What's It's A Miracle?
Hilarious and heartfelt, It's a Miracle explores life's most profound questions through a playful deconstruction of words and worlds. Max tackles topics as wide-ranging as motherhood, psychedelics, death, God, technology, nature, and identity— upending them with wit and wonder.
With the gentle curiosity of someone who has wrestled with both skepticism and faith, Max opens a space to laugh, cry, and marvel at the splendor and complexity of being human. Whether you're a skeptic or a seeker, It's a Miracle invites you to find meaning in the fleeting, beautiful chaos of being alive.
It's a Miracle is an eye-opening, heart-expanding meditation on perspective— and after it's over, you may never see life the same way again.
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What Audiences Are Saying
"He somehow managed to weave together Mother Earth, evolution, and fetal chit-chat into a singular, transcendent theatrical experience."
"Max's ability to articulate metaphysics is up there with Alan Watts. Exquisite, clear, confident and humble."
"Awe inspiring. Made me feel the power of storytelling in ways I haven't felt in years."
Critical Praise
"Throughout It's A Miracle, Max strings together spoken-word poems like pearls, and each one offers a lens for seeing existence anew. Each one of Max's pieces achieves the highest aim of poetry: to make our known world appear vaster and more atomized at the same time."
— A Being Place
"Stossel, who has been named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year, anticipates that it will be revived and performed again. For the sake of our souls, let's hope that it is, for It's a Miracle is its own miracle of beautiful theater that should be seen, felt, and heard by everyone."
— Manhattan Digest
Creative Team
Max Stossel
Writer & Performer
Max Stossel is an award-winning artist, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. His performances have been praised for their rare fusion of deep truth and technological insight—bringing to life the emotional undercurrents of our modern world while reminding us of the beauty and complexity of being human. His previous special, Words That Move: See Through A Different I, has been shared widely, resonating with millions who have found comfort, connection, and revelation in his words.
Max's work has reached audiences on five continents, been translated into fifteen languages, and uniquely blends the profound and the hilarious. His short films and poetic animations have won multiple film festivals and amassed millions of views online. Featured by TED and embraced in classrooms and theaters alike, his thought-provoking pieces continue to spark meaningful conversations about what it means to be alive.
Emily Maltby
Director
EMILY MALTBY is an NYC-based theater director, choreographer, and writer. Recent credits include directing and choreographing the world premiere of Disney's DARE TO DREAM, performed with 100 kids, at the Junior Theater Festival. Other credits include: EVITA (A.R.T and S.T.C), THE KING AND I (TOHO – Tokyo), THE MUSIC MAN (TOHO - Tokyo), SUNSET BOULEVARD (The Kennedy Center), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (McCarter Theatre Center), FOR YOU PAIGE (TikTok), EVITA (New York City Center), PENELOPE (York Theatre Company), ALLEGORY (La Jolla Playhouse WOW Festival), LOLITA, MY LOVE (York Theatre Company), and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Singapore). Associate credits include FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE (The Public Theater), THE LION (Manhattan Theater Club). She has also served as a dramaturg for NYMF, as well as the script supervisor for ANASTASIA. emilymaltby.com
Grace Laubacher
Scenic Designer
Grace Laubacher (she/her) is a scenic designer and artist based in Brooklyn. She has worked in theater and opera, site-specific art, and installation.
Current and recent design projects include Life and Trust (Emursive, NYC, 2024), Oklahoma! (Young Vic, 2022, and West End / Wyndham's Theatre, London, 2023), the 2023 season at Opera Saratoga, Titanique (Criterion Theatre / West End; Grand Electric, Sydney; Segal Centre, Montreal; CAA Mirvish Theater, Toronto, 2024; Daryl Roth Theater, 2022), Remi Wolf's Gwingle Gwongle tour (2022), Virginia Opera's The Sound of Music (2022), La Bohème at the Santa Fe Opera (2019), and The Barber of Seville at Opera Columbus (2020).
Grace has worked as an associate set designer on Broadway, regionally, and internationally, most recently on Mary Jane(designed by Lee Jellinek, 2024), Merrily We Roll Along (designed by Soutra Gilmour, 2023), KPOP (designed by Gabriel Hainer Evansohn, 2022), and the 2019 revival of Oklahoma! designed by Lee Jellinek (who received a Tony nomination for the design). Grace and Lee collaborated as co-designers on the London transfer of Oklahoma!, first to the Young Vic in 2022 and then the West End in 2023.
Devin Cameron
Lighting & Video Design
For over two decades, Devin Cameron has brought stories to life through lighting design across theatre, opera, music, and immersive experiences. His work has been recognized by The New York Times as "brilliantly designed" and "extraordinary," with credits that include The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart with the National Theatre of Scotland (Drama Desk Award winner), Parable of the Sower at Lincoln Center, Carmen with Opera Naples, and numerous productions for Norwegian Cruise Line.
In addition to his theatrical work, Devin was part of the premier design team for Steve Jobs Theatre Presents, Apple's cultural event series, where he helped define the lighting for live performances and cultural events in a space renowned for its architectural and technological innovation. He also spent years as the resident lighting designer for Punchdrunk's Sleep No More in New York City, where his work played a key role in shaping the show's signature aesthetic. For more about his work, visit devincameron.com.
Angela Baughman
Sound Designer
Angela Baughman is a multidisciplinary sound designer whose work spans over 90 theatrical productions, concerts, film, and radio. On Broadway, she created the sound effects for Water for Elephants as the assistant sound designer.
Recent theatrical works include The Mulberry Tree (La MaMa), Vile Isle (The Tank), Sugarcraft (59E59), and Angel Island (opera, BAM). Other sonic adventures include turning a sweet 1970s RV into a pirate radio station outside MoMA PS1, creating soundscapes for a Carnegie Museum of Natural History VR exhibit, and sound design for The Clearing, a 2021 London Independent Film Festival award winner. thatsoundgirl.com.
Alice Frank
Collaborative Writer
Alice Frank is a spiritual guide and performance artist - an "actor-vist" whose work merges storytelling, activism, and awakening. Her poetry collections, 'My Real Name Is You' and 'F.O.A. - Full On Arrival,' chronicle her personal spiritual journey and have been praised by Eckhart Tolle, Daniel Ladinsky, and others. As an actor she has guest-starred in 'That 70's Show,' 'The Drew Carey Show,' and others. She is ordained as a rabbi in the mystical tradition. She speaks on awakening and Uniamory, a concept she coined to explore the profound implications of direct experience of humanity's oneness- and how it shapes the way we live, distribute love, and dissolve conflict. uniamory.com
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Interested in producing or presenting It's A Miracle at your venue? The show is designed to be scalable and adaptable to various theater spaces.
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