WHEN
Thu, May 14 @ 6:00 pm
WHERE:
COST:
$15
Empty Night & Revenge of the Soy Boy
2 shows in 1 hour!
Empty Night
How would you feel if you ever encountered a ferocious Bengal tiger, a female Bengal tiger with paws destroyed by bullets? Now imagine that you are a thief, not by choice, but by circumstances- you got a knife in your back while trying to steal so that your kids can eat. And on your way, you came face-to-face with a female Bengal tiger, who entered a human village to find food for her cubs. Award-winning playwright Abhisek Bhattacharya’s play “Empty Night” is a story of our time when the forests are dwindling, habitats shrinking —and despite their ferocious strength and immense pride, the tigers can only survive as long as humans allow them to. On an empty stage, two individuals on the brink of death confront life. Both make sacrifices, and one learns the rules of survival to find out what it means to be human.
BIO
Abhisek Bhattacharya is an immigrant playwright and performer (Asian Indian) who has been creating plays since he was in middle school in India. His plays span multiple genres, from short comedy to full-length drama, and irrespective of their external façade, they always portray something relevant to the current social environment.
He is also the artistic director of Hattimatim-Team, Inc., a small theatre company in Maryland that develops new, unpublished work by new and emerging playwrights. The company provides opportunities to artists from the community with minimal stage experience. Its play development process, workshops, and rehearsals are often rigorous and demanding, but also fun. For the last few years, the Hattimatim-Team, Inc. has performed full-length plays in Maryland and toured the country performing in multiple short-play festivals, including some off-off-Broadway festivals in NYC.
Didhiti Mukherjee has extensive training in Indian classical music and dance and is passionate and enthusiastic about theatre, recitation, and singing. Her stage performances have earned her numerous awards since she was a toddler. She has performed extensively as a singer and actress in the USA, first in Iowa and then in Maryland, where she currently lives. Her performance credits include Gorur Garir Headlight (in Bengali Maryland, 2019); “Neighbor! Neighbor!” at Olney, MD (2023) and at Pelham, NY, 2024 (off-off-Broadway), “Catastrophe” at Queens, NY, 2024 (off-off-Broadway), at The Tank, Manhattan, 2024 (off-off-Broadway), and at Baltimore, MD (2025), “Wifey Unknown” (at Greenbelt, Maryland), and “Empty Night” (10-minute version) at Olney (MD) and ilver Spring (MD), 025. The Hattimatim-Team website (https://www.hattimatim-team.com) features a comprehensive list of her acting performances.
Website: https://www.hattimatim-team.com
Facebook: Hattimatim-Team, Inc
Instagram: abhisek_hattimatim_team
Revenge of the Soy Boy
Nerds, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, film buffs/cinefiles (especially Star Wars fans), anyone who can appreciate pop culture, and anyone who has struggled in the past ten years with their place in the world amid both political and digital unrest will enjoy this show.
Justin Avery Smith (Writer/Performer) (he/him) is a writer, comedian and performer based in Central Massachusetts. His writing has been featured in McSweeney’s, The Onion, and Points In Case. He has also made a name for himself in creating online content that blends humor, current events and pop culture that has amassed millions of views and has been shared by the likes of Wil Wheaton, Jack Quaid, and Todd Stashwick.
With a total of almost 30,000 followers across all social media platforms, content that received millions of views, tens of thousands of likes, and been shared by the likes of Betches News, Justin Avery Smith is a rising star to watch.
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Jacob Musgrove (Director) (they/he) is a queer writer and director based in New York City. Their directing credits include Someone Else’s Child by Kate Crabtree, which won the Audience Choice Award at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival, Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig at Princeton Summer Theatre, Lungs by Duncan MacMillan and Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl at Southern Plains Productions, and Woyzeck by Georg Büchner (adapted by the director) at Carnegie Mellon University. His professional writing credits include Scarlet Goes to Space, Grady’s First Day at Super School, and Preston & the Great British Baking Adventure at Chickenshed NYC as a part of their educational Adventures from the Shed series.
Sat May 16 @ 6:00 PM – DENTE’S BARBER SHOP