Aleshea Harris has had a year. Her play Is God Is, the Obie Award-winning work that established her as one of the most electrifying voices in American theater, made its way to the big screen as a film from Amazon MGM Studios, marking her directorial debut in cinema. The adaptation brings her signature blend of tragedy, dark comedy, and surrealism to a new audience.
But Harris is not slowing down. Even as Is God Is plays in theaters, she is already at work on her next project: Feast of Rabbits, a new play she is writing and directing, set to debut as part of Playwrights Horizons’ 2026-27 Off-Broadway season in the summer of 2027.
The premise is characteristically unsettling. A town sits empty, mysteriously abandoned, until the Forsythes, a homesteading family, arrive with their friends and kin and begin to build something that looks, on the surface, like a dream. The community flourishes. The gardens grow. But there is blood in the soil, and generations later, it seeps into everything. Described as a deranged and ferocious satire, Feast of Rabbits takes aim at the mythology of the American Frontier, pulling back the pastoral curtain to expose what has always been festering underneath.
The production will incorporate choral singing and choreography, a mode Harris has returned to throughout her career, most notably in What to Send Up When It Goes Down, her Drama Desk-nominated play-pageant-ritual, and in On Sugarland, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist nod in 2023.
Feast of Rabbits opens at Playwrights Horizons in summer 2027.