Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God

written by Jen Tullock & Frank Winters
directed by Jared Mezzocchi

with Jenny Kennedy (production stage manager), Matthew B. Cullen (assistant director), Emmie Finckel (scenic), Amith Chandrashaker (lighting), Evdoxia Ragkou (sound design), Stefania Bulbarella (projection and video design), Matt Carlin (props), Aaron Michael McDaniel (fight choreography), Quin Frederich (stage management fellow.)

When a best-selling writer releases a book about her upbringing as a gay kid in the Evangelical South, she is confronted by the woman she claims to have had an affair with — who insists the stories are false. Operating multiple cameras and live looping systems, Jen Tullock (Severance) expertly plays a full cast of characters in a tour-de-force performance that blurs the line between reality and the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive.
In association with Mark Gordon Pictures, Eilene Davidson Productions, and Sara Bareilles
Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God has received generous support from production sponsors Gina Maria Leonetti and Andrew Tobias.

“Beautifully written …. gorgeous and unexpected.” — Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast

“A miraculous solo show…with little doubt the best solo show in years…  Exquisite work is done in both performance and writing…Tullock and Winters are economical writers…. with reflexive precision. In just over an hour, the two interrogate ideas about home, religious transcendence, literary liberties, memory, and pain with savvy and sharpness… Audiences interested in shows about religious trauma will find Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God a revelatory entry into the canon… Jen Tullock and Frank Winters’s exceptional, funny, and divine Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God imagines a home for those who are homesick but can’t go back.” — Kyle Turner, New York Theatre Guide

“Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God revels in murky, glitchy ambiguity… The play’s specifics give it a tactile and bumpy weirdness that makes it feel like real life.” —Jackson McHenry, Vulture

“It's a heady piece of work, a solo show teeming with personalities and equipped with its own running commentary. Tullock, working with her co-writer Frank Winters, expertly plants a hundred-and-one hints that the truth behind Frances' memoir is much slipperier than she would like to admit… Most of all, Tullock and Winters have fabulous ears, especially for the passive-aggression that sometimes passes for Christian sympathy.” - David Barbour, Lighting & Sound America

“Jen Tullock’s solo show, written with Frank Winters and inspired by Tullock’s upbringing in an evangelical church, stealthily, brilliantly complicates a trope that has become gospel in the theater, television, and publishing industries… There’s a lot going on in this little solo play, and viewers might be tempted to tune out of what occasionally feels like a jumble of overlapping voices and scenes. But that exquisite mess is essential to the story Tullock and Winters are telling about the human brain as a palimpsest on which new truths are written even as traces of the old remain. Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God is the dramatic equivalent of watching a spinning coin. Heads and tails blend together and we have no idea which side will land up. That confusion and uncertainty feels like a quintessential American experience right now.” — Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania