The Huns

by Michael Ross Albert

Directed By Lindsay Van Norman

November 14-16, 20-22 2025. 7pm (3pm 11/16)

MLC Studio

330 W38th St. NY, NY 10018

Suite 311

★★★★★ “This is the sharpest, high-energy office comedy … that also exposes the dehumanizing effect of tech and modern work.” - Stage Door

★★★★★ “An outstanding production with acute insight into the modern workplace.” - NOW Magazine

“A small miracle of a play.” - Intermission Magazine

The morning after a break-in at Boston based tech company, three co-workers assemble for an urgent conference call to discuss the burglary. What starts as a civilized, professional meeting swiftly devolves into a brutal showdown that puts everyone’s careers -- and their hopes for future happiness-- in jeopardy. 

Staged in a midtown office space for an intimate audience of 25, The Huns is a menacing new workplace comedy about minor revolutions and modern-day barbarians. Featuring Samantha Gorjanc*, Bradley Marco, and Kiara Melendez. 

The Huns is written by Michael Ross Albert, a Toronto based playwright described by the Toronto Star as “one of Toronto’s most exciting playwrights”. Michael Ross Albert is a Dora Award-nominated writer whose work has been staged across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The Huns premiered at the Toronto Fringe Festival at the Crowsnest Guloien Theatre in 2019.

From the Playwright:

“I was in office jobs, and I wanted to write something that was set around a conference table that highlighted the absurdity and also the agony and ecstasy of this environment. Charting a dance of passive-aggression, of people that know each other very intimately as co-workers, but ultimately are strangers to one another.

There’s a running theme of barbarians invading; the idea being that we seem to be at the height of civilization, like the Roman Empire [laughs] which was torn apart by these invading barbaric forces. The Huns. The question being whether or not it’s these people on the outside, the very obvious burglar who’s come in and pillaged the office, or if it’s these so-called civilized people that create this society that are in fact the more barbaric of the bunch.”

- Michael Ross Albert

excerpted from an interview with Kelly Bedard of My Entertainment World.

The Huns

Written by Michael Ross Albert Directed by Lindsay Van Norman

Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission

This performance contains a brief discussion of suicide.

The Huns received its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival.

This production is an Equity Approved Showcase produced with permission of the playwright and Marquis Literary.

Cast

Iris Samantha Gorjanc*

Pete Bradley Marco

Shelley Kiara Melendez

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

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