I am thrilled to announce my acceptance into INTAR Theatre's 2017 Unit 52, led by J. Julian Christopher and Lou Moreno. INTAR is one of the United States' longest-running Latinx theaters producing works in English. Unit 52 is INTAR's New Actors Initiative, in which a company of actors train one day a week, year-round, in an effort to expose new voices to INTAR's history and the many, varied artists that have gone through its doors. I'm very excited to get creating with this team!
Women and Children at Dixon Place
I'll be participating in a workshop performance of Jack Sullivan's Women and Children, directed by Nikolai Mishler. The showing will occur in the Dixon Place lounge at 7:30pm on Monday, January 16. Free admission.
In the kitchen of a house somewhere in the United States, three generations of women gather to play a game of cards, and prepare for a confrontation. In a secluded army prison somewhere off the grid, three young guards gather to play a game of cards, and prepare to torment the Prisoner strung up above them. And in the kitchen of yet another house, a loser to the game is finally declared. Set over the course of two decades, Women and Children is a play about the things we are willing to give up in order to survive.
More information here.
Hamlet Isn't Dead's Merchant of Venice at Westbeth
I am pleased to announce that I will be playing Bassanio in Hamlet Isn't Dead's The Merchant of Venice, running this December at Westbeth Artists' Community. The show will be directed by David Andrew Laws and features a vibrant group of actor-musicians. Learn more about Hamlet Isn't Dead here.
December 8-17 @ 8pm, December 17 @ 2pm at Westbeth Artists' Community (across the plaza from Labyrinth Theater Company).
Purchase tickets here. Use code "HIDIOTS2016" for discounted tickets, advance only.
#serials @ The Flea with The Bats - WEEK 2
Thanks to Mara Nelson-Greenberg's hilarious script and Max Reuben's direction, Team Happy Hour has been invited back for our second episode of Reunion Confidential. This week we bid farewell to The Flea's White Street theatre complex as we move to Thomas Street hereafter. Episode 2 will be directed by Kristan Seemel, and I'll have the opportunity to reprise my role as Drew. Please come join in the late night theatre madness!
As this is our final week at White Street, tickets will certainly sell out. Purchase them in advance here.
Nov. 10-12 @ 11pm @ The Flea.
#serials @ The Flea with The Bats (Cycle 38)
I'm elated to be Team Happy Hour's captain in Cycle 38, as #SERIALS@theflea returns for its final cycle at The Flea's White Street theaters before we move to our new home at 20 Thomas Street. This week features a fresh cast of team members in a new play by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, and directed by Max Reuben.
5 teams of Bats perform original 10-minute episodic plays. 3 audience-voted favorites return the next week with a new episode. 2 least popular stories come back with entirely new serialized plays. For more info, click here.
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 11pm, Nov 3 - 12. Purchase tickets here before they sell out.
Little Invisible Backpacks at MITF's Jewel Box Theater
I had the opportunity to workshop Little Invisible Backpacks this last May as an independent project under Magdalena Cychowski's writer-director leadership at NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing. I am excited to announce that Backpacks has been selected for the Midtown International Theatre Festival, where I will be reprising my role as Dad.
"Losing a parent is a unique form of grief; Jake and Maya must learn how to rebuild and forgive the people they became and are becoming since their mother passed away." More info here.
Fri 11/4, 8:30pm; Sun 11/6, 2:30pm; Tues 11/8, 9pm @ Jewel Box Theater, 312 W. 36th St.
Tickets here.
The Every 28 Hour Plays with the Bats at the Flea
I will be participating in a staged reading of The Every 28 Hours Plays on Tuesday, October 25th at 7pm with a post-show discussion to follow. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and One-Minute Plays Festival asked 72 playwrights to respond to the statistic "Every 28 hours a black man is killed by police" by writing a one-minute play. Playwrights include Lynn Nottage, Tarell Alvin McCraney, David Henry Hwang, Dominique Morisseau, Neil LaBute, Robert Schenkkan, and scores more. The Flea will join theaters from across the country in presenting this work, brought to life by both the Bats and guest artists, including Tonya Pinkins.
Get tickets here.
#serials @ The Flea with The Bats: WEEK 2
We are back for one more week of #serials in Cycle 37! After rapidly selling out last week's shows, Team Happy Hour says goodbye to Tommy Smith's Europa Prime, and returns this week with Sad, Gay Book Club by Dan Giles, directed by Alex Tobey. Join us for some late-night theatre madness!
Purchase tickets while they're still available here.
#serials @ The Flea with The Bats
After participating in Cycle 36 and getting voted back with Francesca Pazniokas' This Is Not a Haunted House directed by Ellie Sachs, I will be returning to #serials for Cycle 37. However, due to scheduling, I will be working with a new team collaborating on Europa Prime written by Tommy Smith and directed by Kimille Howard.
In #serials@theflea, five teams of Bats perform original ten-minute episodic plays. The audience votes for its three favorite plays, which return the next week with a new installment. The teams with the two least popular stories must likewise come back the following week, but with entirely different serialized plays.
#serials tends to sell out quick, so purchase your tickets early here.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui with Cave Theatre Co. at Under St. Mark's
I am very excited to get to work on The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, produced by Cave Theatre Co. and going up October 6-16 at Under St. Mark's. Mirroring scenes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Richard III, and Macbeth, Bertolt Brecht uses the tale of the rise of a Chicago gangster to comment on the rise of the Nazi Party -- with newfound relevance amidst the impending November election.
This Brecht-gangster-Shakespeare-Hitler fever dream promises outrageous comedy and character acting at its finest. With over 40 characters played by 8 actors, I will be responsible for some eight characters (Clark, Young Dogsborough, Dockdaisy, Bowl, The Actor, Ignatius Dullfeet, and several Grocers).
Learn more about Cave Theatre Co. here.
Purchase tickets here.
