Content Indicators: depictions of blood, violence, sexual acts, and partial nudity. Appropriate for audiences 18+.

An experimental deconstruction of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis in the age of AI and forever wars. 

This dissection of the classic Iphigenia at Aulis takes place in a technofeudal, post-apocalyptic ice age. There, amidst the unfamiliar rubble of her life, a nameless girl searches for her identity and freedom from her father’s war machine. After the traditions of Magda Romanska and Heiner Müller, The Iphigeniamachine dismantles the original mythology to expose a perilous underbelly of atrocity, complacency, and glorified masculinity. 

THE IPHIGENIAMACHINE

Author: Mackenzie Robin Krestul

Runtime 60 min. No Intermission.

Crew:

Director: Harrison Campbell

Playwright: Mackenzie Robin Krestul

Stage Manager: Kim Bramwell

Sound Designer and Composer: J. D. Goodman

Lighting Designer: Tori Bogacki

Puppet Designer: Annie McGowan

Costume Designer: Kat Quiñones

Intimacy Coordinator: Alice Camarota

Fight Director: Alex Kopnick

Dramaturg: Charlotte Edsall

Cast:

Chorus: Quinn Andrews

Chorus: Kaitlyn Rose RaBocse

Calchus/Chorus: Sam Hardy

Puppeteer/The Deer: Emily McManus 

Agamemnon: Travis Bergmann

Clytemnestra: Cadence Lamb

Iphigenia: Mackenzie Robin Krestul

Machine Theatre Co., 2026. This production was made possible by the Pratt Institute Graduate Student Engagement Fund, as well as the contributions of patrons like you. Thank you!

American Theatre of Actors, Inc. (ATA) was founded in 1976 by James Jennings to promote the development of new playwrights, directors and actors, and to provide them a creative atmosphere in which to work. The plays are dramas, comedies, and hybrids, dealing with the social and ethical problems of contemporary society.

12,000 actors have worked at ATA including Dennis Quaid, Bruce Willis, Dan Lauria, Chazz Palminteri, Danny Aielo, David Morse, Edie Falco and Kathryn Hahn. Our productions are sometimes grouped as 'festivals,' such as a Playwrights Festival or a Directors Festival. In 2016 we began an initiative to feature women in theatre as directors and playwrights, today this is our WIT! (Women in Theatre) program.

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