The Associated Mask Ensemble Presents
THE TENEMENT

The Tenement is the debut production from the Associated Mask Ensemble.  It takes place in New York City in 1945 and depicts the story of a rat who becomes human and experiences life, labor, and love.  The production features projected backdrops designed by Daniel Brodie and mask performance by Jonothon Lyons.

Written by Jonothon Lyons
Directed by Daniel Brodie and Jonothon Lyons
Projection and Sound by Daniel Brodie

 

More at: thetenement.net

 

About The Associated Mask Ensemble:
The Associated Mask Ensemble aims to create new work inspired by the mask theater style of Jacques Lecoq that explores the human condition and illuminates human behavior. Drawing on many theatrical traditions such as Commedia dell'Arte, Circus, Clowning, Butoh Dance and Musical Theater, we strive to present intriguing stage images and actions and try to combine new technologies with old when it serves to benefit the story.

Daniel Brodie has worked on projections for many productions including Rock of Ages, Peepshow, and Creature from the Black Lagoon and designed the projections for Basil Twist's Behind the Lid and Arias With a Twist.  Jonothon Lyons is a performing company member with Imago Theatre's Frogz, Biglittlethings and ZooZoo.  The content of this production has been heavily influcenced by the work of Jerry Maouwad and Carol Triffle.

Shstrng Prdctns Prsnts:
 
The 3rd Annual New York
One-Minute Play Festival
 
Curated by Dominic D'Andrea
Produced by Dominic D'Andrea and Toby Knops

 
PROGRAM A is Saturday September 12th 2009 at 8:30 PM
PROGRAM B is Sunday September 13th 2009 at 8:30PM
 
*please note that each program contains a completely 100% different line-up of plays!!! Get your tickets early, before they sell out!!  (please make sure you buy for the correct night!)
 

 
Program A

directed by Dominic D'Andrea, Gyda Arber, and Brian Rhinehart

plays by: Ashlin Halfnight, Emily Conbere, Bixby Elliot, John Devore, Michael John Garces, Jakob Holder, Jessica Litwak, Matt Olmos, Saviana Stanescu, Kyle Jarrow, Ken Urban, David Zellnik, Lanna Joffrey, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Liz Meriwether, Mat Smart, Mac Rogers, Andrea Thome, Matt Freeman, James Comtois, anton dudley, Christine Evans, Robert Kerr, Callie Kimball, Sam Forman, Padraic Lillis, Trav SD & more!
  
Program B:

directed by Jordan Young, Nicole A. Watson, West Hyler

plays by: Callie Kimball, Clay Mcleod Chapman, Dave Anzuelo, Bixby Elliot, Kris Diaz, Christine Evans, Jeff Lewonczyk, J Julian Christopher, Courtney Brook Lauria, Adam Szymkowicz, Migdalia Cruz, Chiori Miyagawa, Ian Cohen, anton dudley, Michael John Garces, Matt Olmos, Saviana Stanescu, Crystal Skillman, Liz Meriwether, Matt Freeman, Matt Schatz, Caridad Svich, August Schulenburg, Daniel Talbott, Trav SD & more!
  
Featuring: Toby Knops, Bryan Davis, Anna Kull, Melissa Dowty, Lee Dolson, Tyronne Davis, Rena Anakwe, Charlie Coniglio, Gino Constabile, India Macdonald, Vincent Pullara Jr., Moema Umann, Matt Walters, Jenny Schutzman, Abi Kornet, Tony Lance, Ashley Simona Baker, Irene Hsi, Anais Alexandra Tekerian, Jacob Murphy, Eryn Rosenthal, and many more to be announced!

The theatrical equivalent of an efficiency apartment in which you'll get a play on sex, a performance piece that's a meal, and a film that cooks up something else entirely.

Bedroom. Dining Room. Kitchen.

Misery and Good Fortune

    Four people and one bed hardly constitute an orgy when everyone is seeking for a deeper     connection.

Wait. She Waits.

    Planning a dinner is exciting for this out-of-sorts host. Although it turns out differently than
    expected, nothing goes to waste.

Video

Vacuum

A new political thriller by the author of Last Train to Nibroc.

Which is more important -- preserving the world economy or curing a fatal disease?

As desert fog sets in around an exclusive and secluded resort hotel,  a right-wing billionaire uses a scientist's brain-damaged wife as a pawn in an attempt to gain control of a new invention.

written by Arlene Hutton
directed by Eric Nightengale

with Polly Adams*, David Arrow*, Christina Denzinger*, Christy Hall*, Jennifer Kaminski*, Matt Lutz*, Jacob Moore.

THE JOURNEY COMPANY has the distinction of producing the first New York Fringe production to move Off-Broadway, Last Train to Nibroc. The company has produced plays by Arlene Hutton since 1995, garnering critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the New York Fringe Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe and Piccolo Spoleto.

An immersive, radiant, and paranormal psychic health experience. With songs.

An opulent new play by Karinne Keithley, Montgomery Park charts the rise of terrible energy, pulling you out of the dark and then plunging you back into it. Immersive and experiential, the performance, which features David Brooks, Katy Pyle, and Keithley, interrogates the boundaries between conscious beings.

Text, Direction, Sound: Karinne Keithley
Performance: David Brooks, Karinne Keithley, Katy Pyle
Choreography: Sara Smith

fancystitchmachine.org

A show about a girl at war.

FACE is a lyrical rendition of a girl's story who survived two wars.

Based on the book of testimonies of comfort women, this play is a theatrical experiment to give voice to the suppressed history and to find ways of reconnecting with one's memory through body and psyche.

An "American Girl Narrative" with a ticking-time bomb.

Nancy, an ex-Quaker from the wrong side of the tracks wants to become a cheerleader at her new school.  Will she, with the help of Jen, her quirky sidekick, be able to overcome the wrath of Lindsay Mack, the most popular girl in school? More importantly, will star athlete Brad ever love her back? A standard female narrative is interrupted by moments of gut-wrenching ugliness, pacified with uncomfortable pleasures and simple honesty- resulting in a deeply ambivalent and unnerving experience of theater in Everywhere Theatre Group's, The Formula Play by Leah Winkler.

Starring: Nancy Upton, Jen Kwok, Mary Mailhot and Lindsay Mack

 

More at everywheretheatre.org

Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental (¡El Conquistador! at NYTW in 2006)
Presents
MICROWORLD(s) Part #1

MICROWORLD(s) Part #1 is a solo theater work set in Tokyo played within a LED lit 3' by 3' by 8' transforming white box about a Serbian astrophysicist named Milo, who lives in the soon to be demolished Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo. Milo is fascinated by Nikola Tesla, Shakespeare, US comedian Bill Hicks, and Fumio, his rubber duckie. MICROWORLD(s) Part #1 is the first theater work performed 'off the grid' --- all it's energy comes from renewable sources. Performed by Drama League and Lortel nominee, Thaddeus Phillips.

"Thaddeus Phillips would have made a great silent film comedian"
-The New York Times

"Watching Thaddeus Phillips at work makes you feel as if you're on a mind altering drug... His DNA might hold traces of Charlie Chaplin, Rowan Atkinson and, perhaps, Einstein".
-Philadelphia Inquirer

Created by Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
Designed & Performed by Thaddeus Phillips
Directed by Tatiana Mallarino

More at: luciditysuitcase.org

About Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental  
Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental is a theater collective based in the US and Colombia which creates original theater. Created performances include: THE MeLTING BRiDgE, FLAMINGO/WINNEBAGO, ¡EL CONQUISTADOR!, THE EARTH'S SHARP EDGE, LOST SOLES & THE TEMPEST. LSI's work has been seen at New York Theater Workshop, La MaMa, Under The Radar, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Festival de Otoño in Madrid, Spain; the Sterijino Pozorje in Novi Sad, Serbia; the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh, Noorderzon Festival in Holland; The Dublin International Fringe Festival, Arcola theatres in London, Mladi Levi Festival in Slovenia; 4 + 4 Days of Movement Theater Festival in Czech Republic, Festival Internacional Des Artes, San Miguel Allende, Mexico; MassMoca, On The Boards, New Haven Festival of Arts & Ideas, and the The Warhol Museum.

LOVE & GEOGRAPHY

Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad
Adapted from the 1885 play by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Produced by PIEHOLE

 

All Geography and no Love simply won't do in Piehole's museum installation of Bjornstjerne Bjornson's long-forgotten play. Featuring toy theater, 3D puppets, dioramas, video, and small-talking automatons, this abandoned exhibit pines over love, whines over loss, and obsesses over location in time/space. Join us on a farcical tour through (super)nature.

 

More at www.pieholed.com