I am beyond thrilled to be a part of this production singing and dancing as a Mooncat in Mac Wellman's newest brain child!
Half Straddle Forever at Joe's Pub
Total dream come true to perform at Joe's Pub with Half Straddle! I cannot believe we have been making work for 7 years!!!
Prelude 2015//The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman with music by Alaina Ferris
I'm thrilled to be singing in Mac Wellman's new play the Offending Gesture. Alaina Ferris has written some beautiful music and we will be performing as a part of Prelude at Cuny Graduate Center .
Thursday, October 8
7:00pm–8:30pm
Elebash Recital Hall
www.preludenyc.org
Bloomsday at the Knockdown Center
I'm thrilled to be performing in a beautiful vocal piece written by Paul Pinto on June. 16th, 2015
Bloomsday
This event will celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses as the “enraptured paean to the world of the physical senses.” The novel takes place over the course of a single day, June 16, 1904, with 18 episodes that correspond to Homer’s Odyssey. Each of the 18 chapters of the book will be transformed into installations of art objects, structures, sounds, videos, performance, food, and more. Our Bloomsday will be an ambulatory experience that will mirror Joyce’s prose in all its juicy, uncompromising, vulnerable, fragmented, and synesthetic confusion.
Participants include:
Abraham Adams, Sonel Breslav (Blonde Art Books), Ashton Cooper, Maggie Craig (Papercut Press), Simon Critchley, Anthony Cudahy, Moze Halperin, Kelsey Harrison, Bethany Ides, Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan (E.S.P. TV) Jillian McManemin, Marrek Milde and Kristyna Milde, Claire Mirocha and Vanessa Thill (Sorry Archive), Paul Pino (PAULAPART), Paul Pinto, Nicole Reber, Zefrey Throwell, H. Weaver, Chloe Wyma, Alex Zandi
Reading table organized by Blonde Art Books with contributions from Ugly Duckling Presse, Molasses Books, Mellow Pages Library and more.
All are welcome. Email vanessa@knockdown.center for more info.
June 16, 6pm – 10pm
2015
The Upper Room is a New York Times Critic Pick!
THE UPPER ROOM
New Ohio Theatre and Rady&Bloom present
THE UPPER ROOM
Written and directed by Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady
Music by Catherine Brookman
MAY 22 - JUNE 12
TUES - SAT at 8 PM
"The infectious high spirits that this company brings are downright inspirational.” - NYTheater.com
The Upper Room is a new play with original music inspired by the back-to-the-land movement. Set on an island way off the north coast of Maine, the last participants of a once thriving commune meet the sea. Anxious and restless, the quorum gathers around the table in their upper room to confront the rising water and certain members’ curious ailments. A darkly humorous consideration of spirituality and the dangers of our changing environment combines with a live mixed score, antique scuba suits and an overhead projector to create a brand new music theater event.
Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission
Featuring: Catherine Brookman*, Tjasa Ferme, Dana Kaplan-Angle, Govind Kumar, Robert Gadol Lavenstein, Joyce Miller, Stacy Ayn Price, Julia Sirna-Frest*, Heather Thiry, featuring Joe White (guitar)
SEA FRAUD
My directorial debut! Zoë Geltman's incredible new play at the Brick!
April. 7-11 @ 8pm!
Comfort Dogs: Live from the Pink House
TICKETS: $15 (purchase in advance here, or cash only at the door)
Set in the skeleton of a pink hurricane-torn house a band of dogs walk around of the inside and try to make sense of humankind's need for comfort as they read letters from the audience asking for solace An ensemble of musicians and live dogs will howl, scotch and poop their way through an evening as the inadvertently ask the question: Who nurtures the nurturer?
Featuring Julia Sirna-Frest, Paul Ketchum, Andrew Butler, Shane Chapman and Electra Weston, with set design by Carolyn Mraz
DATES:
Wednesdays – Saturdays, Feb. 25 – March 14
Additional performance: Monday, March 8
Ancient Lives at The Kitchen
In Half Straddle’s Kitchen debut, writer/director Tina Satter merges teen movie influences from the late 80s, a live mixed score, and video landscape to create a brand new coming of age narrative. A teacher leads three students away from society. When they start an alternative TV station in the woods and meet a young witch who alters the group dynamic, their fragile new family begins to fray. Seventeenth-century captivity narratives, adolescent letters of Emily Dickinson, the teen movies, and more infect this darkly humorous consideration of how we make meaning for ourselves and our communities.
January 7-10 and 14–17, 8pm
Tickets $20
Half Straddle: Ancient Lives is made possible with support from The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Tina Satter received a 2014 Doris Duke Impact Award (Theatre).
Thank You Philly! I got to go back to the Pony Palace and reprise my role as Kayla the left tackle for the OWLS in Half Straddle's In the Pony Palace/Football AND!! Doll Parts graced the stage late night for the Fringearts closing night party!!!
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Ancient Lives at The Kitchen
Truly a dream come true to be performing at the Kitchen with Half Straddle in our newest piece Ancient Lives. We open in January! Check back for more deets!!
Here is a bit about the show:
WORLD PREMIERE AT THE KITCHEN, NEW YORK CITY * JANUARY 2015
Half Straddle’s seventh full-length work, ANCIENT LIVES is a play about coming of age and self-creation. A teacher leads three students away from society. As they start an alternative TV station in the woods and meet a young witch who alters the group dynamic, their fragile new family begins to fray. With an original choral score; video landscape to create the strange forest hideout; and at once humorous and poignant narrative, the ensemble delves into the contemporary American reality of how we make meaning for ourselves and our communities.
Being developed in a residency at THE KITCHEN.
Written and Directed by Tina Satter
Performers:
Jess Barbagallo
Eliza Bent
Emily Davis
Julia Sirna-Frest
Lucy Taylor
Music Composition and Sound Design:
Chris Giarmo
Set Design:
Andreea Mincic
Light Design:
Zach Tinkelma
Doll Parts at Bard!
We are heading up the Hudson to play at The Fisher Center at Bard College on July. 25th, 2014
You can get your tix here: http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=123287
My Directorial Debut!!
I have been working on this new play by the talented Zoe Geltman and we will be showing a bit of this work-in-progress at Dixon Place on June.27th at 10:00pm!
Doll Parts at the NITEHAWK
NINE TO FIVE
Nitehawk Cinema and Brightest Young Things present a special Secretary’s Day screening of NINE TO FIVE with a special pre-show performance by Brooklyn’s premiere Dolly Parton tribute band, DOLL PARTS! Plus, pre-party for ticket holders in the downstairs bar featuring complimentary New York Distilling Company martinis!
See more at: http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/movie/nine-to-five/#sthash.t5dBYiCF.dpuf
Tour of Seagull (Thinking of you)
March 25 – 29
Theatre Garonne in Toulouse, France
1, avenue du Château d’eau 31300 Toulouse France
March 31 – April 5
T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers in Gennevilliers, France
41 avenue Grésillons 92230 Gennevilliers France
April 5 – 11
Le Maillon in Strasbourg
Parc des Exposition, 7 Place Adrien Zeller, 67000 Strasbourg, France
April 12 – 15
Zagrebačko Kazalište Mladih (ZMK)
the Zagreb Youth Theatre in Zagreb, Croatia
Tesla 7, 10000 Zagreb Croatia
- See more at: http://www.ps122.org/Global/#sthash.BnlZ7509.dpuf
Meredith James "Land Lock"
I am very proud to be a part of this film being presented at the Jack Hanley Gallery March 15 - April 13, 2014.
Here is a little about the peice:
Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to premiere Land Lock; an installation by Meredith James consisting of a video triptych and an anamorphic floor sculpture.
In the video “Delmar,” James positions a play by Julia Jarcho about two families living in a landlocked small town within a set built to mimic the extreme foreshadowing and warping of space in medieval panel paintings. In Jarcho's play the dialogue itself presents an unstable kind of reality. As roles change and understandings unravel within the plot, James' elaborate and mutable set seems to undulate around the actors. The language vacillates between the surreal and the familial, so too does each room appear visually impossible and then normal.