←Recommendations of Bullet

I got to see this piece at the 2026 Valdez Theater Conference, and it was a hell of a ride. The slippy surrealism of the play's language is delightfully disorienting, and leads you to unexpected moments of depth as the piece unfolds. Absolutely worth checking out, especially if you're looking for a one-person show that swims in the surrealist end of the pool.

Darkly funny, inventive, and uncomfortably relatable, "Bullet" captures the spiraling logic of anxiety and existential dread with remarkable precision. McNeill transforms a familiar presentation format into a fascinating theatrical journey, balancing humor, vulnerability, and disorientation in a way that keeps the audience engaged from beginning to end.

McNeill has struck just the right balance between dark and humorous, real yet disorienting, managing to capture the indescribable feeling that comes with a thought spiral, where every attempt to claw yourself out becomes one more way you get dragged in. Perfectly frantic, uncertain, engaging, and unnerving, "Bullet" keeps the audience hungry for more.

The Powerpoint is such a ubiquitous form of communication I'm surprised it hasn't been incorporated into more drama. Here McNeill mines the format for a winning mixture of laughs and pathos, as a seemingly innocuous Ted(ish) talk leaps through a bewildering logjam of corporate jargon, personal history and self-doubt. Hard to imagine a more engrossing hourlong slideshow.

This fascinating play immediately drew me in with its unique humor and soon left me invigorated with emotion. Hilariously written and expertly paced, Bullet is a piece which keeps the audience on its toes, unsure of where the TED Talk (it's not a TED Talk) will go next. It handles existential dread and obsessive ideation with such heartfelt honesty in a way I have never before seen in theatre. Thank you for sharing this vulnerable work and for portraying such serious traumas with respect.