The Targeted
4F 2M - Full Length - 90-100 min
Welcome to the Solidarity and Strategy Symposium. A gathering of the most persecuted, tortured, and misunderstood people in the entire world. They call themselves Targeted Individuals, and they are victims of a vast and covert program of systematic torture, surveillance, and harassment by global intergovernmental powers. Over the course of this weekend in the woods outside of Boston they will discuss strategies to take down the deep state perps, bring awareness to their plight, and despite their suffering stay human. The Targeted is a comedy about connection, denial, the ideas we let consume us, and the itches we just can’t scratch.
“Kime’s play dances with great dexterity between horror and sympathy for these people whose lives have been destroyed by what seems to us at least to be delusional thoughts. […] It’s a remarkably assured and empathetic piece that knows when to draw humor from the absurdity of the TI claims, and when to prod the deeper voids and losses that help those claims burrow in under their psyches in the first place.”
Production and Development History
World Premiere, A Red Orchid Theatre, May 7-June 21, 2026'
Reading, A Red Orchid Theatre, February 2025
Workshop through “Off/Nights” Series, Broken Nose Theatre, Chicago, IL, May 2021
Reading, Broken Nose Theatre, Chicago, IL, January 2021
Workshop, First Floor Theater, Chicago, IL, November 2020
Workshop trough “New Work Week”, First Floor Theater, Chicago, IL, July 2019
Honors
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Playwrights Conference, Waterford, CT, May 2020
Semifinalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco, CA, February 2021
“As subjects for fictional entertainment, conspiracists are usually the stuff of satire or mystery-thrillers […] What’s different about ‘The Targeted’ — and I found this refreshing — is that it’s neither satire nor thriller. There is plenty of genuine humor here, but it’s gentle and even kind rather than hard-edged, even when characters cover themselves in tin foil. […] The play explores human needs — for understanding, belonging, love.”
Photos by Evan Hanover of A Red Orchid Theatre’s production of The Targeted, May 17-June 21 2026