Koepfinger's New Play Opens in Greenwich Village

Coni Koepfinger's new play The Unusual Chauncey Faust opens on Off-Off-Broadway's Gene Frankel Theatre in Greenwich Village this March 19, 2026.

Koepfinger's outstanding new play has already garnered some rave reviews. "When I first read Coni Koepfinger’s The Unusual Chauncey Faust, I felt an immediate recognition. Beneath its surreal humor and theatrical absurdity lives a profound question about our time: who authors the dream we are living? Chauncey stands at the edge of ambition, longing for success, visibility, financial freedom — and he is offered something seductive. A system. A shortcut. A promise of transcendence without inner awakening. A manufactured elevation of the self. The “potion” in the play may be imaginary, yet what it represents is very real: the temptation to outsource our becoming," wrote Maria Olon-Tsaroucha, the Founder and CEO of Superconscious You.

Koepfinger brilliantly exposes the fragility of identity when it is built on external validation. Chauncey is not unstable; he is unanchored. He is searching for a role large enough to contain his hunger, without realizing that the deeper question is not “How do I rise?” but “From where am I rising?” The play will run at the Frankel Theatre from March 19th through March 29th.

The Unusual Chauncey Faust will be directed by Aviva Katz.