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ABOUT US
Founded in 2023 by autistic playwright and producer Anthony J. Piccione, Neurodivergent Plays - formerly known as the Neurodivergent New Play Series - is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting matinee readings on the 3rd Sunday of every month - with seasonal breaks in December, January, July, and August - of plays written entirely by neurodivergent and disabled playwrights (i.e autism, ADHD, dyslexia, OCD, Tourette syndrome, etc.) as part of a growing resident company of playwrights whose interests and specialties span a wide range of subjects, genres & structural approaches, with each play personally selected from a neuroinclusive resident company of directors. Learn more by visiting www.neurodivergentplays.com and following @neurodivergentplays on Instagram.
Creative Team
Dan Takacs
Meet the Company
Dan Takacs
Dan Takacs is an award-winning, non-binary, neurodivergent, Jewish playwright, screenwriter, director, and public school drama teacher from Oberlin, Ohio. Their original plays have been seen at The Riant Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Boston Playwright's Theatre, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, and the Rogue Theatre Festival, and they have directed in Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, and in Boston. They received their BA in Drama and English from Kenyon College, and earned their MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University, with a concentration in playwriting and directing. Dan won the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for their play "The Piteous Life and Tragical Death of Steve the Intern," the Peter Honegger Prize and the Theatre Network of Texas Production of Original Plays Award for his play "An Institution," and a won the OANO Award for directing “Know Abuse.” Favorite directing projects include "The Millennials" (CPT), "The 39 Steps" (Chagrin Valley Little Theatre), and "The Adventurous Adventuress" (Dobama). Dan lives with their wife Linda, daughter Greta, and the twins, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tickets are on-sale now for our October and November readings
at Brooklyn Art Haus. RSVP today at
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An Institution
Written by Dan Takacs
Directed by Jaye Hunt
October 18th, 2026 at 4pm
When a graduate student reports to her favorite professor that she has just witnessed a kiss between a teacher and a student, the faculty scrambles to control the damage. As the rumor circulates, the favorite professor discovers that she can use this situation to advance her career -- by selling out her student. In the end she must decide if a teacher has a higher responsibility to her students or herself.
Pieta
Written by Brynn N. Hambley
Directed by Ciara Berardi
November 15th, 2026 at 4pm
In a convent hospital in Venice, Italy, the best musicians in the region train under the tutelage of Antonio Vivaldi. Anna Maria, Sophie, Bettina, and Cattina were abandoned at birth, like all the residents, and trained to be world-class musicians. But they keep a secret from their adoring public--they are all disabled. Pieta is a story of identity, queerness, disability, friendship, and the lengths a woman might go to recover the agency that should’ve always been hers.
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