Georgica Pettus: Truck

Join us for a play by Georgica Pettus as part of Greater New York 2026, MoMA PS1’s signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area. Free tickets will be released soon, subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know.

June 27 Performance

Georgica Pettus, Truck, 2026
World Premiere

Experience the world premiere of Georgica Pettus’s new play, Truck. Loosely based on the cult classic documentary Hands on a Hardbody (1997), the show follows an eclectic group of people competing in an endurance competition at a car dealership in South Texas. Staged in PS1’s courtyard, the play is set entirely around a pickup truck, as the contestants strive to keep a hand on the vehicle in order to win it. As the drama unfolds, the audience—active characters in the farce themselves—gradually learn about the contestants’ lives and the aspirations pushing them to win. Featuring an original score from Marcello Palazzo, Truck marks a new era for Georgica Pettus, expanding on the intimate formal and psychological explorations of her early plays to evoke the malaise and melancholia of contemporary life across generations.

Written and directed by Georgica Pettus
Costume Designer: Natasha Simchowitz
Composer: Marcello Palazzo

Performers
Daniel Nugent
Kathryn Newton
Vishwam Velandy
Annie Pisapia
Austin Patrick
Ashby Bland
Jim Fletcher
Zachary Zamsky
Ruby Rodgers, understudy

Georgica Pettus (b. 1997, New York, NY) is a playwright and theater director whose dramaturgy reframes the stage as a site where disconnection and intimacy merge, often through the lens of economic and bureaucratic systems. Opting for sparse sets and elliptical dialogue, Pettus crafts an uncanny world in which realism is eschewed in favor of a heightened artifice that feels closer to dream than document. She has presented work with New Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, 2025; ACOMPI, New York, 2025; and KAJE, New York, 2024.