From the playwright of Gidion’s Knot comes World Builders by Johnna Adams — an intimate, darkly tender drama about two strangers who meet during a clinical drug trial.

Max and Whitney do not simply escape reality. They rebuild it. When they enroll in an experimental study designed to dismantle their delusions, the elaborate inner worlds that once protected them begin to collapse. In the rubble of fantasy, something fragile and startlingly real begins to form between them.

As the medication takes hold and imagination gives way to clarity, they are forced to confront a devastating question:
When the worlds that kept you alive disappear, what — or who — do you choose to live for?

World Builders explores love and the imagination as both sanctuary and risk. It is a play about survival, connection, and the terrifying beauty of being truly seen.

124 Bank Street Theater