NOW THROUGH NOVEMBER 22, 2026
Growing up, Charly’s older brother was her protector and role model, but they’ve barely spoken since he went away to college. When she tags along to a bewildering night out with his new friends, she discovers that Owen is deep into a political transformation that she doesn’t understand. Ten years later, he needs her help. But first, she needs answers. The Charioteer follows a brother and sister on the brink of catastrophe, learning how to fight with—and for—the people they love.
Photo by Austin Ruffer
Cat Raynor (Set Design) Yiyuan Li (Lighting Design) Carsen Joenk (Sound Design) Azalea Fairley(Costume Designer) Sabrina-Michelle Francis (Production Stage Manager) Lucy Murray (Assistant Stage Manager) Amanda + James (Co-Producer)
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Dan Giles (Playwright) (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter from Massachusetts. He is a recent alumnus of The Juilliard School’s playwriting fellowship, the Filmmakers’ Workshop at New York Stage & Film, and Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre. His plays include Mike Pence Sex Dream (Ensemble Studio Theatre, First Floor Theater), 1969: The Second Man (Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop), How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed (Haven Theatre), and Breeders (New Light Theater Project, Great Plains Theatre Commons). He’s the recipient of a NYSCA Support for Artists grant, the Clifford Odets Ensemble Commission from Lee Strasberg/NYU, an Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, the New Light New Voices Award, and the American College Theater Festival’s Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting. He is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in English) and Carnegie Mellon School of Drama (MFA).
Matt Dickson (Director) Recent: Garside’s Career (Mint Theater, Drama Desk nomination), Where Did We Sit on the Bus? by Brian Quijada (Steppenwolf), The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh (Playmakers Repertory Company, Ground Floor), The Charioteer by Dan Giles (Juilliard), Step Mom, Step Mom, Step Mom by Jahna Ferron-Smith, (InterACT), Smart by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton (Ensemble Studio Theatre). As an actor he has appeared on Broadway in War Horse, The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater). He is a Drama League Fellow, a Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow (Manhattan Theatre Club), member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and SDC. B.F.A. from Boston University. mattjdickson.com
Jake Horowitz (Owen) was most recently seen in Andrew Patterson's film The Rivals of Amziah King. Select theater credits include Basil Biggs by Anna Deveare Smith (Wilma Theater), Dutch Masters (Wild Project), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA), Our Town (Barrow Street). The Sensuality Party (New Group). Other film and TV Credits include John Wayne Gacy; Devil in Disguise, Manifest, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, and Andrew Patterson’s first film, The Vast of Night. Training; Juilliard.
Mia Wurgaft (Charly) is a recent Juilliard Drama graduate. Recent credits include: The Mall^3 (The Tank), Twelfth Night (The Public), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Window (Juilliard). Much love to the charioteam.
Amanda + James (Producer) is a New York-based company dedicated to producing the work of emerging artists. We provide a space for this community to follow creative impulses, refine ideas into projects, and collaborate and learn from their peers. Recent productions include MANO A MANO (with ThingNY) and Family (with Hoi Polloi) at La MaMa, Party Dish at Center for Performance Research, Ghost Porn at Kestrels, and The Lydian Gale Parr (with The Tank) at Target Margin Theater. www.amandaplusjames.com
the cell (Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian, Artistic Director Kira Simring) is a not-for- profit dedicated to the incubation and presentation of new work across all artistic disciplines that mine the mind, pierce the heart and awaken the soul. Founded in 2006 as a “21st century salon”, the cell has provided a developmental home in the heart of Chelsea for performing artists, musicians, installation artists, choreographers and more. Past performances include Beauty Freak with What Will the Neighbors Say?, The Trojans with Loading Dock Theatre, Sheltered, cryptochrome, Communion, I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire, multiple projects with The Why Collective, What Kind of Woman, when the blossom passes, what remains?, The Final Veil, Elizabeth Swados’ Nightclub Cantata, What Keeps You Going?, Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings), Persou, Tolerance Party, Found, Hoard (co-produced with Off the Wall), The Evolution of Mann, Bastard Jones (a Drama-Desk Award nominee), Crackskull Row, Hey Jude, Rady & Bloom's Peter/Wendy, The McGowan Trilogy, Horse Girls, McGoldrick’s Thread Hard Times: An American Musical (now the Tony-Award Winning Paradise Square) and Dinner and Delusion. Work developed at the cell has been seen on Broadway, Irish Repertory Theatre, MCC, Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theatre, New World Stages, Cherry Lane Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage, Toyohashi Arts Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Carnegie Stage, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Art Basel Miami. www.thecelltheatre.org
In the Dome, a last stronghold of humanity, women rule while men serve as reproductive objects. Alice, the prototype for a superior human, is the creation and prized possession of the powerful yet misguided Phal, female heir to the Dome throne. Sweet Alice never questions her world, until a shipwrecked stranger appears. With a glitchy robot nanny, an errant laptop, and the Four Whoresmen of the Apocalypse, Alice sets out to learn who she really is and what it means to be truly human.
Join us for this special one night only benefit concert as the cell celebrates 20 years of incubating new work that mines the mind, pierces the heart and awakens the soul.