PRELUDE2015 Program Guide

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PRELUDE 2015
THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER
THE TWELFTH ANNUAL PRELUDE FESTIVAL
WELCOME FROM THE CURATORIAL TEAM
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY is pleased to present the twelfth
What Could We Build, or Is the Future Already Behind Us?
Wednesday, October 7 Friday, October 9, 2015
annual PRELUDE Festival. Dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre and
performance, PRELUDE 2015 features an array of artists working in theatrical and interdisciplinary performance.
Real estate preoccupies theater makersand everyone else in this cityfor good reason. Where
The festival gives audiences and artists a survey of the current New York moment via in-process presentations,
can artists afford to live in an obscenely expensive metro area? If theyre pushed to the geographical
installations, and discussionsall completely free and open to the public.
marginsand they often arewhere can they rehearse, hold shows, or even just hang out and be
together? Given the economic exigencies and divides, how can their work contribute meaningfully to
PRELUDE 2015 ARTISTS
AnimalParts(AnthonyJohnston+NathanSchwartz) | Emily Bate | Monstah Black | Becca Blackwell |

The Builders Association | Mallory Catlett / Restless NYC | Caden Manson & Jemma Nelson | Annie Dorsen
| En Garde Arts | Ana Fabrega | Susan Feldman | The Foundry Theatre | Vallejo Gantner | Ben Gassman |
Colin Gee | Asa Horvitz | Phillip Howze | The Illustrious Blacks | Mike Iveson | Katherine Brook + LizaBirkenmeier
/ TELE-VIOLET | Juliana Francis Kelly | David Levine | Erin Markey | Ryan McNarama | Minor Theater |
Nature Theater of Oklahoma | Liza Jessie Peterson | Renegade Performance Group | Sarah Hughes + McFeely
Sam Goodman | R. B. Schlather | Normandy Sherwood | James Allister Sprang | Larissa Velez-Jackson
| Mac Wellman | Michael Young
PRELUDE 2015 STAFF

Curators: Antje Oegel & Tom Sellar with Frank Hentschker
Producer: Eryk Aughenbaugh
Associate Producer: Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li
Panel Producer: Darielle Shandler
Managing Director, the Segal Center: Rebecca Sheahan
Design Coordinator: Yu Chien Liu
Website Design: Alex Weiss-Hills
Party Producer/Social Media Manager: Lina Renzina
Social Media Festival Correspondent: Heloise Wilson
Technical Directors: Brad Burgess, Michael LoCicero
Stage Managers: Hanako Rodriguez, Sarah Jane Schostack
Sound Technician: Sean Paulsen
Stage Manager (Closing Party): Catherine Lynch
the communities around them? What would it take for performancethe immaterial act, the ephemeral
formnot only to survive in New Yorks glass-and-concrete thickets, but maybe even to transform the
capital-obsessed place where it lodges so precariously?
For PRELUDE 2015, we wanted to start by thinking about architecture in two ways. First, weve asked
artistic leaders of New Yorks newest theater buildings to present their plans. Why are these structures
going up? Whats the idea behind their design? How will they contribute to the urban ecology, and what
opportunities will they offer to artists and audiences?
Second, weve invited a handful of hometown theater makers to imagine ideal architectures for future
performance: anything from a building to a technology, a public assembly, or any other kind of structure.
They will present their projects live, and well exhibit them throughout the festival in the Elebash lobby.
But the future isnt just about buildings. Architecture means infrastructure, and some artists have begun
to imagine material realities in the digital realm. For others, futurism takes the form of Afro-Futurism,
representing the black body in fictional, sci-fi pop-culture spaces in response to social upheaval. Still
other performance makers emphasize rather than transcend todays political darkness, putting bodies
directly on the line. Another strategy for finding an alternative to our speeded-up, over-mediatized lives
comes from creative visions of nature as a fragile refuge. Aside from these observable tendencies, we
also just want to celebrate the newpreviewing upcoming projects, introducing new forms and new
names.
Of course, while we fret about lost utopian visions, the future already got started. Buildings get torn down
PRELUDE CURATORS EMERITI
Chlo Bass, Sarah Benson, Claire Bishop, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Andy Horwitz,
Sarah Rose Leonard, Allison Lyman, Rob Marcato, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli,
Geoffrey Jackson Scott, and Helen Shaw
and go up. Venues get sold and shut, discovered and created. Audiences for some forms vanish; new
approaches summon different spectators. Every one of our collaborations lays down invisible structures,
tracks that pave the way to the next attempt; theater is a history of social architectures, and the past
determines the future.
We know the present situation: a city dominated by commerce where culture easily becomes another
commodity. But what future can we imagine for creating, producing and presenting theater? What does
our ideal look like? We want to play around with utopia; the no-place that beckons in our imaginations.
Perhaps by sharing our playful ideas we can find a piece of it. Maybe we can plant a few new seeds.
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
But most of all, we want to enjoy and listen to each other.

Antje Oegel & Tom Sellar with Frank Hentschker
www.preludenyc.org
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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
5:00PM 9:00PM Segal Theatre Lobby

Imagining Architectures for Performance
3:45PM 7:30PM Elebash Hall Lobby

6:00PM 7:30PM Segal Theatre

WHAT COULD WE BUILD? Part I: New Theaters For New York

Phillip Howze
Liza Jessie Peterson
Larissa Velez-Jackson
Ben Gassman
*short discussion to follow

WHAT COULD WE BUILD? Part II: Imagining Architectures for Performance
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
4:00PM 9:30PM Elebash Hall Lobby
The Foundry Theatre
Annie Dorsen
Nature Theater Of Oklahoma
5:30PM 6:30PM Elebash Recital Hall
Marianne Weems/The Builders Association
Sarah Hughes + McFeely Sam Goodman
Normandy Sherwood
Katherine Brook + Liza Birkenmeier / TELE-VIOLET
Mac Wellman
Minor Theater
R. B. Schlather
En Garde Arts
Mallory Catlett / Restless NYC
Asa Horvitz

Mike Iveson
Juliana Francis Kelly
AnimalParts (Anthony Johnston & Nathan Schwartz)
Colin Gee
Renegade Performance Group
Monstah Black
8:30PM 10:00PM Pioneer Works**
Erin Markey
Emily Bate
Becca Blackwell
Ana Fabrega
James Allister Sprang
Performance
Panel
Exhibition
** PRELUDE will provide transportation to Pioneer Works (159 Pioneer St,
Brooklyn), please view event page for more information.
PRELUDE 2015
5:00PM - 9:30PM | SEGAL THEATRE LOBBY
IMAGINING ARCHITECTURES FOR

PERFORMANCE
OCTOBER 7
WEDNESDAY
Nastja Dzaviks The New Contemporary Theatre for 21st Century,

developed during Theatre Architecture in Central Europe workshop
PRELUDE 2015 invited a handful of theatermakers to conceive original visions for performance
architectureanything from a building to a technology, a platform, or any other kind of structure.
The results will be exhibited throughout PRELUDE.
Participating artists include Annie Dorsen, David Levine, Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson, Ryan
McNamara, and Mac Wellman.
About Annie Dorsen: Annie Dorsen is a writer and director who works in a variety of fields, including
theatre, film, dance and, as of 2009, algorithmic performance. Most recently, her algorithmic
musictheater piece Yesterday Tomorrow premiered at the Holland Festival. Her previous algorithm
project, A Piece of Work, has been seen at On the Boards (Seattle), Parc de la Villette (Paris), Brooklyn
Academy of Musics Next Wave Festival (NYC), and others. In 2012 she made Spokaoke, a participatory
karaoke project that uses political and historical speeches in place of pop songs. That work premiered
as part of Steirischer Herbsts Truth is Concrete marathon, and has also performed at Crossing the Line
Festival (NYC), at Black Box Theater (Oslo) and BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen). www.anniedorsen.com
About David Levine / CiNE: David Levine divides his time between New York and Berlin. His
performance and exhibition work have been presented by Creative Time, MoMA, Crossing The Line,
Mass MoCA, PS122, the Luminato Festival, and the Watermill Center. He was a 2012-13 Radcliffe Fellow
in Visual Arts at Harvard University, and is Professor of Art at Bard College Berlin, where he is the
Director of Visual and Performing Arts. His work has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Theater, and
the New York Times, and his writing has appeared in Parkett, Theater, Cabinet and Triple Canopy. He
recently spoke about Bruce Naumans work for the DIA Foundations Artists on Artists lecture series, and
will participate in the exhibition Hotel Theory at REDCAT this October. CiNE is an unstable, occasional,
anti-utopian collective which last coalesced around the Public Theaters 2004 search for an Artistic
Katherine Brooks Pink Melon Joy 4 Photo by Josh Smith
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Director. CiNEs report, *Re-Public*, was published in Theater 35:3

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5:00PM - 9:30PM | SEGAL THEATRE LOBBY
6:00PM - 7:30PM | SEGAL THEATRE
WHAT COULD WE BUILD?

PART I: NEW THEATERS FOR NEW YORK
About Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson: Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson are the co-founders
of Big Art Group and editors of contemporaryperformance.comThey have co-created 18 Big Art Group
productions; published essays in performance literature (PAJ, Theater Journal, Mouvement, Theatre
Heute); received funding from The Jerome Foundation,The Greenwall Foundation, DNA (Andrew W.
Mellon foundation and Arts International), Florence Gould Foundation, MAP Fund, tant donns; and
toured their work to leading festivals and presenters of experimental performance (Hebbel am Ufer
Berlin, Festival dAutomne Paris, La Vie de Festival Rome, Desingel Antwerp, Wexner Center for the
Arts, REDCAT, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Kitchen)
About Ryan McNamara: Ryan McNamara lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been
featured at MoMA PS1, Kunstmuseum Bonn, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Dallas
Symphony Orchestra, White Columns, ICI London, Watermill Performance Center, Elizabeth Dee Gallery
New York, The Garage Moscow, Showroom MAMA Rotterdam, Mary Boone Gallery New York, the
Photo by Alex Wong
Playboy Theater Miami Beach, the 2nd Athens Biennale and The High Line. His work is included in the
Artistic leaders of leading New York performance organizations discuss their new buildingssome
collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
freshly finished and opening their doors this season, others underway or still on the drawing board. How
will these spaces relate to their neighborhood surroundings? What opportunities will these new theaters
About Mac Wellman: Mac Wellmans recent work includes Muazzez at The Chocolate Factory
bring to the citys artistic ecology?
produced by PS122 in January 2014, 3 2s; or AFAR at Dixon Place in October 2011, The Difficulty of
Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair in the fall of 2006 (and elsewhere more
Participants: Susan Feldman (Artistic Director, St. Anns Warehouse); Vallejo Gantner, (Artistic Director,
recently), and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the Chocolate
Performance Space 122), and additional participants TBA.
Factory in the fall of 2008. He has received numerous honors, including NEA, Guggenheim, and
Foundation of Contemporary Arts fellowships. In 2003 he received his third Obie, for lifetime
Moderator: Tom Sellar (Co-Curator, PRELUDE 2015)
Achievement.
About Susan Feldman: Founder and Artistic Director Susan Feldman has run St. Anns Warehouse/
Arts at St. Anns for 36 years. St. Anns is known world wide for its programming, cultural activation and
innovative, flexible use of found spaces, culminating in the transformation of an old Tobacco Warehouse
into a spectacular waterfront theater in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Imagining Architecture for Performance was supported by a grant from the New York Council for the
Humanities.
About Vallejo Gantner: Vallejo Gantner has been Artistic Director of Performance Space 122 since
2005. Prior to this, he was Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival from 2002 2004, and Artistic
Associate of the Melbourne Festival 2000/01. Originally from Melbourne, Gantner has worked as a
director, writer, performer, agent, producer and programmer throughout the arts in the US, Europe, Asia
and Australia.
PRELUDE 2015
8:00PM - 9:30PM | SEGAL THEATRE
OCTOBER 8
THURSDAY
WHAT COULD WE BUILD? PART II:

IMAGINING ARCHITECTURES FOR PERFORMANCE
Photo by Danist Soh
PRELUDE 2015 invited a handful of theatermakers to conceive original visions for performance
architectureanything from a building to a technology, a platform, or any other kind of structure. The
results will be exhibited throughout PRELUDE. At this event, participating artists will present their ideas:
what would they build if they could? What spaces are missing from the urban fabric of New York City
today when it comes to live arts? Could their imaginations plant seeds for future realities? Princeton
architecture professor Michael Young will respond to the projects.
Participants: Annie Dorsen, David Levine, Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson, Ryan McNamara, Mac
Wellman, and Michael Young.
Moderator: Tom Sellar (Co-Curator, PRELUDE 2015)
About Michael Young: Michael Young is an architect and educator practicing in New York City where he
is a founding partner of the architectural design studio Young & Ayata. Young & Ayata recently received
a first place prize to design the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. They were recipients of the 2014
Young Architects Prize from the Architectural League of New York and were finalists in 2015 to design a
pavilion for the MoMA Young Architects Program at the Istanbul Modern.
Michael is an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union. He has previously taught design studios and
seminars at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Syracuse, Pratt, and Innsbruck University. In addition to practice
and teaching, Michael is invested in writing and research in relation to the confluence of geometry,
representation, and aesthetics. His work has been exhibited recently in New York, Los Angeles, Istanbul,
Chicago, Barcelona, Princeton, and Lexington.
AnimalParts Revenge of the Popinjay (Tenderpits 2)

Photo by Freja Mitchell
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4:00PM - 9:30PM | ELEBASH HALL LOBBY

PERFORMANCE
Crystal Flower Theatre, a concept design by Angelo Tomaiuolo, James Cavagnari,

Prof. Enrico Baroni, Andrea Mancini, Alberto Mariotti. Angelo Tomaiuolo
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
4:00PM - 5:30PM SET | SEGAL THEATRE
THE FOUNDRY THEATRE

PRIPYAT
Photo by Trey Ratcliff
Pripyat is a musical about the people of Chernobyl. Its a complicated and contemporary story of
regeneration, a story about peoples hopefulness and humor, their fierce and competing belief systems,
and their music. It asks how a place rendered unlivable, abandoned in fear, and used for political
coercion can become the only place a group of people can call home. It follows a vibrant community
that creates its identity out of the darkness of its traumatic past and does so lovingly despite the odds.
About The Foundry Theatre: The Foundry Theatre commissions, develops, premieres, and tours
theatrical works that explore the (im)possibilities of theatre, and we believe our body of work makes
passionate argument for its limitless potential. In addition, we host ongoing dialogue series and
Humanities.
community collaborations that bring artists together with stakeholders from other communities to
unpack issues and ideas of contemporary social and political resonance. Now in our twenty-first year,
The Foundry is an ongoing performance of ideas, created by rigorous theatrical works, public dialogues
and community engagement that invites as many people as possible to consider what it means to be
citizens of a world that we ourselves create.
Upcoming: O, Earth, a new play by Casey Llewellyn. Opens January 2016 at HERE
www.thefoundrytheatre.org
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
ANNIE DORSEN
YOUTUBE 1-4
NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA
Photo by Annie Dorsen
A series-in-progress of short music videos made from youtube comments.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD: THE NIBELUNGEN CYCLE
Photo Courtesy of the Artists
The latest artistic odyssey of Long Island City-based art and performance group Nature Theater of
Oklahoma has led them to Germanys Rhein-Neckar region, where they are currently working on
About Annie Dorsen: Annie Dorsen is a writer and director who works in a variety of fields, including
location. Their forthcoming project The Nibelungen Cycle puts an emphasis on cycle. NTOK artistic
theatre, film, dance and, as of 2009, algorithmic performance. Most recently, her algorithmic
directors Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska are spinning their wheels on a weeks-long bicycle tour through
musictheater piece Yesterday Tomorrow premiered at the Holland Festival. Her previous algorithm
the areas towns and villages, shooting a film version of the medieval Song of the Nibelungs epic in its
project, A Piece of Work, has been seen at On the Boards (Seattle), Parc de la Villette (Paris), Brooklyn
original setting. Enlisting the participation of local residents--firemen, dogs, small children, public officials
Academy of Musics Next Wave Festival (NYC), and others. In 2012 she made Spokaoke, a participatory
and innocent bystandersthe company will tell the beloved tale of Siegfried the dragon-slayer anew
karaoke project that uses political and historical speeches in place of pop songs. That work premiered
and afresh.
as part of Steirischer Herbsts Truth is Concrete marathon, and has also performed at Crossing the Line
Festival (NYC), at Black Box Theater (Oslo) and BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen).
At PRELUDE, Pavol and Kelly offer a live report from the field via video hookup.
Her first algorithmic theatre piece, Hello Hi There, premiered at Streirischer Herbst (Graz) in 2010, and
About Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Nature Theater of Oklahoma is an award-winning New York art
has been presented at over 15 theaters and festivals in the US and Europe, as well as, in installation
and performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. Since Poetics: a ballet
form, at Bitforms Gallery in New York. She is the co-creator of the 2008 Broadway musical Passing
brut, our first dance piece created as an ensemble, Nature Theater of Oklahoma has been devoted to
Strange, which she also directed. Spike Lee made a film of her production of the piece, which premiered
making the work we dont know how to make, putting ourselves in impossible situations, and working
at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, and screened everywhere from the Tribeca Film Festival to
from out of our own ignorance and unease. We strive to create an unsettling live situation that demands
South by Southwest Film Festival and The Tribeca Film Festival, and was released theatrically by
total presence from everyone in the room. We use the readymade material around us, found space,
IFC in 2010 before being broadcast on PBS Great Performances. Also in 2010, she collaborated with
overheard speech, and observed gesture, and through extreme formal manipulation, and superhuman
choreographer Anne Juren on Magical (premiere at ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna) and with Ms. Juren and
effort, we affect in our work a shift in the perception of everyday reality that extends beyond the site of
DD Dorviller on Pice Sans Paroles (brut Vienna and Rencontres Chorographiques Internationales
performance and into the world in which we live.
Seine-St-Denis, Paris).
www.okradio.org
Upcoming: Spokaoke at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago/ Chicago Humanities Festival, Oct 27
& 28
www.anniedorsen.com
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
5:30PM - 6:30PM | ELEBASH RECITAL HALL
MARIANNE WEEMS/THE BUILDERS ASSOCIATION

THE BUILDERS ASSOCIATION IN COVERSATION
Photo by Valerie Oliveiro
SARAH HUGHES + MCFEELY SAM GOODMAN

AFTERWARD
Photo by Kelly Stuart
Founded in 1994 by director Marianne Weems, The Builders Association has created original
Afterward is a dance theater piece about illness, trauma, survivorship, and anxiety. Written largely in the
performance and multimedia works seen around the globe. Exploring the human experience behind the
first person from Sams own experiences, the piece overlays dance with literary memoir. The piece also
21st Centurys tectonic shiftsglobalization, digital technology, dislocationthe company has devised
explores the connection between superhero narratives and our anxieties about the vulnerability of the
influential new architectures for performance.
human body.
At this event Marianne Weems and moderator Frank Hentschker will reflect on the companys
About Sarah Hughes + McFeely Sam Goodman: Sarah Hughes and McFeely Sam Goodman first
twodecade evolution. Join us as they celebrate the forthcoming publication of The Builder Association
worked together on The Pickle, a short play about a pickle who repents his career selling credit default
(MIT Press), an illustrated critical history written by Weems and scholar Shannon Jackson.
swaps after a near-death experience, for Little Theatre at Dixon Place in 2013. Since then, they have
collaborated on Special Cheese (Hearth Gods, CATCH, Columbia University), a play about UFOs,
About Marianne Weems: Marianne Weems is artistic director of The Builders Association and has
vegetarians, caterpillars, and the effect that parents have on their children; Brunchtime Is Over (Columbia
directed all of their productions since the company began in 1994. In the past, she has worked with
University), a short dance theater piece about suicide and the artistic temperament; and America
Susan Sontag, The Wooster Group, David Byrne and many others. She is the former head of Graduate
Breathing (The Habitats Summertime Rewrite at The Segal Center), a trans-dimensional adventure play
Directing in the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University (2008-14) and is building their Integrative
about George Washington and the myth of American liberty. Sarahs interest in staging non-theatrical and
Media Program in NYC. She serves the board of Art Matters, is the co-author of Art Matters: How The
impossible texts gives Sam the freedom to write in a variety of literary styles, mixing fiction and non-fiction
Culture Wars Changed America (NYU Press 2000), and has co-authored a book with Shannon Jackson
and high-culture and low-culture influences; their goal in collaborating is to create a shared experience
on The Builders Association published this October by MIT Press.
that aims at truth rather than at the illusion of fact.
About The Builders Association: Founded in 1994 and directed by Marianne Weems, the OBIE
Collaborating Artists: Becca Blackwell, Lucy Kaminsky, Ronald Peet, Sam West (Performers); Elizabeth
awardwinning The Builders Association is a New York-based performance and media company that
DeMent (Choreographer); Eva von Schweinitz (Sound Designer); Rachel Zucker (Stage Manager); Sarah
creates original productions based on stories drawn from contemporary life. The company uses the
Hughes (Director); McFeely Sam Goodman (Writer)
richness of new and old tools to extend the boundaries of theater. Based on innovative collaborations,
Builders productions blend stage performance, text, video, sound, and architecture to tell stories about
Upcoming: Afterward will be presented in Spring 2016 as part of the Columbia University School of the
human experience in the 21st century.
Arts MFA Playwrights Thesis Festival at The Signature Theater. Sarah and Sam will also be collaborating
on #serials at The Flea Theater this December.
www.mcfeelysamgoodman.com
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NORMANDY SHERWOOD
MENDING
KATHERINE BROOK + LIZA BIRKENMEIER / TELE-VIOLET
Photo by Normandy Sherwood
TRAGEDY IN SPADES: A CRIME DOCUMENTARY
Photo by Liza Birkenmeier
Why do we need all this stuff? Im sorry its such a vague question but you see some Satanists
Obsessed with a murder in her rural town, veterinarian and amateur filmmaker lorna das uncovers
confiscated my notebook, the notebook that had all the details in it. We are enacting a ritual to mend
some of the harrowing details that led to unspeakable tragedy in this 1994 crime documentary.
and recover, to heal our bad relationship with things. Were reconstructing it from memory. We want to
learn how to respect a spoon.
About Katherine Brook + Liza Birkenmeier / TELE-VIOLET: TELE-VIOLET is a theatre company led by
director Katherine Brook that uses dramatic texts as well as real-world content to experiment with acting
About Normandy Sherwood: Normandy Sherwood (writer, director) writes plays, makes costumes, and
and dramatic form. TELE-VIOLET is invested in collaboration and always seeking new approaches
does many other things in the theater. Her plays have been presented at The New Ohio Theater, The
to theatre-making. Recent work includes The Power of Emotion (Under the Radar Incoming!) and Pink
Kitchen, Dixon Place, and more. She co-directs two theater companies: The Drunkards Wife (Feather
Melon Joy (Brave New World Rep). Tragedy in Spades will be the second Tele-Violet collaboration with
Gatherers, Tiny Hornets) and the OBIE-award-winning National Theater of the United States of America
playwright Liza Birkenmeier, following American Realism in 2011. Katherine Brook + Liza Birkemeier
(The Golden Veil, Chautauqua!, Abacus Black) . She has designed costumes for plays by Mac Wellman,
/ TELE-VIOLET is currently in residence at University Settlements Performance Project for the
Young Jean Lee, Faye Driscoll and many other people. She is one of the curators of Little Theatre @
development of this new work.
Dixon Place and she teaches writing at NYU.

Collaborating Artists: Design by Adam Rigg, songs by Chris Giarmo, choreography by Katie Rose
Collaborating Artists: Normandy Sherwood (Writer, director); Ean Sheehy, Julia SirnaFrest, and Lisa
McLaughlin. Performers TBA.
Clair (Performers)
Upcoming: University Settlement, March 2016; How to Get Into Buildings, by Trish Harnetiaux, directed
www.normandysherwood.com
by Katherine Brook, in December at The Brick.

www.katherinebrook.com
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7:00PM - 8:30PM SET | ELEBASH RECITAL HALL
MAC WELLMAN
THE OFFENDING GESTURE
Photo by Matt Korahais
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
MINOR THEATER
THE TERRIFYING
Photo by Joe Buglewicz
The Offending Gesture is a humorous and poetic indictment of American foreign policy in Iraq,
The Terrifying is a new theater piece about fear. In a creepy little village on the cusp of modernity,
told through the true story of Hitler and his dog, Blondie. Wellman takes as his subject a political
two teenagers and their families are stalked by a ravening monster. The piece takes cues from horror
incident that occurred in 1941 just before Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Tor Borg, a Finnish
movies, but searches for a visceral scariness specific to live theater, experimenting with soundscapes
businessman infamously taught his own dog Jackie to do the Nazi Party Salute in response to the
and tableaux, textures of darkness and silence, excruciating slowness and sudden eruption. Building
command, Heil Hitler.
toward a final confrontation between girl and demon, The Terrifying asks how you can live every day
with forces that want to destroy youincluding the urge to destroy yourself.
About Mac Wellman: Mac Wellmans recent work includes Muazzez at The Chocolate Factory
produced by PS122 in January 2014, 3 2s; or AFAR at Dixon Place in October 2011, The Difficulty of
About Minor Theater: Minor Theater is a New York City company putting on plays written and directed
Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair in the fall of 2006 (and elsewhere more
by Julia Jarcho in collaboration with sta Bennie Hostetter, Jenny Seastone (NY Innovative Theatre
recently), and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the Chocolate
Award, 2014), and Ben Williams (Elevator Repair Service). With dark humor and goofball precision,
Factory in the fall of 2008. He has received numerous honors, including NEA, Guggenheim, and
we camp out on the underbelly of pop culture. We tell the stories that dont fit into the stories. We are
Foundation of Contemporary Arts fellowships. In 2003 he received his third Obie, for lifetime
champions of weird desire. Shows we have worked on together include: Grimly Handsome (OBIE Award
Achievement.
for Best New American Play, 2013; reprised at JACK, 2015); Nomads (dir. Alice Reagan at Incubator,
2014); Dreamless Land (produced by New York City Players at Abrons Arts Center, 2011), American
In 2006 his third novel, Qs Q, was published by Green Integer, and in 2008 a volume of stories,
Treasure (produced by 13P, 2009). Julia Jarcho received a Doris Duke Impact Award in 2014.
A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds, was published by Trip Street Press as well as a new
collection of plays The Difficulty of Crossing a Field from Minnesota Press. His books of poetry include
www.minortheater.org
Miniature (2002), Strange Elegies (2006), Split the Stick (2012) from Roof Books, and Left Glove (2011),
from Solid Objects Press. His novel Linda Perdido won the 2011 FC2 Catherine Doctorow Prize for
Innovative Fiction. He is Distinguished Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College.
Collaborating Artists: Alaina Ferris (Composer); Meghan Finn (Director); Ayo Awosika, Alaina Ferris,
Melissa Diaz, Catherine Brookman, Julia Sirna-Frest, Layla Khoshnoudi, and Chuja Seo (Performers)
Upcoming: The Offending Gesture, premiering January 6 23, 2016 at The Connelly Theater produced
by The Tank as part of Flint & Tinder in association with 3-Legged Dog.
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www.macwellman.com
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R. B. SCHLATHER
DONT CALL ME CRUEL, BABY
Photo Courtesy of the Artist
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
EN GARDE ARTS
WILDERNESS
DONT CALL ME CRUEL, BABY is a reperformance of a staging made at New York City Opera (2009).
Wilderness is a documentary theatre piece based upon interviews with kids who have gone off the
Schlather uses a recording of the legendary, beloved diva Edita Gruberova singing Non mi dir from
rails due to addiction, depression and mental health issues and their families who, as a last resort have
Mozarts Don Giovanni, a recording he was obsessed with as a child growing up in Cooperstown, NY.
sent them to Wilderness Therapy programs. The show is a multi-media experience with six actors on
He identifies the character, Donna Anna, as his dream role.
stage playing teen and twenty somethings, video interviews of real life parents and a folk rock musical
score with songs by Kyle Henderson, the Towrs and others. Co-adapted by Seth Bockley and Anne
About R. B. Schlather: R. B. Schlather is an American opera director based in New York City. Described
Hamburger and directed by Seth Bockley with movement by Devon deMayo.
in the New York Times as having a gift for drawing out vivid performances, and in the Frankfurter
Allgemeine as the future of opera, Schlather has accomplished experience producing opera on
About En Garde Arts: Founded by Anne Hamburger, En Garde Arts is a not for profit theatre company
national and international stages.
in New York City known for the creation of site-specific and documentary theatre. Bringing people
together not normally in conversation is at the center of all their work, whether in a theatre or on the
In the 2015/16 season, Schlather makes his directing debut with Boston Lyric Opera on a site specific
streets. En Gardes most recent production was BASETRACK Live which was named one of the top ten
performance of Philip Glass In The Penal Colony and directs Handels Semele for the Ithaca College
theatrical productions of 2014 by The New York Times and traveled to 25 cities including a New York
Theater. Recent directing credits include a restaging of Kevin Newburys production of Norma at the
premiere at BAM. Seth Bockley was a co-adaptor and director of the show. En Garde Arts produced
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. His productions of Handels Orlando and Alcina, presented as
BOSSS, an emerging artists Festival in Hudson River Park.
process art exhibitions at Whitebox Art Center (NYC), were identified in the New York Times by art critic
Holland Cotter as a species of performance art and by classical music editor Zachary Woolfe as the
Collaborating Artists: Anne Hamburger (Co-adaptor); Seth Bockley (Co-adaptor/Director); Devon
gift Mr. Schlather has given the New York cultural scene.
deMayo (Movement Director); Spencer Armstrong (Assistant Director/Stage Manager); Charlotte Maier
(Actor, as Mom); Adrienne Rose, Gabrielle Bryan, Holly DeMorro, Joshua Marcks, Riley Suter, and Jake
Schlather has worked for the New York City Opera, English National Opera, Canadian Opera Company,
Williams (Actors)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bard SummerScape, Chicago Opera Theater, Portland Opera, Glimmerglass
Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, (le) Poisson Rouge, Ash Lawn Opera. He is in pre-production for
Upcoming: Wilderness premiere in NYC next October at Abrons Arts Center
Handels Ariodante in NYC, and an installation at the Perez Art Museum for Illumin Arts. His work has
been presented by CATCH !, and published in Emergency INDEX 2011.
www.engardearts.org
Upcoming: Philip Glasss opera In The Penal Colony @ Boston Lyric Opera, November, 2015; Directing
Handels Semele with conductor Geoffrey McDonald, Ithaca College 15/16 Theater Season.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
MALLORY CATLETT / RESTLESS NYC

DEAD TIME OF PLENTY
Photo by Mallory Catlett
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
ASA HORVITZ
THEBAN PLAYS
Photo by Betsey Brown
Dead Time of Plenty is a durational performance for Black-Eyed Susan, a girl and a dog based on
Theban Plays is a contemporary reflection of Sophocles Oedipus cycle. In this excerpt we meet a
Doris Lessings dystopian novel The Memoirs of a Survivor about the collapse of a city. It is one half of
young middle class white man living in New York City who is disappointed by his inability to achieve
a diptych called M/F FUTURE about how we imagine what we will become. The other half, Decoder
what he believes is his destinyto become a famous musician. Isolated and lonely, he begins making
2017 is a concert based on the writings of William Burroughs featuring sound artist G. Lucas Crane and
webcasts in which he vents his frustrations. He shares his stories and dreams in an attempt to discover
performer Jim Findlay.
what has gone wrong. Tonight he has invited us to witness his final webcast.
About Mallory Catlett/Restless NYC: Mallory Catlett is an Obie award winning director, dramaturg and
About Asa Horvitz: Asa Horvitz founded the Koans and Performance Project in 2012. Working between
creator of performance across disciplines from City Council Meetingan experiment in participatory
live theatre, sound installation, film, and concerts, he has created original work in the US and Europe
democracy with Aaron Landsman and Jim Findlay that the audience performs, to Dread Scotts
at venues including CounterPULSE, Meridian Gallery, Death by Audio, Living Arts Museum, and Teatr
performance installationDread Scott: Decision in BAMs Next Wave Festival, to The Scarlet Ibis, Stefan
Polski (Wroclaw). In 2014 Asa collaborated with Scott Gibbons and Romeo Castellucci of the Socetas
Weismans opera at the PROTOYPE Festival, to Restless This Was The Enda remix of Chekhovs Uncle
Raffaello Sanzio on the performance Go Down, Moses, which premiered at Thtre de la Ville as part of
Vanya (Obie, a Bessie and a Henry Hewes Award). She created Restless NYC to pursue a specific
the Paris Festival dAutomne. March 2015 saw the release of VALES, an interactive website of films and
interest in the relationship between time (how we live in it) and the destructive impulse. Employing
songs in memory of Asas longtime collaborator Dominic Ziegler (1988-2012), with an installation and
strategies of disruptionsite-specificity, mixed media, fragmentation and reconfigurationshe uses the
performance at New Amsterdam Records in Brooklyn. In late 2014 he relocated permanently to New
literary and theatrical canon as a source for contemporary performance. The dismantling of stories that
York City and began to work with the group of artists that comprises Theban Plays.
have already been told is a practice in transformation; an attempt to create openings, to find a way out,
and forward. She is a Foundation for the Contemporary 2015 Grants to Artists Awardee and an assistant
Collaborating Artists: Ryan Pater, Deidrea Hamid, Eliza McKelway (Performers); Adrian Knight
professor at Stony Brook University.
(Composer); Asa Horvitz (Director); Lukasz Korczak (Designer); Bryan West (Tech/Consultant); Lio
Sigerson (Production); Cassie McQuater [www.cassiemcquater.com] (Opening Video)
Collaborating Artist: Black-Eyed Susan

Upcoming: Theban Plays Premiere at The Brick, Williamsburg, January 28-30, 2016
Upcoming: Decoder 2017 at the PuSh Festival in Vancouver February 4, 2016
www.asahorvitz.com
www.mallorycatlett.net
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
3:45PM - 7:30PM | ELEBASH HALL LOBBY

PERFORMANCE
King Abdullah II House of Culture & Art in Jordan

designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Zaha Hadid Architects
OCTOBER 9
FRIDAY
Humanities.
Renegade Performance Group. Photo by Rachel Neville

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
PHILLIP HOWZE
SELF-PORTRAIT #7
Photo by Joan Marcus
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
LIZA JESSIE PETERSON

THE PECULIAR PATRIOT
What does reflection look like in a culture obsessed with its own form? And what about certainty, in
The Peculiar Patriot is a solo stage play in development by poet, performer-playwright, and Def Poetry
a city endowed of misperception? Self-Portrait #7 is one image in a composite, large-scale series of
alum Liza Jessie Peterson. It follows Betsy LaQuanda Ross, a self-proclaimed peculiar patriot, who
ephemeral, autonomous explorations into spectatorship and relatability.
makes regular visits to penitentiaries, boosting the morale of her incarcerated friends and family. Betsy
is both victim and victor of this countrys prison system and represents the millions of men and women
Standing room for this performance is extremely limited. Please sign up in person at the PRELUDE
who sojourn to penitentiaries on a regular basis, subjecting themselves to long bus rides and security
2015 info desk, located outside the Segal Theatre.
checks to visit incarcerated loved ones. As this witty love story unfolds, The Peculiar Patriot gives voice
to the voiceless and shines a glaring light on Americas fastest growing industry, while enchanting
About Phillip Howze: Phillip Howze is a playwright whose work includes abominable, Tiny Boyfriend
audiences with provocative thought, hilarious dialogue, and gripping pathos.
and all of what you love and none of what you hate. A recent graduate of Yale School of Drama,
his plays have been developed at The Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, Theater Masters National MFA
Inspired by Lizas decade-long work with prison populations, the play examines the human impact
Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation, Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Yale Cabaret. He is
and inhuman machinery of mass incarceration. Betsys tale has become a powerful human story that
a 2015 Fellow of the Sundance Institute Theater Lab and the 2015-16 Artist Fellow at Lincoln Center
impacts more than 2.5 million people behind bars, their loved ones and their communities.
Education. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked in advocacy at the Open Society Foundations
where he managed grant projects that intersect arts, culture, and education across Southeast Asia. He
About Liza Jessie Peterson: Liza Jessie Peterson is a playwright, actress, poet, educator, and artivist.
worked as an educator at the US Embassys cultural center in Rangoon, Burma from 20052007.
Liza has written several plays including her most recent one woman play, The Peculiar Patriot, which
embarked on a national prison tour where she performed in over 35 jails and penitentiaries across
Upcoming: Self-Portraits, and other works, will be developed and presented in conjunction with a year-
the country. She performed The Peculiar Patriot, opening for Angela Davis, at Columbia Universitys
long fellowship at Lincoln Center Education; all of what you love and none of what you hate (micro-
conference on mass incarceration. The Peculiar Patriot recently had a successful run at the Penumbra
residency) at The Bushwick Starr in February 2016 and Cutting Ball Theaters Risk Is This Festival, San
Theater and is in production development for a national tour scheduled to launch in 2016. Other plays
Francisco, March 2016.
include: Lessons on the A Train, Chirons Homegirl Healer Howls, Witness the Priestess, Sistergurls and
the Squirrel, and Church of the Living Womb.

Upcoming: Her book, ALL DAY; A Memoir of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids, is scheduled
to be released 2015
www.mappinternational.org
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
LARISSA VELEZ-JACKSON
STAR CRAP METHOD solo with Illogical Jazz Ballet
Photo by Brian Rogers
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
BEN GASSMAN
SAMS TEA SHACK
Photo by Keelie Sheridan; Photo Courtesy of the Artist
Star Crap Method is Larissa Velez-Jacksons improvisation practice that blurs composition, performance
Steeped in a reverence for the F train as the new Silk Road, Sams Tea Shack is an Ashkenazi Jewish
and research through body-based disciplines. SCM embraces technical brilliance and failure in equal
boys fantasy that hes really a central Asian nomad. In this malleable exchange with audience, Sam
measure, ushering in a form of interdisciplinary creative limitlessness with opportunities for great humor,
serves tea, talks about the neighborhood, Persian emperors, dumplings and samosas, and whatever is
vulnerability and absurdity. In this demonstration made especially for the Prelude Festival, the dancer
on your mind. Its a piece about about cultural identity vs. national identity. Its a comedy.
acts as a filter between language and movement while exploring aloud the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center for the first time. Illogical jazz ballet is a language prompt to orient the practitioner(s) in the task of
About Ben Gassman: Ben Gassman is a playwright from Queens. His play The Downtown Loop
instant dance composition onstage.
premiered in October, 2013 at 3LD Arts & Technology Center in a production directed by Meghan Finn.
His play Purimacolo, directed by Julia Jarcho, was produced as part of the 2010 Weasel Festival at 13th
About Larissa Velez-Jackson: Larissa Velez-Jackson is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and hybrid
St. Rep. Other full-length plays include Botte Di Ferro, Tunneling, and Haircuts For Men & Boys. Sams
artist who uses improvisation as a main tool for research and creation, focusing on personhood and
Tea Shack has had developmental performances at the Silent Barn, the Bushwick Starr, and Dixon
the dancing/sound-making body. She employs a deep humor to grant audiences universal access to
Place. Bens essays on theater and theater artists can be found in the Brooklyn Rail and American
contemporary arts critical discourse. She has presented work at numerous NYC venues such as: Roulette,
Theatre magazine.
PS 122, New Museum of Contemporary Art, (former) Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Fall Platform
10, American Realness Festival 11 at Abrons Arts Center and Chocolate Factory Theater 14. In 2011, she
About Sam Soghor: Sam Soghor is NYC born and raised. Normally, he would like to get several artisan
launched a song-and-dance collaboration with her husband Jon Velez-Jackson called Yackez, The
cocktails with you at the cool bar around the corner after the show, but he has to get on the subway
Worlds Most Loveable Hip Hop Duo.
back to Brooklyn to do domestic stuff. Maybe in a few years
Velez-Jackson was a Movement Research Artist in Residence 12-13, a SPARC resident 13 with the Lower
Collaborating Artists: Conceived by Ben Gassman; Text by Sam Soghor & Ben Gassman; Performed by
Manhattan Cultural Council and most recently an El Museo Del Barrio Artist in Residence 15. In 2012 she
Sam Soghor; Directed by Meghan Finn.
attended the danceWEB scholarship program of Impulstanz Intl Dance Festival by way of the 12 Jerome
Foundation Travel and Study Grant. She will premiere a full-length commission at New York Live Arts in
2016 that incorporates her multimedia collaborative, Yackez with her senior aerobics students onstage.
Upcoming: Star Crap Method, American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center January, 2016. YACKEZ,
Live Feed showing at New York Live Arts, April 15-16, 2016
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www.larissavelez.com
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
MIKE IVESON
THE TEAR DRINKERS
Photo by Talya Chalef
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
JULIANA FRANCIS KELLY

MY SH*TTY MEMORY
In The Tear Drinkers, four humans are kidnapped by the United States government and brought to an
My Sh*tty Memory is a play about a play that has a play inside it. It will be performed by its own
underground holding tank in New Mexico to determine which of them is actually an alien from another
playwright, who wants to know what you think about it.
planet masquerading as an earthling. There will be some singing.

About Juliana Francis Kelly: Juliana Francis Kelly has originated roles for many great theater artists,
About Mike Iveson: Mike Iveson mounted his first full-length play with music, Sorry Robot, at NYCs New
including Reza Abdoh (as a founding member of the internationally renowned Dar A Luz Company);
Ohio Theatre as part of PS122s COIL Festival in January 2015. He has composed music for various
Richard Foreman (for whom she received an OBIE Award); and for Anne Bogart, Karin Coonrod,
choreographers and playwrights including Sarah Michelson, Sibyl Kempson, Mia Chung, DANCENOISE,
Young Jean Lee, Alec Duffy, Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, Lear DeBessonet, Normandy Sherwood,
and Kate E. Ryan, and has worked as a performer with companies as varied as Elevator Repair Service,
Hal Hartley, Charlotte Braithwaite, Marie Losier in collaboration with Guy Maddin, Bryan Doerries (for
New York City Players, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and New Georges.
outsidethewirellc.com), and David Michalek (Lincoln Center Festival.) Her own plays, Go Go Go, Box,
The Baddest Natashas and Saint Latrice have been produced and published in the U.S. and Europe.
Upcoming: The Tear Drinkers premieres in May 2016 at The Kitchen, NYC
Collaborating Artists: Juliana Francis Kelly (Playwright/performer); Tony Torn (Director)
Upcoming: Elizabeth R: Text and Beheadings at BAM Next Wave Festival; The Reenactors at Abrons Art
Center.
www.julianafranciskelly.com
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
ANIMALPARTS (ANTHONY JOHNSTON & NATHAN SCHWARTZ)
HES BUILT A FUCKING TIME MACHINE
Tenderpits. Photo by Chris Scott
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
COLIN GEE
FRONTIER
Photo by Colin Gee
Hes Built A Fucking Time Machine is the third installment in our Tenderpits Trilogyan avant-garde
Inspired by John Fords 1956 film, The Searchers, Frontier includes an online video series and a live
autobiography and comic exploration of identity and grief. In light of recent scientific breakthroughs in
performance, which unfolds within a projected video landscape featuring locations derived from the
time travel, we use this new piece to create a place of discourse around our motives for going back, how
original film, animations, and video footage from modern small-town America. A central character
we envision our future, and what it truly means to be present.
takes the inner lives of the films seven characters to represent aspects of himself. As he reimagines
The Searchers to understand his own concerns, the conflicts between Native Americans and cowboys
About AnimalParts: Founded in 2009 by artists Anthony Johnston and Nathan Schwartz, AnimalParts
transform into inner psychological forces, revolving around questions of family accountability and male
seeks to disrupt, disturb, and dismantle the establishment through controlled theatrical chaos. Rigorous
ambition.
and irreverent in equal measure, their work is rooted in a highly physical, post-dramatic approach that
invites the audience to be an active participant in every inquiry.
About Colin Gee: Trained as an actor at the Jacques Lecoq School and the Dell Arte School of
Physical Theater, Colin Gee was the founding Whitney Live artist-in-residence at the Whitney Museum.
In NYC, their works have been seen at The Brick, 59E59, Under St Marks and Dixon Placeand they
Recipient of a 2012 Rome Prize in Design and a 2011 EMPAC Dance Movies Commission, other
have developed work in residencies at Dixon Place, with Horse Trade Theater and at The Bushwick
commissions have included works for SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum. Frequently collaborating
Starr. In Canada, AnimalParts has been presented at Summerworks (Toronto), Videofag (Toronto), GCTCs
with sibling/composer Erin Gee, projects have included SLEEP (2009, Zrich Opera House), Mouthpiece
Undercurrents (Ottawa) and Centaurs Wildside (Montreal). Tenderpits was presented at the Edinburgh
XIII, Mathilde of Loci, Part I (2009, American Composers Orchestra, Carnegie Hall), Mouthpiece XX
Festival Fringe (FOUR STARS -The Times of London) and was awarded Best Multimedia Performance at
(2014, Vienna Konzerthaus) with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Mouthpiece VI+I (2014,
NYCs United Solo Fest. Arts Heart was named Outstanding Solo Show at FringeNY.
Chicago) with Fonema Consort. Works in New York have been premiered at PS122, The Chocolate
Factory, Joyce Theater, Whitney Museum, and many others. From 2000 to 2004 he was a clown with
This Fall, Anthony and Nathan return to their alma mater in Vancouver, Studio 58, to create and direct
Cirque du Soleil.
a group of conservatory acting students in an AnimalParts adaptation of Flauberts Madame Bovary,
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starring a white standard poodle.
Collaborating Artists: Erin Gee (Composer); Patrick Kelley (Video)
www.animalparts.org
www.colingee.com
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
RENEGADE PERFORMANCE GROUP

POWER SOURCE III
Renegade Performance Group launched the AFROFUTURISM Series in January 2014 to be an ongoing
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
MONSTAH BLACK
COTTON + HYPERBOLIC! [EXCERPT]
Photo by Charles Meacham
Cotton
project investigating the presence of Blackness into and beyond 21st Century techno-culture and society. It is
Monstah Black presents a video that is part of his The Cotton Project, exploring images from slavery
a platform where themes and contexts of African-American culture will be remixed and reimagined through
and plantations, creating majestic images using cotton balls as its main source for construction.
contemporary dance and performance and various technological mediums.
HYPERBOLIC!
About Renegade Performance Group: Renegade Performance Group is a Brooklyn-based dance company
Hyper spectacle, Extreme Athleticism, Over the top camp as a tool to deliver a musical performance
exploring urban artistic aesthetics and expressions through dance theatre, visual performance, and film/media.
work addressing dooms day and conspiracy theories and societal idiosyncracies.
Renegade Performance Group collaborates with artists of all genres on projects that stretch performance
presentation beyond the capacities of theatrical form...... Active artists, living arts.
About Monstah Black: Monstah Black is known for his multi-dimensional funk drenched musical
creations (audio/visuals/dance), blurring the lines of genre and gender. His aesthetic reflects pop culture
About Andr M. Zachery: Andr M. Zachery (1981, Chicago, United States) is Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary
of the 70s, 80s and 90s. Hes performed internationally from Art Basil, Miami to Brazil, Scotland,
artist. He creates performances, interactive media installations, film, and sound art. He is currently a Jerome
Ireland, Germany, the New Media Performance Festival in Moscow and most recently the New Museum
Foundation supported 2015 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. He earned a BFA from the Ailey/Fordham
of Contemporary Art in New York City.
program, and MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) from Brooklyn College. He is the artistic
director of Renegade Performance Group and founding member of the interdisciplinary collective Wildcat!
Awards include: The Tom Murrin Performance Award (Dixon Place), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, The District of Columbia Commission on The Arts
About Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is a performer, composer, and commercial
and Humanities, Career Transitions for Dancers, Topaz Arts Center, NYSCA and Franklin Furnace Fund.
independent contractor. He works, through the lens of precarious labor, complicates notions of industry,
He holds an MFA from Long Island University New Media Art and Performance Program. He was the
identity, and environment. He frequently collaborates with performers and fine artists, often under the alias
2013 guest mentor for the International Choreographers Residency at Dance Omi in Hudson Valley.
crowns. He has presented work at the Brooklyn Museum, Arts East New York, JACK, University Settlement,
Harlem Stage, as well as on Dazed Digital and Complex.com.
Collaboration Artists: Sareen Hairabedian (Camera and location scout, The Cotton Project); Performers
and collaborators TBD (HYPERBOLIC!).
Collaborating Artists: Andr M. Zachery (Choreographer, visual artist); Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (Sound artist)
Upcoming: AFROFUTURISM Series at Irondale Center on November 4-7; A work-in-progress on Draftworks at
Upcoming: HYPERBOLIC! will be announcing workshops and auditions throughout Fall 2015.
Danspace Project on October 10 at 3PM.

www.renegadepg.com
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
8:00PM - 10:00PM | PIONEER WORKS
ERIN MARKEY+ EMILY BATE+ BECCA BLACKWELL+

ANA FABREGA+JAMES ALLISTER SPRANG
HEAVY JENNIES
About Becca Blackwell: A trans actor and performer with a circus background, Becca Blackwells
performing career includes collaborations with artists such as Jennifer Miller/Circus Amok and Young
Jean Lee. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun they, Blackwell works collaboratively
with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance.
Blackwells past roles include Lees Untitled Feminist Show, a textless dance theatre piece set to pop
music, and Tina Satter/Half Straddles Seagull (Thinking of you), an adaptation of Chekhovs The Seagull
and his other comedic writings.
A regular on the web series Jack in a Box, Blackwell also recently performed in Jack Spicers Billy the Kid,
a collaborative musical by Lisa DAmour, Brooke OHarra, and composer Brendan Connelly. Blackwell is
currently working on They, Themself and Schmerm, based on a self-produced video (called Me, Myself
and I) by the late actor Corey Haim, which will premiere in October 2015.
Erin Markey, Photo by Amos Mac
About Ana Fabrega: Ana Fabrega is a Brooklyn-based comedian. She performs at comedy venues and
The final performance of PRELUDE 2015, Heavy Jennies, guest curated by Erin Markey, will take place
art spaces around New York City, and produces and hosts many one-off shows. She has appeared on
at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Following the performance will be the PRELUDE 2015 Closing
The Chris Gethard Show, Comedy Centrals Alternatino, and various web videos for IFC. She regularly
Night Party,
performs on The Special Without Brett Davis, and writes and stars in the web series Jana & Shasta. Ana is
the author of The Truth About Pangaea, a comedy zine published by Social Malpractice Publishing.
Pioneer Works is located at 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn.PRELUDE will provide transportation to the Closing
Night Party on Friday, October 9th. In order to assure a seat on one of our party buses, you must sign
About James Allister Sprang: James Allister Sprang is a multi-disciplinary artist and graduate of The
up in advance. Sign-up sheets will be available in the Segal Lobby throughout the entire festival.
Cooper Union. He is based in Brooklyn, NY. Sprangs current work revolves around his alter-ego GAZR
(pronounced gazer), a poet who aspires to be a rapper. As a whole Sprang seeks to understand
About Erin Markey: Erin Markey is a comedic writer/performer, actress and singer who has shown her
identity politics by exploring the latent relationships between text, speech and body language. He has
work at BAM, Under The Radar Festival, New Museum, PS 122, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New York
performed in venues such as the Apollo Theater, The Brooklyn Museum, BHQFU, The Chicago Museum
Comedy Festival, San Francisco Film Society, and frequently at Joes Pub at the Public Theater. She is
of Contemporary Art, The Miami Art Museum and Abrons Arts Center. The first words set to music that he
a company member of Half Straddle and is performing in and co-composing music for the upcoming
remembers spazzing out over is: I keep one eye open like CBS. Can I live?
Ghost Rings at New York Live Arts in April 2016. Erins new musical, A Ride On The Irish Cream, will
premiere at Abrons Arts Center in January 2016. www.erinmarkey.com
About Emily Bate: Emily Bate is a singer, composer and harmony fanatic based in Philadelphia, PA. Her
current projects include Going Down Mount Moriah, a theater piece based around an 8-voice womens
choir; a series of zingles (zine + single) combining writing and music; acoustic duo Jonagold, and the
upcoming show A Ride On The Irish Cream with Erin Markey.
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PIONEER WORKS - located at 159 Pioneer St, Red Hook, Brooklyn
THE 2015 FRANKY AWARD
PRELUDE will provide transportation to the Closing Night Party on Friday, October 9th, leaving from
outside the CUNY Graduate Center at 7:30pm. In order to assure a seat on one of our party buses,
you must sign up in advance. Sign up at the PRELUDE 2015 info desk, located outside the Segal
Theatre.
DJS: THE ILLUSTRIOUS BLACKS
Once upon a time in a galaxy not far away, there lived two kings. Each was the ruler of his own
Named in honor of MESTC Executive Director and PRELUDE founder Dr. Frank Hentschker, the
deliciously glorious planet. The first king, Manchildblack, was well known throughout the cosmos for
FRANKY Award was created to recognize an artist who has made a long-term, extraordinary impact on
his ethereal vocals, celestial sonics and earthy musical messages. The other king, Monstah Black, was
contemporary theater and performance in New York City.
a star in the solar system for his gravity defying performances, gender-bending fashions and spacey
disposition. One magical night, an inexplicable ultra-magnetic pull forced the two planets to collide. A
THE 2015 FRANKY AWARD is presented to Jay Wegman of the Abrons Arts Center.
technicolored explosion occurred turning night into day with a feast of aural and visual delights. It was
then that the universe was changed forever. Manchildblack and Monstah Black united and became The
About Jay Wegman: Jay Wegman is the Director of Henry Street Settlements OBIE Award-winning
Illustrious Blacks.
Abrons Arts Center and responsible for all aspects of the Centers curation, programming, and
administration. Prior to joining Henry Street in 2006, he served as Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at the
Manchildblack has had a steady stream of musical releases as a dance music artist including the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine from 1993-2002 and was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the
bangers: We Are, Rain and Live 4 Love. The music video for his R&B flavored debut single To The
Performing Arts in Washington DC from 2004-5. He frequently serves on review panels for public funding
Sky was directed by Monstah Black and received heavy rotation on the BET spin-off channel Centric.
and private foundations and served on the Bessie Award jury since 2011-2014. He is a graduate of the
2012 saw the release of Manchildblacks musical collabo with DJ Afro (Los Amigos Invisibles) titled The
University of Minnesota and Yale University.
Copasetic, as well as the launch of his digital music label, Hype Life Music.
Monstah Black is known for his multi-dimensional funk drenched musical creations (audio/visuals/
dance), blurring the lines of genre and gender. His aesthetic reflects pop culture of the 70s, 80s and
90s. Hes performed internationally from Art Basil, Miami to Brazil, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, the New
Media Performance Festival in Moscow and most recently the New Museum of Contemporary Art in
New York City.
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offers unique perspectives on time, space, identity, and power-relations. Dennis endeavors to make
powerful and transcendental performances designed to stimulate compelling reactions in audiences.
He is currently the Associate Artistic Director of The Living Theatre. His directing credits include Freud
BIOS:
Out LoudA Performative Reading of Civilization and Its Discontents (Judson Memorial Church), To
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the New City), Marat/Sade (Taipei, Taiwan), and others. Dennis is very excited and honored to join the
Defend Freedom (The Secret Theatre), Upcoming Train/Stopped Clock/Untitled Waiting (Theater for
PRELUDE Festival as Associate Producer. www.dennisyuehyehli.com
Yu Chien Liu (Design Coordinator/Next Generation Fellow, The Segal Center) is a Taiwanese young
professional in the field of arts and nonprofit administration. She is now working at the Martin E. Segal
Photo by Alex Fabozzi
Theatre Center as Next Generation Fellow where she gains experience in management, development
and graphic design. She is thrilled to be part of her second PRELUDE! She received her masters degree
Eryk Aughenbaugh (Producer) is an artist and writer. Current Candidate, MFA Playwriting, Brooklyn
in Public Administration and Arts Management from SUNY, Brockport and her BA in Political Science in
College.
Taiwan. Prior to moving to the States, she interned at Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan.
Brad Burgess (Technical Director/Segal Center Associate) is the Artistic Director of The Living Theatre,
Michael LoCicero (Technical Director/Assistant to the Executive Director, The Segal Center) received
after having worked with friend and mentor Judith Malina for 10 years until her passing in April 2015. He
his undergraduate education at Wake Forest University, where he studied music, with a focus in
is an OBIE award-winning member of The Living Theatre ensemble. Brad is a founding board member
musicology. In 2012 he interned as an administrative and production assistant at the David Rubenstein
of The League of Independent Theatre Fund, an organization of 130 plus theatre companies that
Atrium at The Lincoln Center and in 2013 worked for his alma mater as a technical assistant for two
collectively tithes and fundraises to support independent theatre. He is a founding board member of
Wake Forest performance spaces before returning to New York. Michael was the 2014/15 MESTC Next
Sophie Gersons Healthy Youth with former councilman Alan Gerson and many other NYC community
Generation Fellow and continues to work with the Segal as the Assistant to the Executive Director and
leaders, an organization that provides arts, sports and science programs to underprivileged kids in
Director of programs, Frank Hentschker.
the city. He is a board member of The Assembly. He is an associate at The Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center at The Graduate Center CUNY. He is development director for Erez Ziv at Frigid NY. He is also a
Catherine Lynch (Stage Manager/Closing Party) has stage managed on Broadway and Off, most
workshop leader for the All Stars Project Cops and Kids program with the NYPD.
recently at MTC and Roundabout Theatre Company. She also dabbles in casting and cookie
decoration. Check out curtainupcookies.com.
Frank Hentschker (Executive Director, The Segal Center) Dr. Frank Hentschker, who holds a Ph.D. in
theatre from the now legendary Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany, came to
Antje Oegel (Curator) is the founder of AOInternational (AOI), a NYC-based agency that represents
the Graduate Center in 2001 as program director for the Graduate Centers Martin E. Segal Theatre
American and international theater artists. Originally from Germany, Antje worked at the Euro-Scene
Center and was appointed to the central doctoral faculty in theatre in 2009. Among the vital events
Leipzig, an international theater and dance festival and then became the co-artistic director of the
and series he founded at the Segal Center are the World Theatre Performance series, the annual fall
theatre Schaubhne Leipzig. Antje came to NYC in 2002 and worked at MCC Theater before becoming
PRELUDE festival, and the PEN World Voices Playwrights Series. Before coming to the Graduate Center,
a theater agent at Bret Adams, Ltd. In addition to her work at AOI, Antje co-runs 53rd State Press along
Hentschker founded and directed DISCURS, the largest European student theater festival existing
with founder, Karinne Keithley Syers. 53rd State Press is dedicated to publishing performance texts
today; he acted as Hamlet in Heiner Mllers Hamletmaschine, directed by the playwright, performed in
and new plays, including works by Pig Iron, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Sibyl Kempson and Erin
the Robert Wilson play The Forest (music by David Byrne) and worked as an assistant for Robert Wilson
Courtney. She is also the co-founder of Drama Panorama, a Berlin-based forum for international theater
for many years.
translation. Supporting and connecting unique artists and their work throughout the world is at the
center of all of these and other projects. Find out more at www.aoiagency.com.
Alex Weiss Hills (Web Designer) is a designer and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. He has been
working with The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center as Associate Director of Digital Initiatives since June
Sean Paulsen (Sound Engineer) is a film composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from New York.
of 2014. He is also Digital Designer and Website Manager at Bard Graduate Center. For a portfolio of
Along with being the composer and music supervisor for the MSG Networks The Gardens Defining
Alexs work, please visit his website: www.alex.weisshills.com.
Moments, his music has been featured at numerous film festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival,
Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, and The Philadelphia Film Festival. He also works in film and
Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li (Associate Producer) earned his Masters degree in Performance Studies at Tisch
television production with OBB Films.
School of the Arts, New York University. As a director, playwright, performer, and performance artist,
Dennis has devised productions that address sexuality, literature, philosophy, and politics. His work
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Lina Renzina (Party Producer/ Social Media Manager) is a CUNY graduate, producer, and manager.
Rebeca Sheahan (Managing Director, The Segal Center) A graduate of the University of Massachusetts,
She has previously worked with: The Public Theater, Nederlander, Situation Interactive, bdb Marketing,
Rebecca began her career in performing arts in 2000 at the Market Theater in Cambridge,
NYMF, ICM Partners, and Ars Nova.
Massachusetts. The Market Theater hosted an eclectic range of noted performers and playwrights,
including Alvin Epstein, Ricky Jay, Antony and the Johnsons, Charles Mee, Elie Wiesel, and Catherine
Hanako Rodriguez (Stage Manager) is delighted to join the PRELUDE team for the first time this year.
Samie. For Peter Sellarss monumental theatrical production, The Children of Herakles, which premiered
A recent graduate of Wesleyan University, she aims to become involved in New York theatre through
at the American Repertory Theatre in 2003, she worked as an Associate Producer and Casting
stage management. Her recent Wesleyan credits include In the Heights, Really Really, The Shmagina
Associate representing the Carr Foundation. Since moving to New York that same year, she has worked
Dialogues, The Tempest, A Behanding in Spokane, and Great God Brown. This summer she was the
as Director of Marketing for St. Anns Warehouse with Susan Feldman and 651 Arts with Georgiana
Venue Director for Theatre for the New Citys Dream Up Festival. When not stage managing, she also
Pickett. She became Managing Director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center
enjoys costume design and construction. Wesleyan costume credits include American Idiot and Ida.
at the City University of New York in 2012, after serving as Co-Producer and Creative Consultant for the
PRELUDE 08 and PRELUDE 09 Festivals.
Sarah Jane Schostack (Stage Manager) is a director, actor, stage manager. Selected NYC directing
credits: Manere Fortis (Semi-Finalist in the Take Ten Festival), The Stand-Ins, and No Stranger There
Heloise Wilson (Social Media Festival Correspondent ) is an actor, a writer and sometimes a filmmaker.
by Luke Wise (named a 2014 Samuel French Finalist). Past assistant directing credits include Lincoln
She is a graduate of the Stella Adler studio of acting and holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn
Center Originals: CRY HAVOC (Lincoln Center), Period of Adjustment (WHAT), 101 Dalmatians, A Rockin
college.She has an award theatre and film company called Little y both based in New York city and
Midsummer Nights Dream, Liberty Smith, Disneys The Lion King Jr., all with Michael Unger and the
Sydney, Australia. Follow her and unfollow her on instagram @weezypea
12.14 Foundation, The Stone Will Roll (New York Theatre Workshop) and Trip to Bountiful (Hangar
Theatre). SDCF Observer under Peter Flynn for Smart Blonde at the City Theatre. PA or ASM credits
include: Scenes from a Marriage (NYTW), New York Theatre Workshop 2014 Gala, cast performance of
Company in the 2011 Tony Awards. Associate Member of the SDCF.
special thanks
Tom Sellar (Curator) is editor of Yales international performance journal Theater. Under his editorship
since 2003, Theater has published plays, criticism, reportage and creative dossiers by leading global
artists and authors. Tom is professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale University, where he
teaches courses in contemporary global performance and theater, critical practice, and performance
curating. Toms reporting and criticism have appeared in national and international publications
including the New York Times and the Guardian (UK). He currently serves as Obie judge and chief
theater critic of the Village Voice, where he has written about New York performing arts since 2001. Tom
curates public programs at Yale and for organizations including Philadelphia Fringe Arts and the Prague
Quadrennial. A New York City native, he is a proud resident of Brooklyn.
Darielle Shandler (Panel Producer) is a light designer and theatre artist from Virginia now based in
Manhattan. New York credits: Associate Producer for the ICE Factory Festival at the New Ohio Theatre,
Light Designer for Post Traumatic Super Delightful (FRIGID Festival), Assistant Production Manager for
Pretty Filthy (The Civilians), Crew and Follow Spot Operator for Sorry Robot (PS122s COIL 2015); Light
Designer for RCulture (IRT Theatre); Assistant Light Designer for My Stubborn Tongue (XO Feminist
Productions). Regional Credits: Build Crew and Light Programmer for The Sound of Music (Mill Mountain
Theatre); director of and tigers. at Drew University. In 2013, her original play Dont Make It Weird
premiered in Portland, Maine (Deering High School). Darielle is a graduate of Drew University, where
she studied Theatre Arts and Arts Administration. She has also completed the Broadway Associate
Certificate through Brooklyn College. She currently works as a Box Office Associate and Front Desk
Receptionist at 59E59 Theaters. www.darielleshandler.com
Thanks to The Graduate Center, CUNY; Chase Robinson, President, GC CUNY; Professor Marvin
Carlson, Ph.D. Program in Theatre, Director of Publications, MESTC;
Donald Cherry, Tanya Domi, Tim Ellis, Alex Irklievski, Kimberly Miu, Rachel Ramirez, and Jane
Trombley, Communications and Marketing; John Chianese, Peter Harris, Bradley Hoelscher, Hector
Merced, Bo Olsson, John Ribeiro, Steven Tomas, and Dan Tracy, Audio/Visual Services; Michael
Byers, Daisy Romero, Orlando Rosario, Charles Scott, and Erik Willyard, Facility Services and
Campus Planning; Jeff Ewald, Information Technology; John Flaherty, Frank Anderson, Cheryl
Holder, Craig Primus, and Juan Velazquez, Security and Public Safety; Diane Rosenblum, Assistant
to the Director of Security and Public Safety; Gayle Moynihan, Manager, Room Reservations;
Ray Ring and Chris Lowry, Building Design and Exhibitions. Althea Harewood, Stuart Shor, and
David Tse, Business & Finance; Marilyn Marzolf, Sandy Robinson, Kathleen Stolarksi, Office of
the President; Daidrian Folkes, Caliph Jones, Reggie Lucas, Milton Mendez, Dennis Montgomery,
and Randy Reyes, Mail Services; Sundoc Douglas, Hector Sanchez, Jerzy Strojek, Joseph Valez,
and Christian Capelli, Graphic Arts Production Services; Marilyn Mercado, Classics Department;
Jonathan Belcher, CUNY TV.
Special thanks to Noel Allain, Caleb Hammons, Eli Hickman, Helen Jaksch, Tommy Kriegsman,
Gideon Lester, Ella Marder, Helen Shaw, Rachel Silverman, Sarah Stites, Yi Ming Wang, Mac
Wellman. Katherine Carl, Jennifer Wilkinson, The James Gallery; Amar Gautam, Archive Bar; Marco
Orozco, Gabriel Florenz, James Clark, Pioneer Works.
Special thanks to PRELUDE 15 wonderful volunteers: Lulu Cheng, Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri, Nathan
Dee, Matthew Dicken, Margit Edwards, Clara Elser, Amir Farjoun, Fred Kramer, Siyuan Liu, Xuan Liu,
Emma Orme, Julia Schneiderman, Emmanuelle Sirois, Gang Sun, and Deby Xiadani.
Thanks to Lewis Cullman & Louise Kertz Hirschfeld; Susan & Jack Rudin; William P. Kelly.
In Memory of Martin E. Segal.
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The Segal Center

F al l 2 0 1 5/ Wi n t er 2 0 1 6
Bridging the gap between the academic and performing arts communities
through dynamic public programs and digital initiatives that are free and open to all
MORE THAN PRELUDE. Did you know that The Segal Center offers the best in forward-thinking
international theatre programming throughout the year? From October to June, the Center
hosts dozens of events featuring national and international theatre makers and scholars in an
incomparably intimate and conversational setting. From Elevator Repair Service and Rimini
Protokoll, to Lisa DAmour and Marcus Gardley, the Segal brings audiences and artists together
in an intimate venue for readings, screenings, and of-the-moment discussions about our global
performing arts landscape. Have a look at our 15th annual seasonyoull find PRELUDE alums,
leading performance critics, and internationally acclaimed artists in action, all offered free to the
public. Want to go deeper? Come back and join the conversation.
www.theSegalCenter.org
One of the many Segal Center programs: PEN World Voices: International Play Festival 2014
Below: Yakiniku Dragon, written by Chong Wishing (Japan), directed by Victor Maog.
OCT
WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY
October 7 All Day

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October 8 All Day
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October 9 All Day
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8:30pm: Performanance +
Closing Party @ Pioneer
Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn
NOV
DEC
THURSDAY
November 2
Contemporary Theatre
from Argentina
w/Matas Umpierrez
6:30pm
MONDAY
December 3
Performance Robot
Dramaturgy
The Builders Association
(New York) & Nibroll (Tokyo)
6:30pm
January 11
A Celebration:
The Lincoln Center
Theater Review
w/Editors John Guare,
Anne Cattaneo,
& others
6:30pm
MONDAY
November 9
Contemporary Theatre
www.preludenyc.org from Brazil
w/playwrights Bilac,
MONDAY
Mizrahi, Moreno,
October 19
& Spadaccini
The New Black Fest 6:30pm
Un-Tamed: Hair
MONDAY
Body Attitude
November 16
Short plays by Black
Fassbinder and the Stage
women playwrights
(Germany)
6:30pm
All Day + 6:30pm
MONDAY
October 26
TCG: Publishing
for the Theatre
w/Terry Nemeth,
Kameron Steele,
& Rob Weinert-Kendt
6:30pm
JAN
MONDAY
MONDAY
November 23
What the Eye Hears:
A History of Tap Dancing
2015 Daniel Gerould
Memorial Lecture
December 7
Italian Playwrights
Project:
Calamaro, Deflorian &
Tagliarini, Paravidino, &
Santeramo
6:30pm
MONDAY
December 14
Gianina Carbunarius
Mihaela,
the Tiger of Our Town
(Romania)
6:30pm
FEB
THURSDAY - FRIDAY
February 25 - 26
Segal Film Festival on
Theatre & Performance
All Day
WEDNESDAY
December 16
Called to Account:
The Case Against Tony
Blair and George W. Bush
6:30pm
MONDAY
November 30
RICHARD SCHECHNER DAY
All Day + 6:30pm
MONDAY
A reading inspired by Richard

Norton-Taylors play
(Tricycle Theatre/London)
6:30pm
WORLD THEATRE
US THEATRE
SCREENINGS
PUBLICATIONS
CONFERENCES
All events are FREE and take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave at 34th St., NYC
www.theSegalCenter.org
If you wish to receive our brochure or join our email list, please contact us at mestc@gc.cuny.edu or 212.817.1860.
All programs are subject to change.
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WWW.PRELUDENYC.ORG | OCT. 7-9, 2015 | FREE!

THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER

THE TWELFTH ANNUAL PRELUDE FESTIVAL

WELCOME FROM THE CURATORIAL TEAM

What Could We Build, or Is the Future Already Behind Us?

Wednesday, October 7 Friday, October 9, 2015

installations, and discussionsall completely free and open to the public.

PRELUDE 2015 ARTISTS

AnimalParts(AnthonyJohnston+NathanSchwartz) | Emily Bate | Monstah Black | Becca Blackwell |

PRELUDE 2015 STAFF

PRELUDE CURATORS EMERITI

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

But most of all, we want to enjoy and listen to each other.

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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

5:00PM 9:00PM Segal Theatre Lobby

3:45PM 7:30PM Elebash Hall Lobby

6:00PM 7:30PM Segal Theatre

3:45PM 5:30PM Segal Theatre

8:00PM 9:30PM Segal Theatre

5:00PM 6:30PM Elebash Recital Hall

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IMAGINING ARCHITECTURES FOR

Nastja Dzaviks The New Contemporary Theatre for 21st Century,

Director. CiNEs report, *Re-Public*, was published in Theater 35:3

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WHAT COULD WE BUILD?

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bring to the citys artistic ecology?

Performance Space 122), and additional participants TBA.

Moderator: Tom Sellar (Co-Curator, PRELUDE 2015)

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WHAT COULD WE BUILD? PART II:

Photo by Danist Soh

AnimalParts Revenge of the Popinjay (Tenderpits 2)

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IMAGINING ARCHITECTURES FOR

Crystal Flower Theatre, a concept design by Angelo Tomaiuolo, James Cavagnari,

THE FOUNDRY THEATRE

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McNamara, and Mac Wellman.

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NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA

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A series-in-progress of short music videos made from youtube comments.

REPORT FROM THE FIELD: THE NIBELUNGEN CYCLE

Photo Courtesy of the Artists

performance and into the world in which we live.

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MARIANNE WEEMS/THE BUILDERS ASSOCIATION

Photo by Valerie Oliveiro

SARAH HUGHES + MCFEELY SAM GOODMAN

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influential new architectures for performance.

on The Builders Association published this October by MIT Press.

that aims at truth rather than at the illusion of fact.

Hughes (Director); McFeely Sam Goodman (Writer)

human experience in the 21st century.

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KATHERINE BROOK + LIZA BIRKENMEIER / TELE-VIOLET

Photo by Normandy Sherwood

TRAGEDY IN SPADES: A CRIME DOCUMENTARY

Photo by Liza Birkenmeier

/ TELE-VIOLET is currently in residence at University Settlements Performance Project for the

Director. CiNEs report, Re-Public, was published in Theater 35:3