LIVE ANIMALS ON—STAGE

PAST PRODUCTION

DECAPITATRIX

July 30–August 8, 2026Green Lung Studio22 Commerce Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Herod performs in the red-lit DECAPITATRIX room while audience surrounds the stage

Live Animals Onstage! goes WILDE with DECAPITATRIX, a decadent adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salomé set in the seedy techno club of your nightmares. Equal parts biblical fever dream, family drama, warehouse rave, and ritual sacrifice, the production stages a perverse ritual communion with the divine in a sterile industrial world oscillating between stoicism and decadence.

Presented at Green Lung Studio in Brooklyn, DECAPITATRIX brought Oscar Wilde's Salomé into a red-lit world of ritual, club atmosphere, and domestic ruin.

FEATURED IN

“A newer experimental, DIY company will always entice me.”Billy McEntee / Staff Picks ↗“Equal parts biblical fever dream, family drama, warehouse rave, and ritual sacrifice.”Lauren Halvorsen / Nothing for the Group ↗

CAST + CREATIVE

CAST

  • Evan DominguezHEROD
  • Caroline Fairweather*HERODIAS
  • Petra HindsNARRABOTH
  • Alina MuhaPAGE
  • John Murphy*YOKANAAN
  • Obi NwakoTIGELLINUS
  • Stella OhTHE CAPPADOCIAN
  • Saidie StoneSALOME

CREATIVE

  • Fiona SelmiDIRECTOR
  • Victoria A. Pysher*PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
  • Chloe DittloffLIGHTING DESIGN
  • Caroline Payton ParkerFIGHT AND INTIMACY CHOREOGRAPHY
  • Jared HarbourCHOREOGRAPHER
  • Sebastian Blue HochmanSOUND DESIGNER AND ORIGINAL MUSIC

Appears Courtesy of Actors Equity Association without the benefit of an Off-Off Broadway Contract.

DECAPITATRIX footage ↗

PRE-SHOW

When you come to a Live Animals Onstage production, the show starts before the show starts. Theater should feel more like a party -- in this case, it included a dance battle, feeding a caged prophet popcorn, and a welcome shot. Death to the sad plastic cup of wine that you have to finish before getting to your seat.

Performers and audience gather around the cage before DECAPITATRIX
A performer reaches toward the cage before DECAPITATRIX begins
Yokanaan seated inside the cage before DECAPITATRIX
Performers checking the chain and cage before DECAPITATRIX
Audience seated around the room before DECAPITATRIX
Black-and-white pre-show portrait of Tigellinus
Salome holds the head of Yokanaan in a black-and-white DECAPITATRIX production photo
Four performers gather on the red couch in DECAPITATRIX
Yokanaan raises his arms in a black-and-white DECAPITATRIX production photo
Three performers in blue and purple light during DECAPITATRIX
Herodias in red profile during DECAPITATRIX
The Page kneels with a knife in a black-and-white DECAPITATRIX production photo
Salome kneels under red light in DECAPITATRIX
Yokanaan and Salome face each other under purple light in DECAPITATRIX
Herod seated on a red couch in DECAPITATRIX
Audience surrounds the performers in a red-lit DECAPITATRIX production photo
The red-lit DECAPITATRIX room with performers surrounded by audience
A performer sprays mist under red light during DECAPITATRIX
Herod and Salome in a red-lit DECAPITATRIX scene
Herod raises a toast during DECAPITATRIX
Yokanaan and Salome stand close together in a black-and-white DECAPITATRIX production photo
Salome under blue light during DECAPITATRIX
Salome kneels behind netting in DECAPITATRIX
Salome stands in the DECAPITATRIX room
Herod holds a glass in DECAPITATRIX
Salome reaches toward Yokanaan in front of the red couch in DECAPITATRIX
Tigellinus performs in the red-lit DECAPITATRIX room
Salome leans over the head of Yokanaan under red light in DECAPITATRIX
Herod holds up a glass vial in DECAPITATRIX
Yokanaan stands over Salome in a black-and-white DECAPITATRIX production photo
The DECAPITATRIX company taking a bow

Production photos by Stepan Liubimov.