Prelude.12 Program Guide

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THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER PRESENTS
at the forefront of contemporary NYC theater, dance, and performance OCTOBER 3 OCTOBER 5, 2012 OCTOBER 3 - OCTOBER 5, 2012
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FREE! First come, first served www.preludenyc.org
THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER
The Ninth Annual PRELUDE Festival
Wednesday, October 3 Friday, October 5, 2012

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY is pleased to present PRELUDE.12, the ninth annual PRELUDE festival dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance, interdisciplinary and mediatized performance. In its largest lineup ever, PRELUDE.12 will offer an array of over 40 short performances, readings, and screenings a completely free survey of the current New York moment and the work being prepared for the 2012/13 season and beyondas well as new commissions and panel discussions with artists, scholars and performers. PRELUDE.12 is a place to discover what voices are shaping the future of theatre and performance in NYC, to observe, engage, commune, and critique.
PRELUDE.12 STAFF
Curators: Caleb Hammons and Helen Shaw, with Frank Hentschker Producer: Rachel Silverman Prelude Director of Administration: Rebecca Sheahan Production Coordinator: Lisa McGinn Stage Managers: Greg Redlawsk and Mary Spadoni Technical Directors: Tim Fodness, Brad Krumholz and Brendan Regimbal Line Producer for Gershwin Hotel: Sarah Rose Leonard Company Management: Lauren DiGiulio, Ruth Wikler-Luker Outreach: Ruth Wikler-Luker Graphic design by George Bixby, additional work by Nikki Columbus Design Implementaion for PRELUDE.12 Program Guide: Sarah Rose Leonard Website Design: Kimon Keramidas, MESTC Director of Digital Initiatives
PRELUDE.12 ADVISORS
Jess Barbagallo, Claire Bishop, Erin Courtney, Andy Horwitz, Jeff Jones, Gideon Lester, Rob Marcato, Charles L. Mee, Jr., Samara Naeymi, Antje Oegel, Annie-B Parson, Ben Pryor, Brian Rogers, Tanya Selveratnam Scheib, and Mac Wellman.
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center The Graduate Center, City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016
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WELCOME FROM THE CURATORIAL TEAM

Hello and welcome to PRELUDE.12, the ninth annual Prelude Festival at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center! Thank you so much for joining us. We hope we have furnished you with a feast of provoking, ravishing, bizarre, complicated and blithely entertaining workenough to delight the most voracious performance-lover. As always, Prelude offers its banquet in appetizer portions: snippets, readings and works-in-progress, all tempting morsels that we think will pique your appetite for the seasons to come. This year, as we looked for works by artists we think define (and rewrite the definition of) the New York scene, we were struck by an oxymoron. There was a strong presence of absence. Many of our most treasured creators, pressed by funding exigencies and a dependence on touring, must work far from home, leaving a hole at the center of any New York season. Emerging makers are creating in spite of an absence of space, time, money and a major premiere. There are other disappearances too, as theater and dance artists increasingly create work deliberately void of live components. These are not new circumstances or strategies, yet any true survey of the current experimental New York moment must make some mention of these intentional and unintentional lacunae. Throughout the festival we will be investigating these absences and their residual/ reactionary presences, how they are changing our notions of live performance, the practice thereof and the participation therein. We have asked a slew of artists to create and perform manifestos for 2012, so that we can hear how others fully affirm arts presence in the modern wilderness. We will explore the influence of cinema on the avantgarde stage and the current uses of film and video within what we still call live practice. We will look at the links between participation, authenticity and imitation. We will try to understand the continuing role music plays in the art of live performancethe way it joyfully reaffirms ritual connections at some cellular level. Performances are scheduled to alternate between the Graduate Centers Elebash Recital Hall and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, but look for us elsewhere as well. Niegel Smith has created a walk just for Preludea spiritual journey through the streets around CUNYand our partner, the Gershwin Hotel, will also host our two loudest offerings: Adam Feldman curates an Avant-Cabaret Spectacular on the night of October 3rd, while our performance-heavy closing night party will feature a DJ set from the singular Lumberob. None of this will be complete, though, without your participation. We hope that youll engage with our Critical Partners writing on Culturebot (culturebot.org) and Contemporary Performance (contemporaryperformance.org), and that youll continue the analysis, in a slightly less academic vein, over beers at the Gershwin. Whichever your chosen venue, we hope you feel as we do that the programming can only ever be half the conversation; we rely on you to turn it into a dialogue. - The Prelude Team: Caleb Hammons & Helen Shaw, and Frank Hentschker
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Photo of 600 HIGHWAYMEN by Blaine Davis
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MANIFESTOS 2012
The age of irony is over; the age of the new idealism has begun! Or perhaps certainty is over, and anything that pretends to have confidence is intellectually dishonest! Whether you are manifestly against manifestos (Richard Foreman), furious at the unjust conditions of the current field (Leah Nanako Winkler), quantifying the reasons we still make and need live art (Tina Satter) or just hoping for a performance-credo that will get the audience on its feet (Faye Driscoll), you will find yourself rabbleroused at Manifestos 2012.
THE FUTURE OF THE CINEMA IS THE STAGE

We are now in the fifth generation of artists making theater from within a video-heavy environment, yet there can still be a strange seam whenever projection and live performance come together. Wherever we looked, we found artists working on that border, basing their work on media techniques like editing (Phil Soltanoff) or live moving-image manipulation (Myles Kane), or repurposing Hollywood content into new, playful hybrid forms (Lucas Hnath, Jack Ferver). Those works that do their best to worry at the still-fraying divide have been gathered under an umbrella we are calling (to take Julie Talens phrase) The Future of the Cinema is the Stage.
IMITATION OF PARTICIPATION
Some form of participation is inherent in all live art. The debate surrounding authenticity and community in the process, content, and reception of performance is at the forefront of contemporary theater practices. Works that attempt to enact our shared political (Annie Dorsen), critical (Culturebot), spiritual (Niegel Smith), and anthropological (600 HIGHWAYMEN) experiences attempt to engage and expand our notions of spectatorship. We call this Imitation of Participation.
RETURN OF THE SINGSPIEL

Music and song have always played a central and defining role in the art of live performance, and the current scene is no exception. Young artists are reclaiming old forms (Avant-Cabaret, Andrew Ondrejcak & Shara Worden), subverting (Lumberob), and celebrating (Nellie Tinder) the communion embedded in theaters oldest traditions. We call this Return of the Singspiel.
DISCUSSIONS
Photo of Faye Driscoll by Steven Schreiber
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IMITATION OF PARTICIPATION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 4-4:45PM | Elebash What would happen if theater-makers were replaced by the audience? Community imitates theater imitating community: for 45 awkward minutes, watch the downtown theater-snake eat its own tail. Hoi Polloi/Alec Duffy presents a panel discussion in which members of the community play theater-makers who create work about members of the community addressing questions surrounding the ideals and practices of participatory art and art that imitates community. Moderator Caleb Hammons Special thanks to Claire Bishop (scholar), Lear deBessonet (artist), Andy Horwitz (artist / writer), Aaron Landsman (artist), and Niegel Smith (artist) for their contributions.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 44:45PM | Elebash
THE FUTURE OF THE CINEMA IS THE STAGE
Using projections in performance is hardly newJosef Svoboda worked with interactive projections in the 50s, and even he was not the first. But it has taken nearly a century of playing with and around the cinematic image for certain guidelines and best practices to emerge. How can the live performer command attention when the human eye is drawn so irresistibly to the light-emitting screen? How does our deep cultural familiarity with incamera and post-production manipulation demand a new dramaturgy? Julie Talen, digital pioneer and multi-channel cinema junkie, helps us bridge the gap between the theatrical and cinematic vocabularies. Moderators Julie Talen (scholar) and Helen Shaw Participants Caden Manson (Artist), Tony Torn (Artist), Marianne Weems (Artist) & others
PRELUDE.12 CRITICAL PARTNERS

As Prelude gathers together a whole community of artists trying to move the conversation forward, its only fair that we try not to let that conversation ebb. Our critical partners will have writers embedded in the festival, reacting both onsite and off in order to foster critical dialogue before, during, and after the span of events. (www.culturebot.org) Andy Horwitz, Founder; Jeremy Barker, Editor; Jessica Applebaum, Lydia Bell, Max Cramer, Ryan Hatch, Eric Shethar, and Kai Tuchmann, PRELUDE.12 Writers. (www.contemporaryperformance.org) Kathleen Amshoff, Esther Neff, Raul Zbengheci, and Emily Bercir Zimmerman, Regional Editors.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 5-6PM 6-7:30PM 6:30-10PM 10PM-12AM Daniel Fish [Segal] Niegel Smith [Outdoor Event] Manifestos 2012: various artists (Segal) Avant-Cabaret Spectacular: various artists (The Gershwin Hotel)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 4-10PM 4-5PM 4-4:45PM 5:15-5:45PM 6-6:45PM 5:30-6PM 6:30-7:30PM 7-8PM 8-9PM 8:30-10PM 9:30 - 10PM Video Killed the Theatre Star (Installations, Elebash Lobby) Lucas Hnath and Sarah Benson (Segal) Discussion: Imitation of Participation (Elebash) William Burke (Segal) Nellie Tinder (Segal) Heidi Schreck and Ken Rus Schmoll (Elebash) Annie Dorsen (Elebash) Jack Ferver (Segal) Andrew Ondrejcak and Shara Worden (Elebash) Playing with the Camera: various artists (Segal) Culturebot (Elebash)
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 4-10PM 4-5PM 4-4:45PM 5:15-6:15PM 5:15-6:15PM 5-5:45PM 6-7:30PM 6:15-7PM 7-7:45PM 7:45-8:45PM 8:30-10PM 9-10PM 10PM-12AM Video Killed the Theatre Star (Installation, Elebash Lobby) Anne Washburn (Segal) Discussion: The Future of the Cinema is the Stage (Elebash) Corina Copp (Segal) Juliana Francis Kelly (Segal) Erin Courtney/Adhesive Theater Project (Elebash) Niegel Smith [Outside Event] 600 Highwaymen (Elebash) Sibyl Kempson (Segal) Absence as Presence (screenings) (Elebash) The Return of the Singspiel: various artists (Segal) Yelena Gluzman (Elebash) Closing Night Party: various artists (The Gershwin Hotel)
MANIFESTOS 2012 THE FUTURE OF THE CINEMA IS THE STAGE IMITATION OF PARTICIPATION RETURN OF THE SINGSPIEL
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WEDNESDAY
Photo of Cole Escola by Allison Michael Orenstein
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DANIEL FISH
The Dollar General
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 5-6PM | Segal Theatre The Dollar General is a film inspired by Daniel Fishs 2010 stage production of Clifford Odets Paradise Lost. Using actors and themes from that production, Fish stripped the play of most of its language and inserted new material (from John Milton, The Phil Donahue Show, Ayn Rand, Sesame Street). The movie, shot in an abandoned Ford dealership in upstate New York, reframes Odets depression-era living room drama to reveal one buildings transition from mid-twentieth century auto business to twenty-first century Dollar Store. Artists Involved: Karl Bury, David Chandler, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Thomas Jay Ryan, Michael Rudko, and T. Ryder Smith. Lead Artist: DANIEL FISH is a New York based artist working in theatre, opera and film. He received his BS in 1989 from the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, where he was exposed to many diverse ways of making live performance. Recently, Fish has been creating new work in theatre and film from sources as varied as Shakespeares plays, Hollywood melodrama, The Phil Donahue Show, and Elliott Smiths music . Last spring his A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again, based on audio recordings of David Foster Wallace reading his work, played a sold-out run at The Chocolate Factory. Fish has taught directing and design at the Yale School of Drama, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton University, University of California San Diego, and Bard College. This fall he will adapt and direct House for Sale by Jonathan Franzen produced by The Transport Group (The New Duke/ October 2012), and be Resident Artist at Baryshinikov Arts Center. URL: danielfish.net
Photos by Daniel Fish
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NIEGEL SMITH
Eat Me, Drink Me, Homo
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 67:30PM | Outdoor Event Its refreshing to find a deliberately constructed experience a performance that exists just for itself, or just for you. The Brooklyn Rail PLEASE NOTE: Eat me, Drink Me, Homo is an outdoor walk designed for a very limited number of participants. Sign up in advance in the Segal Lobby. First come, first served. Please wear comfortable shoes. As a young gay in a Catholic all-boys high school, I was often reminded of my outsiders perspective. But, when the sacrament of communion, a sacrament in which only practicing Catholics (and I have never been one) are supposed to participate, was celebrated at an all school mass, I just couldnt help myself. I had to join in. Breaking bread. Sharing wine. And muttering Latin phrases. It was the best kind of community performance an opportunity to transcend our individuality and draw closer through shared experience. So now I invite you to to leave the rigid confines of organized religion and join me for an intimate walk outside. Ill lead you in a heightened sensory experience as we share new texts, create ritual gestures and mold the outside into our sanctuary. But, dont forget to say your prayers, things might get rough when we try to get a little bit closer. Niegel Lead Artist: NIEGEL SMITH is a performance artist and theater director who sculpts social spaces into unique communal environments where we make new rituals, excavate our pasts and imagine future narratives. His walks have been produced by Elastic City and his theater by The Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, HERE Arts Center, Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Summer Play Festival, New York Fringe Festival and the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. With Todd Shalom, Niegel has co-conceived and staged various mass performances in public settings. Niegel is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the associate director of the Tony Award winning musical Fela! and has received grants and fellowships from Theater Communications Group, the Van Lier Fund and the Tucker Foundation. Before surviving high school in Detroit, he grew up in the North Carolina piedmont, fishing with his dad, shopping with his mom and inventing tall-tale fantasies with his two younger brothers. URL: niegelsmith.com
Photo by Niegel Smith
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 6:30-10PM | Segal Theatre
RICHARD FOREMAN
Untitled
Lead Artist: RICHARD FOREMAN: Over 40 years making theater around the world. 8 books. A MacArthur, Officer of Arts and Letters of France, etc. Artists Involved: Richard Foreman, Tony Torn. Upcoming: Once Every Day, showing on October 6, 2012 at New York Film Festival, Walter Reade Theater.
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WORK HARD PLAY HARDER: a manifesto by a next generation theatre maker
Everywhere Theatre Groups Flying Snakes in 3-D!!! prompted a serious and polarizing dialogue about race, theater and class privilege in 2012. In this manifesto, young minority female playwright LEAH NANAKO WINKLER will tackle these same issues with her collaborators while emphasizing the importance of gratitude, respect, strength, vulnerability, communication, diversity and most of all, a sense of play, to keep theater relevant in this facebook society. Artists Involved: Ray Campbell, Bobby Foley, Kim Gainer, Jen Kwok, Sara Pauley, Jen Taher, Chris Tyler and Peter Mills Weiss; choreography by Sara Pauley; video by Chase Voorhees; additional dramaturgy and direction by Shannon Sindelar and Julian Mesri; featuring various interview subjects. Lead Artist: LEAH NANAKO WINKLERs latest play, Flying Snakes in 3-D!!!, created by Everywhere Theatre Group and cowritten with Teddy Nicholas, has been seen at Ars Nova, The Brick Theater, and the 2012 Ice Factory Fest at the New Ohio Theater. She is a current member of Youngblood and an affiliated artist at New Georges. Upcoming: Death For Sydney Black at The First Light Festival in Indianapolis in November. URL: leahwinkler.org | everywheretheatre.org
L-R: Photo of Richard Foreman by Paula Court; Photo of ETG by Chase Voorhees
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MAC WELLMAN
~Plosion of Imps
Artists Involved: Performed by David Greenspan. Lead Artists: MAC WELLMANs recent work includes 3 2s; or Afar at Dixon Place in October 2011. In 2003 he received his third Obie, for Lifetime Achievement. He is Distinguished Professor of Playwriting at Brooklyn College. DAVID GREENSPAN is a New York-based playwright and actor. Alumnus New Dramatists, Guggenheim and Lortel fellowships, Alpert Award and an Obie for Sustained Achievement. Upcoming: Lecturer, The New Museums Proposition Series in January; Muazzez at the Fusebox Festival in Austin in April. URL: macwellman.com
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BAD ART & OBJECTHOOD
Lead Artist: DAVID LEVINEs performance work has been seen at MoMA, Documenta XII, MASS MoCA, PS122, the Watermill Center, Tanya Leighton Gallery (Berlin), Blum and Poe (Los Angeles), Gavin Browns Enterprise (New York), and the Crossing the Line Festival. He has directed theater at Primary Stages, the Atlantic, and the Sundance Theater Lab. He is a 2012-13 Radcliffe Fellow in Visual Arts, and Professor of Art at Bard College/ European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin, where he is the Director of the Studio Program. URL: david-levine.net
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Leave Me to My Own Devices and I Come Up with Names Like Clubbed Thumb
Lead Artist: MARIA STRIAR is a founder of and the Producing Artistic Director of Clubbed Thumb, an Obie Award-winning downtown theater company which commissions, develops and produces funny, strange and provocative new plays by living American writers. Since 1996, theyve produced over 80 new plays. She is also, occasionally, an actress, most recently in Erin Courtneys A Map of Virtue, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. URL: clubbedthumb.org
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CADEN MANSON / BIG ART GROUP

After Spectacularity
In this provocative polemic by the writer and the director of BIG ART GROUP, Jemma Nelson and Caden Manson meditate on the meaning of spectacularity and its relationship to live performance in an age of media, video games, and slipping of the digital and the real. Lead Artist: CADEN MANSON / BIG ART GROUP is a New York based experimental performance ensemble founded by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson in 1999. BIG ART GROUP uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts. Artists Involved: Caden Manson, Jemma Nelson, Heather Litteer, Kathleen Amshoff, Ned Stresen Reuter, David Commander, Jeff Ralston, and Ana Mari de Quesada. Upcoming: People - L.E.S. at Abrons Arts Center in June 2013 URL: bigartgroup.com
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The title should speak for itself. Lead Artist: BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS is a Brooklyn-based playwright, dramaturg, and performer. His work has been seen at The Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, PS122, Soho Rep, New Dramatists, The Matrix Theatre, Theater Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany and the National Theatre in London and he is working on commissions from Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 and Yale Repertory Theater.
I PROMISE NEVER EVER AGAIN TO WRITE PLAYS ABOUT ASIANS...
Photo of Big Art Group by Ves Pitts
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JAY SCHEIB & CO.
Jay Scheib: Untitled Ecologies

JAY SCHEIB & CO. presents in the form of a manifesto the Epilogue and Synthesis of their Performance Trilogy Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. After six years of work, this will be performed as a brief closing of accounts with a handful of small explosions, a brief lecture demonstration, an avatar, and seven diagrams. Lead Artist: JAY SCHEIB is a director, designer and author of plays, operas and live art events. Internationally known for works of daring physicality, genre-defying performances and deep integration of new (and used) technologies, he is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2012 Obie Winner. Upcoming: A new staging for New York City Opera of Thomas Ads opera Powder her Face, which will premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music in February 2013. URL: jayscheib.com
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Schmoetics (A Poetics Talk by Tina Satter)
Making art is hard. Basically all the time you feel like a self-involved martyr for a cause that no one actually cares about. But then you think deep down that they should care. Cause it is kind of everything. It can matter. Right? Schmoetics is Tinas Poetics talk an earnest, evolving, and self-reflective consideration of dramatic theory and making performance. Lead Artist: TINA SATTER was recently described as an emerging experimental star by The New York Times and named a 2011 Off-Off Broadway Innovator to Watch by Time Out New York, who noted her sparky brilliance. She is the artistic director of the performance company Half Straddle formed in 2008. Upcoming: Seagull (Thinking of You) will be developed in residency at the New Museum in Fall/Winter 2012 and at MASSMoCA in December 2012, and will premiere during PS122s COIL festival in January 2013. URL: halfstraddle.com
Photo of Tina Satter by Michael De Angelis
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MIGUEL GUTIERREZ AND THE POWERFUL PEOPLE

The Problem with Dancing
Made in 2007 and performed infrequently since then,The Problem With Dancing pretty much changes every time its performed. But the through-line is that it remains rapid-fire and clever, provocative and silly and mostly it was a clever way for Miguel to figure out how to make out with Andrew those many years ago. Lead Artist: MIGUEL GUTIERREZ, a dance and music artist based in New York, has been called one of our most provocative and necessary artistic voices by Eva Yaa Asantewaa of Dance Magazine. He makes solo and group pieces with a variety of artists under the moniker MIGUEL GUTIERREZ AND THE POWERFUL PEOPLE. Artists involved: Miguel Gutierrez, Andrew Champlin. Upcoming: And lose the name of action at the BAM Fisher Building in December 2012. URL: miguelgutierrez.org
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Untitled
Lead Artist: FAYE DRISCOLL is a Bessie-award winning choreographer and director who has been called a startlingly original talent by The New York Times and the most promising performing artist of her generation by The Weekly Standard. Upcoming: Workshop in February 2013 Headlands Center for the Arts San Francisco; new work will be shown March 1-3 in Stripped/Dressed, the 2013 92Y Harkness Dance Festival in NYC, and in the River to River Festival in summer 2013. URL: fayedriscoll.com
Photo of Miguel Gutierrez by Christy Pessagno
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AVANT-CABARET SPECTACULAR
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 10PM-12AM | The Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street between Madison and Fifth Ave Forget what you may think you know about cabaret: a new generation of downtown performers has been redefining the genre with an eye toward edgy comedy and performance art. Time Out New Yorks ADAM FELDMAN serves up a tasty sampler of some of the citys best neocabaret artists, joined by the celebrated songwriter LANCE HORNE on the piano.
reviews theatre and cabaret as a staff writer for Time Out New York and is president of the New York Drama Critics Circle.
ADAM FELDMAN (HOST)
Bree Brenton has been performing as POOR BABY BREE since 2005 after a lifetime of studying vaudeville and its performers. Her one-woman show Weary River earned awards from Time Out New York and Backstage. Her following show, I Am Going to Run Away, has played at The Club at La MaMa E.T.C. She is joined by Franklin Bruno on piano.
POOR BABY BREE
a.k.a. the funny guy (The New York Times), appears regularly as various older women, himself, or some combination of the two all over NYC (including Our Hit Parade, the almost-Broadway production of Yank! and his one-man nightclub act at Joes Pub and Feinsteins at the Loews Regency), as well as on television.
COLE ESCOLA
is a singing tour de force known for her funny yet gut-wrenching, outrageous and unpredictable performance work. She has appeared frequently on Time Out New Yorks annual list of top cabaret performers. At Ars Nova, she starred in the original musical At Least Its Pink, based on her life, which she co-wrote with Kenny Mellman and director Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City).
BRIDGET EVERETT
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L-R: Photo of Cole Escola by Allison Michael Orenstein; Poor Baby Bree by Franklin Bruno; Bridget Everett by Allison Michael Orenstein
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[CONTINUED]
Theatre: Silence! The Musical, Modern Orthodox, (Lucille Lortel Award, Theatre World Award). TV: 30 Rock, Bored to Death, Law&Order, Law & Order: CI, Guiding Light. Boston University School for the Arts, L.A.M.D.A., The Second City (Chicago).
JENN HARRIS
is an acclaimed vocalist and comedic performance artist in the tradition of Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett and Whoopi Goldberg. Her recent projects include the sold-out series Amber Alert!, a collection of vignettes drawn from her toy box of strange and fascinating characters. She was named one of the top performers of 2010 by The New Yorkers Hilton Als.
AMBER MARTIN
is a critically acclaimed cabarettist whose solo shows have played Joes Pub and Ars Nova, among other venues. She has been branded a kicky, neoretro cabaret chanteuse and hailed for her shredding alto (Time Out New York). She is joined on piano by Tony Award nominee, Obie winner, and Our Hit Parade co-creator KENNY MELLMAN.
MOLLY POPE
the self-proclaimed Worlds Most Adorable Hip-Hop Duo is the arty rap group/ multimedia collaboration of Jon and Larissa Velez-Jackson, a.k.a. Papi Jon and Twitta. This married hip-hop duo exists as both a celebration and critique of popular culture, politics, urban life and, most notably, itself.
YACKEZ
L-R: Photo of Molly Pope by Allison Michael Orenstein; Amber Martin by Matthu Placek; Jenn Harris by Allison Michael Orenstein; Yackez by Michael Hart
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Photo of Nellie Tinder courtesy of the artist
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LUCAS HNATH AND SARAH BENSON

A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 45PM | Segal Theatre Aided by a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of vodka, three actors, and a pile of dead lemmings, Walt Disney will read to you a screenplay he wrote about his final days on earth. Artists Involved: Written by Lucas Hnath; directed by Sarah Benson. Lead Artists: LUCAS HNATHs recent plays include A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney, Red Speedo, Hillary and Clinton, Sake Tasting with a Sance to Follow, The Courtship of Anna Nicole Smith, Odiles Ordeal, Tonguetied, and Three Attempts at Corrective Eye Surgery. A resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2011, Lucas work has been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, University of Miami, The Culture Project, Target Margin and Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Additionally, his plays have been developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Cleveland Public Theatre. He has also enjoyed playwriting residencies with The Royal Court Theatre and 24Seven Lab. Most recently his play Death Tax premiered in the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. Lucas is a two-time winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for his feature-length screenplays, The Painting, the Machine, and the Apple and Still Life. He is also a recipient of an EST/Sloan Project commission for his play, Isaacs Eye. He is currently working two commissions for Actors Theatre of Louisville. Lucas received both his BFA and MFA from NYUs Department of Dramatic Writing and is a lecturer in NYUs Expository Writing Program. SARAH BENSON has been the Artistic Director of Soho Rep since 2007. For Soho Rep: David Adjmis Elective Affinities (site-specific); Sarah Kanes Blasted (OBIE award, Drama Desk nomination); Gregory Moss Orange, Hat & Grace. Upcoming: Richard Maxwells Samara. Her body of work has been recognized with six Obie awards, three Drama Desk nominations, and The New York Times Outstanding Playwriting Award. Benson moved to New York from London on a Fulbright Award. She is editing the upcoming anthology: The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays (2013). She has served as a mentor in the directing programs at NYU and Yale, and was the co-curator of PRELUDE from 20052006.
Photo by Marisa Viola
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WILLIAM BURKE
Furry
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 5:15-5:45PM | Segal Theatre When Elmo close Elmo appear far. The army gathers, 42nd street beware. A piece for 1 Elmo, 2 impostors, a cowboy, and the general cookie monster mob. Artists Involved: Performed by Marty Brown; set design by Jason Simms; costumes by Asta Hostetter. Lead Artist: WILLIAM BURKE is a playwright and director living in Bushwick. His plays have been seen at IRT, Little Theatre at Dixon Place, The Seattle Fringe and the Bushwick Starr. Recently: EXPODITY!! as part of the Target Margin Last Futurist Labs and the devil wants his hat back as part of the Bushwhack Series at the Bushwick Starr. Other plays include: Furry, The Yurt, She has to be Outside and the food was terrible, He was also the Football Choreographer and dramaturginator for Half Straddles In the Pony Palace/ Football, he is the founder of ANGRY BLVD with Mallery Avidon and the Director for Rocky Mountain Vandamage by Darcy Burke. He is pursuing his Masters in Playwriting at Brooklyn College. Upcoming: the devil wants his hat back will be a part of the Black Swan Lab at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Photo by Michael De Angelis
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NELLIE TINDER
Raise Your Voice in Medieval Counterpoint
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 66:45PM | Segal Theatre supremely balanced weirdness. Time Out New York NELLIE TINDERs newest work in progress is a musical adaptation/riff on Grace Paleys hugely influential short story, Faith in a Tree: an experimental post-modern narrative about a single mother in her thirties in the year 1970, who, one afternoon in a New York City park, decides to become an activist. Meta-fictive, digressive, unsentimental and funny, the story approaches lust, loneliness, proto-feminism, child-rearing and idealism with incisive candor. Using Paleys lyrical language and shifting perspectives to create intricate madrigal harmonies, psychedelia, and everybody now folk-music, NELLIE TINDER seeks to explore sincerity without going soft, to revisit old New York without getting nostalgic, and to develop a new structural framework for a musical, one that is as freely associative and wild as Paleys story. Artists Involved: Directed and co-composed by Julia May Jonas; composed by Jon Lundbom; performers include Kate Benson, Nikki Calonge, Lisa Clair, Andrew Dinwiddie, Zo Geltman, Hannah Heller, Lucy Kaminsky, Richard Saudek, Kate Schroeder, and Marisa Lark Wallin. Lead Artist: JULIA MAY JONAS, with her company NELLIE TINDER, has created and directed multi-disciplinary work since 2005. Recent shows include Evelyn, which premiered at The Bushwick Starr, For Artists Only, at the Ontological Incubator, and Take Heart, with TerraNova at PS122. She has performed frequently at the Catch! Series, curated by Andrew Dinwiddie, Jeff Larson and Caleb Hammons, as well as at the Little Theater Series at Dixon Place, and her writing has been published by The Brooklyn Review. She recently received her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. The work of Nellie Tinder aims to create a unique, highly personal idiom of theater that is musical, spiritual, insightful, and guided by moral investigation. URL: nellietinder.org
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HEIDI SCHRECK AND KEN RUS SCHMOLL

What the Constitution Means to Me
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 5:30-6PM | Elebash What I hope is coming: more work from Schreck. Shes shown a willingness to crack open the earths crust and tap the undersoul. New York Magazine Were blessed with any number of highly talented stage directors. But the one most catching our eye these dayswhose name attached to a show most warms us with optimismis the quietly intrepid Ken Rus Schmoll. The Village Voice The story of one high school girls baffling encounter with a Very Important Document. Artists Involved: Written and performed by Heidi Schreck; directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. Lead Artists: HEIDI SCHRECK is an actor and playwright living in Brooklyn. As an actor she has won two Obie awards, a Drama Desk and the Theatre World Award (for Drum of the Waves of Horikawa with Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf at HERE, and Circle Mirror Transformation at Playwrights Horizons). She has also worked extensively at theaters such as 13P, The Roundabout, Williamstown, The Womens Project, Clubbed Thumb, The Foundry, The Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, The Talking Band and on The Good Wife and SVU. As a playwright her work has been produced or developed by Page 73, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New Georges, MTC, Soho Rep, Printers Devil Theatre, On the Boards, and National Public Radio. Her play Creature was produced by Page 73 and New Georges in 2009, directed by Leigh Silverman and is published by Samuel French. There Are No More Big Secrets was performed at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2010 (New York Magazine and TONY critics pick) and directed by her husband, Kip Fagan. She is currently working on commissions from MTC and True Love Productions. KEN RUS SCHMOLLs recent credits include Luther, Telethon, Amazons and Their Men, Demon Baby (Clubbed Thumb), The Peripherals (Talking Band), Death Tax (Humana Festival), A Map of Virtue, Mark Smith, Aphrodisiac, The Internationalist (13P), Furee in Pins and Needles, Telephone (Foundry Theatre), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River Theater), Middletown, The Internationalist (Vineyard Theatre), and Proserpina (Spoleto Festival USA). He is the recipient of two Obie Awards and cochair of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Upcoming: What the Constitution Means to Me is currently being developed with True Love Productions.
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ANNIE DORSEN
SPOKEN KARAOKE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 6:30-7:30PM | Elebash PLEASE NOTE: SPOKEN KARAOKE is a participatory event. Sign up in advance in the Segal Lobby. SPOKEN KARAOKE is a participatory event that invites people to perform speeches as they would ordinarily perform songs in a karaoke bar. Speeches are, after all, songs of persuasion, argument, consolidation or motivation. Traditional karaoke offers an occasion to assert shared ownership of the pop music corpus, and simultaneously an opportunity to announce ones identity through the choice of material to perform. SPOKEN KARAOKE allows us to play with this legacy of spoken artifacts, treating snippets and snatches of public address like a Top 40 radio of the collective discourse. Artists Involved: Sound design by Vladimir Kudryatsev; assistance by Lola Harney. Lead Artist: Director and writer ANNIE DORSEN works in a variety of fields, including theatre, film, dance and, as of 2010, digital performance. Most recently, Hello Hi There premiered at the streirischer herbst festival (Graz), and was presented at Black Box Teatre (Oslo), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) and PS122 (New York), among many others. She is the co-creator of the 2008 Broadway musical Passing Strange, which she also directed. Spike Lee has since made a film of her production of the piece, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, subsequently screened at South by Southwest Film Festival and The Tribeca Film Festival, and was released theatrically by IFC in 2010 before being broadcast on PBS Great Performances. In 2009 she created two music-theatre pieces, Ask Your Mama, a setting of Langston Hughes 1962 poem, composed by Laura Karpman and sung by Jessye Norman and The Roots (Carnegie Hall) and ETHELs Truckstop, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Musics Next Wave Festival. Her pop-political performance project Democracy in America was presented at PS122 in spring 2008. She is currently a visiting artist professor at Bard College. Upcoming: The truth is concrete will play in March at Black Box Theatre, Oslo, and BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen. URL: anniedorsen.com
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JACK FERVER
All of a Sudden
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 7-8PM | Segal Theatre With his mad blue Bette Davis eyes and penchant for public suffering, he is good at making a spectacle of himself, and- more to the point- he excels at making his audiences deeply uncomfortable. The New York Times All of a Sudden is a new collaboration between choreographer Jack Ferver and collaborator Joshua Lubin-Levy, based on the film (also a play) Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams about a young girl driven insane after witnessing her cousins murder and the doctor who attempts to help her. Set against the backdrop of the film, Ferver and Lubin-Levy build a performance at the intersection of such complex caring, loving and violent dyads (including the therapist/patient and the artist/dramaturg) exploding the moment when we are so overwhelmed we must ask for help, where reality becomes so heavy we bring in others (real or imaginary) to help shoulder the burden. For the Prelude Festival, Ferver and Lubin-Levy will present excerpts of this work-in-progress woven together with conversation around the creation of a performance through the lens of film. Artists Involved: Created in collaboration with Joshua Lubin-Levy; set by Marc Swanson; music by Roarke Menzies; costumes by Reid Bartelme. Lead Artists: JACK FERVER is a choreographer, writer, performer and teacher based in New York City. Ferver has been creating full-length works since 2007. He has been presented at The Kitchen (NYC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA), PS 122 (NYC), The New Museum (NYC), The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Diverse Works (Houston, TX), Danspace Project (NYC), Abrons Art Center (NYC), Dixon Place (NYC), and Thtre de Vanves in France, among others. He teaches privately as well as at New York University and has set choreography at The Juilliard School. JOSHUA LUBIN-LEVY is a scholar and performer whose work centers around theories of the archive and the labor of performance. A current doctoral candidate in Performance Studies at New York University, his focus is on the artist Jack Smith. His collaborations have been presented at Performance Space 122 (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), New York Live Arts/Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), and Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA). Upcoming: A residency and workshop at Bard College in 2013; premiere at Abrons Art Center in 2013. URL: jackferver.org
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ANDREW ONDREJCAK AND SHARA WORDEN

Kings of Macedonia
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 8-9 PM | Elebash Conceived as a modern telling of The Canterbury Tales, the Kings of Macedonia is a collection of moments from everyday life, in which ten characters search for meaning while en route to destinations they cannot quite pinpoint. Individually, they reflect on their own aptitude for inciting meaning within their lives and the lives of others; collectively, they look to the impulses within (and the vast unknown above) in the search for something, anything, to hold onto. Artists Involved: Text and stage direction by Andrew Ondrejcak; music by Shara Worden; performed by Laurena Allan, Tunde Adebimpe, Helga Davis, Jenn Dees, Jessica Dessner, Brock Gloor, Meg Harper, Jake Hart, Yuki Kawahisa, Paul Ketchum, Denise Ondrejcak, Shara Worden, and the Khorikos Chorus; musicians: CJ Camerieri, R.J. Kelley, Ted Poor, Ibanda Ruhmbika, and Michael Seltzer. Lead Artists: ANDREW ONDREJCAK is a writer and visual artist. His performances combine an original text with experiments in visual storytelling and theatrical mise-enscne. Recent work includes: Feast (2012) at St. Marks-on-the-Bowery; Fatherland (2010); Wonder/Lust (2009) at HERE Arts Center. In 2010, Ondrejcak reperformed the work of Marina Abramovic in The Artist is Present at MoMA. As a designer, Andrew creates large scale installations for fashion shows and photo shoots. Since 2003, Andrew has been a freelance lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, where he focuses on painting and sculpture and specializes in programs for visitors with disabilities. SHARA WORDEN received a BA in Opera from the University of North Texas and studied composition with Padma Newsome. Under the moniker My Brightest Diamond, she has released 3 albums on Asthmatic Kitty Records. In addition to pursuing her own compositions, she has collaborated with such artists as The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens and Matthew Barney. Worden has performed at Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and at Lincoln Center in an evening of her work for American Songbook Series. Upcoming: Ondrejcak and Worden are collaborating with BOX (Baroque Orchestra, Generation X) on a new work to premiere at deSingel, Antwerp in 2013. URL: andrewondrejcak.com | mybrightestdiamond.com
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Live Interactions with the Moving Image

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 8:30-10 PM | Segal Theatre
PLAYING WITH THE CAMERA
MYLES KANE
The Popcorn Kid
A live, and cinematic, remix of footage from The Popcorn Kid, a failed sitcom about a group of teens working at a movie theater concession counter. Lead Artist: MYLES KANE is a filmmaker and video artist who remixes and reinterprets found footage. URL: youtube.com/miloshkanine
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[another tree dance]
[another tree dance] is a performance that translates, resolves, returns, and recuperates six years of doctoral study out of discipline. It is growing out of Karinnes dissertation, a comparative study of experimentalism in performance and 19th century American literature, but is becoming a performance in conversation and collaboration with Sara Smith, fellow quietist, disciplinary saunterer, and choreographic mind. Artists Involved: Karinne Keithley, Sara Smith. Lead Artist: KARINNE KEITHLEY is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, audio, video, text, and paper. She has collaborated as a performer and designer with Chris Yon, Sara Smith, David Neumann, Young Jean Lee, Big Dance Theater, Sibyl Kempson, among others, and co-founded two playwrights posses (JOYCE CHO, Machiqq). She founded and co-edits the 53rd State Press, publisher of new writing for performance, and estimates she will finish her Ph.D. in English some time next year. Her show/museum Montgomery Park, or Opulence, won a 2011 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production. URL: fancystitchmachine.org
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PHIL SOLTANOFF
An Evening with William Shatner Asterisk

William Shatners image from the original Star Trek series speaks on the subjects of contemporary art and science. Phil Soltanoff, Rob Ramirez and Joe Diebes have created a dynamic, video Shatner oracle by meticulously cataloguing everything William Shatner ever said on Star Trek. Together, the artists attempt to bravely make Captain James T. Kirk expand our universe. Artists Involved: Directed by Phil Soltanoff; system design by Rob Ramirez; written by Joe Diebes. Lead Artist: PHIL SOLTANOFF is a theatre artist creating innovative, hybrid work in which the arts collide in compelling ways. Recent projects include Sitstandwalkliedown on Governors Island (SITELINES) and The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Soltanoff/ Findlay Project commissioned by the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, and i/o created in collaboration with sound artist Joe Diebes. LA Party premiered at Prelude.09 and was featured in Under The Radar, Fusebox, PS122 and the Flynn Center among others. Upcoming: Engagement at The Chocolate Factory in 2014. URL: philsoltanoff.org
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Influences
TEI BLOW
Influences is a series of short interviews of people talking about art, dance and performance, possibly under the influence of mind altering substances and research chemicals. Artists Involved: Tei Blow, Elizabeth Dement, Paul Lazar, and Annie-B Parson. Lead Artists: TEI BLOW lives and works in Brooklyn. He has written songs for the film Loveless, interactive video for Brooklyn band Steve Burns (And The Struggle), and made designs for The Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jodi Melnick, Ann Liv Young, Big Dance Theatre, David Neumann, Deganit Shemy & Company, He performs with the Brooklyn band Perfect Shapes and shoots 8x10 portraits. ELIZABETH DEMENT was born in Ukiah, California. Elizabeth currently dances with Big Dance Theater, Othershore, and the Liz Gerring Dance Company. URL: sciencecompany.org
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CULTUREBOT
Everyones a Critic
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 9:3010PM | Elebash CULTUREBOTS Jeremy M. Barker, Mashinka Firunts, and Andy Horwitz present a performance of a participatory panel discussion that asks: What does it mean to take part in a conversation on the live arts? To whom is this privilege extended? And what role does a critic play in a moment when the tools and platforms for criticism are extended to a broadly defined public? Examining live art through On the Boards catalog of performance documentation, the trio explores the consequences of a scenario in which everyone is a critic. Lead Artist: CULTUREBOT is a website devoted to new modes of cultural critique in the exploration of contemporary performing arts. Launched as a blog for Performance Space 122 (NYC) in 2003 and operating independently since 2007, Culturebot.org covers contemporary performance in NYC, nationally and internationally. Led by Editor-in-Chief ANDY HORWITZ and Editor JEREMY BARKER, CULTUREBOT has become a major voice in the arts, taking as its mission the idea of critical horizontalism, a framework for arts engagement that proposes criticism as creative practice, reassessing spectatorship and engaging with artists process over time. They are joined by CULTUREBOT correspondent MASHINKA FIRUNTS, a Philadelphia-based artist and student in the University of Pennsylvanias PhD program in the History of Art. Upcoming: Everyones a Critic (working title) will premiere at On The Boards in Seattle in March 2013 URL: culturebot.org
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FRIDAY
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ANNE WASHBURN
Mr Burns, a post-electric play
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 45PM | Segal Theatre As inexhaustibly original as the animated series that inspired it, the kookily brilliant Mr. Burns is the sort of once-in-a-blue-moon show that stays stuck in your brain long after it has chilled you to the bone. The Washington Post In the first act of Mr Burns, set immediately after the collapse of the American civilization, survivors attempt to remember their favorite Simpsons episode. Artists Involved: Written by Anne Washburn; performed by Quincy Bernstine, Gibson Frazier, Matt Maher, Jennifer Morris, Heidi Schreck, Colleen Werthmann. Lead Artist: ANNE WASHBURNs plays include Mr Burns, The Internationalist, A Devil at Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Small and a transadaptation of Euripides Orestes. Her work has been produced by 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, Just Theater, Londons Gate Theatre, NYCs Soho Rep, DCs Studio Theater, Two River Theater Company, NYCs Vineyard and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Guggenheim, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, and an Artslink travel grant to Hungary to work with the playwright Peter Karpati. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, New Georges, Machiqq, and an alumna of New Dramatists. Currently commissioned by MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Yale Rep. Upcoming: Mr Burns will have its NYC premiere in Fall 2013.
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CORINA COPP
Part 1 of The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love: SUSANANSWERPHONE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 5:15-6:15PM | Segal Theatre The first installment of The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, a trilogy to be built primarily on considerations of desire and reappearance as they are taken up in the book, script, and film work of Marguerite Duras, Susananswerphone takes for its sources the 1960 film musical Bells Are Ringing, about a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator (Judy Holliday) who falls in love with a client who calls her Mom, Duras dissolving of characters limits in the conflation of ravishment and nonsuffering, and the imperfect quotidian as portrayed in the photographs and writing of Moyra Davey. Artists Involved: Written by Corina Copp; directed by Josh Hoglund; performed by Kate Moran, Kristen Sieh, and Jason Quarles; video and audio design by Tei Blow; design and set elements by Jeremy Lydic; produced by Allison Lyman. Lead Artist: CORINA COPP is a writer based in New York. She is most recently the author of Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), with publications forthcoming from Bad Press, Minutes Books, and Trafficker Press. Recent poetry, performance texts, and critical writing can be found at SFMOMAs Open Space, The Claudius App, Boston Review, BOMB, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her plays include Tell No One (workshop directed by Josh Hoglund/Invisible Dog 2011); Waltz (directed by Meghan Finn/E. 13th Street Theater 2010); and A Week of Kindness (co-created with Kelly Kivland/Incubator Arts 2007). Copp has read and performed her own work and that of others at various venues, including DUMBO Arts Space, Triple Canopy, The Kitchen, Small Press Traffic/San Francisco, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poetry Project, University of Greenwich CrossGenre Festival/London, UK; Poets House, BAX, Galapagos, Little Theater at Dixon Place, Regina Rex Gallery, and elsewhere. She is a member of machiqq, a co-founder of The Twenty-Five-Cent Opera of San Francisco (20102011); and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (20092011). MFA: Brooklyn College/Mac Wellman. Upcoming: Developmental residency at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, in winter 2013.
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JULIANA FRANCIS KELLY

Daphne and Apollo: Exercise One
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 5:15-6:15PM | Segal Theatre In Ovids Daphne and Apollo, Daphne, the fastest nymph in the forest, cant outrun a creepy God. She prays for deliverance, and gets it when she is turned into a tree. Through extreme dance inspired by a female tri-athletes and a 14 year old track star, along with text drawn from interviews with teenaged girls, and weird facts about the history of Berninis statue Daphne and Apollo, ... Exercise One aims to get to the heart of the conditions that inspired Ovids great line: Change the body that destroys my life. Artists Involved: Text and performance by Juliana Francis Kelly; sound design by Raul Vincent Enriquez; additional text by Danica, Tenaj, and Zenzali Lael. Lead Artist: JULIANA FRANCIS KELLY has originated roles for many great writer/directors, including Reza Abdoh (as a founding member of the internationally renowned Dar A Luz Company); Richard Foreman (in Paradise Hotel; Bad Boy Nietzsche; King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe and Maria Del Bosco for which she received an Obie Award) and for Anne Bogart, Karin Coonrod, Young Jean Lee, Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, Lear DeBessonet, Normandy Sherwood, Hal Hartley, Meredith Drum, Mary Billyou, Marie Losier in collaboration with Guy Maddin, and David Michalek (for the 2011 Lincoln Center Festivals Portraits in Dramatic Time). Ms. Kelly also writes, performs and directs her own work, and has written for several film companies, including Killer Films. Her plays include: Go Go Go, directed by Anne Bogart for PS 122, reprised at The Institute of Contemporary Art for London International Festival of Theater; Box, directed by Tony Torn and performed at The Womens Project, PS 122; and The Fontanon Festival in Italy; The Baddest Natashas, performed at The Ontological Theater and published by Open City Magazine; Saint Latrice, at PS 122 (for which she received a Sundance Screenwriters Fellowship for the film script adaptation.) Recent performances include Woman Bomb by Ivana Sajko, directed by Charlotte Brathwaite at Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Tiny Hornets by Normandy Sherwood at Uncanny Valley. Ms. Kelly is also a doll maker (one of her dolls is installed at the American Museum of Natural Historys Interactive Educational Wing) and a Mom.
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ERIN COURTNEY AND ADHESIVE THEATER PROJECT

The Service Road
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 5-5:45PM | Elebash A violent storm of mythic proportions hits Prospect Park. The once peaceful service road turns strange and even savage as a nature guide attempts to find a lost child. On her quest she meets the denizens of one of the few natural places left in a large city. The nature guide is a modern day Hercules very strong, very loyal, a little thick, and trying to do penance for a very bad thing she had done when she was out of her mind. Obie award winning playwright (A Map of Virtue) Erin Courtney examines what it means to be of service and the true nature of forgiveness. Artists Involved: Written by Erin Courtney; directed by Meghan Finn; set design by Mike Riccio; lighting by Sue Brandt; video and puppet design by Cory Einbinder; performed by Kalle Macrides and Cory Einbinder. Lead Artists: ADHESIVE THEATER PROJECT is dedicated to collaborating with professional artists of all disciplines, particularly those with a non-theatrical background. By challenging these artists to work in the theater we create new perspectives for live performance. By integrating live music, visual arts, metaphor, and narrative storytelling, we create epic experiences that excite the audiences imagination. Since 2000, Adhesive Theater Project has been developing original, multi-media productions and play adaptations steeped in spectacle. Adhesive Theater Project is currently a resident company of the New York City College of Technology (CUNY). ERIN COURTNEY won a special citation 2012 Obie for her play A Map of Virtue, produced by 13P and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. Her play Honey Drop was part of the Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons Superlab and was given a mini-workshop at New Georges. Her plays have been produced or developed by Clubbed Thumb, The Public Theater, The Flea, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, NYS&F, and Soho Rep. She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb, a member of the Obie award winning playwright collective 13P, as well as the co-founder of the Brooklyn Writers Space. Ms. Courtney teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College and is a member of New Dramatists. Upcoming: Premieres in January 2013 at The New York City College of Technology. URL: adhesivetheater.com
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600 HIGHWAYMEN
Everyone Was Chanting Your Name
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 6:15-7PM | Elebash Browde and Silverstone have some delicate tricks up their sleeves The New York Times Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone share a work-in-progress showing of 600 HIGHWAYMENs latest work, Everyone Was Chanting Your Name, a living portrait of eight individuals spanning six decades in age. Artists Involved: Directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone; performed by Stayna Alexandre, Matthew Scott Butterfield, Mark Garcia, Rami Ibrahim, Sara Ishimura, Lucy Kaminsky, Susan Karpman and Joseph Rosta; designed by 600 HIGHWAYMEN with Matthew OHare; assistant directed by Morgan Green; producing director Kate Blumm. Lead Artist: 600 HIGHWAYMEN is an award-winning theater company under the artistic direction of Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone, dedicated to creating a body of original, immersive productions that re-imagine the theatrical experience for an audience. By integrating creative methods ranging from conventional to peculiar, and developing groundbreaking collaborations with communities, businesses, and non-traditional performance sites, 600 HIGHWAYMEN engineer electric performances that bind spectator and performer in an inimitable and unparalleled live encounter. 600 HIGHWAYMENs performances have been awarded distinctions and critics picks in the Village Voice, Flavorpill, and Time Out New York. Their inaugural work, This Time Tomorrow, staged in a Brooklyn church basement, was named Best Of 2010 by L Magazine, and the companys latest production, This Great Country, was created in residency with Fusebox Festival in Austin. Silverstone and Browde have received residencies and fellowships from Brooklyn Arts Exchange, the Drama League, and Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and individually, have directed works in a spectrum of venues-- including Williamstown Theater Festival, New York state maximum security prisons, Chicagos Single File Festival, and state parks and public gardens. They have received support from the Puffin Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Upcoming: Premieres in 2013. URL: 600HIGHWAYMEN.org
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SIBYL KEMPSON
River of Gruel, Pile of Pigs: The Requisite Gesture(s) of Narrow Approach
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 7-7:45PM | Segal Theatre one of the most radical, transgressive, and hilarious playwright/performers out there. She has a singular theatrical imagination BOMB Magazine River of Gruel, Pile of Pigs: The Requisite Gesture(s) of Narrow Approach is a collaboration between four Austin-based theater companies (Physical Plant, Rubber Rep, Rude Mechs, and Salvage Vanguard Theater) and a New Dramatists resident playwright. The group gathers in a chaotic work format known as a Pig Pile, with little discernible leadership or centralized structure - neither of narrative nor of process and has assembled an unwieldy and highly associative collection of seemingly unrelated imagery, geography and aromas, that over time and layers of work has revealed an emerging, intimately connected web of enfolded and implicate mythology. This project is one of five institutional New Dramatists/Full Stage USA Commissions for new work at an eclectic mix of producing organizations across the country. The Full Stage USA initiative, conceived by New Dramatists and underwritten by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, addresses the field-critical issues of new works stalling in development with no resulting full production and the special challenge of securing subsequent productions after a world premiere. Artists Involved: Performers and participants in the PRELUDE presentation: video and projection by David French; film and projection by Eva von Schweinitz; performed by Sarah Benson, Jack Frederick, Johnny Gasper, Frank Hentschker, Todd London, Natalie Ann Mack, Emily Morse, Antje Oegel, Gavin Price, Graham Reynolds, Samantha Seerman, Tory Vazquez, John Steber and Michael Wiener. Artist: SIBYL KEMPSON is a member of New Dramatists, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and a founding member of the playwrights groups Joyce Cho and Machiqq, and a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program taught by Mac Wellman. Current projects include the Big Dance Theater production of her play Ich, KrbisGeist (an olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play for Halloween) opening October 25 at the Chocolate Factory, Fondly, Collette Richland, a collaboration with Elevator Repair Service premiering in Spring 2014, and an as-yet unknown collaboration with New York City Players at the Abrons Arts Center in the Fall of 2014. Upcoming; Premieres at the Fusebox Festival in Austin in April/May 2014. URL: newdramatists.org/sibyl-kempson
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Cinematic Postcards from the New York Avant-Garde Abroad
ABSENCE AS PRESENCE:
NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 7:45-8:45PM | Elebash
Animation 2-5-11 (Group)
In 2011 NTOK started making stop-motion animated films in the different locations where they happened to be on tour. This film was made at the deSingel Arts Campus in Antwerp at the end of a long tour on the last day before they returned home. Artists Involved: Featuring Ilan Bachrach, Elisabeth Conner, Kelly Copper, Gabel Eiben, Dan Gower, Robert M. Johanson, and Kristin Worrall; filmed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper.
Screen Test No. 7 (Shizuoka)
A deep study of working process as Pavol Liska directs actor Robert M. Johanson in the spectacular natural setting of Shizuoka, Japan, where the company was in residence this June. They work together on a 1/2 page of text from one of the upcoming episodes of Life and Times. This all-day rehearsal process is compressed into 30 minutes, and is edited and scored by Kelly Copper. Artists Involved: Featuring Robert M. Johanson; directed and filmed by Pavol Liska; edited by Kelly Copper; music by Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A Major. Lead Artist: NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA is an award-winning New York art and performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. Since Poetics: a ballet brut, our first dance piece created as an ensemble, Nature Theater of Oklahoma has been devoted to making the work we dont know how to make, putting ourselves in impossible situations, and working from out of our own ignorance and unease. We strive to create an unsettling live situation that demands total presence from everyone in the room. We use the readymade material around us, found space, overheard speech, and observed gesture, and through extreme formal manipulation, and superhuman effort, we affect in our work a shift in the perception of everyday reality that extends beyond the site of performance and into the world in which we live. Upcoming: Life and Times, Episodes 1-4 will have its American premiere in January 2013, presented by Soho Rep and The Public Theater. URL: oktheater.org
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ABSENCE AS PRESENCE: THE WOOSTER GROUP
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 7:45-8:45PM | Elebash The Wooster Group DAILIES are a series of short filmsartworks in their own right created by our resident filmmaker Zbigniew Bzymek in conjunction with the companythat we release each workday on social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter. The DAILIES cover a variety of topics including production teasers, rehearsal edits, company member profiles, intern interviews, tour diaries, archival material, and much more. The videos provide our audience with daily glimpses into the workings and life of the Group.
voice doctor
Date: [01.05.12]; Tweet: Clay: is it against the rules if I give another few inches in there? Liz: uh, no, no, yeah--the more the better
VIEUX CARR tour - Amsterdam day 3 EARLY PLAYS - dash oh dash neill musique
Date: [06.10.11]; Tweet: I cant say this because youll put it on the blog Date: [01.13.12]; Tweet: here are some of the jpegs that I want to show you from the internet Date: [11.19.11]; Tweet: I wanted to be Scott for Halloween but I couldnt fit seven chocolate amaranth bars in my mouth Lead Artist: THE WOOSTER GROUP is a company of experimental theatre artists under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte. Wooster Group productions are known for their interweaving of text and performance with technology to tell stories in new ways. Since its founding in 1976, the Group has made more than 30 works for theatre, dance, film, and video. The Group has toured in the U.S. and to Europe, Russia, Canada, South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. The Performing Garage at 33 Wooster Street in lower Manhattan is the companys permanent home, which it owns and operates as a shareholder in the Grand Street Artists Co-op, originally established as part of the Fluxus art movement. URL: thewoostergroup.org
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ABSENCE AS PRESENCE: YOUNG JEAN LEE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 7:45-8:45PM | Elebash Works created by Young Jean Lee (as guest vlogger for The Wooster Group on location in the UK), in collaboration with Zbigniew Bzymek, resident filmmaker for The Wooster Group.
A Bastard Son of Priams
Z is asked to perform nude in The Wooster Groups production of Troilus and Cressida, as Young Jean documents the process. Artists Involved: Conceived, directed, and shot by Young Jean Lee; performed and edited by Zbigniew Bzymek.
Crying Competition
Young Jean pits Wooster Group actors Ari Fliakos, Scott Shepherd, and Gary Wilmes against each other in a competition to see who can cry the hardest. Artists Involved: Conceived and directed by Young Jean Lee; shot and edited by Zbigniew Bzymek; performed by Ari Fliakos, Scott Shepherd, and Gary Wilmes.
Liz-Upon-Avon
Young Jean Lee makes a love-tribute to Elizabeth LeCompte in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Artists Involved: Conceived and directed by Young Jean Lee; shot and edited by Zbigniew Bzymek; music by Young Jean Lee and Andrew Hoepfner. Lead Artists: YOUNG JEAN LEE is a playwright and director who has been called the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation by The New York Times and one of the best experimental playwrights in America by Time Out New York. She has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lees Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. She is also the recipient of two OBIE awards, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a 2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award. Find out more at www.youngjeanlee.org. ZBIGNIEW BZYMEK serves as daily video blogger for The Wooster Group. His blog videos have appeared on The New York Times website and have received hundreds of thousands of plays and been written about in The Guardian, The Stage, The L Magazine, and New York Magazine. As a director, his mid-length narrative, Nagle Na Zawsze (2008) received among other prizes the Grand Prix du jury at the 31st Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois in Poitiers. His first feature-length narrative, Utopians (2011), starring Jim Fletcher, is distributed in Germany by Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art.
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THE RETURN OF THE SINGSPIEL: ELIZA BENT AND DAVE MALLOY

Black Wizard / Blue Wizard
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 8:30-10PM | Segal Theatre Terrifying. Ive never seen anything like that. Mac Wellman, playwright Black Wizard / Blue Wizard is a musical fantasia depicting an epic duel between two opposing wizard philosophies in a modern and mundane age. As the two wizards joust amidst a digital backdrop, ancient ideals of spirituality and morality contrast against a culture that promotes the shallow, quick and callous. Ultimately Black Wizard / Blue Wizard subversively explores the effects of instant access network technology and internet addiction on the soul. Artists Involved: Music and text by Eliza Bent and Dave Malloy; performed by Eliza Bent, Nikki Calonge, Mikeah Ernest Jennings, Dave Malloy; video by Michale De Angelis; costumes by Oana Botez. Lead Artists: DAVE MALLOY is a composer/performer/sound designer. He is one of the co-creator/performers of Three Pianos (Ontological-Hysteric Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, American Repertory Theater; Special Citation OBIE Award), and the composer for the Brooklyn based ensemble Banana Bag & Bodice. He has written six full length musicals, including Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on Tolstoys War & Peace premiering this fall at Ars Nova. Awards include a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant and the 2009-11 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Theatre Designers. ELIZA BENT is a playwright/performer pursuing an MFA in playwriting at Brooklyn College under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. Bents plays include Karma Kharms (or yarns by Kharms), an adaptation of Daniil Kharmss Today I Wrote Nothing, featuring a cast of 16 and live origami set (Target Margin Labs, Mar. 2012); The Hotel Colors, written in direct translation from Italian into English (reading at the Bushwick Starr). She is a Half Straddle company member (performances in The Seagull (thinking of you), Football/In the Pony Palace, Nurses in New England, Family,The Knockout Blow) and an associate editor of American Theatre magazine. Upcoming: Premieres in June 2013 at the Incubator Arts Project. URL: elizabent.wordpress.com | davemalloy.com
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THE RETURN OF THE SINGSPIEL: JOSHUA CONKEL

The House of Von Macrame
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 8:30-10PM | Segal Theatre A Maeterlinck for the new millennium. Craig Lucas, playwright As a famous biographer attempts to get closer to reclusive and eccentric fashion designer Edsel Von Macrame, a psychic model is tormented by a series of occult murders within the industry. The House of Von Macrame is a pop horror fashion spectacle exploring taste, elitism, and iconoclasts in the spirit of glamorous 70s horror films such as Suspiria and The Eyes of Laura Mars. Artists Involved: Book by Joshua Conkel; music & lyrics by Matt Marks; directed by Nick Leavens. Lead Artist: JOSHUA CONKEL is a writer of plays, graphic novels and TV pilots. He is also a Navy brat from rural Washington State. Plays include MilkMilkLemonade (Best Off Off Broadway Show of 2009-NY Press, published by Playscripts), The Chalk Boy (Published by Original Works Publishing), Lonesome Winter (co-written with Megan Hill), The Sluts of Sutton Drive, I Wanna Destroy You and Sprawl as well as countless short plays, of which he is a prolific and enthusiastic writer. Conkels work has been seen all over the country as well as internationally and he was recently featured in Next Magazines Whos Next issue. Conkels work has been developed by The Management, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Vic/New Voices, Dixon Place, The Flea and more. He is a member of The Management, where he served as Artistic Director for six years, as well as a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Sons of Tennessee, and The Dramatists Guild. He is currently finishing a graphic novel adaptation of The Chalk Boy for First Second Books, an imprint of Macmillan, and editing his first short film, Power Lunch. Alumn of Youngblood and the TS Eliot Old Vic US/UK Exchange. BFA in theater, Cornish College of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Upcoming: Premieres in January 2013 at The Bushwick Starr. URL: managementtheatercompany.com
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THE RETURN OF THE SINGSPIEL: COREY DARGEL

The Three Christs
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 8:30-10PM | Segal Theatre The prince of postclassical songone of contemporary musics brightest lights Time Out New York The Three Christs is a music-theater piece that combines themes of Messianic delusion, faith vs. doubt, and Christian gay-rehabilitation therapy. The show takes place in a Catholic-run mental institution and consists of group therapy sessions, visions of the Virgin Mary (a drag queen, naturally), and religious testimonials from psychiatric patients. The music combines aesthetics of traditional musical theater, cabaret, and postmodern art song, and is composed specifically for the amplified classical chamber ensemble Newspeak, a group that combines the drive and immediacy of a rock band with the precision and intricacy of classically trained instrumentalists. Artists Involved: Composer/lyricist: Corey Dargel; book written by Andrew Sean Greer; directed by Emma Griffin; performed by Corey Dargel and Mellissa Hughes. Lead Artist: COREY DARGEL is a Texas-born composer and singer-songwriter whom The New York Times calls one of the more original and consistently provocative artists pushing at the margins of modern classical music and adventurous pop and whom Minnesota Public Radio describes as a wonderfully difficult artist to define. Dargel has shared the stage with artists ranging from Owen Pallett and Joanna Newsom to the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the string quartet ETHEL, and the electric guitar quartet Dither. Dargels latest commercial album is Someone Will Take Care of Me (2010, New Amsterdam Records) which contains songs from his music-theater work, Removable Parts (Outstanding Performance Art Production, New York Innovative Theatre awards). Dargel is also a founding member of the Brooklyn-based experimental theater company, Laboratory Theater. Upcoming: Premiere and tour in the 2014-15 season. URL: automaticheartbreak.com
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THE RETURN OF THE SINGSPIEL: KRISTINE HARUNA LEE

War Lesbian
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 8:30-10PM | Segal Theatre When Sednas father finds out about a deep secret shes been keeping from her family, he takes her out on a boat, chops her fingers off, and condemns her to live under the sea. Fingerless and alone, she must now face all the things that have been living down there. A play about being hungry, holes, vaginas, lesbians, eating and being eaten. Artists Involved: Created, directed and book/lyrics by Kristine Haruna Lee; composed and created by Katie Hathaway; musical direction by Solomon Hoffman; performed by Performed by Stevo Arnoczy, Andrew Butler, Jo Lampert, Kristine Haruna Lee, Cyndi Perzcek, and Jeanna Phillips; assistant directed by Lauren Swan-Potras. Lead Artist: KRISTINE HARUNA LEE is an interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She has performed nationally and internationally with artists such as Taylor Mac, NAATCO, Antony and the Johnsons, and with Andrea Geyer at the Whitney Biennial. Her plays have been presented at Joes Pub, Ars Nova, Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place and have been developed with Target Margins Lab Series, New Dramatists and the Fresh Ground Pepper Performance Series. Lee is a 2010 recipient of the New Dramatists Van Lier Fellowship. She holds a B.F.A from New York University and will be entering her M.F.A playwriting candidacy with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College in fall of 2012. URL: kristineharunalee.com
---------------------------------------------------------------THE RETURN OF THE SINGSPIEL: TONY TORN

Ubu Sings Ubu
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 8:30-10PM | Segal Theatre This work in progress excerpt of Ubu Sings Ubu is the fruit of a thirty year old itch to mash up the absurdist slapstick of Alfred Jarrys Ubu Roi with the art punk hijinks of the 70s art-punk band Pere Ubu. Featuring a new version by Torn and noted poet/playwright Ariana Reines, adapted from translation software transcription of the original French. Artists Involved: Concept and direction by Tony Torn; movement by Dan Safer; musical direction by Vera Beren; performed by Tony Torn and Julie Atlas Muz. URL: tonytorn.com
Photo of Tony Torn courtesy of the artist
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YELENA GLUZMAN/SCIENCE PROJECT

Worman
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 9-10PM | Elebash one of the most motley, international ensembles around. Time Out New York Worman is a theater event developing from Margaret Meads Coming of Age in Samoa, Jerome Rothenbergs translation of a Kunapipi song-poem, and the birth of a child. Artists Involved: In collaboration with Joan Shangold, Adjua Greaves, Janna Gjesdal, Hiroshi Shafer, Anya Liftig, Miles Pflanz, Sophia Cleary, Alicia Jo Rabins, Sylvia Tallulah Hartman and others. Lead Artist: YELENA GLUZMAN makes theater and performance works under the auspices of Science Project. Her background in neuroscience does not dictate the content of the works, but does influence their function as experimental. Recently she showed School for Saloms at Collapsible Hole (2011), and I Am Not Everything That is Beside Me at the 2012 Whatever Wherever Festival in Tokyo. With Matvei Yankelevich, she is the co-editor of Emergency Index, a yearly compendium of performance texts, and co-editor of Emergency Playscripts, published by Ugly Duckling Presse.
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CLOSING NIGHT PARTY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 10PM-12AM | The Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street between Madison and Fifth Ave
Friends of Joe - A Night of Poems, Stories, Songs and Laughter

Karen Davis hosted a fundraising event I organized a couple years ago at Sugarland. We didnt make very much money, but its becoming increasingly difficult to use the party model as a means to subsidize original art. Tina Satter, Artistic Director of Half Straddle Lead Artists: JOE RANONO is a day laborer, poet and party planner. He produces rough chaps in his spare time and enjoys fishing, when he is able to make it away from the citys cacophony, even for a single, precious day. He is a leader of the mens fiction writing group The Softer Side of the Rougher Sex. Video work includes: Pizzas Here ..., Help Me With This Pipe, The Princess and the Pee. According to the Interweb, KAREN DAVIS is an American animal rights advocate, and president of United Poultry Concerns, a non-profit organization founded in 1990 to address the treatment of domestic fowl including chickens, turkeys and ducks in factory farming. She also maintains a sanctuary. But when Karens not fighting for foul, shes making folks laugh all along a limited survey of the east coast. Contact her at karendavislaughs@gmail.com for future bookings. Shes available for private and public functions, reasonable rates. MAY LION is a poet working in the The United States.
JOE RANONO AND FRIENDS
Clockwise from top: photos of Joe Ranono, Karen Davis, and May Lion courtesy of the artists
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 10PM-12AM | The Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street between Madison and Fifth Ave
THE KIOSKERS
I Knew it Was a Floating Palace but the Image I had in Mind was Something More Like the Titanic
Artists Involved: Written by Scott Adkins; directed by Meghan Finn; scenic design by Sara Walsh; composed and performed by Alaina Ferris; performed by Lucy Kaminsky, Paul Ketchum and Samantha Tunnis. Lead Artist: SCOTT ADKINS is a playwright with an MFA from Brooklyn College. He was in the 2006/2007 Soho Writer/Director Lab. He wears many hats. He lives in Brooklyn with his love Erin, his two boys, and their two dogs. URL: scottradkins.com
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LUMBEROB
Eat it fancy!
its music. its a music set. its a shruggy flump, the non stop shwist and spout. its a heavy bumpy grinder done broke the sprink sprink. it is a good time for you to stand up and shift weight. Lead Artist: ROB ERICKSON performs as LUMBEROB. He is a writer and a performer and a musician. Rob currently teaches 8th grade honors humanities and drama at MS54 in Manhattan. He published his first book, Off the Hozzle, on 53rd State Press last year. He helps curate Little Theater. He is one of those Joyce Cho nut jobs. He went to Brown University and Brooklyn College. He is working on a new long-format solo freakout thing to be called Rocky Point. He wrote 68 pages at a recent Erik Ehn 24 hour silent retreat. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. His is a broken, lurching, shaky aesthetic doing undoing. Eat it fancy! is a rare singsong set of curvy dance music. URL: lumberob.com
L-R: Photo of The Kioskers courtesy of the artists; Lumberob photo by Rob Erickson
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INSTALLATIONS: THURSDAY & FRIDAY

Photo by Hedia Maron, courtesy of Karinne Keithley
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VIDEO KILLED THE THEATRE STAR: ANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE

Rendezvouz with Hilda
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 4-10PM | Elebash Lobby [installation] Rendezvouz with Hilda to discuss your turbulent history with her and decide on your future together. ANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE creates an interactive media installation that lets you decide the course of your conversation with a mediated persona. But please dont eat the cheesecake! Artists Involved: Jessica Weinstein, Eamonn Farrell, Liz Davito. Lead Artist: The core of ANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE that is also Hilda und Co. is Jessica Weinstein (Hilda), Eamonn Farrell (Ludwig), and Liz Davito (Gretel). The first Anonymous Ensemble show premiered in the Ice Factory Festival in 2007 at the Ohio Theater in NYC. The show went on to Edinburgh in 2008 where it was nominated for a Total Theater Award in Experimentation and Innovation. Liebe Love Amour! is Anonymous Ensembles musical collaboration with Greek composer William Antoniou and a further exploration of the companys blend of audio looping techniques, real-time film editing and unique audience participation. Eamonn, Jessica, and Liz are all also part of the new generation of the theatre company Mabou Mines. Upcoming: Liebe Love Amour! will be presented at the New Orleans Fringe Festival in November 2013. URL: anonymousensemble.org
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VIDEO KILLED THE THEATRE STAR: TINA SATTER / HALF STRADDLE

Secret Notebooks
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 4-10PM | Elebash Lobby [installation] With a few months off last summer and amazing collaborators who wanted to help, HALF STRADDLE set out to make their first-ever rap song and accompanying video. Playing off the idioms of the genre, HALF STRADDLEs rad girl rappers drop push-ups with no knees, late nights with Soledad OBrien, and references to their bangs as a knowingly ridiculous vocabulary for throwing shade, all set in a lusciously drenched visual realm and accompanied by deep beats that need to be played really loud for full effect. Artists Involved: Video by Michael De Angelis; music and production by Bobby McElver; vocals by Erin Markey and Emily Emily Davis; lyrics and direction by Tina Satter; featuring Jess Barbagallo, Eliza Bent, Becca Blackwell, Nikki Calonge, Emily Emily Davis, Chris Giarmo, Erin Markey, Kourtney Rutherford, Pete Simpson, Julia Sirna-Frest. Lead Artist: HALF STRADDLE has been creating plays, performances, videos, and music written and directed by Tina Satter since 2008 with the collaboration of artists that includes composer Chris Giarmo and performers Jess Barbagallo, Eliza Bent, Emily Emily Davis, Erin Markey, and Julia Sirna-Frest. The groups critically acclaimed shows feature original text and music, and specific, stylized frameworks that set up performative laboratories to slyly deconstruct the preconceived with a singular criture feminine in order to create an explosion, or delicate reveal, of new meaning. Upcoming: See Page 16. URL: halfstraddle.com
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VIDEO KILLED THE THEATRE STAR: HANNAH BOS / TIMELESS SEASONS

Timeless Seasons
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 4-10PM | Elebash Lobby [installation] Seasons may change, but amazing deals are forever! Patti, Cherie and Kim warmly welcome you to Timeless Seasons, the lowest rated home shopping show in the quaint town of Pheasant Crest. Anything can happen, and unfortunately it does. Its David Lynch meets Designing Women meets your new scrapbooking Stepmother. Thanks Dad. Artists Involved: TIMELESS SEASONS is Hannah Bos, Tonya Glanz, and Amy Heidt; directed by Ian Savage; edited by Casimir Nozkowski and Connor Magill; guest stars Elaine Carroll, James Bewely; graphics by Tanner Shea; theme song by Mark Palgy. Lead Artists: HANNAH BOS is a writer and performer. She is a founding member and co-Artistic Director of The Debate Society, an Obie Award winning theater company. She has co-written and starred in Buddy Cop 2, Cape Disappointment, Youre Welcome, The Eaten Heart, The Snow Hen and A Thought About Raya. She is the co-creator/writer/Flo of The Mimi and Flo Show, a choose-your-own-adventure web series that has been seen by over 3 million people. She studied at The Piven Theatre Workshop, has a B.A. from Vassar College, and an M.F.A. from The Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater. hannahbos.com. TONYA GLANZ is originally from the SF bay area, and was a company member of the popular sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster for 5 years. TV/Film: Nurse Jackie, The Untitled Jersey City Project (FX), Law & Order: SVU, The Evidence. twitter: @bigtglanz. AMY HEIDT is a Los Angeles based actor and writer. She is a recent transplant from New York, where she spent many years at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, performing solo shows and sketch shows. She recently shot a film in Hawaii, and yes, it was amazing. amyheidt.com. IAN SAVAGE worked as a freelance carpenter, electrician and rigger for over 100 shows Off-Broadway from 2000-2003. In 2003 he became the Director of Operations for renowned filmmakers, Joel and Ethan Coen. After that he went on to produce a variety of content for several companies, and from 2004 to the present, he runs his own company (rolliboatfilms.com) producing content for a variety of clients while simultaneously working as a freelance HD Shooter for reality TV, as well as a freelance photographer. Upcoming: Hannah Bos will be opening her brand new play The Blood Play with her company The Debate Society at the Bushwick Starr in October.
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VIDEO KILLED THE THEATRE STAR: JEFF LARSON

A Store of Sucking Stones
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 4-10PM | Elebash Lobby [installation] A Store of Sucking Stones tells the simple story of a man and his 16 sucking stones. Employing a text fragment from Samuel Becketts novel Molloy, the narrative documents the comprehensive sucking strategies of this recluse as he wracks both brain and body, determined to solve this most pressing of problems. Artists Involved: Performed, edited, created by Jeff Larson; videographed, co-created by Zach Steel. Lead Artists: JEFF LARSON has designed video for Big Dance Theaters Supernatural Wife and Comme Toujours Here I Stand (2009 Bessie Award Winner) and he is currently designing video for Man in a Case, directed by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson. Jeff curates everyones favorite performance series CATCH with cohorts Andrew Dinwiddie and Caleb Hammons. Jeff directed Andrew Dinwiddies Get Mad at Sin!, which premiered at The Chocolate Factory (2010), and has since been presented at Fusebox Festival, the TBA Festival, and the San Diego Museum of Art. He is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Design Department for Stage at Film at NYU where he also serves as the Supervisor for Second Year Production. ZACH STEEL has studied the performing arts at New York University Tisch School of the Arts (Stella Adler Conservatory, Experimental Theater Wing, and the international program in Amsterdam). He has performed original works in various theaters throughout New York, and has spent the last four years in Los Angeles studying clown under David Bridel as well as performing with the clown troupe, Four Clowns. He has taught clown and improv at CalArts and UCLA Performing Arts Summer Camp and will be teaching clown at The Clown School in Los Angeles as well as the Adat Shalom Synagogue starting in the Fall. He currently appears regularly on the Disney television show A.N.T. Farm, and has made appearances on NBCs Parenthood, and Kath & Kim. Look for him on the upcoming Comedy Central web series, Book Club, written by Zach along with Adam Nee. Upcoming: Catch 53 at The Invisible Dog in October and A Man in a Case at Hartford Stage in February 2013. URL: jeff-larson.com
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VIDEO KILLED THE THEATRE STAR: D.J. MENDEL

Crazy For The Ballet
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 4-10PM | Elebash Lobby [installation] Crazy for the Ballet is a short film reflecting on youth, beauty, decay and the ramblings of a deteriorating Vaslav Nijinsky and his philosophy of feeling. Artists Involved: Written and directed by D.J. Mendel; performed by Daniel Alexander and D.J. Mendel; music by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR); cinematography by Dan Sharnoff. Lead Artist: D.J. MENDEL has worked with avant-garde theater-makers like Richard Foreman, (The Universe, Permanent Brain Damage and Panic!), Karen Coonrod (Christmas at the Ivanovs/ CSC), and 31 Down (Red Over Red, Here At Home) His own one man show, Dick Done Broke, was presented at the Bushwick Starr Theater in Brooklyn in November 2011. As a director, he has most recently directed Daniel Bernard Roumains Symphony for the Dance Floor which had its New York premiere in October 2011 at BAMs Next Wave festival and is currently directing Cynthia Hopkins This Clement World. He has directed 2 feature films, Make Pretend (which he also wrote) and Richard Foremans Planet Earth: Dreams. Other Recent theater directing credits include Cynthia Hopkins musical theater play, The Truth: A Tragedy, which premiered at Soho Rep in May 2010 and toured the U.S. and Europe later that year. Previous work with Ms. Hopkins includes directing her shows Accidental Nostalgia, Must Dont Whip Um and The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)all of which were presented at St. Anns Warehouse in New York as well as throughout the US and Europe. D.J. also works with singer Rosanne Cash, video designing and directing her last two tours: Black Cadillac: In Concert and The List: In Concert. URL: djmendel.com
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VIDEO KILLED THE THEATRE STAR: DAVID LEVINE

YES (2011)
LED display, 60 x 22 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 4-10PM | Elebash Lobby [installation] DAVID LEVINES YES (2011) is an LED reworking of Yvonne Rainers No Manifesto (1965), her polemic against seduction and spectacle in dance and performance. Lead Artist: see Page 14.
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Photo of Shara Worden by Denny Renshaw
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Caleb Hammons (Curator) is currently the Producer at Soho Rep, where he oversees all mainstage productions, workshops, and readings. Prior to his time at Soho Rep, he was the Producing Director for Young Jean Lees Theater Company, where he led the development and world premieres of three new works as well as tours of the Companys work to 30 cities around the world. Additionally, he is the Co-Curator of the acclaimed Catch performance series. Caleb was a member of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performances inaugural class at Wesleyan University. Helen Shaw (Curator) writes about theatre for Time Out New York, teaches theatre studies at New York University, and is the Associate Director of Programs for the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY. Her criticism has also appeared in TheatreForum, PAJ, the New York Sun, the Jewish Daily Forward and Playbill, and she has served as a dramaturg for Martha Clarke, Simon McBurney, Lear deBessonet, Francois Rochaix and Janos Szasz. Frank Hentschker (Curator) holds a PhD in theater from the Theatre Institute in Giessen, Germany, and joined the faculty of the PhD Program in Theatre at CUNY Graduate Center in 2009. He currently serves as executive director and director of programs at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, an institute for theater based at CUNY Graduate Center. Rachel Silverman (Producer) is the Artistic Administrator at New York Theatre Workshop. At NYTW, she coordinates all programming and artist development activities including a weekly Monday @ 3 reading series, Larson Lab Studios, summer residencies at Adelphi University and Dartmouth College and NYTWs Process in Performance conversation series. Rachel is also the Associate Producer of OBIE-award winning 13P. BA: Wesleyan University, Theater and Sociology. Rebecca Sheahan (Prelude Director of Administration) is Managing Director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. She began her career in the Arts at The Market Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rebecca has lived in New York City since 2003, working as Director of Marketing for St. Anns Warehouse and 651 ARTS, and as a marketing and PR consultant for various artists and companies. She was a co-producer and marketing consultant for the Prelude Festivals in 2008 and 2009.
Lauren DiGiulio (Company Management) is currently a Research Associate at MESTC. She holds an MA from Kings College, London and a BA from Vassar College. She has worked for Robert Wilsons Watermill Center as a project manager and program coordinator.
Tim Fodness (Technical Director) is a sound designer, sound artist, and producer. He recently collaborated with sculptor George Turner on the sculptural piece Bertha Mars Fossillator (The Harmonic Crusade or So It Goes) and released an album of original compositions entitled Robert Canes Unusual Collection. He is an assistant engineer at Duro of Brooklyn and the regular sound person at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. This will be his fifth Prelude Festival. Brad Krumholz (Technical Director) is co-founder and artistic director of NACL Theatre (North American Cultural Laboratory). Since its founding in 1997, he has created and directed most of its performances, codirected the NACL Catksill Festival of New Theatre for ten seasons, and established the companys theater center in the Catskills as a retreat for alternative theater creators. He has worked in the field of ensemble experimental theater since 1991, first as a student at Odin Teatret in Denmark, and then with Richard Fowler of Canadas Primus Theatre. He is currently enrolled in the PhD Program in Theatre at CUNY Graduate Center, has taught acting at City College, and is a teaching fellow at Hunter College.
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Sarah Rose Leonard (Design Coordinator/Line Producer for Gershwin Hotel) is a dramaturg and director. She is the Associate to Antje Oegel at AO International and the Next Generation Fellow at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY. Last year Sarah lived in Chile and produced Desorientacin, a cross-cultural reading series. Sarah was the Literary Resident at Playwrights Horizons from 2009-2010. She has been the Literary Associate for Page 73 and once was an intern at 13P. Her short play Destino will be shown at Dixon Place in November. She was a member of the 2012 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. B.F.A.: NYUs Playwrights Horizons Theater School (directing). Lisa McGinn (Production Coordinator) Lisa is excited to be joining the team again after PSM-ing PRELUDE last year. Stage management credits include The Peripherals and Hot Lunch Apostles (Talking Band), Chimera (HERE Arts Center), You, My Mother (Two-Headed Calf), How to Build a Forest (PearlDamour + Shawn Hall); Ivanov and The Seagull (Chekhov at Lake Lucille); Temporal Powers (Mint Theater Company); Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (Prospect Theater); Shakespeares Richard IIon Trapeze! (Matchbook Productions/ Sonnet Rep); Limonade Tous Les Jours (New Voice Project/the cell theatre, starring Austin Pendleton); Or, and Smudge (Womens Project), Complete (2009 NYC Fringe Festival). Lisa has also worked regionally at Trinity Repertory Company, Two River Theater Company, Passage Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Playwrights Theatre of NJ, The Old Globe, Charlotte Rep, NJPAC, Berkshire Theatre Festival. Greg Redlawsk (Stage Manager) is a Director, Stage Manager, and Playwright living and working in NYC, and he is extremely excited to be returning to PRELUDE for a second year. As a Director and Playwright he has had work presented with Theater IN ASYLUM, Emerging Artists Theatre, and Special Sauce Company, and most recently he served as the AD for Ugly Rhinos Glamdromeda. In addition, he has served as a Teaching Artist with New York Theatre Workshop, where he was also an Artistic/Casting Intern in the fall of 2010. He also worked as an Intern on the Shinsai: Theaters for Japan project spearheaded by the Public Theater. Brendan Regimbal (Technical Director) is a Brooklyn-based theater artist. He devises work with his partner, Samara Naeymi. Most recently, they created Aviary, a dance theater performance at the Incubator Arts Project at St. Marks. From 20069, he worked as Richard Foremans assistant and stage manager. He is a founding member of the Incubator Arts Project and serves as the technical director and one of the co-curators. Director, designer, and technical artist, he has collaborated with several downtown theater companies and artists, including the Paper Industry, Title:Point Productions, 31 Down Radio Theater, and 3LD. He is the resident designer and technical director for Brooklyn theater company Sponsored By Nobody. Mary Spadoni (Stage Manager) recently returned from doing summer stock at Weathervane Theatre in the north woods of New Hampshire. Other credits include: 3LD, The Public Theater, SoHo Rep, 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Goodspeed Musicals, Music Theatre Green Bay, Millbrook Playhouse, and three seasons at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Graduated St. Norbert College, proud member of AEA and writer for www.piesetc.com. Ruth Wikler-Luker (Company Management/Outreach) was formerly the Martin E. Segal Theatre Centers associate director of programs and now currently serves as its programs consultant from her home base in Portland, Oregon. With a background in the arts ranging from contemporary circus to international arts exchange, she also produces arts projects in Portland under the name Boom Arts (www.boom-arts.com).
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SPECIAL THANKS
In memory of Daniel Gerould and Martin Segal
Thanks to The Graduate Center CUNY: William Kelly, President, The Graduate Center CUNY; Jane House, Director of Publications; Brian Schwartz, Science and the Arts, GC CUNY; Gayle Moynihan, Manager, Room Reservations; Peter Harris with Barry L. Carr, John Chianese, Cecelia Denniston, Bradley Hoelscher, Hector Merced, Bo Olsson, John Ribeiro, Steven Tomas, Dan Tracy, Orlando Rosario from Audio/Video Services-Information Technology; Michael Byers, Daisy Romero, Charles Scott, Facility Services and Campus Planning; Reggie Lucas, Milton Mendez, Mail Facility; John Flaherty, Director of Security and Public Safety; Diane Rosenblum, Assistant to the Director of Security and Public Safety; Ray Ring and Chris Lowry, Building Design and Exhibitions. Althea Harewood, David Tse, Business Office. Gershwin Hotel: Ninfa Lemache-Lopes, General Manager; Amanda Pearson, Executive Assistant to the General Manager. Special thanks to Katherine Carl, Curator of the James Gallery and Deputy Director of the Center for Humanities at The Graduate Center CUNY. Thanks to Soho Rep, The Incubator Arts Project, The Bushwick Starr, and New York Theatre Workshop.
The Gershwin Hotel, which has remained a staple in the arts world for decades, runs the Artist in Residence (AiR) program and showcases the selected artists with monthly art exhibitions. For more information on the program or to print and mail a hard copy of the application, please visit www.gershwinhotel.com/love/air.
Front Cover: photo of lumberob by Cheryl Nishi; Back Cover: photo of Jack Ferver by Al Hall
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PRELUDE.

THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER PRESENTS

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The Ninth Annual PRELUDE Festival

Wednesday, October 3 Friday, October 5, 2012

WELCOME FROM THE CURATORIAL TEAM

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THE FUTURE OF THE CINEMA IS THE STAGE

RETURN OF THE SINGSPIEL

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 44:45PM | Elebash

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PRELUDE.12 CRITICAL PARTNERS

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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE

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Photos by Daniel Fish

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------LEAH NANAKO WINKLER / EVERYWHERE THEATRE GROUP

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CADEN MANSON / BIG ART GROUP

I PROMISE NEVER EVER AGAIN TO WRITE PLAYS ABOUT ASIANS...

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JAY SCHEIB & CO.

Jay Scheib: Untitled Ecologies

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MIGUEL GUTIERREZ AND THE POWERFUL PEOPLE

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ADAM FELDMAN (HOST)

POOR BABY BREE

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LUCAS HNATH AND SARAH BENSON

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HEIDI SCHRECK AND KEN RUS SCHMOLL

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ANDREW ONDREJCAK AND SHARA WORDEN

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Live Interactions with the Moving Image

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An Evening with William Shatner Asterisk

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