LOVE YOU MORE
By Nikhil Mahapatra
Directed by N // Nicky Maggio
A Tank Core Production
May 29, 2025-June 19, 2025

Featuring Omar Rahim, Mahima Saigal and Jasmine Sharma

Visual Design by Aoshuang Zhang
Lighting Design by Adrian Yuen
Sound Design by Joshua Dumas
Production Stage Manager Pradanya Subramanyan
Tank Producing Fellow/Line Producer. Carlton V Bell II
Co-Produced by Eric Shethar

Do you have siblings? Are you the favourite? No? Are you sure? A play about 3 sisters, but actually only 2 sisters, being sisterly, and figuring out what that means when you’re all that’s left (in under 90 minutes too!).

Nikhil Mahapatra (Playwright) is a multi-disciplinary writer based in Brooklyn. Writes about queerness/race/power/family/non-family/existence/politics, but most of all, where grief and joy meet together, which, as one audience member once said, had “mixed results, but I guess I liked it”. They are a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, O'Neill National Playwright's Conference Finalist, SPACE at Ryder Farm Creative Resident, Yaddo Resident, Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group member, a finalist for a bunch of fancy stuff. Their work has been showcased at Bucks County Playhouse, The Road theater company, Living Room Playlabs, Gingold Theatre Company, The Tank, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Brick, The Wild Project and more. Latest theatrical works include Bridge Play, LOVE YOU MORE, SAVAGE GARDEN, SWEETFISH!, American Hunger, CARNAL, Lost in the Fire, The Fields, Bali Babes and an untold amount of other things of questionable quality. Other media includes the short film SPF (NYITFF 2019), and select short stories and poems published in America and Singapore.

N // Nicky Maggio (Director) (they/them) is a new works director and theatrical curator for the disquiet. Experimenting with form, composition, and space, Nicky manifests theatrical worlds with an eye towards transition, discovery, and a gemini-like quality of intensity. They were a director for Mercury Store's inaugural Director's Intensive, Mercury Store Director's Lab (Spring 2023) and Cultivate Theatre Lab's inaugural cohort (Summer 2024). N currently is a member of Roundabout Directors Group (2024-2025). Nicky has directed, assisted, and workshopped productions at Juilliard School, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Atlantic Acting School, The Brick, IRT Theatre, National Queer Theatre, Cherry Lane, Pipeline Theatre Company, The Drama League, The Wilma Theatre, The Public, The Lark, Boston’s Lyric Stage Company, Arts Emerson/Emerson Stage, Teatro LATEA, and ItalyTime. BFA Emerson College, MFA The New School. www.nmaggio.com Instagram: @nickymaggio

Eric Shethar (Co-Producer) (he/him) is a creative producer, dramaturg, and curator. Some favorite past collaborators include Liza Birkenmeier, Oliver Butler, fake friends (Michael Breslin & Patrick Foley), Young Jean Lee, Erin Markey, River Ramirez, Else Went and Whitney White, and is currently working on a new play with Talene Monahon and a solo piece with magician Rachel Wax and Anne Kauffman. He is a Staff Picks (staffpicks.fun) contributing critic, and his writing has appeared on Culturebot, The Helix Queer Performance Network, Errands Quarterly (Brooklyn’s foremost periodical chronicle of the quotidian) and the forthcoming Honcho Campout Zine. As a performer he has also ranted into a microphone for Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s “I Don’t Think So, Honey! Live,” lip-synched at an astrology zine launch party, and been a featured dancer in projections for a forward-thinking regional production of "The Music Man" (that were cut to appease the author's estate).

Jasmine Sharma* (Cordelia) (she/her) is a South Asian-American performer/writer/activist. Recent acting credits include AMERICAN GIRL DOLL HORROR PLAY: Or, Kavi Sharma Stole My Identity (The Brick), you don’t have to do anything (HERE Arts, u/s perf.), the west coast premieres of WIVES and CALVIN BERGER: A Musical, THE WOLVES (McCarter Theater), and a lot of new work development (South Asians on Broadway, Hypokrit, Prospect Musicals, Ojai Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, DCPA Colorado New Play Summit, Center Theater Group, ASCAP, NYTW, The Public, Ma-Yi, Musical Theatre West, etc). Playwrights' Center Core Writer 2024-2027. Northwestern University. jasminesharma.org | @jasminesharmaa

Mahima Saigal* (Goneril) (she/her/leo) is thrilled to be reuniting with the remarkable Writing/Directing duo NIK + Nicky and to be making her Tank debut with the world premiere production of LOVE YOU MORE. Mahima holds several artistic titles (favorite being Extraordinary Alien) and with her artistic practice she tends to explore works that concern itself with truth, joy, grief, hypocrisy and the polite horrors. Favorite NY credits: Elyria (World Premiere/Atlantic Theater Company), Queen (NY Premiere at the Astoria Performing Arts Center/ nom Best Actress in a Leading Role, NYIT awards), Our Almost will Forever Haunt Me (the cell 24/25), The Bridge Project (The Brick w NIK+ NICKY) Hiding Kanye (Winner Best Featured Actress Award, Tamasha/Hypokrit Theater Festival), Invasion! (Winner Best Ensemble SAIPAF/Hypokrit Theater Festival), Jhaanjhar Di… (National Queer Theatre/ dir Nicky Maggio)
Workshops: NYTW, Atlantic Theater, Drama League, New Dramatist, Gingold Theatrical, Playhouse on the Park, CT, the Bushwick Starr, New Georges to name a few. Mahima has served on the panel of the Leah Ryan Fund, PGE, SheNYC arts festival and is a proud board member/co-chair of the OBIE Award winning National Queer Theatre. Last year Mahima directed a new play Earth to Venus at Theaterlab as well as Gruesome Playground Injuries at Atlantic Stage 2/ Teen Program. When she’s not acting, directing, dancing or writing, Mahima could be found obsessing over a plethora of topics ranging from Sam Rockwell to Shen Yun.

Omar Rahim (Lear) is a multi-hyphenated artist who began his professional career as a dancer, performing internationally with MacArthur Award-winning Susan Marshall & Company at venues including BAM, Jacob's Pillow, the Joyce Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival. Omar's work as a choreographer includes Sesame Street's Electric Company, The Guru (Universal Studios) and numerous live, televised and digital projects in Pakistan. Omar's first short film as writer/director, Agency, premiered in 2019 in Mumbai at the Kashish Pride Film Festival and toured international festivals through mid-2020. As an actor, Omar's US credits include The Guru (Universal Studios), Person of Interest (CBS), Startup (Sony Crackle), God Friended Me (CBS), and New Amsterdam (NBC). Omar recently starred in Zee5-produced Qatil Haseenaon ke Naam which won an Asian Academy Creative Award for best anthology series in 2022 as India's nomination. Omar also starred in Rubaiyat Hossain's award-winning Bengali film Meherjaan alongside Jaya Bachchan and Victor Banerjee in 2011.

Pradanya Subramanyan (Production Stage Manager) is an Indian American artist and advocate dedicated to cultivating equitable and sustainable spaces in the entertainment industry. Specializing in producing, intimacy choreography, and management, she uplifts marginalized voices through storytelling that ensures access to meaningful, representative work for both artists and audiences. Rooted in transparency, care, and collective agency, she prioritizes process over product, believing that intentional collaboration creates the most impactful work. She is a Producing Assistant at New York Stage and Film, a Producer at Leviathan Lab, and frequently collaborates with the National Asian Artists Project. | pradanyasubramanyan.com

Aoshuang Zhang (Visual Designer) is a visual designer based in New York who is passionate about new forms of storytelling. She has worked across a variety of media including theatre, film, installation, and virtual reality. She holds a BA, MFA and Ph.D. from Beijing’s Central Academy of Drama and is the first Mainland Chinese student to graduate from NYU Tisch Design for Stage & Film (MFA). Her recent work includes the world premiere of Daughter's Daughter at TIFF 2024 and Ramona at Midlife at the Bentonville Film Festival. Her set design for the opera The Hunt was lauded in The New York Times and The Observer, described as "playful" and "contemporary." Aoshuang is the recipient of the prestigious ARIA award and is currently developing a groundbreaking VR Opera, Talking Pupil, which will debut at the Duderstadt Center University of Michigan. In addition to her creative work, she is a teaching artist at NYU Tisch Design and the Undergraduate Film & TV program.

Adrian Yuen (Lighting Designer) (He/Him/His) is a BroadwayWorld Award-winning lighting designer specializing in theater, opera, dance, events, and television. His Theater work has been seen at the Vineyard Theatre, Theatre Row, The Flea, The Atlantic Theater, and Theater 315. Recent credits include Rebel Verses 2023 (Vineyard Theatre), The Story of Ruth (Theater 315), Until Dark (OOTB), and Matawan (The Atlantic Acting School). As a Chinese American designer based in New York, Adrian creates immersive, visually striking environments that elevate storytelling through a fusion of technical expertise and artistic ingenuity. His designs, recognized for their ability to shape mood, deepen emotion, and transform spaces into evocative theatrical landscapes, have been featured in productions across New York and beyond. He continues to push the boundaries of lighting design, collaborating with artists and companies to craft dynamic, narrative-driven visual experiences. More at AdrianYuenDesign.com.

Joshua Dumas (Sound Designer) (he/they) is a new media artist exploring social and ecological justice in technology. He performs in Mending with Kate Adams, solo as Tired Circuits, and hosts Bad at Goodbyes - a podcast about endangered species. Recent credits include “You Must Wear a Hat“ with the Interstitial, “La Musica Deuxième” at Torn Page, “Four Studies” at PS122, and Helen Banner’s “Westphalia”. He is excited to re-envision Lear with this creative team and cast! www.joshuadumas.art