NICE GUY

Am I like him? Or… is he like me?

We are both here, ready to do good.

When a newly graduated theatre major with fierce ideals about social justice has a chance encounter with serial killer Ed Kemper, better known as the "co-ed killer," it shatters her beliefs around human goodness, violence, and desire. Years later, reeling from a painful breakup and living in a culture convulsing with stories of sexual and political violence, she starts to ask:  What the F*ck Is Going On? To make sense of herself, her relationships and the world, she examines everything she has ever learned and goes back to the beginning; to the origins of Western culture.

In ancient texts and plays, women are the subjects and protagonists, driving the action and representing complex moral and social dilemmas. Yet women themselves are banned from the stage and played by... men?

Is this why women keep getting played?

Blending theater and ritual, media, music and dance, Nice Guy unfolds through an ensemble, or full Greek Chorus, of women and gender fluid actors who take on multiple roles. Raw, at times funny and unflinching, Nice Guy examines and reckons with the complicated history of theater and entertainment within society, and the ancient, societal, and personal forces that continue to entangle us in cycles of violence.