The Collapse

by Selina Fillinger

directed by Margot Bordelon

technical direction by Max Silverman

Thursday & Saturday – July 1 & 3 at 7pm ET

Alice is thrilled when she lands a summer research position with Viola Vauclain, the legendary entomologist specializing in bees. But as the summer goes on, it quickly becomes clear that the apiarian colonies are not the only thing on the verge of collapse. Accompanied by a band of Beatnik Bees, a wild and surprising new MTC/Sloan commission about science, legacy, and our own animal selves.

Selina Fillinger is an LA-based writer and performer. Original plays include Something Clean; Faceless; Armor Plays: Cinched/Strapped; and Potus: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive. Her plays have been developed at Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Old Globe Theatre, Alley Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, and Northlight Theatre. She’s currently commissioned at South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, and Williamstown. She was a Hawthornden Fellow and a resident of McCarter’s Sallie B. Goodman Artist’s Retreat; Something Clean is the recipient of the 2019 Laurents/Hatcher Award and Cinched/Strapped received the 2019 Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Her farce, POTUS, was on the 2019 Kilroys List. She is currently developing a feature for Chernin and Netflix. Selina is a Northwestern graduate (’16), where she studied playwriting.

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