The Shadow Amok Time is a new horror-drama written and directed by Joshua Young with design and assistant direction by Elyse Brown-Roberts. Young finished a fellowship with the Public Theater in New York as part of their Emerging Writers Group in 2019 and completed stints with the Flea Serials Writers Room and Project Y Playwright’s Group in 2020. As a playwright, in 2025 his productions have included MadLab's Sock Puppet and the award-winning Father Daughter by the Strathmore Players.
Praise for Who Mourns for Bob the Goon?
The Shadow Amok Time will employ techniques Young used in the making of his 2016 production of Who Mourns for Bob the Goon? at the HERE Arts Center in NYC, which starred Lecy Goranson ("Roseanne," "The Connors") and featured puppet design by James Ortiz (Rocky from Project: Hail Mary).
The puppets of Who Mourns for Bob the Goon?
The media design and projection mapping of Who Mourns for Bob the Goon?
The makers of The Shadow Amok Time want to inspire the citizens of tomorrow, specifically Gen Z and the generations under them, by getting them to reject the seduction of solitude and choose a deeper connection with humanity.
Endless studies have affirmed time-after-time that Gen Z is the loneliest and most isolated generation.