The Program

Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play

By Anne Washburn

Score by Michael Friedman, Lyrics by Anne Washburn

Directed by Stephen Legawiec

The Creative Team

About the Play

From the USM Department of Theatre

Content Advisory
This show contains profanity, brief strobe effect, and depictions of gun violence. Gunshot sound effects will be used at the end of Act 2.

Production Credits

Playwrights Horizons, Inc. produced the New York City premiere of the play off-Broadway in 2013. Originally produced in June, 2012 by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC, Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director; Jeffrey Herrmann, Managing Director. Mr. Burns was Commissioned by The Civilians, New York, NY Steven Cosson, Artistic Director.
For the language of the remembering of the Simpsons' episode, Cape Feare, the author would like to credit the Civilians actors involved in the initial workshop: Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Maria Dizzia, Gibson Frazier, Matt Maher, Jennifer Morris, Colleen Werthmann and Sam Breslin Wright.