Theater

From the Connecticut College mainstage to festival-winning plays and experimental improv, the stage has held an evergreen home for my poetics and my ridiculousness-es.

"Be more than ready." - Anna Deveare Smith

Playwright Resume

Recent Productions

Human + Robot

Playwright: Sitara Effat Ahangari

Performed At: Gloucester Stage for the Theatermakers of Today First Annual Fringe Festival

November 2025
Directors: Sitara Effat Ahangari & Allie Ziegler

Human: Allie Ziegler
Robot: Sitara Effat Ahangari

Awards/Achievements: Voted First Place at the ToT Fringe Festival ($250 cash prize)

Description: Human + Robot is a 45 minute two-actor play about learning to be a person. A human brings home a robot. They are both more alive than they think, they both have so much teach each other, and they are both so new to learning.

Necrosis Theater

Writer and Game Designer: Sitara Effat Ahangari

Performed At: Gloucester Stage for the Theatermakers of Today First Annual Fringe Festival

November 2025

Director: Sitara Effat Ahangari
GM: Sitara Effat Ahangari
Players:

Giuseppe Piccirilli
Ali Cady
Ryan Brearley

Awards/Achievements: Voted Second Place at the ToT Fringe Festival ($150 cash prize)

Description: Welcome to NECROSIS THEATER. This 45-minute (mostly) improvised performance is inspired by tabletop role-playing games everywhere, and features original role-playing elements, and audience participation. The dead shall rise! Dice shall be rolled! And the show WILL. GO. ON.

Laura, The Vampire, and The West

Playwright: Amanda Brady

Performed At: Connecticut College Tansill Theater for the Senior Capstone Festival
Produced By: Ali Cady and Amanda Brady
May 2025
Director: Sitara Effat Ahangari

Laura: Ali Cady
Carmilla: Pluto Shea
Father: Ryan Brearley
Mademoiselle: Julia Toyer
Coyotes:

Maureen Clancy
Ren Anderson
Regan McQuade

Description: Laura, The Vampire, and The West is a 90 minute play about Laura, who returns to her family home and reunites with her long-estranged father. But the west is a hungry place, hungrier than Laura remembers. & everything soon changes when she meets the woman in black, Carmilla, who grins wickedly and cackles at the wind.

Live D&D: The Dragon's Arena

Writer & Game Designer: Sitara Effat Ahangari

Performed At: Connecticut College Olin 101
Produced by: Wig & Candle
February 2025
Director: Sitara Effat Ahangari

GM: Sitara Effat Ahangari
Players:

Giuseppe Piccirilli
Ali Cady
Pluto Shea
Ian Ross

Description: The Golden Dragon himself has kidnapped (or paid) our four adventurers for the expressly violent purposes of ARENA COMBAT! This 90 minute improvised performance features a modified D&D stage system, dozens of dramatic, high-stakes dice rolls, and the chaotic impulses of our GM and her players!