her work has been exhibited in private and public institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MRAC Sérignan) in Occitanie, South of France, and the University for the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Her pieces have entered leading collections in Europe, the United States, and Japan, including the prestigious private collection assembled by Maire Gullichsen and Carl Gustaf Ehrnrooth, and have been featured in major publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Artforum and Le Monde.https://www.evelarochejoubert.com/

ELLIOTT RANDALL (Composer) has worked with both Ms Laroche-Joubert & Enz on several projects. Most recently 'Falling Sideways Off the Edge of the Earth" 2025 @TNC NYC. Randall’s illustrious career has encompassed a wide and varied cross-section of World Musical forms. These include: record production, composition, electronic research and development, lectures and teaching, and of course, a legendary contribution to popular guitar performance and recording. Elliott has recorded and performed with artists as diverse as The Doobie Brothers, Carly Simon, Seatrain, The Blues Brothers, Carl Wilson, Peter Wolf, Peter Frampton, James Galway, Richie Havens, The Rochester Philharmonic and The American Symphony Orchestra, among many others. http://elliott-randall.com/about

POETIC THEATER PRODUCTIONS: (Producing Presenter) seeks to define the modern genre of "poetic theater" by connecting and fostering a community of artists who are passionately creating relevant and accessible work and reinvigorating a conscious theater of language. Poetic Theater Productions offers resources and opportunities for poets, playwrights, and theater artists to create new work and see it through to production via educational workshops, developmental readings, and performance. PTP seeks out and creates opportunities to connect with communities affected by the issues of the topic within our productions through collaborative projects and exchanges of art and ideas. https://www.poetictheater.com/

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