Lightning Rod Special

📣🎉 We are so excited to announce that Lions is a finalist for the Steinberg/ATCA New Play award! Congratulations to playwright-performers Alice Yorke and Scott Sheppard ! Thank you to the ATCA for this incredible recognition! 🎉📣

We are deeply honored to announce that Lightning Rod Special’s Mason Rosenthal Scott Sheppard and Alice Yorke have been named 2026 Creative Capital awardees!⚡️⚡️ Our project “America Again” is a performance in response to the United States Semiquincentennial. Set in a post-apocalyptic theme park, the piece unfolds through looping dioramas of the American Revolution and asks: Are we spiraling upward toward our democratic ideals, or sinking deeper into our founding sins? ⚡️🌀⚡️

🦁 ICYMI Hear "Lions" creator/performers and company founders Alice Yorke and Scott R. Sheppard speaking with Jennifer Lynn on WHYY. https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-fringe-festival-lions-fathers-loss/

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Two writers turn loss of their fathers into play about death that’s not about grief Drawing from personal loss, Lightning Rod Special’s new work takes audiences through the chaos of end-of-life care, memory and legacy at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.