The Goddamn Tooney Lunes was a group of geeky teen misfits who started a punk band to channel their high school angst, raging hormones, and raucous personalities. Ten years later, a tragedy reunites the band for one more glorious night of mosh pits, stick n’ pokes, and debauchery. Get tickets to the reunion concert that reckons with the disturbing realities of the band’s seemingly glamorous teen years.
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The Goddamn Tooney Lunes will stream live from Ars Nova on June 17 @ 7pm on Ars Nova Supra. Following the live stream, you’ll be able to watch the show on-demand for up to a year. Get a cancel-anytime $15/mo subscription to stream live or on-demand.
Carsen Joenk is a director and sound designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the co-artistic director of Rat Queen Theatre Company, a New Georges Jam member, and a founding member of the interactive media company, Sour Milk. Carsen is a former Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, Roundabout Director’s Group Member, Mercury Store Directing Lab Member, Wingspace Directing Mentee, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Assistantship awardee, and National Alliance of Musical Theatre Directing Observer. She is also the co-creator of Miss Atomic Power and Jerusalem, Florida (2024 + 2025 NPC finalist, respectively). www.carsen-joenk.com
Molly Herron Bicks is a playwright and deviser. Bicks co-founded Rat Queen Theatre Co, where they create queer, campy, plays about history. Bicks has had their work developed with Rattlestick Theatre, Lambda Literary, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and many more. Select writing credits; Judy Doomed Us All, co-written with Rat Queen, performed at The New Ohio’s Ice Factory; Lily, developed at WTF, selected as a Clauder Awards finalist; Miss Atomic Power, a finalist for NPC in 2024, and a runner-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize in 2021; and Jerusalem, Florida, a finalist for NPC in 2025.
Emily Abrams (she/her) is a director of theatre, circus, and good vibes. Emily is an affiliated artist at New Georges and is a member of The Jam. She has worked for leading arts organizations, including Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, Spiegelworld, Manhattan Theatre Club, Virgin Voyages, Roundabout, Stage Time, Studio Theatre, Asolo Rep, People’s Light, and more. She is an alum of the New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Artistic Fellowship, Roundabout Director’s Group, Studio Theatre’s Directing Apprenticeship, Ars Nova’s Emerging Leaders Fellowship, and Asolo Rep’s Directing Fellowship. Find out more about her work and her obsession with Tommy Wiseau by visiting EmilyAbramsDirects.com
Karole Alexander is fired up to join The Goddamn Tooney Lunes in their first stage performance. A music school misfit turned international touring renegade, Karole has lent their voice to the game Parking Garage Rally Circuit with The Holophonics, and acted in Viktor Herrmann’s cinematic fever dreams, all while daylighting as a farmers market fairy. After a ten-year detour from stage acting, they’re back!
Eden Chaloemtiarana (he/they) is from San Francisco, where he works as a tour guide at Grace Cathedral and a shop steward for IATSE. He moonlights as a jazz drummer and dog dad. Eden believes that art is armor against empire.
Violet Falkowski is a Hartford CT CT-based playwright, actor, musician and educator. Currently, she is learning how the subway system works and appreciates everyone’s patience at this time. She is thrilled to be working with this fabulous group of artists. Thank you to the Rat Queen team!
Sarah Jones is a producer, stage manager, and Excel aficionado! She has produced with/at The Bushwick Starr, The Public Theater [DTWG], One Whale’s Tale, the 24 Hour Plays (Nationals ’23), and The Brick, with an upcoming project with Good Apples Collective. They are a proud CUNY Baccalaureate graduate via Hunter College.
Non Kuramoto (they/she/he) is a Brooklyn-based Japanese fool, who tells truth wrapped in glittery wrapping paper, and wants every day to be a disco. They have shared laughter at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Persisticon, NYC Sketchfest, Nasty Women Unite Fest, and more. They can also be found screaming over punk rock ruckus as the front person of “first president of japan.”
www.nonkuramoto.com IG: @nyanchatte
Nathan Leigh is the co-artistic director of cirqueSaw and the inventor of the Familect programming language. Nathan co-created the musicals Big Money and The Consequences with co-composer and book writer Kyle Jarrow. With Liars and Believers, Nathan Leigh composed scores for Song of Songs, Icarus, and A Story Beyond. Nathan co-founded cirqueSaw in 2020 with partner Nicole Orabona creating the award-winning interactive pieces labRats, Void Main and POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness (Young-Howze Awards Immersive Production of the Year 2023, No Proscenium Special Editor’s Award 2024). Nathan is currently filming the stop motion feature The Golem.
Sara Minisquero just completed the Professional Apprenticeship Program in Stage Management at Juilliard. Most recently, Sara was the Out Like That! festival’s Production Tech Coordinator at BAAD! Bronx, and was show caller for Arthur Avilés’s career retrospective, “The Naked Vanguard” at La Mama. @lilhobbitsara
Wes Olivier graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, Theatre, and Film. They are an experimental musical theatre composer and perform as their alien-clown drag persona, Klondyke. They’re currently working towards producing their first 2 musicals Elsewhere & Scarecrow. (Credits: Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns, Le Poisson Rouge Feb 2025; Bark of Millions by Taylor Mac & Matt Ray at Berliner Festspiele Oct 2024, BAM & Zellerbach Hall Feb 2024, Sydney Opera House Oct 2023; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Taylor Mac and Jason Robert Brown, Goodman Theatre, July 2024)
Han Van Sciver is a multidisciplinary performer, writer, and musician. Acting credits include At The Wedding (Lincoln Center), Orlando (Williamstown), An Oxford Man (Manhattan Theater Club), Kit Marlowe (TFANA/Red Bull), and Hamlet (Alabama Shakespeare). Original works include DRAGON (New York Theatre Workshop), Gay Narcissus (Orchard Project/Die-Cast), Happy Birthday Han (JACK), and episodic SAD HAN (@sad_han, American Theatre). Film: Regulars, Has Anyone Else Lost Their Body? TV: The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Elsbeth. Percussion: Northern Stage (Ani DiFranco), Lake Lucille Chekhov Project, Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, Baltimore Center Stage, and more. MFA: Brown/Trinity Rep. www.hanvansciver.com / @rhymes.with.man
This show will take place at Ars Nova, located at 511 W 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Seating is general admission and first-come first-served. So, the earlier you arrive at the theater, the more choice you’ll have about where you sit! (Bonus: cheapest drinks in Midtown are at Bars Nova!)
The only way to guarantee you reserved seats is to become a Super Nova. Super Novas never hear “sold out,” get reserved seats in prime locations, and make fair wages and accessible tickets possible. Learn more about becoming a Super Nova here!
Tix to this show are Name Your Price starting at $15, meaning you decide what you pay! Best of all, when you name your price, 100% of the single ticket revenue is passed on directly to the show’s lead artists! You can learn more about What’s Ars Is Yours: Name Your Price Tix by visiting our How We Do It page.
If a performance is sold out, you can join a standby line for day-of-show tix made available by minute cancellations and no-shows. Standby will begin 1 hour prior to curtain and will form outsideFolks from the standby line will be admitted into the show on a rolling basis as availability is confirmed. Standby tix are name-your-price starting at $15 + fees.
Additionally, Supra is never sold out! If you can’t make the show in-person, you can always stream online for only $15/mo, which gets you unlimited streaming access to performances from the last year. You can cancel your membership anytime by emailing contact@arsnovanyc.com.
Once you’ve selected your performance date and time at check-out, you’ll see a number of ticket price options ranging from $15 to $100. Select the price point you want to pay and the number of tickets you’d like to purchase and they’ll be added to your cart. After that, continue through the check-out process and you’ll be all set!
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All sales are final – there are no refunds or exchanges.
If you’re unable to use your tickets, you may donate them in exchange for a letter of tax credit by emailing tix@arsnovanyc.com.
We ask that you stay home if you aren’t feeling well or are awaiting the results of a COVID test. Please let us know prior to your ticketed performance, and we will work with you to find a solution if you’re unable to attend.
We welcome and encourage mask-wearing to protect yourself and others. However, as mask mandates have lifted and city, state and federal guidelines have changed, we will not be requiring them at performances.
We no longer require proof of vaccination, but we strongly encourage all audience members to get vaccinated and boosted in accordance with public health guidelines.
Our staff will clean and sanitize the theater and common areas and we’ll continue to provide hand sanitizer for your personal use.
Signage is posted in all spaces encouraging washing or sanitizing hands frequently.
Ars Nova is uncensored. We provide content advisories — to the best of our ability — to inform audiences when shows contain racial violence, racist language, sexual violence or nudity. We provide information about this type of content in advance, based on our core values, so that each audience member can make an informed decision about if and how they’d like to engage with that content. We welcome artists to share additional information about their shows based on their own core values.
Ars Nova is wheelchair accessible. If you wish or need to remain in your wheelchair throughout the show, our staff will remove the theater chair. This can be done by letting us know your needs/plans in advance; just email Declan Zhang. It can also be done without prior notice when you arrive! If you wish to transfer to the theater seat from your wheelchair, we are happy to store your wheelchair or motorized mobility aid in the lobby during the performance. The House Manager will return your mobility device to you at the end of the performance as this show has no intermission.
About 25% of the seating is on the ground floor of the theater and does not require using stairs to access. There are five six-inch steps to get into the building.
All remaining seats require no less than one and no more than three steps to access.
Licensed service animals (any dogs that are trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities) are welcome at Ars Nova. They must rest in your seating area throughout the performance and are unable to occupy the aisle. Please bring proof of certification or a license for your service animal and be prepared to present it to the House Manager upon request. You can send advance notice to tix@arsnovanyc.com, which is appreciated, but not required.
Our bathrooms are stalled, all gender restrooms – everyone is welcome to use any bathroom of their choice. We have two single-person restrooms in the lobby; with the wheelchair accessible option located right outside the theater on the first floor (doors 7 feet 10 inches x 3 feet 10.5 inches).
We have space that can be made to offer privacy for feeding should you need at any time. See the House Manager onsite and they will arrange a comfortable space, with storage and refrigeration for your materials.
The audience seating locations could be in, around and throughout the playing area. Performers will be within 3’ of you.
The seating is a combination of chairs.
Black Chairs with back: 19” wide x 32.25” high x 21.75” deep with a 500lb capacity
Black Counter height: 16.5” wide x 38” high x 18” deep with a 500lb capacity
The doors for entry into the building are 7 feet 10.5 inches x 3 feet 7 inches (external) and 7 feet 10 inches x feet 10.5 inches (internal).
Box Office height is 3 feet 6 inches and the Bar height is 3 feet 8.5 inches.
ANT Fest is our annual festival of All New Talent showcasing new work from New York’s most adventurous emerging artists. Learn more and get into our other ANT Fest shows here!
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