The Aliens premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 and won the Obie Award for Best New American Play, with Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation.
Directed by Lila Neugebauer, it starred Brian Miskell as Evan, Peter O'Connor as Jasper, and Haynes Thigpen as KJ.
[8] Later in 2012, Neugebauer would go on to stage a production at Washington D.C.'s Studio Theatre, again featuring Brian Miskell and Peter O'Connor, as well as Scot McKenzie as KJ.
Co-directed by Glenn Paris and Claudio Raygoza, it starred Tyler Oakley as Evan, Reed Willard as Jasper, and Brian Butler as KJ.
At the risk of appearing hyperbolic, I’ll go so far as to say there is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation... her subjects in 'The Aliens' are mighty indeed: no less than love and death, and how these two facets of human existence are woven into the fabric of life, the first sometimes unacknowledged or undivulged, the second ineluctable and often unforeseen.
"[16] The Variety reviewer wrote that "In another world, “The Aliens” (one of many discarded names for the rock band that Jasper and KJ never got off the ground) would be another sensitive short story about the inarticulateness of a sad generation of lost boys.
The slender story has more heft on the stage, but given the lack of action and conflict, along with all those self-indulgent pauses and attenuated stretches of silence, it doesn’t quite measure up as a full-length play.
"[18] In a review at The San Diego Union Tribune, James Hebert said the play was "well acted and nuanced, if not completely satisfying.