Taut Post-Apoc TOMORROW GAME Hits LA Stage August 28
- Aug 10
- 3 min read
Walking Snail Productions is thrilled to present Brandy N. Carie’s award-winning survival thriller TOMORROW GAME, directed by Kate Leslie. Playing August 28–30 at North Hollywood’s Theater 68 Arts Complex, this developmental production will serve as Carie’s LA debut, giving local audiences their first taste of her brutal and irreverent yet poetic style. The play tells the story of “two women who struggle to survive a post-apocalyptic world where the biggest danger isn’t the environment — it’s each other.” Tickets are $20 and available at the Theater 68 website.
TOMORROW GAME will be the premiere project of emerging LA outfit Walking Snail Productions. The group is a collective of multi-disciplinary makers who work across theater, film, television, opera, and puppetry, with the unifying mission: “Slow down. Let’s make art.” The collective’s core members are Brandy N. Carie, writer/director Kate Leslie, and sound mixer/designer John Milo Train.
For this production, Walking Snail has assembled a formidable team of collaborators, including Arthur Edward Chadwick on scenic design (NOPE, IRON CHEF AMERICA), Emmy-winning lighting designer Michael Berger (The Oscars, AMERICA’S GOT TALENT), and designer and custom atelier Abby Polakow (Timeless Stitchcraft) on costumes. Train (OUTLANDER, CHICAGO PD) will take the role of sound designer. The play stars Katie Burke (TARTUFFE, Hollywood Fringe’s THE AQUARIAN) and Sarah Rebottaro (DOG SEES GOD, INTO THE WOODS).
According to director Kate Leslie, TOMORROW GAME’s exploration of survival and isolation makes it more relevant than ever:
“This an incredibly powerful play that explores themes for right now: environmental uncertainty, scarcity, the desperate need for human connection in an isolated world. It’s also a chance for LA audiences to encounter a singular new voice in American theater. TOMORROW GAME is a tense, tender story of two people fighting a threatening environment, but also struggling against the all-too-human impulses within themselves — within all of us.”
Placing women at the center of survival narratives is a core focus of writer Brandy N. Carie’s work. In addition to developing a number of screen horror projects, Carie is also writing an ambitious series for the stage. Consisting of 7 full-length plays, the Bunker Cycle spans various phases of a multitude of American apocalypses, starting with contemporary doomsday preppers and ending in a post-post-apoc utopian social experiment. The plays are thematically connected but narratively self-contained; TOMORROW GAME is the penultimate play in the cycle.
This developmental production marks a major milestone for Carie, whose other completed Bunker plays have had significant support—including workshops at Houston’s Mildred’s Umbrella and the Playwrights’ Center—but never with a full design team.
“I can’t put into words how amazing it is to see TOMORROW GAME going up with some of the most talented artists I’ve ever met,” says Carie, “This play inspired the entire Bunker Cycle, which is a huge part of my creative life. I love survival stories, but when I see ‘one tough dude against all odds’… I don’t think that’s how survival works. We need community. We need each other. And that tension sparked this play about women trying to survive, and how it might be different.”
For Walking Snail, the project also supports the collective’s quality over quantity ethos. The group intends this and all future productions to align with their “slow down, make art” mission, prioritizing a process that respects members’ limitations, offers equal pay for participants, and centers “good stories, well told” that allow collaborators to do fulfilling creative work that doesn’t interfere with the necessity of making a living under capitalism. This last point is another reason why TOMORROW GAME resonates with the group.
An early draft of TOMORROW GAME was developed with the support of the Edward Albee Foundation and with a staging of the first scene at Houston’s Future is Female Festival, directed by Dana Bowman. After winning the Harold & Mimi Steinberg ACTF Playwriting Award presented at the Kennedy Center, the play had a workshop at Appalachia’s Barter Theater directed by Nicholas Piper and was published by Samuel French. This production of TOMORROW GAME is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc., with additional support from Walking Snail patrons on Kickstarter.
SHOW TIMES
Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 | 7:30pm
Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026 | 2:30pm; 7:30pm
Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026 | 2:30pm
Theater 68 Arts Complex | 5112 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood 91601
Tickets for TOMORROW GAME are $20, and can be reserved at the Theater 68 website.
Follow Walking Snail Productions on Instagram (@walkingsnailproductions) and check out Brandy N. Carie's IWC member profile at https://www.iwclist.com/team/brandy-n.-carie.
