Beauty and the Bots

About the Project

Robots! Self-driving cars! A.I.! THE FUTURE IS NOW…until the robots destroy us. In her sophomore solo show, Sarah Albritton offers a fresh, comedic take that grapples with technology and the future we are heading towards. This show covers everything, including disasters with delivery robots, A.I. theft, Chat GPT, addiction, surveillance, and sex robots. Combining storytelling, stand-up, characters, and music, this new work challenges what it means to be human in an ever-growing, technology-focused world. No robots were harmed in the making of this show…yet. 

The Team:

Sarah Albritton  (writer, performer)

Called “a tour de force” by Lost in Theatreland, Sarah Albritton is probably the most ambitious narcoleptic you’ll ever know. Instead of shying away from her disability, she’s embraced it through comedy and screenwriting. She premiered her first solo comedy show “Awake and Narcoleptic” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was a Playbill Pick of the Fringe, which referred to her “whip-smart humor” and suggested the show would be “at home on a Netflix special”. It was also selected as part of the IMPAACT program at Curtis Theater. 

As a stand-up comedian, she’s performed all over the country. In LA has shared the stage with notable comedians including Bill Burr, Sarah Silverman, Tiffany Haddish, Craig Robinson, and Nikki Glazer. She’s been a finalist for Page Sceenwriting Awards for Comedy TV Pilot.

The sleep theme in her work doesn’t stop there, as she’s the host of the podcast Sleeping with Sarah, where she interviews guests in bed. 

She’s in development with her sophomore solo show Beauty and the Bots, which premieres at the Hollywood Fringe 2026. 

Josh Sobel (Director)

Josh Sobel is an AuDHD dramaturg / development consultant, director, producer and educator specializing in nurturing compassionately rigorous creative processes and soul-driven creative projects that seek to leave the world more hopeful than it was before. Founder of Tony Award-nominated company FutureHome (Co-Producer: Cats The Jellicle Ball, Appropriate, Gutenberg! The Musical!), he was named one of Newcity’s “Players: Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago” in 2019. Recent: Awake & Narcoleptic by Sarah Albritton (director, Playbill Pick, Edinburgh Fringe 2023), The Fever by Wallace Shawn and The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven by Jo Clifford with Brooklyn Dawson (director, Royal Conservatoire of Dramatic Art). Current and upcoming: Reincarnation Blues, a new musical by Ben Thornewill, Coyle Girelli and Laura Zlatos (producer, Goodspeed’s Johnny Mercer Writer’s Grove 2026); GUN/FIGHT, an upcoming heist spoof comedy short film; Hold On To Your Butts (Associate Producer, UK Tour), a shot-for-shot live parody of “Jurassic Park”; and Godvein, a narrative-driven immersive fantasy + culinary experience (co-producer/development consultant). Josh has worked with venerated artists including Avery Brooks (American History X) and John De Lancie (Star Trek: TNG), and his productions have sold out at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater, the Edinburgh Fringe and more. His work has screened in Oscar-qualifying festivals across the country, and has been named Best of the Year in the Chicago Tribune, Time Out, Washington Post, Newcity Stage and others. Former AD, Haven Chicago. SDCF Observer 2012. MFA, CalArts. BA, Oberlin College. NTI Fall 2007. www.jmichaelsobel.com