What if AI let you meet your daughter years before she was born?

Amy has found the perfect man . . . except that he wants five kids. And she wants one - maybe. So she visits a futuristic computer lab to meet an AI-based DNA-integrated holographic version of the teenager their combined DNA would create, and is surprised to discover that the actual spirit of her future daughter is trying to communicate with her through a glitch in the AI software.

"shrewdly imaginative and darkly touching"

-Tony Marinelli, TheaterScene.net

"engagingly blends humor and poignancy"

-John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards, Thinking Theater NYC

"imagines the future but speaks directly to right now"

- David Lanson, Tawk of New Yawk

"a layered and deeply human exploration of secrecy, guilt, inherited trauma, and the spectral reach of the past" . . . "grace, wit, and emotional intelligence" . . . "resoundingly clear in its testament to the power of theater to interrogate our technological anxieties" . . . "Koenig smartly draws parallels between the 'training data' used to construct Hailey and the psychological residue passed down through generations” . . . "In this age of rapid AI proliferation, Koenig's play reminds us that while machines may evolve by version number, human hearts upgrade by reckoning - and not always successfully."

"touching on secrecy, guilt, generational trauma, and even metaphysical boundaries" . . . "generational guilt and anxiety also highlights the perpetual presentness of the past, its influence on shaping the always iterating builds of human AI models and human identities alike" . . . "The Glitch leaves the audience with a certain degree of openness in its ending but no question that, in the age of AI, sci-fi continues to thrive on the stage."

"to juggle science fiction, romance, and existential comedy without ever dropping its sense of wonder" . . . "Koenig's premise could easily have drifted into gimmickry, but he keeps the focus on the messy, recognizable corners of human behavior." . . . "As a new parent, I found The Glitch crawling under my skin in the best way. The questions it raises about creation, choice, and the quiet math of love lingered long after the applause" . . . "It's a play that imagines the future but speaks directly to right now, where our phones already know our faces, and our hearts sometimes feel one software update away from being replaced."

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Kipp Koenig graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990 with a BFA in theatre. He recently retired from a 35 year career in technology and finance, writing plays, musicals, and screenplays along the way as a hobby. His screenplay “Lost In His Prime” won the 2004 “Hollywood Gateway” national screenplay competition, and he won numerous state-wide fiction and poetry competitions as a young writer.

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