MEAT

A woman in a lab coat presses button on a shiny mechanical panel in an orange-tiled room.

The Tank NYC, 2022

At a luxury health facility in the woods of New Hampshire, patients offer themselves up as host to the Lone Star Tick, a tiny parasite whose bite induces a meat allergy. Over a period of two weeks, they'll undergo unconventional therapies led by a chilly doctor and her robot therapists, while a team of scientists closely monitor the development of any... abnormalities. No refunds! In a world of ruts, routines, and empty reinventions, MEAT is about the ways, big and small, we try to trick ourselves into being better.

  • Written by Robert Leverett

    Director Liza Couser

    Produced by Kerrigan Quenemoen, in assoc. with The Tank

    Set & Props Design lucas a degirolamo

    Costume Design Emmy Weissman

    Lighting Design Jonah Schnell

    Sound Design Sam West

    PSM Kelsey Vivian*

    Intimacy Director Veronica Sofia Burt*

    Composer Freeman Leverett

    ASM & Covid Safety Manager Kate Budney

    Featuring Tora Nogami Alexander*, Sagan Chen, E.B. Hinnant, Priyanka Arya Krishnan*, Robert Leverett, Susana Montoya Quinchia, Zahra Ruffin, Max Samuels*, Emily Ballou (u/s)

    Photography Ginger Hollander

    *Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

  • Workshop Production The Tank 2022

    Zoom Workshop Vox Fest 2020

    Developed in association with Coca-Cola Writer’s Group* (Phil Kenner, Emmy Weissman & Elise Wien) and Paper Kraine (with Terra Chaney, Sagan Chen, Robert Leverett, Lizzy Lincoln & Sarah Alice Shull).

    *Not officially sponsored by Coca-Cola™

A man in a groundhog suit plays piano while a gowned woman wearing a swim cap sings with a microphone.
A White man in an apron and pillbox hat holds up a tray of neon green deviled eggs under dramatic blue lighting
An East Asian woman in maid outfit stares down a red pot
A woman in a lab coat and ear muffs carries an oversized landscape painting across a stage
Two performers in white lab coats and colorful heart-shaped sunglasses give a thumbs up
A South Asian woman in a maid costume pours skittles into a metal bowl
Two half-dressed men embrace under a floating plastic sheet in dramatic blue lighting
Two performers, one in a red sweatshirt and one in a white labcoat, sit at a cart that stores 20 plates of fake meat
A man in a groundhog costume slumps past a woman in red, who squirms away from him.
Two performers in white labcoats and heart-shaped sunglasses stand smiling behind a model of a luxury health facility
A person in a hospital gown moves towards the camera. Behind them, a woman in a maid costume gestures.
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