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IRT Theater
154 Christopher St., #3B (3rd floor) New York, NY 10014 Subway: 1,2 to Christopher St; A,C,E,D,B,F,M to West 4th St |
A showing of excerpts from three shows in development that explore gender roles, sexuality, and man-made disasters as told through poetry, farce, and millennial alt-pop. Wine and snacks available (suggested donation).
Zodiac Math
A one woman millennial siren song written and performed by Elizabeth May
Directed by Lindsey Hope Pearlman
Special Guest appearance by Mélissa Smith as Imaginary Friend
Equal parts 90's pop music video, horny TED talk, and honest confession, Zodiac Math is an evening of intimate storytelling, scored by anachronistic alt-pop. Elizabeth May is bright, vulnerable, and always searching for the missing half of a broken heart best friend necklace. May sings a millennial’s siren song, performing original electronic and acoustic music. Driven by family folklore of a childhood death curse, May explores questions of sexual identity and twin magic. She lays herself bare in a dark comedic ritual that transforms the audience into her imaginary friends. Because, like, what is reality anyway?
A one woman millennial siren song written and performed by Elizabeth May
Directed by Lindsey Hope Pearlman
Special Guest appearance by Mélissa Smith as Imaginary Friend
Equal parts 90's pop music video, horny TED talk, and honest confession, Zodiac Math is an evening of intimate storytelling, scored by anachronistic alt-pop. Elizabeth May is bright, vulnerable, and always searching for the missing half of a broken heart best friend necklace. May sings a millennial’s siren song, performing original electronic and acoustic music. Driven by family folklore of a childhood death curse, May explores questions of sexual identity and twin magic. She lays herself bare in a dark comedic ritual that transforms the audience into her imaginary friends. Because, like, what is reality anyway?
Elizabeth May (Writer & Performer) is a playwright, musician, and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. Original works include, Zodiac Math, recently seen at Cloud City, Vengeful Moon, a song cycle of love and revenge written for the solar eclipse as a part of Tapp’s Art Center’s ECLIPSEploitation Event, Old Souls, an original folk musical, performed in residence at The Barn Arts Collective, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Brooklyn Presents: Missionary Style for The Upright Citizens Brigade, and Trojan Women for The New Collectives (Song Writer/Music Director). Other performing credits include, The Edge of Glory for Lady Gaga and Google Chrome, Stop the Virgens at St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Rocky Horror Show and The Traveling Musicians for The Barn Arts Collective, Sarah Flood in Salem, Mass., #serials, and Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love for The Flea Theatre, At The Rich Relatives for Target Margin, and TL;DR as a part of Prelude Fest and The North West New Works Festival. Her band is called Pollens. Follow them on their website, pollens.band and @pollensband on Instagram. elizabethmay.com
Lindsey Hope Pearlman (Director) is a Brooklyn-based director, writer, performer and producer. As a director, her work has been seen at Santa Fe University of Art & Design, Dixon Place, O’Neill Theatre Center, The Flea, Goodspeed Opera House, The Strand Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Barn Arts Collective. She served as the Assistant Director for BANDSTAND on Broadway (directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler- TONY Award, Best Choreography 2017). Her play LUCY received an EST/Sloan Commission and was performed by an international devising ensemble. Her play VIV IS FOR VENGEANCE received an Honorable Mention distinction from the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award, and was developed in the Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGroup. The play has also received readings from Athena Theatre and Resonance Ensemble in NYC. She recently participated in the Johnny Mercer Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed Opera House. Up next: Associate Director, Soul Doctor International Tour. SDC Associate Member. Co- Artistic Director, Up & Down Theatre Company. Graduate, London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) B.A Hamilton College. www.lindseyhopepearlman.com
my favorite flower.
A new full length play by Arika Larson
Directed by Nina Fry
Preformed by Nina Fry, Eric Gravez, and Andrea Morales
A poetic fairy tale (in the true and terrifying Grimm’s sense) rumination on gender roles, Being Female, and burning down the patriarchy.
A new full length play by Arika Larson
Directed by Nina Fry
Preformed by Nina Fry, Eric Gravez, and Andrea Morales
A poetic fairy tale (in the true and terrifying Grimm’s sense) rumination on gender roles, Being Female, and burning down the patriarchy.
Arika Larson (Playwright) is so grateful for the last few weeks working on this new play! She is a Brooklyn based playwright from Kansas. Her plays include within tolerance, developed with the HMBG Foundation’s winter retreat, Birthday Boy, a semifinalist for the O’Neill National Play Conference and a PlayLab selection at the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and redhead ball. She works with Amios theatre’s Shotz series and Reign or Shine’s Love Drunk series. She is studying playwriting at Brooklyn College with Erin Courtney and Mac Wellman.
THIS
Co-Op Theatre East artists Robert A. K. Gonyo, Laura Iris Hill, and Anna Savant
THIS is a fast-paced comical-farce-allegory about truth and consequences in the wake of a man-made disaster. Follow Sarah Coleman, a newly-minted local politician, as she deals with the fallout from an incident she (probably) helped cause. Through her interactions with varied community interests, her family, and even two other versions of herself, Sarah works to try to find a way to balance the wants and needs of her sometimes demanding, sometimes quirky, but always passionate constituents.
Co-Op Theatre East artists Robert A. K. Gonyo, Laura Iris Hill, and Anna Savant
THIS is a fast-paced comical-farce-allegory about truth and consequences in the wake of a man-made disaster. Follow Sarah Coleman, a newly-minted local politician, as she deals with the fallout from an incident she (probably) helped cause. Through her interactions with varied community interests, her family, and even two other versions of herself, Sarah works to try to find a way to balance the wants and needs of her sometimes demanding, sometimes quirky, but always passionate constituents.
Robert A. K. Gonyo (Writer & Performer) is a theatre artist, voiceover talent, musician, and tour-guide residing in Queens. Directing: Regional: Million Dollar Quartet(Riverside Center); New York: Season to Taste, Muzungu and O Brave New World (Co-Op Theatre East); Cascando and Un jour comme un autre (thingNY); Educational: Carthaginians and Picnic (Stella Adler Studio of Acting). As a sound designer, his work has been heard with companies such as Amios, Co-Op Theatre East, End Times, The New Collectives, Writopia Lab’s Worldwide Plays Festival, and at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. He is a Director with Co-Op Theatre East (cooptheatreeast.org), company member with End Times Productions, producer & host of the radio horror podcast Apparitions, the producer & host of Go See a Show!, New York City's independent theatre podcast (goseeashowpodcast.com), and a member of The Best Thing Ever, a directors collective. robertgonyo.com
Laura Iris Hill (Writer & Performer) is thrilled to be joining the COTE team once again. She first joined the group in 2011 for their Fall Murder Mystery in upstate New York and Vermont. Laura has collaborated with members on projects ever since; the most recent being a self-devised script, Season to Taste, with Robert A. K. Gonyo and Anna Savant. Performing extensively in theatre some of her other favorite credits include; Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Macbeth, Cosi and Amadeus. Laura also appeared as a recurring guest on long-running Aussie tv show, Neighbours. Being both a writer and actor on THIS has been a rewarding experience.
Anna Savant (Writer & Performer) Originally from San Francisco, Anna has lived and performed in Munich, Tokyo and in various cities around the United States. Some of her favorite credits include Gertrude in Hamlet, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hecuba in The Trojan Women Redux and Dr. Jolene Shatila in Decadent Acts. She studied classical theater at ACT in San Francisco and is a graduate of the New Actors Workshop in New York. She is a happy ensemble member of Co-op Theater East with whom she has acted, toured and devised new works. Last fall she had the pleasure of acting with The New Collectives in The Trojan Women. She is grateful for this opportunity to work with them once again!
www.annasavant.com
www.annasavant.com
