

while you were partying
a story by Julia Mounsey and Peter Mills Weiss with Brian Fiddyment
November 3 2021 - December 15 2021
When you were partying I studied The Blade
When you were having premarital sex
I mastered THE BLOCKCHAIN
While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity
I cultivated Inner Strength
And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help?
This is a comedy show.
Cast
Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss
Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey collaborate together. Their work has been presented at Under the Radar at the Public Theater, La MaMa, JACK, Ant Fest at Ars Nova, CATCH Performance Series, Little Theatre at Dixon Place, and the Radikal Jung festival at the München Volkstheater in Munich, Germany. They were both members of the 2017-2019 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the 2017-2018 Devised Theater Working Group at the Public Theater, and were Baryshnikov Arts Center Resident Artists in 2019. Julia has worked with New York City Players, Soho Rep, The National Theater of Hungary, and was an Assistant Director on Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men. Peter has performed for or collaborated with artists such as 600 Highwaymen, The Wooster Group, Richard Foreman, and the Wallace Shawn-André Gregory Project. Their newest work, Protec/Attac, will premiere at The Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany in March 2022.
Brian Fiddyment
is a writer, actor and comedian, originally from Virginia. He went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for one and a half semester(s) before being asked to leave. This is Brian’s Off-Broadway debut. He has starred in “Dog Runner”, the series “Dad and Step-Dad”, and the series “Love is Stinks” on the website NoBudge. His own comedy shorts, including “I Decided To Go Nuts In My Room” and “Warning: Crazy White Boy In the Chat”, have been featured on Vulture, Paste, and more. Brian can be seen performing comedy regularly around New York.
Additional Credits
while you were partying was developed in the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, William Burke & Jackie Sibblies Drury, Co-Chairs, and at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY.
Creative Team
Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss
Creators
Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey collaborate together. Their work has been presented at Under the Radar at the Public Theater, La MaMa, JACK, Ant Fest at Ars Nova, CATCH Performance Series, Little Theatre at Dixon Place, and the Radikal Jung festival at the München Volkstheater in Munich, Germany. They were both members of the 2017-2019 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the 2017-2018 Devised Theater Working Group at the Public Theater, and were Baryshnikov Arts Center Resident Artists in 2019. Julia has worked with New York City Players, Soho Rep, The National Theater of Hungary, and was an Assistant Director on Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men. Peter has performed for or collaborated with artists such as 600 Highwaymen, The Wooster Group, Richard Foreman, and the Wallace Shawn-André Gregory Project. Their newest work, Protec/Attac, will premiere at The Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany in March 2022.
Aaron Profumo
Producer
Aaron Profumo is a Dad who makes theater his children are not old enough to see and they’re confused about what he actually does as a profession. Aaron has produced Peter and Julia’s shows at The Public (twice), Munich Volkstheater, and their upcoming new development, Protec/Attac, at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus. He graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2015 from the acting program and has not performed since. He is also a poker player, a day trader, and has been featured in the New Yorker podcast series about r/wallstreetbets and Gamestop.
Kate McGee
Lighting Designer
Kate McGee is a trans* lighting and scenic designer. New York Work Includes: My Lingerie Play (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater), Infinite Love Party (Bushwick Starr), A Hunger Artist (The Tank), Gillian Walsh’s FAME NOTIONS (Performance Space New York),  50/50 old school animation (Under the Radar, The Public, Volks Theater, Munich), Early Plays (New York City Players/Wooster Group, Henry Hewes Award Nomination, with Aaron Deyo), Masculinity Max (The Public Theater), Sound House (New Georges), Kidnap Road (La Mama), International Concert Tours: Emily’s D+ Evolution World Tour for Esperanza Spalding. Regional Work: Life of Galileo (Playmaker’s Rep), An Iliad (Long Wharf), Esai’s Table (JAG Productions), A Tale of Two Cities (Trinity Rep), These Seven Sicknesses, An Acorn, and Neva (Brown, Trinity)  kateisalightingdesig
dots
Scenic Designer
dots is a design collective based in New York City specializing in designing environments for narratives, experiences and performances . Hailing from Colombia, South Africa and Japan, we are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Â Andrew Moerdyk & Kimie Nishikawa . We approach every project with diversity of thought and burning curiosity and, above all, we believe in the value of the whole being greater than the sum of its individual parts. www.designbydots.com
Matt Romein
Video Designer
Matt Romein is an artist, designer, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. His performance design work includes plural (love) by Haruna Lee + Jen Goma, Knot in My Name by Ita Segev, King by Neal Medlyn, Turning Towards a Radical Listening by James Sprang, and [50/50] old school animation by Peter Mills Weiss + Julia Mounsey. He has created visual and interactive installations that have been shown at Sundance’s New Frontier Program in Park City, Utah, IDFA’s Doclab in Amsterdam, and SXSW in Austin, Texas, among others. He has had artist residencies and received grants from Pioneer Works, Google, CultureHub, Signal Culture, NEW INC, NYU, and more. He is a full time faculty member at NYU’s ITP.
Michael Hernandez
Co-Sound Designer
is a sound designer, composer and engineer from Miami, FL. This year he has worked with artists like Shawné Holloway, Eisa Davis, and Precious Okoyomon. His sound design work has been shown at Performance Space New York, Mabou Mines, and Center for Performance Research.
Kimberly O'Loughlin
Co-Sound Designer
is an NYC metro area based Sound Designer and Composer and proud queer trans woman! Selected Credits Off B’way/NYC: Leaving Eden (NYMF 2019), Overture (NYMF 2019), The Black Count of Monte Cristo (BBTF), Camp Morning Wood (Peter J. Sharp Theater), Ogygia (The Tank) Oceanborn (Rave Theater Festival), Caroline or Change (APAC), Where Do We Live (Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts), The Woman/The Man (Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts) Regional: I Am My Own Wife (Long Wharf), The October Storm (Hudson Stage Company), Popcorn Falls (The Barnstormers), Till (American Theater Group), Matilda (Axelrod Performing Arts Center) Upcoming: Moscow Moscow…Moscow (Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts), Drama League Directors Fest 2022 (A.R.T)
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Steven Brenman
Technical Director
Steven is Resident Design Member of the Letter of Marque Ensemble (Double Falsehood, The Pinocchio Project, Emo Storytime: The Little Mermaid, Isle Full of Noises) and has “recently” designed for Theatre East (Petie, Holy Ghosts), Smith Street Stage (Lear), Strike Anywhere (Pop Up), and Stella Adler Studios (The Seagull, Bombed, Hot l Baltimore, and The Ruby Sunrise). Other work includes Technical Direction for Contemporaneous, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, Yangtze Rep, NAATCO, EnGarde Arts, Gringold Theatrical Group, Other Shore, Words on the Street and The New One.Â
Keenan Hurley
Stage Manager
is a bisexual from Texas who writes and makes sound for theater. His original work has been shown at the Edinburgh Fringe and Judson Church. He has sound designed work in places like Carnegie Hall, The Kitchen, The Bushwick Starr, and in Cuba for artists like Sibyl Kempson, Erin Markey, Dawn Akemi Saito, and Caborca. He was a member of the 2019-2021 Soho Rep Writer / Director Lab with Kedian Keohan
Ann Marie Dorr
Consulting Creative Producer
Ann Marie Dorr often works on big-little shows with adventurous and ambitious ideas in downtown and Brooklyn spaces including The Bushwick Starr, Abrons Arts Center, The Brick, The New Ohio, and JACK. Most recent projects include BAD NEWS! …i was there (NYU Skirball Center) directed and created by JoAnne Akalaitis with Bruce Odland and Jennifer Tipton, SINGLET (The Bushwick Starr & Tour) by Erin Markey, dir. Jordan Fein, PATHETIC (Abrons Arts Center) by Julia Jarcho, and The Things That Were There (The Bushwick Starr) by David Greenspan dir. Lee Sunday Evans. They also often direct and produce new plays in Austin, TX with MouthRadio and playwright Sarah Loucks, including Dollyfest 2019, a performance festival inspired by the music and being of Dolly Parton. Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 17/19 with Paul Ketchum on an ever evolving piece, Good and Noble Beings. Associated Artist of Target Margin Theater.
Brittany Coyne
Co-Production Manager
Brittany Coyne is a NYC based production manager and creative producer specializing in making big shows and dreams fit into less-big theater spaces. Alongside holding the role as APM at Atlantic Theater Company from 2018-Pandemic, she was the PM for NYSAF’s 2021 season, produced COOP by Sam Max, and has held a myriad of roles at St. Ann’s Warehouse and alongside producer Lucy Jackson. She is a current member of the TEAM’ 2021-2022 Petri Project Cohort alongside Sarah Gallegos.
Rebecca Schafer
Co-Production Manager
Sponsors
Funding for While You Were Partying is provided, in part, by The CBRAT Foundation.