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      The New York Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench

      Friday, June 5, 2026 from 7:30—9 pm

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      In-person event
      Location: Morse

      Free
      Ages 13+

      This show may include the use of flashing/strobing lights. It may also include adult themes, humor, language and content, including alcohol use and partial nudity. 

      PEM Presents is made possible by The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.

      Join the New York Neo-Futurists for an off-the-wall theater experience at PEM! Watch this experimental ensemble attempt to perform 30 short plays in one hour with The Infinite Wrench. 

      Each play offers something different — something funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying or musical. All are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. The Infinite Wrench is the Neo-Futurists’ ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance and speak to audiences, including people who feel “unreached or unmoved” by traditional theater.

      The New York Neo-Futurists are a radically dynamic ensemble of multidisciplinary artists who write and perform original work rooted in the truth of their own lived experiences. They fuse elements of poetry, game and performance art to create ever-changing theatre and other artistic experiments to respond to the world around us.

      PEM Presents seeks to surprise and delight audiences with world-class artistry in music, theater, dance, film and more. This series allows audiences to learn about the artistic process and supports the development of artists with local, regional, national and global perspectives. PEM Presents further activates the museum as a global center for art, culture and creativity with artist residencies, live performances, lecture series, symposia and conferences. PEM Presents is a collaboration between Learning and Community Engagement and the Present Tense initiative.

      About our collaborators

      Amelia Bethel

      Amelia Bethel is a theatre artist whose work confronts the performance of identity and the materiality of the body, with a focus on sexuality and a mixed-race experience. Her original work has been presented by Ars Nova, Atlas Obscura, The Tank, San Francisco Olympians Festival, Chicago Women’s Funny Fest and elsewhere across the country. She can be heard as Marisol on the award-winning podcast Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery from HartLife Studios. Amelia is a former associate artist in residence with poet Tracie Morris and playwright Sibyl Kempson at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and received her MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College.

      Rob Neill

      Rob Neill is a New York-based artist and producer whose body of work includes avant-garde theatre, storytelling, Broadway, short film and workshops in creativity. He is a founding member and former Artistic Director of the New York Neo-Futurists. His original pieces have been performed at The Ontological, P.S., HERE and The Public Theater. As an actor, he has performed in Broadway shows (London Assurance), on tour (Peter and the Starcatcher), in London (The Cherry Orchard), and regionally (You Never Can Tell). He has taught a variety of performance and writing classes around the country, including at Brooklyn College, NYU, Hubbard Hall, Texas State and URI. Rob studied at Grinnell College, LAMDA and the Atlantic, and he has worked on a variety of commercials, TV shows and independent films.

      Mike Manship

      Mike Manship is a writer, performer and proud member of the New York Neo-Futurists. Originally from Raleigh, NC, he has lived in Chicago and Boston before settling in New York City. He is the co-creator of T: An MBTA Musical and the author of Cambridge Street, a novel that follows an aspiring writer coming of age in the shadow of elite institutions, and Off Track, a memoir chronicling his vegetable-oil-fueled journey across the United States. 

      Val Ramirez

      Val Ramirez is a cross-disciplinary artist and arts educator — playwright, director, performer, poet, mover and visual artist. She has performed on stages across the U.S. in numerous regional and touring productions and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. These days, she can be found performing in NYC with the ensemble of The New York Neo-Futurists in the weekly experiment The Infinite Wrench. She has taught experimental theatre with institutions such as Ping Chong + Co, NYNF, School of the New York Times, Seattle Children’s Theatre and more. She was recently a contributor to and performer in the NYU Gallatin group exhibition Diasporic Tremors, as well as a participant in the inaugural Creatives Rebuild New York Guaranteed Income Program. She is an Arizona native and first-generation Mexican-American.

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