Images from Premiere performance at Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios.
Images by Kitoko Chargois

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

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?

Premiere Artistic and Production Team
Media Systems Designer: Joseph Amodei
Creative Consultant: Sharlene Bamboat
Projections Designer: Davine Byon
Assistant Director: Pria Dahiya
Stage Manager: Leslie Huynh
Sound Designer: Aaron Landgraf
Video Designer: Bleue Liverpool
Scenic / Lights: Xotchil Musser

“Alif Lam Meem”
Co-composed by Shahzad Ismaily and Aya Abdelaziz
Vocals by Aya Abdelaziz
Arranged by Aaron Langraf

Developed with:
Slide Film Consultant: Caldwell Linker
Translation Consultant: Ned Moore
Costume Consultant: Rachel Vallozzi 
Video Narration: Abid Mansoor and Luke Niebler
Photo Embroidery: Rebecca Harrison

In-process Stage Manager: Pixie Colbert
Virtual In-process Stage Manager: Ferdinand Moscat
Virtual In-process Board Operator: Erin Roussel
Premiere Board Operator: Britt Pierce

Development Partners

“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/VAN. “Amm(i)gone” was developed as a Hatch Arts Collective project.


Development and Performance History

  • 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

For Touring Engagements Contact: 
Kate Bussert and Bonnie Davis
Bret Adams, LTD
kbussert@bretadamsltd.net; bdavis@bretadamsltd.net
212-765-5630

Images from the development process, 2019 - 2022.
Live performance photos by Beth Barbis.