Sunday, April 28th @ 7p Sour Dough: The Attempted Unionization of the Bison City Bread-O-Rama A new play with songs by Ben Lewis Sunday, May 5th @ 7p The Unrepentant Necrophile by The Coldhearts Saturday, May 11th @ 2p ALPHA by Stephanie Swirsky |
TICKETS: $10 |
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 |
Three showings from three shows in development.
Sunday, April 28th @ 7p
Sour Dough:
The Attempted Unionization of the Bison City Bread-O-Rama
A new play with songs by Ben Lewis
Featuring the members of BREAD Arts Collective
Monica Axlrod, a disgruntled NYC stormbird of the working class, returns to her midwestern roots under the guise of a supermarket worker, hoping to unionize the local chain on the eve of its takeover by a vast global empire.
Featuring:
Monica Axlrod: Lyndsey Anderson
Brett, The Oven Master: Nick Ryan
Mother Harvest: Kate Gunther
Ali: Kelly Klein
Geraldine: Giverny Petitmermet
Don: Katie Hartman
Potroast: Lindsey Hope Pearlman
Trigg Nelson: Ben Lewis
Annabellanna: Elizabeth May
Sour Dough:
The Attempted Unionization of the Bison City Bread-O-Rama
A new play with songs by Ben Lewis
Featuring the members of BREAD Arts Collective
Monica Axlrod, a disgruntled NYC stormbird of the working class, returns to her midwestern roots under the guise of a supermarket worker, hoping to unionize the local chain on the eve of its takeover by a vast global empire.
Featuring:
Monica Axlrod: Lyndsey Anderson
Brett, The Oven Master: Nick Ryan
Mother Harvest: Kate Gunther
Ali: Kelly Klein
Geraldine: Giverny Petitmermet
Don: Katie Hartman
Potroast: Lindsey Hope Pearlman
Trigg Nelson: Ben Lewis
Annabellanna: Elizabeth May
Ben Lewis is a writer, director, actor and teaching artist. He is a founding member of BREAD Arts Collective. With BREAD Arts, Ben has directed and acted in Waiting for Lefty, co-wrote and acted in The Great American Casket Company at Greenwood Cemetery, and adapted and acted in Rise and Fall. His play Lonesome Devil was produced at Could City in Brooklyn with many BREAD members. His plays have also been produced at The Players Theater, Access Theater, The Red Room, Triskellion Arts, and The Time Square Arts Center, as well as fringe festivals in New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Ben's play Wolfgirls won The Bitter Lemons Innovative Theater Award and received and extended run at The hollywood Fringe Festival. His play Happy Sauce is published in several one-act anthologies. His one-act Hooker Raft has been produced five times in NYC in the last three years. Ben is one half of the writing/performing duo LEWIS AND ANDERSON (with fellow BREAD member Lyndsey Anderson) whose work includes Speeches and Toasts and Veruca and Dex Take It Back! As a teaching artist, Ben has devised original work with young people from inner city housing projects to rural mid-western communities. He earned his BFA from Boston University.
BREAD Arts Collective is a multi-disciplinary arts collective dedicated to adapting and devising new work that challenges the typical and stretches the possible. It’s members include Lyndsey Anderson, Toni Ann DeNoble, John Egan, Kate Gunther, Katie Hartman, Eric Powell Holm, Kelly Klein, Ingrid Larson, Ben Lewis, Andrew Lynch, Elizabeth May (EMay), Katie Melby, Lindsey Hope Pearlman, Giverny Petitmermet, and Nick Ryan. Find out more at www.breadartscollective.com
BREAD Arts Collective is a multi-disciplinary arts collective dedicated to adapting and devising new work that challenges the typical and stretches the possible. It’s members include Lyndsey Anderson, Toni Ann DeNoble, John Egan, Kate Gunther, Katie Hartman, Eric Powell Holm, Kelly Klein, Ingrid Larson, Ben Lewis, Andrew Lynch, Elizabeth May (EMay), Katie Melby, Lindsey Hope Pearlman, Giverny Petitmermet, and Nick Ryan. Find out more at www.breadartscollective.com
Sunday, May 5th @ 7p
The Unrepentant Necrophile
Presented by The Coldharts
Created and performed by Katie Hartman, Nick Ryan and Nathan Gebhard
In collaboration with Mark Benzel and Lindsey Hope Pearlman
A mortician falls in love with a man as she prepares his corpse for burial. She has three days until the funeral... but three days just isn’t enough.
A punk musical about a mortician and her body.
The Unrepentant Necrophile
Presented by The Coldharts
Created and performed by Katie Hartman, Nick Ryan and Nathan Gebhard
In collaboration with Mark Benzel and Lindsey Hope Pearlman
A mortician falls in love with a man as she prepares his corpse for burial. She has three days until the funeral... but three days just isn’t enough.
A punk musical about a mortician and her body.
Katie Hartman is a Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, actor and theatre maker. Recent New York credits include Bread Arts Collective's Rise and Fall and 3 Sticks' new folk opera, Vestige, both at the Brooklyn performance space, Cloud City. She is co-artistic director of The Coldharts, and has toured under that banner across North America including the Chinook Series in Edmonton, Alberta and Xfest at Southern Illinous University. While living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Katie worked with Four Humors Theater Company, Bedlam Theatre, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and on the main stage of the Brave New Workshop Comedy Theater. She is a founding member and owner of the Twin Cities Horror Festival, the largest Horror performing arts festival in the country. Katie received her BA in Theater Arts from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
Nick Ryan is a founding member and resident playwright of Four Humors Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written eight shows with the company including The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha which premiered at the Dowling Studio in the Guthrie Theatre in May of 2016. In 2014, the Four Humors was named Best Comedy Theater in Minnesota by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Endurance, a show he wrote in collaboration with Split Knuckle Theater, premiered during the 2010 Connecticut Repertory Theater Nutmeg Summer Series, and toured the world performing in New York City, London, Paris, Maastricht, Athens and Bangkok. In 2015 Endurance received a Connecticut Critic's Circle Award for its run at Longwharf Theater in New Haven. He was the co-creator of an immersive adaptation of Jule's Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis which ran for three hundred performances in the summer of 2015. He graduated from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities with a BA in Theater Arts, where he was the two time recipient of the Arthur Ballet Award for Playwriting. Nick currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where he is Co-Artistic director of The Coldharts.
Nathan Gebhard creates work to breathe, listen, commune, celebrate and mourn. Recent New York credits include Saint Ex, and Open Dance Ensemble. Hailing from Minnesota, he's performed as an actor, mover, and musician with companies such as Live Action Set, Swandive Theatre, Savage Umbrella, in TigerLion Arts' national tour of Nature, and his own collaboration, Spaceheater. B.A. Hamline University. www.nategeb.net
Lindsey Hope Pearlman Directing/Writing: O’Neill, EST/Sloan, MITU580, The Flea, Goodspeed Opera House, Edinburgh Fringe, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, FGP Playgroup, The Adobe Rose Theater and Barn Arts Collective. Multiple Associate/Assistant Director positions on Broadway and regionally. Her viral video Make America Great Again has been viewed over 20 million times on Facebook and YouTube. Proud slice of BREAD Arts Collective. Associate Member, SDC. Co- Artistic Director, Up & Down Theatre Company. Graduate, London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) B.A Hamilton College. Upcoming: Zodiac Math at The Strand Theatre, Rockland ME www.lindseyhopepearlman.com
Mark Benzel is a Minneapolis-based theatre maker and director who has worked largely with companies focused on new or devised work such as Red Eye Theatre Collaboration (Dreamless Land), WLDRNSS Theatre (The Big Show), Live Action Set (The Seven Shot Symphony--2011 Regional Ivey Award for Best Overall Production), Sandbox Theatre (The Little Pilot and Unspeakable Things), Walking Shadow (Mojo), and Dolan//Heeringa (My Life is All but Over).Other work with The Coldharts include The Unrepentant Necrophile. He has trained with Pig Iron Theatre, Philipe Gaulier, and internationally with Pierre Byland. Up next, Mark is working on Keeper of the Light about the life of the first female light house keeper, Ida Lewis. Special thanks to TP, B, and PP.
The Coldharts is a touring theater company founded by Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan in Brooklyn, New York in 2012. We are founding members of the Twin Cities Horror Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We create devised, music-theatre inspired by the American Gothic. For more information visit www.thecoldharts.com
Saturday, May 11th @ 2p
ALPHA
by Stephanie Swirsky
Directed by Rachel Dart
Featuring:
BIANCA: Cathy Ang
KAT: Cerridwyn McCaffrey
PATRICK: Kayla Jackmon
LUCAS: Erika Grob
FAY: Anna Jackson
TRUDY: Angeliea Stark
HEYWOOD/JESS: Casey Wortmann
ALPHA is a modern day adaption of Shakespeare's TAMING OF THE SHREW. Set in the college greek system, and utilizing an all woman-identified cast, ALPHA is a dark comedy about how internalized misogyny leads us to participate in, and enable, the systems that oppress us.
ALPHA
by Stephanie Swirsky
Directed by Rachel Dart
Featuring:
BIANCA: Cathy Ang
KAT: Cerridwyn McCaffrey
PATRICK: Kayla Jackmon
LUCAS: Erika Grob
FAY: Anna Jackson
TRUDY: Angeliea Stark
HEYWOOD/JESS: Casey Wortmann
ALPHA is a modern day adaption of Shakespeare's TAMING OF THE SHREW. Set in the college greek system, and utilizing an all woman-identified cast, ALPHA is a dark comedy about how internalized misogyny leads us to participate in, and enable, the systems that oppress us.
Stephanie Swirsky writes about illness, death, grieving, and cultural identity with humor, levity, and a sense of romantic adventure. Her plays have been developed at The Brick, The Flea, Pasadena Playhouse, Theatricum Botanicum, and WordBRIDGE, among others. She is a CubaOne Literary Fellow, recipient of the Israel Baran Award, and under commission with the Iron Tongues Project between the University of Southern California and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland. Stephanie is active with Let Us Work, an advocacy group that aims to combat and end sexual harassment in theater. Originally from the suburbs of New Jersey, Stephanie currently lives in NYC, and received her BA from NYU and MFA in Dramatic Writing from USC.
Rachel Dart is a New York-based director who brings a feminist perspective to new play development and existing works. Rachel is also the founder of Let Us Work, an advocacy group that aims to combat and end sexual harassment in theater by effecting change in policy and culture. Recent credits: In Paris... and Unpleasantries at Actors Theatre of Louisville; The Seventh Floor at EST/Youngblood; Mary's Sex-Crazed Cosmic Playlist at the Women in Theatre Festival; and The Trojan Women at The New Collectives. Rachel recently assisted Daniel Sullivan on The Nap on Broadway as a Samuel J. Friedman Directing Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club.