Review Fix Fresh Fruit Festival Coverage: Karl Hinze Talks Prophesy

July 12, 2018 Patrick Hickey Jr. Theatre 0

Review Fix chats with Karl Hinze, who discusses his production at this year’s Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City, detailing the creative process and letting us know what to expect.

About the Production:

 7/13  6:30 pm, 7/15  7 pm      World Premiere

Mark, Finn, and Joe are juniors at Holy Apostle High, where religion class is not quite as interesting as their various crushes on teachers and each other. But there are deeper secrets bubbling under the surface, and when the boys learn about Catholic Mystics, Mark wonders if that might explain the strange things he’s been seeing and hearing… A show for anyone who has had a crush on a teacher, questioned the existence of God, or survived high school (preferably with soul intact). 

Review Fix: What was the inspiration for this project?

Karl Hinze: A few months after graduating college, I started grad school and was suddenly teaching college students as a TA. Transitioning so quickly from “student” to “teacher” showed me what a strange and—in some ways—artificial boundary that was. That (along with the fact that yes, I had been that student who had a crush on every teacher) inspired me to write this story about a student-teacher relationship, set against the backdrop of these almost-supernatural religious experiences.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Hinze: Typically, I’m an obsessive planner, organizer, and outline-writer. Especially coming from the world of musical theatre, I generally try to have a pretty good sense of a character and their journey before putting pencil to paper.


Review Fix: What makes this different or special?

Hinze: For this play, I challenged myself to just sit down and write—no outline!—and see what comes out.

Review Fix: What did you learn about yourself through this process?

Hinze: Like many writers, I have a sense of the kinds of stories I like to tell: for me, that’s stories about relationships and fidelity, public-vs-private personas, class and privilege… working on this play I was surprised to find new, fertile territories, topics like religion and adolescence— things I hadn’t explored before in my writing.

Review Fix: What are your ultimate goals for this production and for the future?

Hinze: Ultimately my goal for this (and any) production is to get to continue telling interesting stories with great collaborators. I’m thrilled for the chance to do that here at the Fresh Fruit Festival, and hope it leads to more opportunities to do so, with this play and others.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Hinze: I’m working on an original play-with-music about three church choirs who are forced to merge for one Christmas service, as well as continuing development on an original musical called Big Picture with  lyricist Patrick Spencer and bookwriter Susan Murray.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13872 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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