Max Reuben

Max Reuben

Max Reuben is a playwright, director, sometimes-actor, and founding member of AGGROCRAG – a Brooklyn-based theater company dedicated to creating original plays. His work has been seen at places like The Kraine, Ars Nova, The Culture Project, The Brooklyn Lyceum, The Tank, Underground Arts, and a cool apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Recent credits include: We Hope You're Out There (The Gallery Players...
Max Reuben is a playwright, director, sometimes-actor, and founding member of AGGROCRAG – a Brooklyn-based theater company dedicated to creating original plays. His work has been seen at places like The Kraine, Ars Nova, The Culture Project, The Brooklyn Lyceum, The Tank, Underground Arts, and a cool apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Recent credits include: We Hope You're Out There (The Gallery Players Theatre); BLIND DATE (AGGROCRAG); Trojans (FGP Playground Playgroup). Upcoming: This Story Could Be Your Life (workshopped at FGP's BRB retreat) and An Untitled Horror Play (AGGROCRAG). He also performs with the Brooklyn Soundpainting Company, and has been directing Gentlemen Party's semi-monthly sketch comedy shows at The People's Improv Theater since 2012. He currently teaches first year playwriting at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, an undergraduate drama studio at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Plays

  • Then, Of Course, All The Things Happened
    Remember when the stray cat died and that time you needed a ride home and the day you met your roommate and the day you said goodbye to your mom? How about that argument about the phone and also the way the printer at work kept jamming and the time you found that thing in your kid’s backpack and – oh man – do you remember writing and sending that email you swore you’d never send?

    Then, Of Course...
    Remember when the stray cat died and that time you needed a ride home and the day you met your roommate and the day you said goodbye to your mom? How about that argument about the phone and also the way the printer at work kept jamming and the time you found that thing in your kid’s backpack and – oh man – do you remember writing and sending that email you swore you’d never send?

    Then, Of Course, All The Things Happened is a kaleidoscopic play consisting of dozens of hyper-specific
    moments which – when taken together – attempt to get at something true and honest about what it means to be a living, breathing human being in a world surrounded by other living, breathing human beings.
  • Bank Holiday
    Lisa, Boyd, and Grace all went to high school together, but Grace is the only one who moved out of their tiny town like she had always wanted. Years later, for reasons both personal and professional, she’s moved back home and taken a job with her old classmates at the local bank. On the morning of Christmas Eve, as an unexpected snowfall threatens each of their holiday plans, the three find it harder and harder...
    Lisa, Boyd, and Grace all went to high school together, but Grace is the only one who moved out of their tiny town like she had always wanted. Years later, for reasons both personal and professional, she’s moved back home and taken a job with her old classmates at the local bank. On the morning of Christmas Eve, as an unexpected snowfall threatens each of their holiday plans, the three find it harder and harder to tiptoe around the real and perceived slights of their shared history.
  • Trojans
    During the ninth year of the Trojan war, two exiled soldiers try to decide what to do with the gigantic wooden horse they've found.
  • Teeth
    A receptionist at a dentist's office has to answer to her angry boss when a large, carnivorous dinosaur shows up in the waiting room and refuses to leave.