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Hollow Narrator Media
Theater, Storytelling & Spoken Word
My Friend, Ithamar is a companion piece to The Watcher Sleeps (Cannonball 2025). The lights are up. The book is open. The author is charming. The audience has taken its seats. Everything looks safe because it knows exactly how safe is supposed to look.
Across three tales of surveillance, comfort, and hunger, the horror arrives gently. It waits beside you. It makes relief feel like mercy until mercy begins to feel like possession.
What do we give away when a story understands us too well? Where is the line between being witnessed and being consumed?
The door was open the whole time. This is a literary event, a ritual, and an invitation. A story feeds first on attention. Sometimes it feeds on what we are willing to give.
Questions? Comments? Confessions?
This performance contains mature themes including grief, loss, and psychological horror.
PWYC Options $5+
Venue: Asian Arts Initiative Project Space 
September 9, 2026 9.00pm
1219 Vine St
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
September 20, 2026 6.30pm
1219 Vine St
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
September 25, 2026 9.00pm
1219 Vine St
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
About the Artist
Hollow Narrator Media is the cosmic horror production company of playwright and actor Daniel Romano. Its work spans theater, podcasting, and original fiction, all built within an interconnected mythology. Productions include The Watcher Sleeps (Cannonball 2025), My Friend, Ithamar, and the scripted podcast Burn Pattern.
Neena Boyle (Miriam Veil) - Neena (she/her) is thrilled to be a part of this incredible team! Select regional credits: The Revolutionists, The Toxic Avenger, How The Light Gets In (South Camden Theatre Co.); Dachau For Queers (The LAB, Philly Fringe 2025), Beirut (Casabuena Cultural Productions); Fellowship! (SideQuest Theater). Company member at Liberty City Radio Theatre. BFA from UArts (RIP). Elsewhere this Fringe: Eat My Shorts (The LAB). Big gratitude to Geremy, Daniel, and the entire team, and big love, always, to Billy and Rita. More at www.neenaboyle.com IG: @neenerbeaner13
Kathleen Johnson (stage manager) - Kathleen is excited to participate in Philly Fringe for the first time with My Friend, Ithamar. In Philadelphia she has previously stage managed with Fever Dream Rep (The Thin Place; The Book of Will) and Stagecrafters Theater (The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow; Grand Horizons; God of Carnage; Boy Gets Girl; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark). For the past two years she has also served as a volunteer adjudicator for the Independence Awards for High School Musical Theater. Outside of theater she works for 12Plus, a nonprofit that provides college & career readiness advising and support for students in under-resourced schools in Philadelphia and Camden, NJ.
Daniel Romano (playwright) - Daniel is thrilled to continue the cosmic horror cycle he set in motion with The Watcher Sleeps, a cosmic horror play, during Philly Fringe 2025, and to be working with such an amazing team. Playwriting Credits: The Watcher Sleeps, Sick Parents Club (The Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Orlando), Play It By Ear (UCF Celebrates the Arts), Of Hawks and Sparrows, Mo
- Daniel Romano Playwright and Lead Artist djromano88@gmail.com
Accessibility & Content Considerations
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This event is appropriate for ages 13+
Audience Interaction
Covid-19 Safety policy
This event does not require masks to be worn
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