Review fix chats with I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappe!!! Playwright Catherine Weingarten, who discusses the production and so much more.
About the Production:
The Tank NYC (Meghan Finn, Artistic Director; Johnny G. Lloyd, Artistic Director; Molly FitzMaurice, Managing Producer) will present the World Premiere of I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappe!!!, an angsty girly comedy by Catherine Weingarten (The World Is Ending and Maybe That’s Kinda Hot), directed by Alex Tobey (Rough Trade at The Tank), presented at The Tank (312 W 36th St., New York, NY 10018), May 28-June 21.
Jenny just got engaged and she’s very very excited although her fiancee doesn’t seem to want to help plan the wedding or talk to her. But when a Prince on a unicorn offers Jenny some sexy solace, maybe things will work out ok? I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappe!!! is a frothy satire about wedding culture, addiction, societal pressure on women, and just how far we will go to avoid the truth.
The cast will feature Rachel Lin (Dear John at HERE Arts Center), Meg MacCary (OBIE Award-winner for What Then; co-founder of Clubbed Thumb), Sabina Friedman-Seitz (Of the woman came the beginning of sin and through her we all die with Normal Ave), Lindsley Howard (The Antelope Party with Dutch Kills), and Fernando Gonzalez (Stargazers with Page 73; Red Emma and the Mad Monk at The Tank) with Scenic Design by Benny Pitt (The Mall The Mall The Mall at The Tank), Costume Design by Olivia Hern (We Do the Same Thing Every Week with Attractive Nuisance), Lightning Design by Hayley Garcia Parnell (Touch at East Village Basement), and Sound Design by Amelia Way (Rough Trade at The Tank; Saguaros at JACK), with Line Producer Sarah Jones.
About Catherine Weingarten:
Catherine Weingarten (Playwright) is a friendly Jewish chick from an obscure area of Pennsylvania! Honors Include: the Scott McPherson Award and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and has previously developed her “girly, trashy” work with Dixon Place, The Tank, Less Than Rent, Sam French OOB Short Play Festival, Last Frontier Theater Conference and has been awarded residencies through Bethany Arts Community, The Studios of Key West, Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB and Monson Arts. Catherine has participated in Art House Production’s INKubator Writer’s Group, New Perspective’s Women’s Work Short Play Lab and The Shelter’s Virtual King Lear project. BA: Bennington College MFA: Ohio University catherine-weingarten.squarespace.com
Review Fix: How did this production come to be?
Catherine Weingarten: I am an alum of Art House Productions INKubator writers group in Jersey City which is led by Alex Tobey. I got accepted into that playwrights group with my Unicorn Frappe play and Alex and I stayed in touch about him potentially directing it one day. More recently Alex was pitching it around and Johnny and the Tank team were excited to give it a NYC production.
Review Fix: How does it feel to be at The Tank?
Weingarten: It’s so much fun! It’s such an exciting incubator for new work and it’s been a home for a few other of my pieces that I’ve put up.
Review Fix: Who inspires you creatively?
Weingarten: As a playwright I look up to Chris Durang, Wendy Wasserstein and Sherry Kramer. I love artists with bold voices, who are fully themselves and theatrical.
Review Fix: How else is this production different or special?
Weingarten: My work has been done a bit out of town/regionally but I haven’t had too many NYC productions. Also every actor in the piece has worked with me on at least one other piece and they all are so funny and get what I’m up to as a playwright.
Review Fix: Who do you think will dig it the most?
Weingarten: I think new play lovers, reality TV lovers, fans of “Broad City and also trashy wedding Reality TV.
Review Fix: Who is the unsung hero of this production?
Weingarten: I’m very grateful to Johnny G. Llyod at the Tank for taking a risk on this production and making it a Core show. I’m always excited when playwrights are in positions of power and it means so much to me that he believes in my writing and this play.
Review Fix: How do you want your work to be remembered?
Weingarten: I want to be remembered as a playwright who is very fun whose work is very fun until it isn’t.
Review Fix: What are your long-term goals for your work?
Weingarten: I aspire to be a working playwright and hope to have productions at prominent regional theaters in NYC and beyond.
Review Fix: Why should someone support your work?
Weingarten: If you’re into unique early career female playwrights, I think I’m a writer you would be interested in knowing.
Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?
Weingarten: Come check out the show! I promise it’ll be fun
Review Fix: What’s next?
Weingarten: I’m currently working on a play about motherhood and another piece about hysteria in the 1900s. Follow me on instagram for updates @cwweingarten
Review Fix: Where can people find out more?
Weingarten: about me-
about the show and to buy tickets- https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/2026/4/8/unicornfrappe
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