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The Wizard Unworthy is a psychedelic horror-fantasy about a drunk, retired wizard, Garathiander (Garath).

Struck with self-loathing, Garath removes his heart and splits it in two: good and bad. He beats, blazes, and freezes the bad portion, punishing it for the harm it has done. The better half, he locks away... somewhere safe. Garath's new experiment goes horribly awry when his minion, Zorp, feeds it human flesh, resulting in an abomination who is sure to be responsible for their deaths. Garath scrambles to find a means of survival including communing with dark unseen forces that threaten his sanity. All the while, Zorp must wrestle with his dedication to Garath, or potentially lose him forever to madness. The Wizard Unworthy is part of the Center for New Work's spring Impulse Festival, a new collaboration between the CMU School of Drama, Pittsburgh CLO, and the Pittsburgh Public Theater, made possible by the generous support of the Richard King Mellon Foundation.

Hannah Honey Shepard (she/they) is a playwright, screenwriter, and RPG narrative designer from Washington State & Texas. She seeks other dimensions, parallel universes and sorcery - and cares little to write the world we live in. She won $10,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation with her screenplay Ode to Joplin in the Alfred P. Sloan Script Competition at Carnegie Mellon University (2025). She is currently seeking her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University, class of 2026.

J. Cody Spellman (director) is a theatre and film director from Dayton, OH. He has served as Artistic Director of Throughline Theatre Company and Director of Production at Quantum Theatre and was an SDC Observer (2019–2021). He holds a BA from Columbia College Chicago and is a John Wells MFA Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. | jcodyspellman.com @jcspells.

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