The Castle of Ghoul Hammond

The Castle of Ghoul Hammond

M Sloth Levine, Mack Brown

Lightning strikes the windmill at the tip of a cardboard castle and jolts to life an insatiable monster with too many eyes. It’s alive. It’s a movie star. It’s Ghoul.

Lush and low-budg, The Castle of Ghoul Hammond is the first chapter in a five act epic about queer cannibalism, loneliness, folk religion, oral sex, the rise of cinema over vaudeville, werewolves, biology, masculinity, femininity, exhaustion, confetti cake, chiastic failure, literacy, memory, and death.

Will anything ever fill the void?

WEDNESDAY, SEPT 9 DOORS @ 6:30PM | SHOW @ 7:00PM ARS NOVA 511 W 54TH STREET

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M Sloth Levine

M Sloth Levine makes impossible plays out of sour gummy worms and velvet curtains that revel in sublime Ridiculousness. As playwright: The Interrobangers (available in The Methuen Book of Trans Plays vol. 3), At Hotel MacGuffin (Lincoln Center Rubinstein Atrium January ’27), The Castle of Ghoul Hammond…, and Slippery! (O’Neill Semifinalist). Roundabout Space Jam Cohort, Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround, Company One VoltLab, Parity Productions Development Award 2021. As director: Eternity, Arizona (Brown University), Hell Is Real (Skidmore College), Nosferatu, The Vampyr (Milky Way Coffee Roasters). Roundabout Directors Group 7. As designer: The Lenormand of Hotel MacGuffin, several spooky masks.

Mack Brown

Mack Brown is a Brooklyn based butch director. They build precise new musicals and genre-defying theatre work about misfits making miracles. Mack has developed work with Ars Nova, Roundabout, NYTW, MCC, 24 Hour Plays, Hermitage Artist Retreat, and Fault Line Theatre. They are an Ars Nova Artist in Residence for the 2025–26 season along with their collaborators Murphy and Emerson Smith. They were the Roundabout Directing Fellow for RTC’s 2022–23 season, and currently work as Lead Facilitator of the Roundabout Directors Group. Mack has been an associate and assistant director on and off Broadway and they are a recipient of the 2025 SDCF Abe Burrows Award for Assistant Directors. mack-brown.com

Where does the show take place?

This show will take place at Ars Nova, located at 511 W 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.

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