Our Almighty Beginnings

Our Almighty Beginnings, Part 1 was a Semi-Finalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the Princess Grace Award and a finalist for the Playwrights’ Center Core Apprenticeship, all in 2025.

The first version of the play was first performed at The Tank in a 4.5 hour-long reading in December 2023. It was directed by Alex Tobey. It was performed by Matthew Bovee, Jessie Cannizzaro, Marjorie Conn, Josh Daniel, A.J. Ditty, Meghan Finn, Deejay Gray, Thom Henke, Meg Hennessy, E.B. Hinnant, Rachel Horwitz, Max Kantor, Julian Knopf, Teresa Langford, Rachel Lin, Eleanor Phillips, Noah Pyzik, Charlie Reid, JD Scalzo, Richard Toth, and Jose Useche.

A significantly revised version of Part 1, developed at Hunter College under the tutelage of Eboni Booth and Anne Washburn, was performed with Exit, Pursued By A Bear in a reading in August 2025. It was performed by Dana Berger, Ephraim Birney, Gray Caro, Grant Chapman, Rodd Cyrus, Carson Elrod, Rachel Horwitz, Brooke Ishibashi, David Mattar Merten, Jeffrey Omura, Kellie Overby, Ellie Phillips, Jon-Michael Reese, Jon Norman Schneider, Claire Siebers, Richard Toth, Taylor Trensch, Aidan Winn, and Nancy Slusser.

OUR ALMIGHTY BEGINNINGS is an American epic in two parts about the end of the world and what comes after. In Part 1, a man called Andrei is charged by someone who may or may not be God to build an Ark on which humanity will ride out the coming flood caused by climate change. As word of his construction spreads, four seemingly disparate groups of people in Philadelphia, Buffalo, Newport, and New York City negotiate what it means to get on the Ark or to not get on the Ark. Massive in scope, scale, and politics, OUR ALMIGHTY BEGINNINGS asks its audience to consider both where they’ll stand when the flood comes, and where they’ll want to be when the waters recede.