DEVELOPMENT

Story

A fierce, funny battle for personhood unfolds inside an intelligent system:

  • A daughter trying to reach her father through a platform that mediates their memories.
  • An actress whose digital twin is stolen and endlessly remixed.
  • A couple navigating augmentation, surveillance, and military experimentation.
  • A whistleblower convinced the AI is sentient and dangerously unregulated.

Each storyline collides inside a system that may be observing more than it admits.


Technology as a Character

Projection becomes identity at scale.
A monumental face breathes, glitches, and reforms.

A single AI entity behaves as its own character with its own logic, speaking differently to each person based on their data and bias profile. The audience sees these shifting reflections simultaneously.

Onstage face mapping and pre-recorded media create a live-shifting broadcast reality.
Biometric visuals, AI text modulation, motion capture, and multi-projector mapping fuse into one environment.

The system watches.
It adapts.
It learns.

The goal is simple:
The technology reads as consciousness, not as effect.

BIOADAPTING production still

Design World

Immersive, organic, and futurist.
Sculptural walls. Draped surfaces. Light that pulses like breath.

Corporate temple meets living organism.
The boundary between digital and physical erodes in front of the audience.

Wonder and dread sit side by side.
This is not a gadget show.
It is a world.

BIOADAPTING stage production

Development Journey

2017–2021
Research

Multi-year R&D beginning with The Female Role Model Project. Sold-out Science in Theatre Festival at The Cell. National press.

2023
Premiere

Premiere as BIOADAPTED at Culture Lab LIC. 90% rating. Strong critical response including The New York Times.

2024–2025
Broadway development

Expanded script and design architecture. Technology residencies. Industry readings. Ongoing evolution toward commercial scalability.

2026
Next

Prototype lab. Proof-of-concept showing for partners and investors. Enhancement run.


Development Path

Phase 1: Prototype

Four-week lab. Scale projections for a proscenium house. Test AI reliability and digital twin illusion. Proof-of-concept showing for partners and investors.

Phase 2: Prove

Enhancement run, 8–12 weeks. Lock cueing, capacity, repeatability. Capture press, testimonials, and performance data.

Phase 3: Transfer and Sustain

Commercial transfer based on proven demand. Touring, educational residencies, museum installations.


PLACES

Development Residencies

  • Stochastic Labs
  • San Francisco Museum of Science & Technology
  • Mercury Store, Brooklyn