boom is a play by Peter Sinn Nachtreib which premiered in 2008 at Ars Nova in New York, New York.

Plot summary

Jules, a grad student in marine biology, and Jo, a journalism student, meet one Saturday night in Jules’s small underground laboratory on a university campus, after Jo answers Jules’s online personal ad offering an encounter that promises “sex to change the course of the world.”
During his research on a deserted tropical island, Jules discovered patterns among the behavior of fish that seemed to portend a premature end to most forms of earthly life. So he has turned his tiny lab/apartment into a place to wait out the disaster and begin remaking humanity. A third character, Barbara, is the audience's guide in her portrayal of the end of civilization thousands of years earlier.

Production history

Off the Wall Productions

Off the Wall Productions

Off the Wall Productions is a professional theatre company located in Washington, Pennsylvania. Established in 2007 under Artistic Director Virginia Wall Gruenert and Managing Director Hans Gruenert, the theatre's mission is to "enrich, enliven, educate and entertain our audiences, to be...

, Washington, Pennsylvania. March 2011.

Directed by Michael E. Moats.

Cast:
Rachel Downie as Barbara
Matt Henderson as Jules
Lauren Michaels as Jo
Shimberg Playhouse, David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa, Florida

by Jobsite Theater

Jobsite Theater

Jobsite Theater is an American professional theater company founded in 1998 located in Tampa, Florida, and is the resident theater company of the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts . Co-founder David M. Jenkins serves as Producing Artistic Director.-History:Founded in 1998 by David M...

 Mar. 11 – 28, 2010.

Directed by Kari Goetz.

Cast:
Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins as Barbara

Chris Holcom as Jules

Geneva Rae as Jo.

http://www.jobsitetheater.org/shows/boom/about.php Boom! by Jobsite Theater

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World Premiere at Ars Nova, New York City, March 2008, directed by Alex Timbers

Alex Timbers

Alex Timbers is a Tony-nominated writer and director and the recipient of Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as two OBIE Awards....

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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...

, Washington DC, November 2008, directed by John Vreeke.

Seattle Rep, Seattle, WA, November 2008, directed by Jerry Manning.

Cleveland Public Theatre, November 2008.

Workshop production at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, July 2007, directed by Ken Prestininzi.

Developmental Reading part of The Playwrights Foundation In the Rough series, May 2007, directed by Kent Nicholson.