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✶ “Aughts,” a new audio play now streaming
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THURSDAY. Script Visualizer + Audio streams free on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts. The full-length audio production of Aughts, recorded live in NYC. Share and subscribe to our YouTube now to get notified.

Photos by @angelaofyork

Written, Directed, & Edited by Jake Lebowitz

Company
A.K. Young
Patrick McCann
Alice Lee
Noa Weiner a
Brant Zheng
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 Hammer and CollectiveHammer.com. Please like and share to help forward our journey. by @collectivehammer

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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 @collectivehammer

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What became of the cul-de-sac queens? The new play “Aughts” streams July 16:

At the edge of 27, sidelined Joseph McGuire has quietly watched his dreams pass by, until his estranged childhood friend, Ruby Valentine, crash-lands back home. A global superstar who surged to fame as a teenager, Ruby now risks losing everything following a viral drug-fueled incident. Reuniting at her sister’s wedding, Joseph and Ruby are each convinced the other got the better deal... but neither can prove it was worth it, or what to do next. “Aughts” is a dark comedy about falling from grace and stitching together the parachute on the way down.

A new play adapted for audio, the “Aughts” script visualizer streams free on YouTube & wherever you get podcasts July 16. From the live New York City recording, written, directed & edited by �Jake Lebowitz.

sign up to hear it first and support the show at CollectiveHammer.com

production photography by
@angelaofyork
art by
@byjakelebo

with company
A.K. Young @a_k_young_
Patrick Martin-McCann @ptrckmmcc
Alice Lee @ali.s.lee
Noa Weiner @noaaweiner
Brant Zheng @brantzheng

ft. an original song written with
Melissa Bowley @melisssabowley

produced by
Collective Hammer @collectivehammer and
Neon Lights Digital Media @neonlightsdgtl

written, directed & edited by
Jake Lebowitz @byjakelebo

[[full production credits coming soon.]] by @collectivehammer

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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 @collectivehammer

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

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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 @collectivehammer

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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 @collectivehammer

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it’s done. streaming Aug 20 ✦ subscribe and get notified AughtsThePlay.com by @collectivehammer

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What became of the cul-de-sac queens? The new play “Aughts” streams July 16:

At the edge of 27, sidelined Joseph McGuire has quietly watched his dreams pass by, until his estranged childhood friend, Ruby Valentine, crash-lands back home. A global superstar who surged to fame as a teenager, Ruby now risks losing everything following a viral drug-fueled incident. Reuniting at her sister’s wedding, Joseph and Ruby are each convinced the other got the better deal... but neither can prove it was worth it, or what to do next. “Aughts” is a dark comedy about falling from grace and stitching together the parachute on the way down.

A new play adapted for audio, the “Aughts” script visualizer streams free on YouTube & wherever you get podcasts July 16. From the live New York City recording, written, directed & edited by �Jake Lebowitz.

sign up to hear it first and support the show at CollectiveHammer.com

production photography by
@angelaofyork
art by
@byjakelebo

with company
A.K. Young @a_k_young_
Patrick Martin-McCann @ptrckmmcc
Alice Lee @ali.s.lee
Noa Weiner @noaaweiner
Brant Zheng @brantzheng

ft. an original song written with
Melissa Bowley @melisssabowley

produced by
Collective Hammer @collectivehammer and
Neon Lights Digital Media @neonlightsdgtl

written, directed & edited by
Jake Lebowitz @byjakelebo

[[full production credits coming soon.]] taken in New York City by @collectivehammer

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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 @collectivehammer

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“Aughts,” the full length radio play created by Jake Lebowitz, streams free July 16. Teaser out now. Hear it early and support the production at our link in bio. More to come. by @collectivehammer

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