Atlantic Theater Company Resumes Season After Groundbreaking Union Agreement Concludes Strike

The Atlantic Theater Company, the prominent Off Broadway venue that recently reached an agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees that ended a several-months-long strike, will resume its interrupted 2024-2025 season. Up first will be the two shows – Mona Pirnot’s I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan and Eliya Smith’s Grief Camp – that were in previews when the strike forced their cancelations.

Performances of Greenspan begin March 29, and Grief Camp starts April 5. Two other productions – NSangou Njikam’s A Freeky Introduction and Abby Rosebrock’s Lowcountry – will begin performances on May 16 and June 4, respectively. (Atlantic’s production of Ethan Coen’s Let’s Love will not be happening this season.)

“Atlantic would like to thank our colleagues at IATSE for working with us to reach an agreement that is equitable for all parties,” said Atlantic’s Artistic Director Neil Pepe in a statement, “especially as the landscape of Off Broadway theatre and not-for-profits continues to become more uncertain. We could not be happier to get back to producing plays and reinvigorating our season.”

IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb said, “I congratulate Atlantic Theater Company production workers on ratifying their first agreement. We will continue building on our productive partnership and look forward to a successful first season with a union contract covering the Atlantic’s skilled production workers.”

The Atlantic and IATSE reached a tentative agreement – later ratified – earlier this month that saw the Atlantic become the first-ever not-for-profit theater company producing solely Off Broadway shows to have such a union agreement. The agreement covers nearly 100 production workers employed by the theater company. The Atlantic’s crew voted nearly unanimously to unionize with IATSE in February 2024, though negotiations eventually stalled, prompting the strike that began in January.

The Atlantic’s 2024-2025 season – all world premiere plays – is as follows:

I’M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN

By Mona Pirnot

Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll

Starring David Greenspan

Atlantic Stage 2

March 29 – April 30, 2025

One 68-year-old man plays four millennial women in a comedy (full of drama) about how to make a living as a playwright (or to try.)

GRIEF CAMP

By Eliya Smith

Directed by Les Waters

Linda Gross Theater

April 5 – May 11, 2025

It’s summer in Hurt, Virginia, where a lone cabin fills each year with campers. There’s homecooked breakfast and an army of box fans and lots of shifting in the dark. Welcome to Grief Camp: a study of loss and adolescence.

A FREEKY INTRODUCTION

Written by & starring NSangou Njikam

Directed by Dennis A. Allen II

Featuring DJ Monday Blue

Atlantic Stage 2

May 16 – June 22, 2025

Everybody talks about freedom, but few know how to get there. That’s because they don’t know their Freek. Fear not, Freeky Dee is here with a mix of poetry, ministry, and magic…plus I got a DJ with me. Together, we’ll move you past your fears and doubts to bring your inner Freek all the way out! You wanna get free? Then come get your Freek on!

LOWCOUNTRY

By Abby Rosebrock

Directed by Jo Bonney

Linda Gross Theater

June 4 – July 13, 2024

When Tally, a down-and-out actress and gig worker, returns to her rural hometown, she swipes right on a disgraced high-school teacher fresh out of an ankle bracelet. Lowcountry is a dark, twisted romcom about the psychic distress of looking for love in the digital age and the carceral state.