Image from NYC premiere of Amm(i)gone presented by PlayCo, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Flea, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Spring 2025. Photos by Julieta Cervantes.

Amm(i)gone
Created and Performed by Adil Mansoor
Co-directed by Lyam B. Gabel and Adil Mansoor

The national tour of Amm(i)gone is produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, DC) and PlayCo (NYC) in association with Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh). Amm(i)gone was published in American Theater Magazine in the summer of 2025.

Amm(i)gone National Touring Design & Production Team
Co-Media Designer: Joseph Amodei
Co-Media Designer: Davine Byon
Sound Designer: Aaron Landgraf
Set and Lighting Designer: Xotchil Musser

Production Stage Manager: Jazzy Davis
Tour Production Manager: Colin K Bills
Associate Producer: Kate Bussert

“Alif Lam Meem”(original music in Amm(i)gone)
Co-composed by Shahzad Ismaily and Aya Abdelaziz
Vocals by Aya Abdelaziz
Arranged by Aaron Langraf

Project Description

AMM(I)GONE: A PORTMANTEAU OF “AMMI” (“MOTHER” IN URDU) AND THE GREEK HEROINE ANTIGONE

Amm(i)gone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, is an apology to and from a mother.

Creator and performer Adil Mansoor explores queerness, the afterlife, and obligation using canonical texts, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations between him and his mother. Since discovering his queerness, Mansoor’s mother has turned towards her faith in an attempt to save her son in the afterlife. In an effort towards healing, Mansoor has invited his mother to join him as dramaturg and co-conspirator. In reading, discussing, and translating various adaptations of the source play, together they mine Greek tragedy, Islamic traditions, and their own memories to create an original performance locating love across faith.

Can prayer substantiate care? Can care manifest as artistic methodology and inquiry? Can Mansoor and his mother contend with Antigone’s fate?

Images from Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s National Touring Production at Long Wharf Theatre, Photography by Curtis Brown Photography.

Collaborators / Funders / Partners

Amm(i)gone was developed with:
Arabic Vocal Coach: Mariam Bazeed
Creative Consultant: Fatima A. Maan & Sharlene Bamboat
Video Consultant: Bleue Liverpool
Slide Film Consultant: Caldwell Linker
Translation Consultant: Ned Moore & Robin Banerji
Photo Embroidery: Rebecca Harrison and Andrew Cutler
Vocal Coach: Lisa Velten Smith
PlayCo Costume Consultant: Daniele T Mathews
KST Assistant Director: Pria Dahiya
KST Production Stage Manager: Leslie Huynh, Phoenix Colbert
KST Programming Director: Ben Pryor
Woolly Costume Consultant: Andrew Cutler
Woolly Assistant Director: Fatima Dyfan
TTO Costume Consultant: Rachel Vallozzi
TTO Stage Manager: Ferdinand Moscat
TTO Director of Programs: Tonasia Jones

Amm(i)gone is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater in partnership with The Theater Offensive and NPN. AMM(I)GONE was developed as a Hatch Arts Collective project. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit www.npnweb.org.

Past iterations of Amm(i)gone were additionally supported by the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier; the Point Foundation’s Andrew A. Isen Internship; The Heinz Endowments; Opportunity Fund; PNC Charitable Trust; A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation; Arts, Equity, Reimagined Fund; Workhorse Collaborative; and Dreams of Hope. Amm(i)gone was developed as a Hatch Arts Collective project.

Poster designed by Marwan Kaabour

Development and Performance History:

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Baltimore, December 2025
Theater Mu & Jungle Theater, St. Paul, July 2025
PlayCo & The Flea Theater, NYC, March-April 2025
Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, May - June 2024
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, DC, April - May 2024
Kelly Strayhorn Theater and University Settlement, NYC, January 2023
The Andy Warhol Museum and Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, June 2022
The Theater Offensive, Boston, June 2022
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, April 2022
Prelude Festival NYC, Virtual work-in-progress, October 2021
The Theater Offensive, Virtual work-in-progress, March 2021
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, work-in-progress, August 2019
Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance, NYC, work-in-progress, June 2019