Staff Meal
by Abe Koogler
Playwrights Horizons Spring 2023
Abe Koogler’s Staff Meal is a kaleidoscopic dark comedy about a mysterious and beautiful restaurant, where the food is delicious, the service is warm, and some strange power keeps the darkness at bay
Cast- Jess Barbagallo, Stephanie Berry, Susannah Flood, Carmen M. Herlihy, Hampton Fluker, Greg Keller, and Erin Markey
Set design- Jian Jung
Lighting design- Masha Tsmring
Costume design- Kaye Voyce
Sound design- Tei Blow
Photo credit- Maria Baranova
‘Staff Meal’ Offers Seven Courses of Tasty Disorientation
It takes an exceptional director to get her arms around Koogler’s dark whimsy and deliver it intact yet still crackling, and the prodigious Morgan Green succeeds beautifully.
HELEN SHAW ON STAFF MEAL FOR THE NEW YORKER
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The cast, under the admirably sharp focus of the director, Morgan Green, is uniformly excellent.
