A(U)NTS! was supported by the Hearth, created in association with Immediate Medium’s AGENCY program, and participant in New Georges’ Supported Productions program. It was a semi-finalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference and is a winner of the Himan Brown Award at Brooklyn College.

A(U)NTS! had a developmental workshop with The Hearth Theater Company in November 2023, with a public reading at 59E59.

PRESS

"13 Off Broadway Shows to See in May" by Elisabeth Vincentelli for The New York Times

“A(U)NTS! at The Brick…is a dropped ice cream cone of a play: sweet and sticky and lil’ bit …infested. It’s thrilling to learn Geltman is such a serrated satirist and that Sirna-Frest is such a precise directorial match for the material. All in all it’s a perfect summer cocktail: light, breezy, sour, sad. - Helen Shaw

"A(U)NTS! Up Close" by Helen Gallagher for Culturebot:

"Zoë's cathartically oozy and tickly new play... sensitive commentary on the maze that is modern feminism... With her uncanny ability to capture highly-specific instances and deeply darkly kept-secret feelings, along with her bravery to really go there with descriptions of the body and all of its innate gore, Zoë imagines a world where women can be disgustingly free... In some ways, A(U)NTS! is remarkably subtle and intellectual. In others, it’s totally slapstick and maximalist."

"Bristling with wit, goofiness, and heartbreak delivered by young dream casts in resourceful, elegant stagings... you’ll see just a really high degree of comic acting, crisp staging and inventive design (on small budgets), and Geltman... write[s] with a giddy spontaneity and a love of [her] characters that doesn't preclude pain or even the odd flash of cruelty."

-David Cote

"Review: A(U)NTS! at The Brick" by Loren Noveck for Exeunt

"A fantasia of woman- and antkind anchored by three strong performances... powerhouse three-person cast... it’s a wild and entertaining ride."

Performance History Vancouver Fringe Festival, September 2023 The Tank, November 2021: set & costumes by Enver Chakartash and lighting by Sarah Lurie Big Art Group's SFX Festival, February 2018 The PIT, December 2017 Uncanny Valley, August 2017 performance photos by Kevin Frest promo by Sammy Tunis

PUFFY HAIR is a night of existential stand-up performed by an id. Using Vaudeville-cum-Fosse dance moves to investigate one woman's ambivalent and tortured relationship to the male gaze, which she alternately cozies up to and execrates, it is a catharsis of self-hatred, body dysmorphia, and self-aggrandizement. A vigorous dose of lipstick smears and shoulder pads. A marriage between Joan Rivers and gastrointestinal turbulence. A struggle to hold space for the existential pressure of a bun. A boopity boop.

"Zoë Geltman's 'PUFFY HAIR' transforms beyond stand-up comedy to shocking and delicious intimacy... [the audience is] invited into Geltman's extravagant mind palace of feminine guts and glory... she zips and bops around the space, capturing a caricatured showman's energy akin to Joan Rivers meeting Liza Minnelli... The writing plays like a vigorous plea for intimacy with herself, a self-deprecating, self-aware routine as investigative and piercing as anyone's truest inner monologue talking to themselves in a mirror." -Nataline Rine, Onstage Blog

"Add wigs, impromptu handstands, plenty of always-relatable self-loathing, and a fascination with everyone from Joan Rivers to Bob Fosse and you've got something that sounds almost as awesome as lunch with Sarah Silverman. Or Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls." - The Georgia Straight

"A Fabulously Feral Feminist Fantasia... with Farts," Culturebot

WP Pipeline Festival at WP Theater 2024

Performed by Jade Jones, Nora Schell and Lorinda LisitzaProduced by Precious Wilson-Gay SM Kyra Bowie Lights Megan Lang Set Erica Zhang, Music Xander Browne, Costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter and Jules Kulaya Sound Chris Darbassie Photos by Maria Baranova

Mo and Yuri sit under an almost non-existent potted tree named Beckett, waiting impatiently for the next phase of their career — the next part of their journey. Delores sings a song about the blood the land craves, a callous warning that the blood is the only thing that will allow them to ascend to the glory Mo and Yuri believe is possible. Inspired by Waiting for Godot, Malicious Compliance tells the story of two artists desperately waiting for a change that may cost more than they’re willing to give, or worse may never come.

Target Margin Theater presents THE ICEMAN LAB, our radical new approach to THE ICEMAN COMETH by Eugene O’Neill, with four diverse theater artists each tackling a separate act of the play. This fresh take on O’Neill’s classic will allow audiences to see each act as a separate experiment and / or all four acts together as a unified whole. Photos by Gaia Squarci. Lights Kate McGee, Set Christopher Heilman, Costumes Alice Tavener Music Shane Chapman and Julia Sirna-Frest

“sonically gorgeous” -The New York Times

"As audience members took a shot with a character’s name on it, the band launched into songs that ranged from hardcore rock to indie ballad to cheery duet and a lot of things in between. As I nodded my head along to the music, I found myself really wishing that Sirna-Frest would transform more plays in this fashion, and I began to imagine what that might sound like." Bess Rowen, Huffington Post. She goes on to write an entire song in the review featuring lines like "Fourteen original songs from Chapman and Sirna-Frest, Make this Act I, in my opinion, better than the rest"

A surrealist jaunt through office politics, friendship, the writing process, and the very strange experience of being a person living and eating in America. Premiered at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in April, 2015. Performed by Ugo Chukwu, Zoë Geltman and Maggie Fignotti Katz.

SEA FRAUD had a developmental workshop at Dixon Place in June 2015. Performed by Nikki Calonge, Zoë Geltman and Maggie Fignotti Katz. It was also developed at Dragon's Egg Studio.

A(U)NTS! at The Brick
May 8-24, 2025

By Zoë Geltman
Directed by Julia Sirna-Frest

Performed by Zoë Geltman, Megan Hill, & Jehan O. Young

Creative Team: Jiaying Zhang (set & props design), Ásta Bennie Hostetter (costume design), Megan Lang (lighting design), Carsen Joenk (sound design), Mark Fox (mask design), Oriana Sophia (associate costume design), Sarah Samonte (stage management). Line Produced by Sarah Jones.