ROAD KILLS
by sophie mcintosh
“Nina Goodheart’s guignol production does wonders in a space smaller than a passenger seat, and the tiny space ensures that Mia Sinclair Jenness’s stunning performance makes a lethal impact. Good Apples Collective & McIntosh are exciting voices in the body-horror / youth-disaffection space; if you want your theater with A24 vibes, this is your show.” — Helen Shaw
“Working within the conventions of the mismatched two-hander, Sophie McIntosh continues her subversion of genre with Road Kills, which pairs a kind-hearted carrion collector with a bratty college student fulfilling a six-week community service sentence. It also reteams the playwright with the director Nina Goodheart, with whom she operates the Good Apples theater collective. As in last year’s surreal cunnicularii, the two collaborators create a world of both great, heightened theatricality and poignant, earthy humanity…. A preternatural master of mood, Goodheart reassembles some of the cunnicularii team to create a similarly cinematic effect.” — Juan A. Ramirez, Theatrely
What happens to the stains you can’t get out?
Owen is a roadkill collector. Jaki was busted for drunk driving. And for the next six Saturdays, they’re stuck with each other. As they traverse the highways of Wisconsin, they connect over their common ground as outsiders, challenge each other on issues of faith and family, and careen towards a collision that threatens to shatter them both.
Sophie McIntosh’s unflinching new play Road Kills forces us to confront the long-lasting repercussions of abuse — and urges us not to look away.
Road Kills was presented as an Equity Showcase at Paradise Factory, 64 East 4th Street, New York, NY in the summer of 2025.
CAST
Jaki: Mia Sinclair Jenness*
Owen: D.B. Milliken*
Neil/Miles: Michael Lepore*
Understudy for Jaki: Anna Aubry
Understudy for Owen and Neil/Miles: Nicholas Louis Turturro
PRODUCTION TEAM
Playwright & Producer: Sophie McIntosh
Director & Producer: Nina Goodheart
Producer: ryan duncan-ayala
Associate Producer: Sarah Jones
Stage Manager: Damayanti Wallace
Associate Director and Dramaturg: Mia Fowler
Fight + Intimacy Director: Willow Funkhouser
Assistant Stage Manager: Jenna Rowell
Scenic Designer: Junran “Charlotte” Shi
Lighting Designer: Paige Seber
Props Designer: Sean Frank
Costume Designer: Saawan Tiwari
Sound Designer: Max Van
Production Electrician: Max Stroeher
