A new play by Chad Kaydo

Directed by Carsen Joenk

February 27-March 15, 2025

at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave

Tickets $25-50

A strange summer provokes questions about family, mortality, porn algorithms, and whether or not you’re still single because you’re “too picky.” I’M REPEATING MYSELF wonders how we get over a lifetime of tiny wounds to take care of the people we love…and maybe ourselves too. Playwright Chad Kaydo joins a cast of actors playing his friends and family—as well as multiple versions of Chad himself—across boundaries of age, race, and gender, mixing queer irreverence with earnest, emotional immediacy.

Creative Team

Produced by RHONDA and The Omnivores

Co-Producer: Theresa Buchheister

Associate Producer: Mark Toubman

Art by Rob Wilson

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About the Artists

Chad Kaydo is a queer playwright from Ashtabula, Ohio, who writes intimately observed plays obsessed with friendship, mortality, and the existential questions hidden in the quotidian. A member of the Clubbed Thumb 2024-2025 Early Career Writers’ Group, Chad is developing Where Is Miss Stone? with Clubbed Thumb as a finalist for the 2022 Biennial Commission. Chad’s work has also been supported by Fresh Ground Pepper, HB Studio, Playhouse on Park, the Quickening Room, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Theater Masters. He produces and hosts Quick + Dirty, a development series at Brick Aux for short works by new collaborators. One-fifth of the theater collective The Omnivores. M.F.A., Hunter College. chadkaydo.com

Carsen Joenk is a director/sound designer interested in the weird, wild, and unfamiliar. She is the co-artistic director of Rat Queen Theatre Company, a New Georges Jam member, and a founding member of the interactive media company, Sour Milk. Carsen is a former Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, Roundabout Director’s Group Member, Mercury Store Directing Lab Member, Wingspace Directing Mentee, Oregon Shakespeare Festival FAIR alumna, and NAMT Directing Observer. She is also the co-creator of Miss Atomic Power (Yale Drama Series Prize runner-up and NPC finalist). She has developed and presented work with Colt Coeur, Rattlestick, Exponential Festival, Fresh Ground Pepper, EST/Youngblood, Gingold Theatrical Group, Ice Factory/New Ohio, La MaMa, and more. carsen-joenk.com

RHONDA makes micro/cosmic theater that explores the big questions in small moments. rhonda.nyc

The Omnivores is a theater collective started by five playwrights cooking up spicy new shows in scrappy, sustainable ways. The Omnivores are Lauren Holmes, Chad Kaydo, Diana Ly, Ian Robles, and Phillip Christian Smith. omnivores.nyc