written and performed by Elizabeth May
directed by Lindsey Hope Pearlman
Equal parts 90's pop music video, slumber party seance, and honest confession, Zodiac Math is an evening of intimate storytelling, scored by anachronistic alt-pop. Driven by family folklore of a childhood death curse, Elizabeth May explores questions of sexual identity and twin magic. She’s endlessly searching for the missing half of a broken heart necklace, and laying herself bare in a dark comedic ritual that transforms the audience into her imaginary friends.
Zodiac Math was developed as part of The New Collectives’ Daily Development Workshop at IRT Theatre.
directed by Lindsey Hope Pearlman
Equal parts 90's pop music video, slumber party seance, and honest confession, Zodiac Math is an evening of intimate storytelling, scored by anachronistic alt-pop. Driven by family folklore of a childhood death curse, Elizabeth May explores questions of sexual identity and twin magic. She’s endlessly searching for the missing half of a broken heart necklace, and laying herself bare in a dark comedic ritual that transforms the audience into her imaginary friends.
Zodiac Math was developed as part of The New Collectives’ Daily Development Workshop at IRT Theatre.
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WHEN
Thursday, November 1st at 8pm Friday, November 2nd at 8pm Saturday, November 3rd at 2pm & 8pm Tickets: $20 online or at the door |
WHERE
MITU580 580 Sackett Street, Unit A Brooklyn, NY 11217 Subway: R train to Union St |
Rep your sign and get $15 tickets!
At each show we are celebrating a different element of the Zodiac.
Are you a Taurus? Come Friday night and get $5 off your ticket. You're an Aquarius? Join other Air signs on Saturday afternoon!
Only valid for tickets purchased online. Must present proof of birthdate at box office.
Thursday FIRE Night: if you are an Aries, Leo, Sagittarius use code FIRESIGN when buying tickets online
Friday EARTH Night: if you are a Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn use code EARTHSIGN when buying tickets online
Saturday AIR Afternoon: if you are a Gemini, Libra, Aquarius use code AIRSIGN when buying tickets online
Saturday WATER Night: if you are a Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces use code WATERSIGN when buying tickets online
At each show we are celebrating a different element of the Zodiac.
Are you a Taurus? Come Friday night and get $5 off your ticket. You're an Aquarius? Join other Air signs on Saturday afternoon!
Only valid for tickets purchased online. Must present proof of birthdate at box office.
Thursday FIRE Night: if you are an Aries, Leo, Sagittarius use code FIRESIGN when buying tickets online
Friday EARTH Night: if you are a Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn use code EARTHSIGN when buying tickets online
Saturday AIR Afternoon: if you are a Gemini, Libra, Aquarius use code AIRSIGN when buying tickets online
Saturday WATER Night: if you are a Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces use code WATERSIGN when buying tickets online
Film by Ingrid Larson
Join us for our Inner Light Bazaar!
Before every show, our lobby will house a market featuring a curated collection of talisman, wears, services, and social action opportunities, each carefully selected to harmonize with Zodiac Math's themes.
Come early and enjoy a drink while supporting local artists, healers, makers, and activists that will help you feed your inner light!
At all shows:
Grateful Gem Head • Morphotogically • Le Pom Shop
Pitter Paints: Holistic & Intuitive Body Painting (All funds go to The Ashè Collective)
Before every show, our lobby will house a market featuring a curated collection of talisman, wears, services, and social action opportunities, each carefully selected to harmonize with Zodiac Math's themes.
Come early and enjoy a drink while supporting local artists, healers, makers, and activists that will help you feed your inner light!
At all shows:
Grateful Gem Head • Morphotogically • Le Pom Shop
Pitter Paints: Holistic & Intuitive Body Painting (All funds go to The Ashè Collective)
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Thursday, November 1st only
Kate Gunther Portraits • Delight + Havoc |
Friday, November 2nd only
OutSmartNYC |
Saturday, November 3rd (8pm) only
Motherline Story Project |
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In continuing with The New Collectives' mission of giving back both artistically and financially, established during our 2017 Season,
we will be collecting donations at the show for Safe Horizon, whose mission is to provide support, prevent violence, and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families and communities.
Thanks to our audiences' generous donations, we were able to raise $65 for Safe Horizon!
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Check out Zodiac Math creator EMay and TNC Artistic Director Giverny Petitmermet on the deeply cool New Agey Shit Podcast. We talk twin flames, soul mates, and what the hell Zodiac Math even means! |
Zodiac Math is featured on Go See A Show podcast!
Listen in as Zodiac Math creator & performer Elizabeth May, along with director Lindsey Hope Pearlman and producer Giverny Petitmermet, discuss crazy true family history, witchiness, telling personal stories with collaborators, midwifing the birth of an art baby, pre-forgiving mistakes, providing a space for healing, the power and magic of being in a room full of people, and “fate, compatibility, and things that are written in the stars vs. the things that we get to decide for ourselves." |
Creative Team:
Elizabeth May (EMay) (Writer & Performer) is a playwright, musician, and performer based in Brooklyn. Original works include, Zodiac Math, produced by The New Collectives, 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 The 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 Northwest New Works Festival. Her band is called Pollens. Follow them on their website, pollens.band See more at elizabethmay.com
Lyndsey Anderson (Guitar) is an actor, writer and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a proud founding member and of BREAD Arts Collective (my favorite artists are my friends!), and is one-half of the writing/performing duo LEWIS & ANDERSON (@lewisandanderson). Recent TV credits include: QUANTICO; FOREVER; BLUE BLOODS; I LOVE YOU...BUT I LIED. Recent film: OWLS & ECHOES, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S: DIRTY MOVIE, DIRTY MOVIE II, SNATCHED. Recent Theatre: ROCKY HORROR SHOW (The Barn Arts Collective), WAITING FOR LEFTY (BREAD Arts Collective) THE GREAT AMERICAN CASKET COMPANY (BREAD Arts Collective), THE JOSHUA COMPLEX (Lewis & Anderson), RISE AND FALL (BREAD Arts Collective), LONESOME DEVIL (Cloud City). Awards include: Best Actress, LET HIM EAT STEAK (Written by Lyndsey Anderson), The Network One-Act Festival at The Barrow Group Theatre.
www.lyndseyanderson.com
www.lyndseyanderson.com
Brittany Parker (Bass) is a theatre and music maker based in Maine, creating interactive musical performances for audiences of all ages. She is the bandleader for Bee Parks and the Hornets and regularly plays with the Blake Rosso Band. She has performed at St. Ann's Warehouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Lake Dillon Theatre, and was the Producing Artistic Director of the Barn Arts Collective for the past five years. www.brittanyparker.com
Shannon Sigley (Drums) originally from Houston, attended Berklee College of Music before moving to New York to pursue a career as an audio engineer and musician. She is a trained classical percussionist and has played drums with groups such as The Dreebs, SIGHER, PC Worship, and Parquet Courts.
Lindsey Hope Pearlman (Director) Selected directing: O’Neill Theatre Center, The Flea, Goodspeed Opera House, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Adobe Rose Theatre, Dixon Place and Barn Arts Collective. Original plays: LUCY (EST/Sloan Commission) and VIV IS FOR VENGEANCE (Honorable Mention, American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award). Assistant Director, BANDSTAND (directed/choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler- TONY Award, Best Choreography), and Associate Director for Blankenbuehler's original musical ONLY GOLD, featuring music by Kate Nash. Associate Director, A SIGN OF THE TIMES (dir. Gabriel Barre). Two-time SDC Observer/SDC Associate Member. Co-Artistic Director, Up & Down Theatre. Her viral video MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN has been viewed over 20 million times on Facebook and YouTube. Graduate, London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) B.A Hamilton College. www.lindseyhopepearlman.com
Ingrid Larson (Projection and Set Designer) is from Sioux City, Iowa and graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago where she earned her BFA in scenic design. Ingrid was the assistant scenic designer for Nutcracker Rouge at Minetta Lane Theatre and The Who and the What at Lincoln Center Theatre in New York City as well as The Blood Quilt at The Arena Stage in Washington D.C., Mary Stuart in Chicago, IL and War Stories in Philadelphia, PA. She was the projection designer for Rocky Horror Live in Rockland, Maine and Mother (And Me) at Second Stage Theatre Uptown in New York City. Most recently, Ingrid was the assistant projection designer for Privacy at The Public Theatre and Jerry Springer the Opera at Signature Theatre in New York City.
Kate McGee (Lighting Designer) is a trans*everything lighting designer. Recent work includes: Emily's D+ Evolution World Tour Esperanza Spalding, My Lingerie Play (Rattlestick Playwright's Theater), A Hunger Artist (Sinking Ship Productions), Aint No, Mo, Masculinity Max (The Public Theater), 50/50 old school animation (Under the Radar, The Public Theater), SoundHouse (New Georges), The Mechanics of Love (To By For productions), Kidnap Road (La Mama), Salome (M-34 at Irondale), Marie and Bruce (Jack), Carnival of the Animals and The Bremen Town Band (The Miller Theater), The Hour of the Star adapted and directed by Dara Malina (Columbia Stages), Early Plays (New York City Players/Wooster Group, Henry Hewes Award Nomination, with Aaron Deyo). Upcoming - Longwarf, Playmaker's Rep, Under the Radar. www.kateisalightingdesigner.com
Michael Hernandez (Sound Designer) is a New York-based sound designer and composer who has worked extensively for Mabou Mines and Performance Space New York/PS122. Recent design credits include: Animal Magnetism (Terry O’Reilly and Lee Breuer) and Jupiter’s Lifeless Moons (Dane Terry and Ellie Heyman). He has worked with artists such as Ishmael Houston-Jones and Sarah Michelson.
Nora Menken (Pom Artist) is thrilled to share her pom work with the audiences of ZODIAC MATH! Her love affair with pom-poms began in the fall of 2017, and she has been attaching them to objects and people ever since. With a BFA from the University of Michigan’s Musical Theatre department, Nora has appeared as an actor on TV (“The Neighbors,” ABC), in animation (SAUAGE PARTY, Sony Pictures 2016), and on stage (Disney’s THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse) before beginning her work in visual and installation art and fashion. Though most of her work comes in the form of jewelry and accessories, she is excited to bring poms back home, into the world of theatrical storytelling, with this fabulous team. Insta: @lepomshop and lepomshop.com.
Kellian Frank (Stage Manager) is a Wagner College Alum who is excited to be returning after previously stage managing The New Collectives' show, Life Brief & Glorious. Kellian was most recently at Surflight Theater for their 2017 and 2018 season as their Props Mistress, Assistant Stage Manager, and House Manager. Other previous credits include Ghost The Musical (WPPAC) and Black Coffee (Brunch Theater Company).
Production Photos by Craig Mungavin
Special thanks to:
Brim/May family, Lilli Stein, Justin Nestor and everyone at MITU580, Erez Ziv & Horse Trade Theatre Group, Materials for the Arts,
Tom Lee, Barn Arts Collective, Adventure We Can, Peter Logue, JF Brandon, Ben Moniz, Jeff Aaron Bryant, Kelly Klein, Craig Mungavin,
Kimchi the Dog, Guitar Center's return policy & that British guy on YouTube
Brim/May family, Lilli Stein, Justin Nestor and everyone at MITU580, Erez Ziv & Horse Trade Theatre Group, Materials for the Arts,
Tom Lee, Barn Arts Collective, Adventure We Can, Peter Logue, JF Brandon, Ben Moniz, Jeff Aaron Bryant, Kelly Klein, Craig Mungavin,
Kimchi the Dog, Guitar Center's return policy & that British guy on YouTube
