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The King Black Box 25-26 Season:
Executive Director: Grisha Pasternak | Artistic Director: Sophie Ann Rooney
led by The King Black Box in partnership with Elkabong Theatre Projects
Bug by Tracy Letts
director & sound designer Andrew Cameron
production designer Sophie Ann Rooney
OPENING NOV. 28th
Folie à deux, a rare psychiatric syndrome where delusional beliefs are shared between two closely associated individuals.
BUG by Tracy Letts at The King Black Box (Sophie Ann Rooney, Artistic Director; Grisha Pasternak, Executive Director) on November 28th, 2025 Led by The King Black Box in partnership with Elkabong Theatre Projects (Andrew Cameron, Artistic Director) and is directed by Andrew Cameron, with production design by Sophie Ann Rooney and Sound Design by Andrew Cameron. The Production Stage Manager is Kayleigh Mundy* with Associate Producer Nicholas Eddie and Production Manager Grisha Pasternak (TKBB).
The cast is as follows:
L.A. SWEENEY as AGNES WHITE
NICHOLAS EDDIE* as PETER EVANS
BONGANI MUSA* as JERRY GOSS
ALEXANDRA FLORAS-MATIC as R.C.
SEAN JACKLIN as DR. SWEET
*CAEA Equity Members
BUG received its world premiere at the Gate Theatre in London, England, opening in September 1996. It was directed by Wilson Milam. The cast was as follows:
AGNES WHITE Shannon Cochran
R.C. Holly Wantuch
PETER EVANS Michael Shannon
JERRY GOSS Marc A. Nelson
DR. SWEET Jeff Still
Tracy S. Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for his production, August: Osage County (2007), and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013).
past shows.
The King Black Box 25-26 Season:
Artistic Director: Sophie Ann Rooney | Executive Director: Grisha Pasternak
Romeo Pimp by Jesse McQueen -world premiere
director & production designer by Sophie Ann Rooney
Bug by Tracy Letts
director Andrew Cameron & production designer Sophie Ann Rooney
The King Black Box 24-25 Season:
Exec. Artistic Director: Sophie Ann Rooney | Artistic Director: Ziggy Schulting | Executive Director: Grisha Pasternak
The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
director & production designer by Sophie Ann Rooney
Girls Unwanted by George F. Walker --world premiere
director George F. Walker & production designer Sophie Ann Rooney
The Irish Pub Play by Aurora McClennan and The King Black Box
director Ziggy Schulting & production designer Sophie Ann Rooney
THEATRE'S HISTORY 2012-15
The Theatre Machine 2014-15 Season
Sterling Artistic Director & Founder: Sophie Ann Rooney | Executive Team: The Theatre Machine: Luis Fernandes [unit102], Sophie Ann Rooney [sterling], Kyle Labine [sterling], Jesse Hughes [unit102], David LaFontaine [unit102], Danka Scepanovic [sterling], Scott Walker [unit102]
The Atomic Tradition by Istvan Dugalin
director & production designer Sophie Ann Rooney
[remount in Fringe]
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
director & production designer Sophie Ann Rooney
Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo
director Kyle Labine
Partnership: Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, directed by Miriam Laurence & production designer Sophie Ann Rooney
Sterling Studio Theatre 2013-14 Season
Artistic Director & Founder: Sophie Ann Rooney | Co-Artistic Director: Angela Besharah | Executive Director: Kyle Labine | Artist in Residence: Alana Pancyr | Publicist: Candice Mausner & Marketing: Caroline Millen | Playwright in Residence: Noah Davis
The Foursome by Jane Ford
You Said Love by Noah Davis
Where's My Money? by John Patrick Shanley
Ravenscroft by Don Nigro
Spectre by Don Nigro
By A Thread by Dianne Flack [remount]
Snow Angel by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Dolores by Edward Allan Baker
Red Bill by Michael Eisner
Kuwaiti Moonshine by Tim C Murphy
The Lover by Harold Pinter
Sailor's Song by John Patrick Shanley
Central Park West by Woody Allen
A Lonely impulse of Delight by John Patrick Shanley
Partnership: Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard & Patti Smith | Out of Gas on Lover's Leap by Mark St. Germain | The Trial of Ken Gass by Bobby Del Rio | A Life Beyond Doubt
Sterling Studio Theatre 2012-13 Season
Artistic Director & Founder: Sophie Ann Rooney | Co-Artistic Director: Angela Besharah | Artist in Residence: Alana Pancyr
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley
Echoes by N. Richard Nash
The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
The Bear by Anton Chekhov
Interior: Panic by Tennessee Williams
By A Thread by Dianne Flacks
Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Burn This by Lanford Wilson
Partnership: In 40 years
Thank you to photographers:
Nate Colitto, Danka Scepanovic, Dmitry Lopatin, Matthew Bennett, Jules Sherwood, Ziggy Schulting, InsideLight, Brett Haynes, Farrah Aviva,