Studio Series - The God Committee

September 4 - 9

Co-Produced with St. John’s Episcopal Church

It’s a play that lacks heart … and doesn’t try to hide it. In fact, if Mark St. Germain’s The God Committee had lots of heart, it wouldn’t work. After all, the play is about a group of seven medical professionals going through the agony and drama of deciding which of four patients should receive the one heart they have to transplant. It’s 12 Angry Men meets ER. It’s intense. It’s thought provoking.

Coming from someone who started his career penning episodes of The Cosby Show and Buddies, The God Committee is unexpected. But Mark St. Germain didn’t jump right from penning mass entertainment to bringing medicine and morality to the stage. Previous St. Germain plays include Camping With Henry and Tom, a comedic revisionist interpretation of a 1921 camping trip Warren Harding, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison took together ; Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap; and Forgiving Typhoid Mary.

Perhaps St. Germain would have continued to let his sense of humor guide him if a friend’s father wasn’t put on the organ transplant list several years ago. With 85,000 people nationwide waiting for organ transplants and far fewer than 85,000 organs to go around, St. Germain saw firsthand how intensely dramatic the selection process was … and that perhaps he was the person to bring that drama to the stage.