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About the Moxie Incubator
The Moxie Incubator is an accelerated development program for new, unproduced works and aligns with Moxie’s mission of engaging audiences with stories centering women, created by artists of historically excluded genders. These pieces were selected through an open submission process to Moxie Arts NY and each received two rounds of development before these productions. Throughout this process, the nine cohort members rotated, so that all artists have worked together in different configurations across the three rounds.
The 2025 Moxie Incubator
i know why iris chang died
By Esmé Marie Ng
Directed by Bibiana Torres
Produced by Emma Lai
September 4-7, 2025 at IRT Theater
i know why iris chang died is a tragicomic play told from the perspective of May - a trans masculine Chinese-American graphic artist. In the wake the Atlanta Spa Shootings, May prepares to publish their debut graphic novel, a recounting of their family’s experience during the Rape of Nanking. As May hyper focuses on the past, their twin sister puts her attention into conceiving a baby through IVF. This heartfelt, dark, and deeply funny two-hander takes a look at legacy, family, suicide, genocide, and healing from generational trauma.
500 Rats: A Love Story
By BT Hayes
Directed by Em Hausmann
Produced by Beth Slade
September 12-14, 2025 at HERE Arts Center's DOT Theatre
Ibbi, an anxiety-ridden lesbian, has many problems. (1) Her French roommate has left her stranded in a shitty rat-infested apartment situation. (2) Her landlady doesn't believe there are rats in the apartment and keeps telling Ibbi to stop putting rat-sized holes into the wall. (3) She doesn't have enough money to cover rent herself and might have to leave without her security deposit (due to the repairs needed...for the rat-sized...holes in the wall.) It's okay because the stress of these problems leads to Ibbi having a breakdown in front of a hot they/them named Jo. And Jo... now might be Ibbi's new roommate? And help her figure out her rat problem? Along the way, they'll deal with mushroom tea, pawn shops, the heart of the rat empire and its leader, Mother, and of course, the New York City Housing Authority.
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