MILKMAN ZERO

Created & performed by Matt Romein
Directed by Jerry Lieblich
A world premiere presented by Sad Soft Caves

You are a milkman. You have a job to do. Deliver the milk. But the townspeople are insatiably milk-hungry, the mayor's eyes are brimming with milk-lust, and lurking in the milk-dark shadows, the Milk Monster stalks your every move. Still, you want to do a good job. Maybe even a great job…

MILKMAN ZERO is a darkly funny work of psychological horror built inside a text adventure, the oldest kind of computer game. No graphics, no images, just a world conjured with text, and a blinking cursor waiting for the next typed command: open door talk to woman deliver milk

Part solo performance, part live playthrough: over the course of an evening, the world of MILKMAN ZERO continues to exist only as long as the player keeps typing.

Deliver the milk. Ignore everything else.

CREDITS

GETTING TO MITU & ACCESSIBILITY

Mitu580, 580 Sackett Street, Brooklyn

By subway: R to Union Street · F/G to Carroll Street · 2/3/4 to Bergen Street

Mitu580, though not yet fully ADA compliant, is committed to accessibility and maximizing our community's ease of use at our home in Gowanus. Our building has no stairs, a ramp at our front entrance and into our performance space, and dedicated floor seating for patrons who cannot climb our risers. We continue to make improvements and welcome conversations about accessibility. If you have specific questions around accommodations, please reach out to us at tickets@milkmanzero.com.

SPONSORS + GRANTS

MILKMAN ZERO was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2025-26, supported by Jerome Foundation and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.

The production is developed, in part, with support from Theater Mitu's Artists-At-Home Program.

Technical equipment and support provided by Onassis ONX.

MILKMAN ZERO was developed during residencies at MacDowell (Peterborough), Yaddo (Saratoga Springs), the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), with work-in-progress showings at CATCH at The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, 2025) and IDFA DocLab (Amsterdam, 2025).