Spin is a scathing drama of the advertising age. Brent has lost his job, his wife and his direction. Luckily, he hated all of them. Now, with the help of Buddhism and Dr. Phil, he's making himself into a better man. But when an old advertising buddy pulls Brent into a big project, Brent can't help but seize the success and the spotlight. There, at the height of ambition, at the center of attention, everything else spins out of control.

The first play in a decade by Jeff-award winning playwright Penny Penniston, whose last comedy, now then again, ran for over 17 weeks at the Ivanhoe theatre, Spin questions our own identity in the middle of a media-saturated culture, and challenges us to consider what happens when the whirlwind ends and we need to rediscover ourselves.

Spin was workshopped at the High Desert New Play Development Lab in New Mexico (Sept. 2006) and at Chicago Dramatists (April 2007). In August 2007 it received a reading with Lookingglass Theater. In April 2010, Spin was the inaugural production at Theater Wit's new performance space at 1229 West Belmont in Chicago.