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Megan Hill and Jehan O. Young at Twin Snakes @ The Collapsable Hole, November 2024

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"13 Off Broadway Shows to See in May" by Elisabeth Vincentelli for The New York Times

"Geltman is a promising, emerging voice"

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Helen Shaw on Bluesky:

"It's thrilling, though, to learn Geltman - a comic sparkler in plays like 'Kara & Emma & Barbara & Miranda' - is such a serrated satirist... it's a perfect summer cocktail: Light, breezy, sour, sad."

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"A(U)NTS! Up Close" by Helen Gallagher for Culturebot:

"Zoë's cathartically oozy and tickly new play... sensitive commentary on the maze that is modern feminism... With her uncanny ability to capture highly-specific instances and deeply darkly kept-secret feelings, along with her bravery to really go there with descriptions of the body and all of its innate gore, Zoë imagines a world where women can be disgustingly free... In some ways, A(U)NTS! is remarkably subtle and intellectual. In others, it’s totally slapstick and maximalist." 

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David Cote on Facebook:

"Bristling with wit, goofiness, and heartbreak delivered by young dream casts in resourceful, elegant stagings... you’ll see just a really high degree of comic acting, crisp staging and inventive design (on small budgets), and Geltman... write[s] with a giddy spontaneity and a love of [her] characters that doesn't preclude pain or even the odd flash of cruelty."

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"Review: A(U)NTS! at The Brick" by Loren Noveck for Exeunt

"A fantasia of woman- and antkind anchored by three strong performances... powerhouse three-person cast... it’s a wild and entertaining ride."

A(U)NTS! at The Brick
May 8-24, 2025

By Zoë Geltman
Directed by Julia Sirna-Frest

Performed by Zoë Geltman, Megan Hill, & Jehan O. Young

Creative Team: Jiaying Zhang (set & props design), Ásta Bennie Hostetter (costume design), Megan Lang (lighting design), Carsen Joenk (sound design), Mark Fox (mask design), Oriana Sophia (associate costume design), Sarah Samonte (stage management). Line Produced by Sarah Jones.

A(U)NTS! was supported by the Hearth, created in association with Immediate Medium’s AGENCY program, and participant in New Georges’ Supported Productions program. It was a semi-finalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference and is a winner of the Himan Brown Award at Brooklyn College. 

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A(U)NTS! had a developmental workshop with The Hearth Theater Company in November 2023, with a public reading at 59E59. 

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Does a worker ant or a soldier ant wish she had children? If she doesn't have children, is she obeying the imperatives of her biology and society, or defying them? What is biology and what is choice? What does it feel like to live one's life in service of someone who does have children? Can we even ask about the wants and desires of a single ant, or is it more relevant to ask what it feels like to be an ant colony, with its powerful survival instincts and layers of sterile female castes? A(U)NTS! is a project that looks at these largely childless, largely female, rigorously organized societies of tiny insects and explores their intersection with and potential as a model for human women: for howe we think about our roles in our families, our relationship to our gender, our relationship to the duties associated with our gender, and even our our conception of our own bodies and brains.

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