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NOW STREAMING. FREE. The complete audio production of “Aughts,” a new radio play written & directed by Jake Lebowitz.

Pay-what-you-can and experience the Script Visualizer at our link in bio. A layered video and audio experience, read the full-length script in real-time with accompanying visuals and footage from the recording studio.

Recorded live in New York City, “Aughts” hovers over two forsaken 27-year-olds reuniting the night of a family wedding. Sharp, witty, and unsentimental, their larger-than-life orphaned dreams become the centerpiece of a passionate exorcism about lives not lived when staring down the barrel of the one you do.

Aughts was independently produced and published online for free.
The best way to support is to please “Like” and “Share” this so more people can discover it. If it moves you, you may leave what you can at CollectiveHammer.com to support our next production.

Content advisory: Language; Mature themes

A U G H T S A R A D I O P L A Y

Written, Directed, & Edited by Jake Lebowitz

Company
Ruby: A.K. Young
Joseph: Patrick McCann
Ava: Alice Lee
Sam: Noa Weiner
Patrick: Brant Zheng
TV Host: F. Michael Haynie

Original song written with Melissa Bowley
Produced by Collective Hammer
Produced by Zachary Reiser for Neon Lights Digital Media.

Audio Engineer: Matthew Charles Dowden
Audio Mixing: Sam Yoder
Score: Isaac Haines
Production Photography: Angela of York
Additional Instrumentation: Alex Lebowitz
Sound Design; Video Design Graphic Design: Jake Lebowitz

To support this production, follow us online @CollectiveHammer and CollectiveHammer.com. Please like and share to help forward our journey.

Recorded live in New York City on March 29th, 2026 by @byjakelebo

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How I wrote, directed, produced, and edited my play AUGHTS in 230 days. I hope you enjoy it x #theatre #writer #director #broadway #performance taken in New York, New York by @byjakelebo

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non-Aughts post (but it’s never too late to stream Aughts The Complete Audio Production available everywhere now link in bio) taken in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware by @byjakelebo

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Scene 1 ✦ The complete audio production of “Aughts” is NOW STREAMING! ✦ Script Visualizer on YouTube / Audio on Spotify and wherever you get podcasts. (Link in bio)

Performed by @a_k_young_ & @ptrckmmcc

Written, Directed, & Edited by Jake Lebowitz

Original song written with Melissa Bowley
Produced by Collective Hammer
Produced by Zachary Reiser for Neon Lights Digital Media.

Audio Engineer: Matthew Charles Dowden
Audio Mixing: Sam Yoder
Score: Isaac Haines
Production Photography: Angela of York
Additional Instrumentation: Alex Lebowitz
Sound Design; Video Design Graphic Design: Jake Lebowitz

Recorded live in New York City taken in New York City by @byjakelebo

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Two mid-20s queens crashing out over lives not lived, while staring down the barrel of the ones they do. “Aughts” is about the 27 club, coming of age again & again, exorcising your past and surrendering to the future.

Watch the visualizer or listen wherever you get podcasts. Available now. Free.

#theatre #podcast #writting #directing #broadway taken in New York City by @byjakelebo

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BTS ✦ AUGHTS on Kodak 400 film ✦ Recorded live in nyc ✦ March ‘26 taken in New York City by @byjakelebo

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x @duransphoto taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @byjakelebo

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Making theater again…highly recommend. Working with a fantastic group of folks who did some zoom rehearsals, one studio day, and one recording day with me…highly recommend. A million thank-you’s. This Aughts team showed me what dreams are made of. Hey now…

📸 @angelaofyork 💜

We only had eight hours in the studio to set up, record, take photos, and wrap. I started the day scurrying up and down that ladder six times to program each light. And don’t get me started on those three music stands I went through hell to get to Brooklyn, only to realize halfway through the first run of the show, they were totally killing the vibe.

Leading a room again. The best, most natural feeling in the world.

During lunch I threw the music stands in the corner and we completely altered the recording set up. It was also ruvealed to us the day of recording we couldn’t wear shoes in the space. My company dress code hadn’t included sock preferences and I felt terrible everyone had to just rock with it.

It was one of the best days of my life, but I was so busy the only picture of me I took was the floor around me being a mess because I was so fucking proud of what we were building.

I went into the day having the key art image storyboarded, but it took a couple of staged shots for us to figure out the photo would just be better if they actually pushed through each other. And that did the trick!

“Yes we’re going to film it, but we’re gonna do it in like super slow motion. Did anyone see Ivo Van Hove’s pre-Covid masterpiece West Side Story revival? No? Well…”

I didn’t write Joey’s closing monologue until the day before recording, and in the edit, I cut over 10 minutes of moments I felt I was overcompensating in storytelling. This included a two-page long TV host monologue as the cold open; a far more expansive scene before the bedroom; and a long epilogue scene. All those segments are in the final mix, but reduced to about 2-6 lines a piece.

Inspo board for the characters of Ruby and Joseph. It was important to me that the show itself was an emotional exorcism and not a hyper-realistic coming-of-age chat.

More context as to how the show would/should be produced live, suspen taken in New York City by @byjakelebo

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AUGHTS, A RADIO PLAY. Immersive script visualizer now streaming for free/pay-what-you-can (YouTube link in bio.) Watch the first 3 minutes here.

Recorded live in New York City, “Aughts” hovers over two forsaken 27-year-olds reuniting the night of a family wedding. Sharp, witty, and unsentimental, their larger-than-life orphaned dreams become the centerpiece of a passionate exorcism about lives not lived when staring down the barrel of the one you do.

Aughts was independently produced and published online for free.
The best way to support is to please “Like” and “Share” this so more people can discover it. If it moves you, you may leave what you can at CollectiveHammer.com to support our next production.

Content advisory: Language; Mature themes

A U G H T S A R A D I O P L A Y

Written, Directed, & Edited by Jake Lebowitz

Company
Ruby: A.K. Young
Joseph: Patrick McCann
Ava: Alice Lee
Sam: Noa Weiner
Patrick: Brant Zheng
TV Host: F. Michael Haynie

Original song written with Melissa Bowley
Produced by Collective Hammer
Produced by Zachary Reiser for Neon Lights Digital Media.

Audio Engineer: Matthew Charles Dowden
Audio Mixing: Sam Yoder
Score: Isaac Haines
Production Photography: Angela of York
Additional Instrumentation: Alex Lebowitz
Sound Design; Video Design Graphic Design: Jake Lebowitz

To support this production, follow us online @CollectiveHammer and CollectiveHammer.com. Please like and share to help forward our journey.

Recorded live in New York City on March 29th, 2026

#theatre #theater #playwright #director #broadway taken in New York City by @byjakelebo

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What is “Aughts” as a project? As a story?

“Aughts” is a play I wrote and had put in the drawer, but revisited when I had the idea to record it as a “radio play.” The end product is a script visualizer blurs the lines of what we consider a “theatrical” experience. It’s a true, capital-P “Play” in the sense it’s two (primarily) two people in a room having a fiery conversation in real-time. The storytelling is enhanced with score, sound effects, and plotting that elevates the conversation to a full world. This includes my favorite elements of live theater, in manipulating time and space before an audience. I have worked tirelessly to keep those moments, down to a dialogue-less prologue, intact as it would be on the stage, but tuned through sound.

As a story, it’s two childhood friends reckoning with their 27th birthdays. Those friends (one a disgraced popstar impossibly trying to reclaim her career; the other a withdrawn college dropout who sees no way out) refuse to believe they’re the ones who had a better a life. As they battle to concede their own failings, they reckon with lives not lived, staring down the barrel of the ones they have.

The script visualizer and audio streams on YouTube this Thursday. AughtsThePlay.com to subscribe and pay-what-you-can.

Photo @angelaofyork taken in New York City by @byjakelebo

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Now streaming — link in bio. Aughts, a radio play. Recorded live in New York City. taken in New York City by @byjakelebo

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