Thesis Production
by Jimmy Fay '26 MFA
Leeds Theatre
by Jimmy Fay '26 MFA
directed by M Sloth Levine
Performance Dates & Times
Thursday, March 5, 8PM
Friday, March 6, 1PM (Talkback + Captions)
Saturday, March 7, 8PM
Sunday, March 8, 1PM
Leeds Theatre
83 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912
Please note that these are preliminary warnings and may evolve or change during the rehearsal process. Final content warnings will be communicated with ticket holders in advance of each performance.
This production contains gun violence, death, sexual exploitation and child abuse, mentions of suicide, and offensive language.
This production features strobe lights, loud noises, loud sound effects, and the use of sand. Please note that sand will create dust during the performance.
During the performance, approximately four pecans will be cracked on stage. The cracked nuts and shells remain on stage for the remainder of the show, approximately 30 minutes. Audience members with tree nut allergies should take this into consideration.
Jimmy Fay '26 MFA is a writer, director, and performer from Arizona. They live and work between Providence and New York
M Sloth Levine (they/them/theirs) is a director, playwright, and designer based in New York City. They are drawn to work that explores the line between reality and imagination, stories that thrive in the Ridiculous and grotesque that play with mythologies both ancient and contemporary, and finding the most obscure ways to say “I like fairytales and monsters." Recent directing projects include developmental workshops of Rent-a-Butch by Diana Lobontiu (Dyke Theatre Company) and Hell Is Real by Genevieve Simon (Skidmore College.) They are a member of the 25/26 Roundabout Directors Group and were the Script Supervisor on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bad Cinderella. Sloth's plays have been developed at thousands of coffee shops around the country, Roundabout Theater Company, Company One, Theatre [Untitled], Sparkhaven Theatre, Central Square Theatre, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of Wisconsin Madison. At Hotel MacGuffin was the 2021 Parity Development Award recipient from Parity Productions. The Interrobangers premiered in Boston in 2024 with Company One Theatre and The Theatre Offensive and will be published in the third volume of The Methuen Anthology of Trans Plays. The Castle of Ghoul Hammond and How It Fell Into The Void was a 2025 nominee for The Venturous Prize. In 2020 their live web-series Tales from Camp Strangewood was produced with a grant from the Mayor's Office of Boston. They graduated from Emerson College with a BA in Theatre Studies: Directing & Playwriting. www.mslothlevine.com
Eli Nixon '18 MFA
Evie Dumont '26 MFA
Rosalyn Tavarez '26 MFA
Daniel Shtivelberg '26 MFA
Justin Mitchell '26MFA
Dave Rabinow
Jimmy Fay '26 MFA: Playwright
M Sloth Levine: Director
Renee Surprenant Fitzgerald: Set Design
Christine Mok '13 PhD: Costume Designer
Jessie Darrell Jarbadan: Associate Costume Designer
Nic Vincent: Lighting Design
Alex Eizenberg: Sound Design
Grey Rung: Props Design
Mark Rose: Fight Choreographer
Jackie Davis: Intimacy Coordinator
Rebecca Gibel: Dialect Coach
Stephen Mills: Sleight of Hand Consultant
John Caswell Jr: Dramaturg to the Playwright
Maxime Hendrikse Liu '23: Stage Manager
Alexis Campbell '26: Assistant Director
Sydney Meza '26: Assistant Stage Manager
Sydney Merrill '26: Props Assistant
Erin Allison 'XX: Props Assistant