

January 16-31, 2027
Six strangers. One silent retreat. No phones. No talking. Nowhere to hide. As they search for peace and enlightenment, unexpected connections emerge in the quiet. Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds is a funny, tender, and wonderfully unconventional comedy about loneliness, longing, and what happens when we stop talking—and start listening.
Bess Wohl is an acclaimed playwright, filmmaker, and graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Drama whose work spans stage and screen. She recently won a Tony Award for her play Liberation, following its extended run at Roundabout Theatre Company, and made her sold-out West End debut with Barcelona. Her other celebrated plays include Grand Horizons (Tony-nominated for Best Play), Make Believe, Camp Siegfried, and Small Mouth Sounds, as well as the musical Pretty Filthy. For the screen, Wohl wrote and directed the feature film Baby Ruby starring Noémie Merlant and Kit Harington, and wrote for the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations. Honored with a Sam Norkin Special Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and MacDowell Fellowships, she is an associate artist with The Civilians whose work has been produced across Broadway, off-Broadway, and major regional theaters nationwide.
Six strangers. One silent retreat. No phones. No talking. Nowhere to hide. As they search for peace and enlightenment, unexpected connections emerge in the quiet. Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds is a funny, tender, and wonderfully unconventional comedy about loneliness, longing, and what happens when we stop talking—and start listening.