On a sunny weekday afternoon, Jim Bender sees a teenage boy approach the entrance of the local high school carrying rifles beneath a trench coat. Jim pulls his own firearm, stopping a shooter-massacre before it happens. Jim Bender is a hero. But as the full story is revealed, this truth becomes a lot less clear – and that is not what people need it to be.

Shooter asks: are today’s shooter-massacres the result of a malformed and destabilized male identity?

With each violent shooter-massacre carried out by a man, Shooter questions the relationship of not just our gun culture to the male identity but also of how men fail each other when they need each other most.

• New York Critic – “Skillfully written play…Katrin Hilbe directs the show meticulously…Ean Sheehy gives a terrific performance…exposing the character’s journey with focus and clarity.”
• Berkshire Fine Arts – “Masterfully weaves dramatic moments together…riveting drama focuses attention on an issue of crucial importance in our world.”
• Kultur – “Deliberately asks many questions, all culminating in one: how can such a thing happen? Given that it was written by a man, performed by men, but directed and designed exclusively by women, this allowed the statements to be even more powerful than intended. A strong play, strong performers and intense direction.”
• Liechtensteiner Volksblatt – “Fantastic, how the director manages to explore condition of human bondage with minimal intrusion. The abundance of structure doesn’t allow for looseness or laissez-faire, as the final explosion is the necessary result of the play’s rigid framework. The actors convince through their almost repulsive physicality and facial expressions.”
• Exeunt – “Shooter makes a lot of smart choices when it comes to dealing with its subject.”
• Clyde Fitch Report – “Interrogates both liberal and conservative points of view in earnest by focusing on the humanity of the issue…Shooter is not a quintessential NYC play.”