Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God
- Written by Jen Tullock and Frank Winters
- Performed by Jen Tullock
- Directed by Jared Mezzocchi
Jen Tullock is an actor and writer best known for her roles as Devon in Apple TV’s Severance and Anita St. Pierre in HBO’s Perry Mason. She co-wrote and starred in Sundance comedy Before You Know It alongside Alec Baldwin, Mandy Patinkin, and Judith Light. Selected writing: NY Stage & Film Festival, HuffPo, Super Deluxe, Funny or Die original The Coop. TV/Film: Curb Your Enthusiasm, The L Word, Casual, Roadies, Spirited. Stage: NY Stage & Film, 59E59 St., Joe’s Pub, Rob Ashford’s Tangier concert production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Wind and the Rain (Vineyard/En Garde Arts). SAG Award nominee and Sundance screenwriting fellow.
Frank Winters is a playwright, director, and actor. His plays have been workshopped and produced Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and in colleges and high schools across the country. He was a recipient of the Clifford Odets New Play Commission and the first new play commission from Marquette University. His plays On the Head of a Pin, Student Body, and The Great Filter were published by Broadway Play Publishing. Selections from his work are featured in Lawrence Harbison’s The Best Women’s Stage Monologues. He was a founding member of The Strangemen Theatre Company and received a BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase.
Jen Tullock is an actor and writer best known for her roles as Devon in Apple TV’s Severance and Anita St. Pierre in HBO’s Perry Mason. She co-wrote and starred in Sundance comedy Before You Know It alongside Alec Baldwin, Mandy Patinkin, and Judith Light. Selected writing: NY Stage & Film Festival, HuffPo, Super Deluxe, Funny or Die original The Coop. TV/Film: Curb Your Enthusiasm, The L Word, Casual, Roadies, Spirited. Stage: NY Stage & Film, 59E59 St., Joe’s Pub, Rob Ashford’s Tangier concert production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Wind and the Rain (Vineyard/En Garde Arts). SAG Award nominee and Sundance screenwriting fellow.
Jared Mezzocchi is a two-time Obie Award-winning theater artist, working as a director, multimedia designer, playwright, and actor. Based out of New York, Mezzocchi’s work has appeared at notable theaters nationwide, including Geffen Playhouse, Vineyard Theater, The Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, TheatreWorks Hartford, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth (company member), and many more. In 2016, he received the Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Award for his work in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone at the Manhattan Theatre club. In 2020, the New York Times spotlighted his multimedia innovations alongside the pandemic work of four other theater artists, including Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paula Vogel. His work on Sarah Gancher’s digital production of Russian Troll Farm was also celebrated as a New York Times critic pick, and praised for being one of the first digitally native successes for virtual theater. In 2023, this digital production of Russian Troll Farm won Mezzocchi his second Obie. Most recently, Mezzocchi directed The Wind and The Rain: a Story about Sunny’s Bar at En Garde Arts and Vineyard Theater which was performed on a barge in NYC and called “Highbrow Brilliant” by New York Magazine. In Spring 2024, Mezzocchi directed Sandra at TheaterWorks Hartford. As a playwright/performer, he was recently accepted into the 2024 Colorado New Play Festival for his work 73 Seconds directed by Aya Ogawa and commissioned by En Garde Arts.
Mezzocchi is a two-time MacDowell Artist Fellow, a 2012 Princess Grace Award winner, and recently celebrated his retirement at The University of Maryland, where he taught in the MFA Design program for the projection and multimedia track, a curriculum he created in 2012 that graduated 17 MFA students in Multimedia Design.
Over the pandemic, Mezzocchi founded Virtual Design Collective (VIDCO), which has aided in the development of over 50 new digital works over the 18 months of quarantine. This year, he is finishing his book, A Multimedia Designer’s Method to Theatrical Storytelling, which will be published through Routledge. Mezzocchi has a BA in theater and film from Fairfield University, and an MFA in performance and interactive media arts from Brooklyn College.
EXTENDED AGAIN!
When a best-selling writer releases a book about her upbringing as a gay kid in the Evangelical South, she is confronted by the woman she claims to have had an affair with — who insists the stories are false. Operating multiple cameras and live looping systems, Jen Tullock (Severance) expertly plays a full cast of characters in a tour-de-force performance that blurs the line between reality and the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God runs approximately 70 minutes.
In association with Mark Gordon Pictures, Eilene Davidson Productions, and Sara Bareilles.
This production has received generous support from Busy Phillips.
Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God has received generous support from production sponsors Gina Maria Leonetti and Andrew Tobias.
Jen Tullock gives a quietly blazing performance, embodying multiple roles in a fragmented tale about family and religion, homophobia and belonging, failures of love and failures of memory. Believing her is no trouble.
Jen Tullock commands the stage with 11 characters, six cameras, and the kind of measured fury that makes you believe in solo theater.
“Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God is miraculous, an exceptional piece of tenderness and solace whose wisdom and insight elevates its form.”
Jen Tullock
Jen Tullock is an actor and writer best known for her roles as Devon in Apple TV’s Severance and Anita St. Pierre in HBO’s Perry Mason. She co-wrote and starred in Sundance comedy Before You Know It alongside Alec Baldwin, Mandy Patinkin, and Judith Light. Selected writing: NY Stage & Film Festival, HuffPo, Super Deluxe, Funny or Die original The Coop. TV/Film: Curb Your Enthusiasm, The L Word, Casual, Roadies, Spirited. Stage: NY Stage & Film, 59E59 St., Joe’s Pub, Rob Ashford’s Tangier concert production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Wind and the Rain (Vineyard/En Garde Arts). SAG Award nominee and Sundance screenwriting fellow.
Emmie Finckel
Scenic DesignerAmith Chandrashaker
Lighting DesignerEvdoxia Ragkou
Sound DesignerStefania Bulbarella
Projection and Video DesignerJenny Kennedy
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights debut. Off-Broadway: Fairview (Soho Rep., Berkeley Rep, TFANA); Boesman & Lena (Signature), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Blue Ridge (Atlantic), Cardinal (2ST), Fire in Dreamland (Public). Opera: The Flying Dutchman (Houston Grand Opera), Falstaff (Opera Omaha), The Scarlet Letter (Opera Colorado). Dance: Alexander Ekman, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Rennie Harris, Aalto Ballettt Theatre Essen, Staatstheater Nürnberg, The National Dance Company of Wales, and The Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Rush Tickets
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