[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"production-world-builders-la":3,"siteSettings-header":90,"navigation":93},[4],{"id":5,"status":6,"date_created":7,"date_updated":8,"user_created":9,"user_updated":10,"title":11,"slug":12,"tagline":13,"playwright":14,"director":15,"season":16,"opening_date":17,"closing_date":18,"meta_title":19,"meta_description":19,"poster_image":20,"description":21,"content":19,"featured":22,"carousel_title":19,"events":23,"Venue":24,"funders":25,"Crew":26,"Cast":71,"gallery":88,"carousel_items":89},"efe3a40c-c555-4ab6-a737-f34aeddc61b3","published","2026-04-17T03:57:28.595Z","2026-04-26T14:14:31.451Z","330cdc5a-6d3f-456c-aec8-de6c0e72ce85","99317c0d-dc7d-4f50-b644-c6316824f718","World Builders (Los Angeles)","world-builders-la","a love story","Johnna Adams","Kitty Lindsay","2017","2017-07-06","2017-07-08",null,"e2f71d83-1add-4026-8498-ead932e37a48","\u003Cp>In Johnna Adams’ \u003Cstrong>\u003Cem>World Builders\u003C/em>\u003C/strong>, Whitney and Max live deep within their own imagined realities – one expansive and fanciful, the other dark and brutal. To break free of these visions and become functional members of society, they embark upon a clinical drug trial that might erase these worlds forever. But are they truly able to leave their fantasies behind? In a medicated age where our imaginations are colonized by mass media, how do we know when happiness and love are real?\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>World Builders\u003C/em> is Flux’s fifth production of a Johnna Adams play. Past productions: \u003Cem>Angel Eaters, Rattlers, 8 Little Antichrists,\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>Sans Merci\u003C/em>. Flux produced \u003Cem>World Builders\u003C/em> in both Los Angeles and New York.\u003C/p>",false,[],[],[],[27,35,42,51,59,65],{"title":28,"content":19,"sort":19,"person":29},"Playwright",{"first_name":30,"last_name":31,"slug":32,"headshot":33,"bio":34,"pronouns":19},"Johnna","Adams","johnna-adams","9fab50fd-8cf7-49d4-bd2b-029b98379d0c","\u003Cp>Johnna Adams received her fifth off-off production from Flux Theatre Ensemble (of her play \u003Cem>World Builders\u003C/em>, prior productions include \u003Cem>Sans Merci \u003C/em>and \u003Cem>The Angel Eaters Trilogy\u003C/em>). Other recent NYC shows include a premiere and revival of her rhyming, Alexandrine verse play, \u003Cem>Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens\u003C/em>, by Boomerang Theatre, and the 59E59 production of \u003Cem>Gidion’s Knot \u003C/em>(directed by Austin Pendleton). Johnna received a Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Citation for \u003Cem>Gidion’s Knot \u003C/em>(2013). She is a past recipient of the Princess Grace Award and a 2012 Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. \u003Cem>Gidion’s Knot \u003C/em>was published in 2012 in American Theatre Magazine. The Contemporary American Theatre Festival premiered \u003Cem>Gidion’s Knot\u003C/em> in Shepherdstown, WV, in 2012 and more than 40 productions have taken place in the last few years, including productions at InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia), Profiles (Chicago), Kitchen Dog (Dallas), Stages (Houston), Aurora (Berkeley) and Furious Theatre Company (Los Angeles). Johnna graduated from the DePaul University Theatre School with a BFA in Acting and received an MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College under professor Tina Howe. Three of her plays are published with Dramatists Play Service and five are published by Original Works Publishing.\u003C/p>",{"title":19,"content":19,"sort":19,"person":36},{"first_name":37,"last_name":38,"slug":39,"headshot":40,"bio":19,"pronouns":41},"Kitty","Lindsay","kitty-lindsay","5030ce33-0d4f-40ec-9a28-351978daad5f","she/her",{"title":43,"content":19,"sort":19,"person":44},"Scenic Designer",{"first_name":45,"last_name":46,"slug":47,"headshot":48,"bio":49,"pronouns":50},"Will","Lowry","will-lowry","a96f3c76-5cd8-4ae5-a7aa-96fc40ed6199","\u003Cp>Will Lowry is a multidisciplinary designer with an MFA in Design from UNC Greensboro. He has been a Flux Creative Partner for a decade, and this is his twentieth show with Flux. He has created over 130 scenic, lighting, projection, and costume designs for theaters along the East Coast and beyond, including productions at Dupont Underground (DC), Mill Mountain Theatre (VA), Warehouse Theatre (SC), Playhouse on Park (CT), Birmingham Children’s Theatre (AL), Palace Theatre/Spirit of the Dance Productions (SC/UK), Curtain Call Theatre (NY), California Theatre Center (CA), Southeast Missouri State University (MO), College of Southern Nevada (NV), and the Sydney Opera House (AUS). In NYC, he contributed to multiple Broadway productions as a studio assistant and graphic designer, and he recently created the digital theatre experience GPS at Lehigh University (PA), where he serves as an Assistant Professor of Theatre. Love to B,L,&P.\u003C/p>","He/Him/His",{"title":52,"content":19,"sort":19,"person":53},"Lighting Designer",{"first_name":54,"last_name":55,"slug":56,"headshot":57,"bio":58,"pronouns":19},"Kia","Rogers","kia-rogers","d01a8112-d5bd-4124-9899-ab856f40dac9","\u003Cp>Kia Rogers (Lighting Designer, she/her) is a New York City based lighting designer for Theatre and Dance.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>International credits: Lighting Designer for The Baby Monitor, Belgrade, Serbia for the Belgrade Pride Festival, and the OnStage Festival and Rome, Italy. Associate Lighting Designer for Slutforart/98.6 inGothenburg, Sweden with Muna Tseng.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>West coast designs: El Portal’s Monroe Forum Theatre, Los Angeles and Z Space, San Francisco. Dance designs: Flamenco Vivo National tours, Forward Motion, Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, Lighting Designer and mentor for Ethical Culture Fieldston High School Dance Company since 2015. Guest Lighting Designer: Lafayette College, Easton PA,  the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and for the South Carolina Governors School of the Arts, Greenville, SC. 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With Flux, they have included Jenni (\u003Cem>DEINDE)\u003C/em>, Jazmin (\u003Cem>Hearts Like Fists\u003C/em>), Kelly (\u003Cem>Sans Merci)\u003C/em>, Josie (\u003Cem>Once Upon A Bride, There Was a Forest\u003C/em>), Akiko (\u003Cem>Salvage)\u003C/em>, Whitney (\u003Cem>World Builders)\u003C/em>, and Muted and Off-Camera (\u003Cem>Creative Partner Zoom meetings)\u003C/em>. Selected Film/TV: \u003Cem>AfrAId, Traded, Angel, Appraisal, Not If But When, Liberty Falls, Gossip Girl, Lucrecia.\u003C/em> Selected streaming series: \u003Cem>Anyone But Me, Producing Juliet\u003C/em>. Selected LA Theater Credits: \u003Cem>The Visitor (\u003C/em>with Day for Knight Productions), \u003Cem>Waiting for Gal Gadot, Honest Talk for Serial Liars, Creation, Pretty, Heretics\u003C/em> (all with Bespoke Plays), \u003Cem>Chutzpah and Salsa, Past and Present, Exile\u003C/em> (all with the Braid). Audible: S\u003Cem>kybound, Data Mine\u003C/em>, both by Lou Iovino, \u003Cem>The Gathering of the Three\u003C/em> by A. K. Lang. Rachael is based in Los Angeles but remains grouchy, fast-walking, and hike-avoidant. 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