The Most Evil Man in the World

Nick Jones (playwright) is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His play Trevor, about a depressed chimpanzee, has received over thirty productions internationally and won numerous awards. Other plays by Jones include The Coward (four Lortel nominations) and Vérité (both Lincoln Center/LCT3), Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), Party Favors (an adaptation of Salome), and Straight Up Vampire: The History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul (Joe’s Pub). He also co-created and performed in Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova) and has worked extensively in television and film. An adaptation of his play The Coward is currently in development with Alex Timbers slated to direct.

Isaac Butler (director) is a cultural critic, historian, and theater director based in Brooklyn. In June, Bloomsbury published his new book The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars. Co-author (with Dan Kois) of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America (a Stonewall Honor Book). His book The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act won the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, Time, SF Chronicle, Vox, Salon, Lit Hub and Vanity Fair.