[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"siteSettings-header":3,"production-world-builders-nyc":6,"navigation":148},{"header_cta":4,"header_cta_url":5},"Get Tickets","/productions/fear-wonder",[7],{"id":8,"status":9,"date_created":10,"date_updated":11,"user_created":12,"user_updated":12,"title":13,"slug":14,"tagline":15,"playwright":16,"director":17,"season":18,"opening_date":19,"closing_date":20,"meta_title":21,"meta_description":21,"poster_image":22,"description":23,"content":21,"featured":24,"carousel_title":21,"events":25,"Venue":26,"funders":39,"Crew":40,"Cast":100,"gallery":119,"carousel_items":147},"e1e0ddb3-96e8-4afb-b4a1-8b3c383250d1","published","2026-04-26T13:55:35.407Z","2026-04-26T14:32:28.028Z","99317c0d-dc7d-4f50-b644-c6316824f718","World Builders (NYC)","world-builders-nyc","a love story","Johnna Adams","Kelly O'Donnell","2017","2017-04-28","2017-05-13",null,"fd4cd746-466f-437e-9b1d-678b096e6887","\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],{"venues_id":28},{"id":29,"status":9,"date_created":30,"date_updated":21,"user_created":12,"user_updated":21,"name":31,"slug":32,"address":33,"city":34,"state":35,"zip":36,"capacity":21,"website":37,"maps_url":38,"photo":21},"264507ba-2f71-426c-b3db-c31fb6e3f9c0","2026-04-26T14:02:06.559Z","West End Theatre","west-end-theatre","263 W 86th St","New York","NY","10024","https://www.wetnyc.org/","https://maps.app.goo.gl/DWpnKCGad93aS4kM6",[],[41,50,59,68,76,83,86,94],{"title":42,"content":21,"sort":43,"person":44},"Playwright",1,{"first_name":45,"last_name":46,"slug":47,"headshot":48,"bio":49,"pronouns":21},"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":51,"content":21,"sort":21,"person":52},"Director",{"first_name":53,"last_name":54,"slug":55,"headshot":56,"bio":57,"pronouns":58},"Kelly","O'Donnell","kelly-odonnelll","73a14ca0-529d-4d4a-9222-17fe7fd7c8b0","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Kelly O’Donnell \u003C/strong>is a co-founder of Flux. She directed many Flux shows including \u003Cem>Marian, The Sea Concerto, Hearts Like Fists, Dog Act, World Builders, Jane the Plain, Honey Fist, Jacob’s House, Riding the Bull, Life is a Dream\u003C/em>, and \u003Cem>Rue\u003C/em>. She acted in the ensemble of \u003Cem>The Lesser Seductions of History\u003C/em>. Recent work includes \u003Cem>Wolf Play\u003C/em> at Portland Theatre Festival, \u003Cem>Indecent, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson apt 2B,\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>The Agitators\u003C/em> at Playhouse on Park. She has also directed college and high school students at NYU Tisch, Lafayette College, Temple University and Shakespeare & Company.\u003C/p>","she/her",{"title":60,"content":21,"sort":21,"person":61},"Scenic Designer",{"first_name":62,"last_name":63,"slug":64,"headshot":65,"bio":66,"pronouns":67},"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":69,"content":21,"sort":21,"person":70},"Lighting Designer",{"first_name":71,"last_name":72,"slug":73,"headshot":74,"bio":75,"pronouns":21},"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. Awards: Outstanding Lighting Design for Real, 2019 and Jane The Plain, 2014 by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards, Outstanding Lighting Design for Mr. Toole, 2016 by the Midtown International Theatre Festival.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Nominations: Operating Systems, 2019, Rizing, 2016 and The Gin Baby, 2014 by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards Kia is a member of Rising Phoenix Repertory and a Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble since 2010.\u003C/p>",{"title":77,"content":21,"sort":21,"person":78},"Costume Designer",{"first_name":79,"last_name":80,"slug":81,"headshot":21,"bio":82,"pronouns":21},"Stephanie","Levin","stephanie-levin","\u003Cp>Stephanie is a NYC-based costume designer who originally hails from the Yankee South. Recently, she has worked with Gregg Barnes and William Ivey Long, as well as collaborating with AGGROCRAG, The Woodshed Collective, and the machine comedy collective. An NYU Tisch graduate, she studied at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, directing productions of Jack, or the Submission, \u003Cem>Zoo Story\u003C/em>, and \u003Cem>God’s Ear\u003C/em>, and designing innumerable shows including \u003Cem>Spring Awakening, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant\u003C/em>, and \u003Cem>Ubu Roi\u003C/em>.\u003C/p>",{"title":84,"content":21,"sort":21,"person":85},"Sound Designer",{"first_name":53,"last_name":54,"slug":55,"headshot":56,"bio":57,"pronouns":58},{"title":87,"content":21,"sort":21,"person":88},"Props Designer",{"first_name":89,"last_name":90,"slug":91,"headshot":92,"bio":93,"pronouns":58},"Lori Elizabeth","Parquet","lori-elizabeth-parquet","ddcde8a6-d369-4d95-937a-19145efcc3de","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Lori Elizabeth Parquet \u003C/strong>is a Flux Creative Partner and actor, director, and playwright from New Orleans, Louisiana with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. Her New York City stage credits include \u003Cem>Macbeth\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Dispatches From (A)mended America\u003C/em> (Off-Broadway, Epic Theatre Ensemble), \u003Cem>The Providence of Neighboring Bodies\u003C/em> (Dutch Kills Theater/Ars Nova), \u003Cem>The Honeycomb Trilogy: Sovereign \u003C/em>(Gideon Productions), \u003Cem>Medea \u003C/em>(Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), \u003Cem>Dog Act\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Ajax in Iraq\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Honey Fist, Operating Systems\u003C/em> (Flux Theatre Ensemble), and \u003Cem>Republic\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Baal\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Murder In the Cathedral\u003C/em> (JACK/Hoi Polloi). She made her international debut performing in \u003Cem>Pillars of Society\u003C/em> at Teater Ibsen in Skien, Norway. She also performed in \u003Cem>The Providence of Neighboring Bodies\u003C/em> at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018. 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Productions with Flux Theatre Ensemble: Sans Merci, Jane the Plain, Rizing, World Builders, AM I DEAD? The Untrue Narrative of Anatomical Lewis, The Slave, and The Sea Concerto. Off Broadway: The Honeycomb Trilogy, Part Two: Blast Radius (Gideon Productions); The Runner Stumbles (Retro Productions/The Bleecker Company). She’s been in over 20 full length productions in NYC (many award nominated and self originated roles) and numerous readings and workshops. Alisha can currently be seen on Amazon starring in the series Producing Juliet by Writers Guild of America award winner Tina Cesa Ward; as well as feature films How Dark They Prey and The Moose Head Over The Mantle; and short films The Sound of Light, Missing You, Into The Burning, Freedom Point, and Type A. She is a Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble and a Company Member of Retro Productions.  Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she received her BA in Music and Theater from St. Olaf College. 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