Chad Beckim

After. Chad Beckim

Characters: 4 male, 2 female

Drama

When a wrongfully imprisoned man is exonerated by DNA evidence after seventeen years in prison, he is forced to re-assimilate into a cold, foreign world of toothbrush shopping, doggy day care, and a friendship with an anxious young woman with secrets of her own.

"A compassionate portrait of a man struggling with the challenges of socializing . . . and the anger he still feels for having his youth unjustly destroyed. " - The New York Times

"Carefully, and with human detail, explores just how important our formative years are to us. And shows us just how scary the world might look if we they were taken from us with force" - New York Theatre Review

"Human-scale social drama, approached quietly, one foot in front of the other, with compassion and courage" - Vulture, the culture blog of New York Magazine