A lot of questions are being asked by Undermain Theatre's 2024-25 season, chief among them, "Who am I?"

"While that question may appear simple and straightforward, the concept of identity is complex and fluid," reads a release announcing the slate of shows for the 41st season. "The answer to 'Who am I?' depends on a range of factors including how one defines oneself, the labels placed on us by others and society, as well as how events and circumstances may shift that identity."

The season opens with Gracie Gardner’s coming-of-age comedy Athena, where young women forge their identities in fierce competition on the fencing strip.

In this regional premiere, Mary Wallace and Athena are brave and seventeen, fencers training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends. It runs September 7-29, 2024.

Next is Eugene Ionesco's absurdist dramedy of power and death, Exit the King.

Set in the crumbling throne room of the palace in an unnamed country, King Berenger the First has only the duration of the play to live. Once, it seemed he ruled over an immense empire and commanded great armies, but now his kingdom has shrunk to the confines of his garden wall. Refusing to accept his end, he is attended by his present and former queens who must help him face the final inevitable truth of life. Starring Undermain company members Rhonda Boutté and Bruce DuBose, it runs November 2-November 24, 2024.

In 2025, two of the Katherine Owens/Undermain Fund recipients will hold centerstage. Up first is the world premiere of Box by Jarrett King.

Part magic show, part historical speculation, part romantic drama, this play explores the harrowing story of Henry Box Brown, the abolitionist lecturer and early magician who escaped slavery by mailing himself to freedom and then went on to become a famed magician on the London stage. Using actual magic, the play imagines an unwritten chapter in the story of one of history’s most overlooked folk heroes. It runs March 1-23, 2025.

The season closes with h*llo k*tty syndrome by Brian Dang.

Last season’s workshop production of Brian Dang’s play This time delighted audiences with its poetry and imagery, and now Dang is back again with this unconventional, absurdist comedy.

HK is a little lost. They just quit their job as a police officer, broke up with their cowboy partner, and made a vendetta with their brother-in-law. And worst of all, nobody will stop commenting on the fact that they are wearing a Hello Kitty™ mascot costume (but it’s slightly off because of copyright laws.) It runs May 3-25, 2025.

Undermain is located at 3200 Main St., between Murray and Trunk streets in Deep Ellum.

For tickets and season subscriptions, visit undermain.org.