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The Lab, a collaboration of Ted Gorodetzky and Daniel Neer, is a multidisciplinary development and production company creating new works in visual and performing arts.
Ted Gorodetzky
Ted Gorodetzky enjoys a diverse career as a performer, director and writer. With roles ranging from musical comedy to independent film, he has performed on stage and onscreen across the US and overseas, as well as directing numerous plays, musical productions and creating filmed media works.
Daniel Neer
Daniel Neer, a performer, writer and educator, excels as a singer-actor in a spectrum of performance genres and is a librettist, lyricist and playwright with interests ranging from vocal chamber music to music-theater, contemporary opera, multimedia and interdisciplinary works.
NEW / NEXT
Stoop Bitch
She’s the eyes of the street – all knowing, all seeing. Don’t dare get on her bad side. Taking stock of the world on her block in South Philly, Dolores Finnegan tells it like it is and takes no prisoners. But there’s ghosts from her past, unfulfilled dreams, battles to be won, and much more to her than meets the eye. Face it, you know she’s right.
Premiering in the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
September 8–13 at the Louis Bluver Theatre at The Drake
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Eat My Shorts
Welcome to The LAB’s incubator! New works are bubbling up, as performers tag team multiple scripts and characters in a showcase of staged readings – everything from short one-acts to experimental ideas to snippets of plays in development. A beaker of this, a test tube of that, throw in a few drops of whatever, and the stage is set in the operating theatre of what’s in the works.
Part of the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
September 9–10 at the Louis Bluver Theatre at The Drake
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Dachau For Queers
It’s 1970, and runaway Jonah Goodson is confined at California’s notorious Atascadero Psychiatric Hospital. His “sickness”? Homosexuality. Navigating a psychotropic maze of barbaric treatments, he encounters the most unlikely guides – but are they real or imagined?
Seeking Premiere Production!
Workshop premiered in the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival:
Sept 25 – 29, 2025 at Theatre Exile