Nightdrive makes rigorously irreverent, demandingly vulnerable, borderline-impossible plays that use indelible moments of stagecraft to build thrillingly personal relationships with audiences, empowering them to reimagine themselves and what they’re capable of. Dispatching new, surprising ways of telling stories that we create in our hyper-collaborative playmaking process, Nightdrive chauffeurs our artists and audiences through the darkness of the world outside, the quiet horror of sharing their tenderness, and the clandestine rush of taking risks together anyway, practicing the collective compassion and boldness it will take to make a more profoundly imaginative world together in the morning.
The co-artistic directors of Nightdrive are director/writer/designer Skylar Fox and writer/performer Simon Henriques.
Skylar is a director/playwright/multi-disciplinary theatre maker based in Brooklyn. Non-Nightdrive directing credits include Pussy Sludge by Gracie Gardner (2017 Relentless Award, HERE), Juliet & Romeo (The Brick), and the Boston premieres of the 6-hour genre-bending epic The Valentine Trilogy and of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, for which he was nominated for an IRNE Award. He is currently the Illusions & Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. His plays include The Last of the Living Jeffersons (Named the runner up for the Gaffney Playwriting Prize, administered by La Jolla Playhouse and UCSD), Heist Play (Brown University Mainstage), and The Archives (Fort Point Theatre Channel). He was a 2016 Heideman Award finalist for his play A Brief Informational Session on what used to be Central Park. His short play A Wake for David’s Fucked-up Face won the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival, and is published by Samuel French. His work has also been presented at The Flea, Fresh Ground Pepper, and the Writing is Live Festival. B.A. in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies from Brown University.
Simon is a writer, performer, and comedian. Outside of his work with Nightdrive, his writing has won the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival, been a semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and been published by McSweeney’s and the New Yorker. He is a member of the resident acting company at the Mercury Store, and has also helped develop work at The Hearth, Rat Queen Theatre Company, Pipeline Theatre, and Ars Nova.
Video Credits
The Alien Nation video on our splash page was filmed by Janie Willison. Providence, RI was filmed by Mike Breen and Christopher Fitzsimmons. Muskrat was filmed by Kelsey Fox and Dubi Laniado. Thank You Sorry was filmed by Marianne Abbott. Apathy Boy was filmed by Crystal Arnette.