Cast:Jack Bowes, Haven Crawley, Mackenzie Jones, Shail Modi, and Dustin Valenta.
Understudies: Genevieve Corkery, David Lovejoy, Forest Walden, and James Wheeler
Playwright
Hal Cosentino (he/him) is a playwright, performer, and educator who splits his time between Arkansas and New York. He writes to investigate his own discomforts with gender, seeking flaws and gaps to turn vulnerability into humor, connection, and revelation. A finalist for the 2023 and 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and a finalist for the 2025 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, he is also published in the 2025 Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2. Hal teaches at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas as the Murphy Fellow in Theatre, and holds a BS in Theater from Skidmore College and an MFA in Playwriting from UT Austin. He often makes plays with his art/life partner Ellenor Riley-Condit under the name Double Text (double-text.com).
Stage Manager: Oskar Westbridge / Scenic Design: Jeremy Ohringer and David Lovejoy / Lighting Design: Karen Wallace / Costume Design: Finnegan Chu / Sound Design: Oskar Westbridge / Puppet Design: Saskia Baker / Graphic Design: Michal Janicki
Oh, Buddy
Written by Hal Cosentino
Directed by Jeremy Ohringer
November 12th-December 19th, 2026
Runs: Thursday, November 12th –Saturday, December 19th, 2026 (No performances on 11/26-28)
Curtain Times: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 pm. Sundays 12/6 and 13 at 3:00 pm. With a special performance on Sunday, December 6th at 3:00 pm including a talk back after the performance with the playwright.
Press performance: Press are encouraged to attend opening night.
Tickets: $25. Tickets are currently available at https://our.show/oh-buddy or by calling (773) 384-0494.
Where: Trap Door Theatre is located at 1655 W. Cortland St.
It’s hard to be the New Guy in the world’s most generic office. It’s even harder to be the New Guy when you’re the New Guy because you came out as transgender. And has anybody noticed that the boss is a Big Furry Monster? OH, BUDDY is a dark, absurdist comedy about how the bizarre demands of binary gender affect the way we take on roles in the workplace and beyond.
Director
Jeremy Ohringer (he/him) is stoked to return to Trap Door to work on Hal’s play. Chicago directing credits include Eelpout (Shattered Globe), Briefly Breathless (Steppenwolf LookOut), A Devil Comes to Town (Trap Door), Who Walked All Night (Rhino Fest), and Sad Songs for Bad People (Rough House Theater). At The Theater School at DePaul University (where he is also an Adjunct Professor) he directed The Moors, Monica, and Stupid F#@%ing Bird. He has also directed several performances at North Central College including Everybody Thrashing, Ride the Cyclone, Tristan and Iseult, Constellations, and The Importance of Being Earnest. He is a graduate of Skidmore College and holds an MFA in directing from Boston University. You can find out more at jeremyohringer.com.