TWO COUPLES ENTER A RESEARCH PROGRAM AT A REMOTE, SEALED FACILITY, BELIEVING THEIR INTERACTIONS WILL HELP TRAIN HUMANOID COMPANIONS IN HUMAN INTIMACY. DARKLY FUNNY AND DEEPLY HUMAN, MACHINE LEARNING EXPLORES OUR SEARCH FOR CONNECTION IN A WORLD INCREASINGLY LED TO BELIEVE THAT TECHNOLOGY CAN FIX IT ALL.
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CAST
douglas Smith
'CHARLIE'Douglas Smith is best known for his roles in HBO’s Big Little Lies, Vinyl, and Big Love, as well as The Alienist. On stage, he received rave reviews for his lead performance in the Obie Award-winning, New York Times Critic’s Pick production of Simon Stephens’ Punk Rock. His film credits include Horizon: An American Saga, Don’t Worry Darling, Terminator Genisys, Miss Sloane, and Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils. He can currently be seen on ABC’s Will Trent, with upcoming films including Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, Lunar Sway, The Pond, Tell Me a Secret, and Elastic Hearts.
Delaney Rowe
'GEORGIA'Delaney Rowe is an actress, writer, and creator best known for her satirical comedy sketches, which have earned her over 4 million followers across social platforms. She stars in the upcoming drama Magazine and will appear alongside Penn Badgley and Meghann Fahy in Amazon MGM’s You Deserve Each Other. Her previous credits include The Everything Pot, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. Rowe’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, and InStyle, and she was named to the TIME100 Creators List in 2025 and 2026 and The Hollywood Reporter’s Creator A-List in 2024 and 2025.
Emma Ramos
'LUCIA'Off-Broadway:Coriolanus (TFANA), Scenes from a Marriage (NYTW), Marriage of Figaro (Little Island), Camino Real (WTF), Spirit of the People (WTF), Frontieres Sans Frontiers (Bushwick Starr). Regional: Alien Girls (Old Globe) Espejos Clean (Hartford Stage & Syracuse Stage; Critics’ Circle nom), Luna Gale (Actor’s Theater of Louisville). Film/television: Hulu’s In The Summer (Sundance Grand Prix), Netflix’s Big Fan, Disney’s Hamster & Gretel, NBC’s New Amsterdam (recur). Emma will next be seen in Blumhouse's SOULM8TE and most recently wrote LA CHEF for Gaumont, with Noé Santillán-López attached to direct the feature. @iamemmaramos on Instagram.
Michele Selene Ang
'WILLA'Michele Selene Ang is a Chinese-Indonesian-American actor & writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Performance from Fordham University and her screen acting work can be found on Netflix's hit TV drama 13 Reasons Why and CBS' Elementary. On the film side, you can find her in the indie movie How I Learned to Fly on Apple TV. Michele has originated lead roles in new plays at acclaimed venues like Lincoln Center, Yale Rep, East West Players, The Old Globe, and Berkeley Rep. You can keep up with her at michelesang.com!
CREATIVE TEAM
KAte Vozella
WRITER(she/her) is a New York-based theatre maker. She was recently a finalist for the Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective 2026, led by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker, and for the Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award for her play This Motherless Earth (2024), which was recently selected to be developed through Theaterlab's Hotel New Work residency (2026). Her first full-length play, Burning Falling Rising Monster, was shortlisted by Platform Presents in 2020 and later adapted into a short film starring Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox. Her debut screenplay, MIA, was directed by Jac Fitzgerald, with Kate starring opposite Jason Butler Harner. The project won Best Original Story at the Cannes World Film Festival in 2021, and also received nominations for Best Actress (Vozella), and Best Director (Fitzgerald). Kate is currently represented by CAA.
Colm Summers
DIRECTOR(he/him) Colm is an award-winning Irish director and writer from Waterford, based in Brooklyn, and the Artistic Director of Working Theater. His directing credits include Every Brilliant Thing at Geffen Playhouse, The Bad Daters at Paradise Factory, and the Jeff-nominated The Comedians at Raven Theatre. He was a 2024 Drama League Next Stage Fellow, the inaugural Director-in-Residence at Geffen Playhouse, and a Resident Director at the Abbey Theatre. In 2023, he received the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award. His play Falls won the 2026 Phoenix Theatre Company Festival of New American Theatre and received a 2024 Relentless Award Honorable Mention.
SET DESIGN: TYLER HERALD
COSTUME DESIGN: KAREN BOYER
LIGHTING DESIGN: CHRISTOPHER WONG
SOUND DESIGN: LIAM BELLMAN-SHARPE
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: MARY GARRIGAN
PRODUCTION MANAGER: LEIA SQUILLACE
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: BEA MIRANDA
PRODUCERS: LILLY ENGLERT, ELENA RUSCONI, THEODORA MIRANNE
Location
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
509 W 38th St, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018