“In the spirit of Matt and Ben, I became interested in what happens after the fairy tale when artists and spouses with celebrated careers and a storied romance are forced into a reckoning that’s both public and painfully intimate. As a queer, married woman myself, Portia and Ellen are particularly iconic for me. I wanted to explore cancel culture alongside the sometimes unglamorous, complicated work of sticking together—when the world is watching no less—through this fever dream of their imagined experience.”

—Heather Seltzer

“This play lives in the delicious tension between sincerity and absurdity, where comedy becomes a coping mechanism and vulnerability sneaks up on you. My goal is to explore the humorous messiness of it all without ever sanding down the scathing edge of what Heather brilliantly put on the page.”

—Amanda Xeller