“The Glitch” Blurs the Line Between Code and Connection in New Sci-Fi Dramedy
The genre-bending Off-Broadway play explores AI, motherhood, and modern love with heart and humor.
AEI Theatrical LLC
Proudly Presents the World Premiere of
What if the AI we fear could connect us more deeply to the parts of ourselves we’ve been too afraid to face?
Written by KIPP KOENIG
Directed by ANN COOLEY
LIMITED FESTIVAL ENGAGEMENT
MAY 27–JUNE 6, 2025 AT THE GURAL THEATRE AT A.R.T.
OFF-BROADWAY SEPTEMBER 2025 AT THE JERRY ORBACH THEATER
New York, NY-May 7, 2025: AEI Theatrical LLC is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Kipp Koenig’s THE GLITCH, directed by Ann Cooley. THE GLITCH will play a special limited engagement at the Gural Theatre at A.R.T. (West 53rd Street, NYC) as part of the Next Step Festival from May 27–June 6, 2025. Following the festival, the production will move to an open-ended Off-Broadway engagement at the Jerry Orbach Theater at The Theatre Center, beginning in September 2025. Tickets are $29 and available at www.NextStepFestival.com.
A sci-fi dramedy about the daughter you haven’t had and the person you realize you want to become.
Amy has found the perfect man. He dreams of five kids, but she’s not even sure she wants one. In search of clarity, she visits a futuristic lab where advanced emotional AI generates a holographic teenager based on her and her partner’s DNA. However, when a glitch in the system reveals something impossible, the actual spirit of her future daughter, Amy must decide whether to listen to the voice reaching across time or retreat to the life she thought she wanted.
When Amy walks through the door, Wyatt, the lab’s brilliant but reclusive founder who hides behind a false identity and a lifetime of guilt, is forced to confront a childhood tragedy, the possibility of redemption, and the stunning truth that love, memory, and forgiveness are more intertwined than ever imagined.
Blending humor, heartbreak, and sci-fi intimacy, The Glitch explores the nature of connection in an increasingly synthetic world. It dares to ask: what if the AI you feared could help you become the parent you always wished you had? What if it could connect you with the one person meant to guide you there?
The Glitch is a story about finding grace in unexpected places and discovering that we may be more than our programming, and so are the machines.
The production stars Danielle Augustine as Amy, Jacquie Bonnet as Wendy, Eva Coppola as Aurora, Hannah Rose Doherty as Hailey, and Ian Campbell Dunn as Wyatt. (Anya van Hoogstraten will be the standby).
The production features scenic design by Josh Oberlander, costume design by Danny Colon, and lighting design by Zack Lobel. Sound design is by Kipp Koenig and Bryan Kohl, and Kayla Katona is the stage manager. Publicity by Katie Rosin/Kampfire PR.
THE GLITCH plays the following festival schedule (May 28–June 6, 2025):
May 27 at 8 pm
May 28 at 1 pm
May 31 at 8 pm
June 6 at 4 pm
Tickets are $29 for Festival Tickets at www.theglitchplay.com.
Running Time: Approximately 120 minutes plus intermission
Website: www.theglitchplay.com
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BIOGRAPHIES
KIPP KOENIG (Playwright) graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Theatre before embarking on a long career in technology and finance. A screenwriter, playwright, and storyteller, Koenig's screenplay Lost In His Prime won the Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Competition. Now retired from tech, he writes forward-looking, tension-filled stories about healing familial wounds and discovering better versions of ourselves.
ANN COOLEY (Director) is an award winning director, choreographer and movement artist whose work reaches global audiences across multiple storytelling mediums. Delighted to actualize The Glitch, Kipp’s heart opening, tech forward piece of futurist storytelling with this incredible trust of artists. This play is a true collaborative dream realized, with joy.
Some Theatrical Highlights: Direction Choreography Movement, Plays: Gordon Penn’s Into the Zone (Columbia@Signature, Mandarin translation Shanghai’s New Space), Protest(Cherry Lane, award), The Masque of the Red Death (Players, award), USO, Leading Ladies, A Comedy of Errors (Fight Direction). The Meth in Method, John Patrick Shanley’s The Big Funk, Guardian, (Nylon Fusion), Cowboy Cut (T. Schreiber), Disarm (Columbia@Shapiro), Kill Hamlet (Columbia @Signature), The Arsonists, Fairy Tale Project, Lysistrata (TPAC CUNY). Original devised: Christmas In The Air Rand Prod.@MGM’s (Borgatta, Beau Rivage, Inaugural Tour), Baby Steps (Prop 8 Response), My Man (Nuyorican Poets), UPS Logistics Net Commercial Pop Ups (Chicago Landmarks), The Future Freaks Me Out (CUNY). Musicals: Victor/Victoria (National Tour), Grand Hotel (Shanghai Mandarin translation),The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Today Show, National Appearances, Rockettes), The Will Rogers Follies (National Tour, Arrow Rock Lyceum), The Producers (Hilton Head), Peter Pan & Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre By The Sea), Bee Hive (Arrow Rock), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Off Broadway), Singin’ In the Rain & 42nd Street (Seoul Opera, Korean translations), R-Family Cruises w/ the Best of Broadway, OKLAHOMA!, Beauty and the Beast, White Christmas, Damn Yankees (Regional), The Menhattans (Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center). Creative Associate Supervising Pre-production: The Producers (National Tour), Gypsy, Forum, WR Follies (Sacramento Music Circus, Pioneer Salt Lake, Gateway), How To Succeed & Cabaret(Encores, LA), Ragtime (Kennedy Center, Broadway), Chicago (Flat Rock), Shine On at Radio City (Good Housekeeping), Chix 6! Annie Get Your Gun (Goodspeed Opera, award winner).
AEI THEATRICAL LLC tells deeply human stories about redemption, reconnection, and emotional possibility — especially where technology and humanity collide. Our work imagines a future where innovation fosters intimacy, not isolation.
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Listings Information:
Who: AEI Theatrical LLC
What: The Glitch
Where: Gural Theatre at A.R.T. (May–June); Jerry Orbach Theater @ The Theatre Center (September onward)
When: Festival: May 28–June 6, 2025; Off-Broadway: September 2025 open-ended run
How: Tickets at www.theglitchplay.com
What if the AI you fear could introduce you to your future child — and to the person you were meant to become? The Glitch is a story about finding grace in unexpected places—and discovering that we may be more than our programming, and so are the machines.
