Inverse Theater and The New York International Fringe Festival FringeNYC / A Production of The Present Company

give you…

Smoke the New Cigarette

a freeform chamber punk explosion

@ the Bowery Poetry Club

Tickets & Info: http://thenewcigarette.org

Showtimes: August Fri 12 @ 6:45; Sat 13 @ 7; Fri 19 @ 2; Sun 21 @ 12; Thu 25 @ 8:15

The New Cigarette is…

Kirk Wood Bromley (guitar, cello, trombone, voice, lyrics, text), Sandstar (piano, drums, flute, baby cello, voice), Beth Griffith (dance, voice), Peter Schmitz (dance, voice)*

Crashing musicians:

August 12: Edward Schneider (sax), Pete Selbo (guitar), Constance Cooper (piano)

August 13: Edward Schneider (sax), Pete Selbo (guitar), Constance Cooper (piano)

August 19: The Broadcloth Trio: broadclothtrio.com – Adam Matlock (various), Anne Rhodes (voice), Nathan Bontrager (cello)

August 21: Alex Cohen (guitar), Anne Rhodes (voice), Constance Cooper (piano)

August 25: Adam Matlock (various), Nathan Bontrager (cello)

Audio & sound mastering by John Gideon
Stage managed by Bettina Warshaw

* – These actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.

See excerpts from the show:

Wed – Sat, August 4 – 7 and 11 – 14, 2010

8:00 pm

@ The Home Of

Take a front row seat in the living room of Charise and Tim and watch their household disintegrate into your lap in this inaugural production of extreme domestic theater in NYC’s newest, most unique performance space – more real than reality, more intimate than your own life. Not for the faint of heart, this ultimate voyeuristic fantasy features original music, photography, dance, poetry, and the intense dramatics of Tim Fannon*, Charise Greene*, and Lucy Stack. Co-directed by the cast, Kirk Wood Bromley (words), and Sandstar (phoems and choreography), this first piece in Inverse Theater’s 10th Anniversary Year also features music by Ivan Khilko (of Immanent Voiceless), costumes by Anna Mains, stage management by Bettina Warshaw. The show runs 75 minutes, every ticket buyer gets a free drink, and there’s a party after every performance. Welcome home.

* – Appearing Courtesy of Actors Equity Association

Excerpts:

‘Home Video’ Trailer

Inverse Theater Company presents

REMISSION

FringeNYC 2009 Excellence Award Winner – Outstanding Solo Show

“Further than terrifying. Further than disturbing. Further than uncomfortable.” – TheFabMarquee

“Early on in this intense 90 minute solo show (written and directed by Kirk Bromley) performer Dan Berkey makes hand-to-hand contact with most of the people in the audience. That moment of connection is a shrewd, brilliant move, because it guards against us distancing ourselves once the calm, lucid man we’ve met transforms into a full-blown schizophrenic. The harrowing, claustrophobic show plays like a series of his psychotic episodes during which we’re inside his often incoherent stream of consciousness – it feels like a terrifying, violent freefall into insanity. The playwright has very definitely organized the show into distinct vignettes and themes – a section in which a slidehow of graphic pornography segues into candids of non-sexualized female faces is the most wrenching, while a section where schizophrenia proves helpful for the make-believe needed for stage acting is downright funny. Despite the organization, the playwright has done all he can to erase his hand and let the show feel chaotic and random and the performer convinces at every single moment. The result is a one-of-a-kind, undiluted and unforgettable trip into the crazy.” – JustShowsToGoYou

“***** [FIVE STARS] One of the many possible symptoms of schizophrenia is alogia: a severe reduction of verbal communication. It’s a blessing, then, not only that Daniel Martin Berkley is in remission, but that he commissioned Kirk Wood Bromley—a linguistic maximalist with a knack for poetic density—to help him explain his struggles in this one-man show. It’s an excellent pairing: Bromley may speak in “superannuated symbiologies” and aim to “magnify [Dan’s] vagaries,” but Berkley—in his Jay and Silent Bob T-shirt, cargo shorts and sneakers—remains direct and gut-shot honest. Berkley doesn’t always want us to follow him (and God help us if we can get inside his mosaic mind), but whether he’s being molested in grade school, doing heroin off a blow-up doll’s crotch or recollecting his days acting “the dance of the oculogyric crisis,” his intense emotions keep us connected—as do his visions, shared as projected photographs of his childhood and personal work. An actor’s bravery is rarely noted, but Berkley deserves a medal for willingly revisiting the spasms, abrasive voices and violence of his past, and sharing this important story in a most electric and rare performance.” – Aaron Riccio, Time-Out NY

“mind-blowing” – BackStage.com

“…(for) those in search of theatre that stretches, exercises, jolts, and exalts an audience in 90 intense and harrowing minutes of spectacular wordplay and virtuosic acting…” – nytheatre.com

“This is not a simple, passive kind of theatre, but rather the kind that really makes you fully aware of your feelings. This is the kind of theatre I look for but do not often find.” – nytheatre.com

Appearing at…

The SoloNova Arts Festival

at PS 122
150 First Avenue

May 6, 8, 10, 18 at 7 pm

May 15 at 2 pm

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

Written by two-time FringeNYC Excellence Award Winner (2002, 2003), Kirk Wood Bromley, produced by “The Best Downtown Theater Company (NYPress 2001), and starring downtown theater veteran, Dan Berkey, REMISSION is a one-man, true-story play about Berkey’s journey into and out of schizophrenia.

For 45 years, Daniel Martin Berkey suffered the ravages of schizophrenia. With his symptoms beginning at age six, Dan experienced a spectrum of challenges, including berating voices and haunting visions, paranoia and catatonia, and addiction to sex, heroin, and alcohol. Then, at the age of 51, homeless and deranged, while walking along a freeway on Long Island, Dan saw a vision – a giant golden cube suspended in the sky from which emanated 3000 winged humanoid figures beckoning him to join them in the World Self. Awaking from the splendor, he walked home, flushed his medications, and has been symptom-free ever since. REMISSION is his story.

REMISSION was written by Kirk Wood Bromley under Dan’s commission. Bromley has been a playwright in NYC for 20 years, and has won a variety of awards, including two Excellence Awards in FringeNYC (Playwriting in 2002 for The American Revolution and Book/Lyrics in 2003 for Lost – The Musical) and The Berrilla Kerr Excellence in Playwriting award. Inverse Theater, the company of which he is artistic director, was named “Best Downtown Theater Company” (NYPress, 2001) and won the Caffe Cino Award at the inaugural 2005 New York Innovative Theater Awards. Dan Berkey has been acting in NYC for over 15 years, working with such artists as Richard Schechner, John Clancy, CJ Hopkins, Doris Mirescu and Peter Dobbins. Designing the show will be Inverse design veterans Jane Stein (props), Jeff Nash (lights), John Gideon (sound), and Karen Flood, the original costume designer for Urinetown – The Musical.

Since 1998, Inverse has produced fifteen plays or musicals authored by award-winning Resident Playwright and Artistic Director, Kirk Wood Bromley. Presently, this list includes The Death of Griffin Hunter, The American Revolution, Midnight Brainwash Revival, Icarus and Aria, Want’s Unwisht Work, The Death of Don Flagrante Delicto, The Burnt Woman of Harvard, On the Origin of Darwin, Lost-The Musical, and The Banger’s Flopera – A Musical, Three Dollar Bill., No More Pretending., Me, and Untitled. These plays have been presented at some of NYC’s most important, seminal downtown theaters – The Ohio Theater, The Cornelia Connelly Theater, Soho Rep, The Kraine, St. Marks Theater, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, The Present Company Theatorium, and The Greenwich Street Theater.

“The most important new American play of the season.” – nytheatre.com

“Genius…as stimulating visually as it is intellectually…the banter, reflection, and fantasy in his text possess all the vitality and zaniness of 120 actors.” – backstage.com

“Immensely imaginative.” – offoffonline.com

Soho Think Tank presents

Me

A new musical
Produced by Inverse Theater
Book/lyrics by Kirk Wood Bromley
Music by John Gideon
Directed by Alec Duffy
Costumes by Karen Flood
Choreography by Jill Guidera
Sets by Jane Stein
Lights by Jeff Nash
Assistant Director/Stage Management by Casey McLain
Production Management by Ruthie Conde
Dramaturgy by Joe Pindelski

May 3rd through May 24th
At the Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street

Tickets will be $18.00 for all performances except for Tuesdays, which will be $10. Students and seniors are $10 every night. Tickets may be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or online at smarttix.com.

ME will begin performances on Saturday, May 3rd and will continue May 24th. All performances will be at 8pm and the schedule will be as follows:

Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4 at 8 pm
Wednesday – Saturday, May 7 – 10 at 8 pm
Tuesday – Saturday, May 13 – 17 at 8 pm
Tuesday – Saturday, May 20 – 24 at 8 pm

Tickets will be $18.00 for all performances except for Tuesdays, which will be $10. Tickets may be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or online at smarttix.com. com

Soho Think Tank will present Kirk Wood Bromley’s latest play, Me, directed by Alec Duffy. Performances will be at the Ohio Theater, located at 66 Wooster Street, between Spring and Broome Streets in Soho. Performances will begin on Saturday, May 3rd, continuing through Saturday, May 24th.

When Kirk Wood Bromley set out to write a play about himself, the result was something other than a simple autobiography. Similar to Charlie Kaufman’s film ”Adaptation,” where the author set out to adapt a novel but ended up writing a film about a writer trying to adapt a novel, Me is a theatrical meditation on self-identity, where Bromley starts out looking to write a play about himself and takes detours through his personal relationship with his placenta, the recent extinction of the white river dolphin of the Yangtze in China, and just what exactly he means when he says, “I am the chosen fish, chosen by me / To save the planet from humanity.”

The myth of the origin of the white dolphin (a girl thrown into the Yangtze river because she refused to marry), discourses on definitions of self, and personal parental histories of the author all find their place in this swirling, humorous and challenging work. The play culminates with a live fish being brought on stage and the audience being asked to decide one question: should the fish be pulled from its tank and sacrificed for the play?

Bromley’s part verse, part prose, all poetic script is matched by John Gideon’s mesmerizing and eclectic music, Karen Flood’s imaginative and wild costumes, Jane Stein’s stunning puppets and properties, and Jeff Nash’s unconventional but magical lighting. A cast of 13 performs this play with 15 songs performed live by the cast and composer.

About The Cast

The cast includes Arthur Aulisi* (“Denis Leary’s Merry F#%$in Christmas”), Lora Chio* (“Law & Order”), Drew Cortese* (Public Theatre, FringeNYC), Sarah Engelke* (four Inverse Theater shows, others), Josh Hartung (Banger’s Flopera), Bob Laine (many Inverse productions), Dan Renkin* (Culture Project, Inverse), Annie Scott, Erwin Thomas*, Paula Wilson* (Alvin Ailey dancer, recurring role on “All My Children”), Brenda Withers* (one of the creators of the off-Broadway hit Matt and Ben), and Marshall York. (* indicates the actor is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.) Ruthie Turk will serve as Production Manager.

About The Artistic Team

Director Alec Duffy is the Artistic Director of the theater company Hoi Polloi. This past summer, The Ontological Theater presented Hoi Polloi’s Dysphoria as part of their Summer Residency. Duffy’s play The Top Ten People Of The Millennium Sing Their Favorite Schubert Lieder was produced at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and the Bank Street Theatre in New York, and was recently published in the collection Plays and Playwrights 2006, edited by Martin Denton. Duffy was selected by The Drama League as one of four directors nationally to be awarded the Drama League Directing Fellowship. Duffy was also recently selected for the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors.

Inverse’s resident Composer, John Gideon (On the Origin of Darwin, The Banger’s Flopera – A Musical Perversion, Three Dollar Bill, The Death of Griffin Hunter), adds his eclectic style to this latest Inverse production, performing 15 songs, as well as a “dark and moving underscore”.

Karen Flood (Costume Design) has designed costumes for theater, film, television, and advertising for over 10 years. She recently created costumes for a multi faceted performance entitled Fascinating Gershwin, by violinist Janice Martin, in which the costumes change on stage, before the very eyes of the audience.

Jane Stein (Set Design) is a sculptor who has created sets, masks, props, puppets and photographs for eight Inverse shows. Her work has appeared in productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, dance, opera and television. She began her theatrical work as a mask maker for the New York Shakespeare Festival and has contributed work to many Broadway shows including Lenny, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Bette Midler’s Clams On The Half Shell Review. Her dance credits include masks for Martha Graham, New York Baroque Dance Company, Buglisi Dance Theatre and My-Yi Co.

Jeff Nash (Lighting Design) has designed lights for Robert Wilson, John Jesurun, Natsu Nakajima, Ellen Stewart, Stuart Sherman, John Vaccaro, Gian Carlo Minetti, and Kirk Wood Bromley.

Jill Guidera, whose work has been seen at Galapagos Art Space, PS122, and Soho Rep, will be the choreographer.

Let it be known that this project has been workshopped for the last year with a revolving cast of company members, and community members old and new that include: Sarah Engelke, Bob Laine, Catherine McNelis, Christopher Thorn, April Vidal Josh Hartung, Alex Smith, Lauren Benson, Arthur Aulisi, Marshall York, Timothy Reynolds, Megan Dullaghan, Dara Seitzman, Joe Pindelski, Christopher Borg, Anni Bruno and Chloe Ramras.

Three Dollar Bill consists of three short plays on being queer and conservative. This curious cultural convergence, so baffling to many, nonetheless exists. 25% of all “out” homosexuals voted for George W. Bush in 2004. Organizations such as Log Cabin Republicans and the Human Rights Fund are home to many gay conservatives. Finally, Mary Cheney’s role as “campaign manager” for her father in 2004, as well as her activities as a gay spokesperson for Coors Brewing Company, highlight how being openly gay and actively republican is not an “uncommon abomination.” The three plays are:

“What Are You Thinking, Mary Cheney?” – Alone in her alpine lodge, surrounded by her secure electric perimeter, the lesbian daughter of “the evil puppet master” is finally pushed to come out of the closet and into the sound bite. In a smooth tirade of self-justification, she explains her controversial “lifestyle choice” to the captive liberal activists in her mind. But will her empowered paranoia inevitably prove that you can either sleep with the enemy or sleep with your lover, but never both?

“Civilization and its Disco Tents” – A real-time “gay conversion therapy” session between an ex-gay therapist and a supposedly gay, but wanting to be straight, patient “turns queer” when the therapist discovers that the patient is actually straight and wants to be gay. Yet this revelation only arouses deeper mysteries: Who is the patient and who is the therapist? Who is gay, ex-gay, and straight? And what is the difference between sexual conversion and sexual perversion? The gay conversion industry is in for a serious “lapse dance.”

“The Welcome Mask” – This is your standard “coming out” family drama. Son comes home with a vagina on his face. Father gets angry because this proves that Son is an Eskimo. Daughter, jumping to her brother’s defense, puts a penis on her face. Father grows angrier because this proves she’s a movie producer or a crooked travel agent or even worse. Feeling left out, Mother puts a botched sex-change operation on her face, though no one quite knows what this makes her. As Son, Daughter, and Mother shoot down “the slippery slope” right there in the living room, Father finally restores order to the family by putting something on his face. The question is, what is it?

The cast of Three Dollar Bill includes Gillian Chadsey, Elisa Pearl Blynn, John McConnel, Robert Laine, Timothy Reynolds, Sonja O’Hara and David Nash.

The schedule for Three Dollar Bill will be Thursdays through Sundays, December 1st through December 18th and Tuesday through Friday, December 20th through December 23rd. All performances will be at 8PM. Tickets will be $15.

A musical tribute to Jessica Grace Wing, Inverse’s composer until 2003. Read more about her life and work here:

http://www.jessicagracewing.net/

The First Inverse Theater Musical!

Lost

Part of The New York International Fringe Festival
August 9th Through August 25th, 2003

Inverse Theater will present Lost, a new musical loosely based on the Hansel and Gretel story. Performances will begin on August 9th, and will continue through August 25th at the New York International Fringe Festival (venue and schedule to be announced).

Lost is a Hansel and Gretel upgrade in which the fairy tale format is transplanted and twisted into a fresh new form, containing real American myths and ghost stories, intensely modern situations and dilemmas, and troubling meditations on the way children are treated in present American society.

Gabby and Hanlon, two teen-age siblings from the city, are abandoned by their father in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. They are then kidnapped by Mamba, an evil witch who farms children’s body parts to gain eternal life, and Laborius, her mad scientist husband. This evil twosome seduce the two terrified teens into a surreal secret hideaway where children from ages past live out their suspended lives bereft of the body parts they have lost to the organ-snatching Mamba. While there, Gabby and Hanlon each falls in love with a sad spirit, then make a failed attempt to escape through a forest of ax-wielding ghosts, only to at last be reconciled to going through the motions of preparing their organs for transplant (Gabby exercising to nurture her uterus and Hanlon studying to nurture his brain). However, after discovering that Mamba and Laborius are the last remaining remnants of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Gabby and Hanlon finally break free by rousing the other children to revolt. At last they escape, still torn between their urge for home and their feelings of love and pity for the disembodied children.

Like most of Mr. Bromley’s plays, Lost is written in vibrant, modern verse. It tackles deep and difficult issues while also maintaining a tone of entertaining humor and hysteria. The music, by Jessica Grace Wing, is composed in an eclectic style, using a mix of baroque, ambient techno, and blue-grass. Having studied at Stanford University, Ms. Wing is an exciting new composer whose work is both risky and melodic. Rob Urbinati, who is Artistic Director of Queens Theater in the Park, has directed nearly one hundred plays with The New Group, Pearl Theater, and Eric Bogosian, among many others. The sum total of these creators promises a musical that is both accessible and challenging, operatic and vaudevillian, macabre and uplifting.

The Cast (In Alphabetical Order)

Stepmother, Wampas Cat- Anni Bruno
Little Wing – Youssif Eid
White Fawn – Annemieke Marie Farrow
Mamba – Molly Karlin
Silas – Adam Kemmerer
Hanlon – Ted Malawer
Monk, Stephen Bishop, Bell Witch – Janell O’Rourke
Carl Pruitt – Timothy Reynolds
Father / Martin Stone – Ed Roggenkamp
Ivy – Jenna Rose*
Mandy, Hot Rod Lovers, Bell Witch – Karin Lili Ruhe
Nut Knox – Michael Ruby*
Laborius – John Schumacher*
Girl Who Danced Herself to Death – Kelly Spitco
Gabby – April Vidal*
Mazy – Chanelle Wilson

* These actors appeared courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association, Inc.

Music Jessica Grace Wing
Book & Lyrics Kirk Wood Bromley
Director Rob Urbinati*
Producer / Dramaturg Chad Gracia
Production & Stage Management Ruthie L. Conde
Musical Director / Arrangement Valerie Berke Sciarra
Orchestration† Martin Blessinger
Costume Design Karen Flood
Set / Puppet Design Jane Stein
Lighting Design Jeff Nash
Choreography Barbara P. King
Make-up and Hair Design Richard K. Kathlean
Make-up and Hair Artist Erin McReynolds
Assistant Stage Manager / Props Rachel Grundy
Orchestra: Sarah Engelke, David Preiser, David Grunberg, Sergio Reyes

The Death of Don Flagrante Delicto

aka

A Gesturology of Morals

By Kirk Wood Bromley

Directed by Howard Thoresen / produced by Chad Gracia / sets by Reid Farrington
lights by Morgan von Prelle Pecelli / costumes by Karen Flood / music by Jessica Grace Wing
props by Andrew Theodorou / management by Carolyn Jones, Jessica Madri and Liza Frank

Cast: Jesse Atlas, Alan Benditt, Tommy Diaz*, Alexandra Farkas, Kathleen Hunt*, Billie James*, Russell G. Jones*,
Bob Laine, Julie Lund*, Melanie Martinez, Matt Oberg*, Dave Shalansky, Joshua Spafford, Darius Stone*, Hank Wagner.
* Appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity / An Equity Approved Showcase

The Greenwich Street Theater – 547 Greenwich Street

Thursdays – Sundays, October 26 – November 19, 2000 / 7:30 pm

$12 with reservations, $15 at the door

call 212-501-4528 for reservations and information

The time is 1865, and the Civil War has just ended. The place is a southern plantation near Lynchburg, Virginia, where slavery, brutality, and incest thrive. The master of this plantation, however, is Don Flagrante Delicto, an eccentric and maniacal genius who writes and directs fantastical plays which are performed by his family, slaves, and neighbors on a small stage behind the house.

Tonight’s performance is entitled “Aethelbert and Augustine,” the true story of the 600 AD conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. The audience – a northern nurse, a southern soldier, and a freed slave – are chained to their seats. As the play-within-the-play unfolds, Don Flagrante, knowing his way of life has come to an end, roars about the stage, narrating the story, taunting the audience, and attempting to justify “the peculiar institution” before he poisons himself and his “family” in a mass suicide.

Part morality play, part nihilist rant, part slave revolt, The Death of Don Flagrante Delicto is certain to anger, enthuse, and entertain, as it breaks and re-builds every taboo on which America is founded.

This is the info for the original 1999 run. There have been many others, all of them directed by Joshua Spafford.

Midnight Brainwash Revival

By Kirk Wood Bromley
Directed by Howard Thoresen
Sets by Joshua Spafford
Music & Sound Design by Jessica Grace Wing
Costumes by Karen Flood
Lights by Reid Farrington
Produced by Chad Gracia

Swagart - Matthew Maher*
Serena Ridge – Jeni Henaghan
Gemma – Sarah K. Lippmann
Mordecon – Joshua Spafford
Kyrin Ridge – Matt Daniels
Nova – Lara Macgregor
Coyote – Hank Wagner
Kid Mañana – Matt Oberg
Uncle Hooch – Al Benditt
Vicki Dumbcowski – Patricia Kelley*
Ted Dumbcowski – Bob Laine
Karma Dumbcowski – Jessica Chandlee Smith
Officer Softy – Jason Pendergraft*
Trash – Robbie Coelius (Tom Epstein on 12/29, 12/30, and 12/31/99)
Spam – Bill Coelius (Kirk Bromley on 12/29, 12/30, and 12/31/99)
Amanda – Darius Stone*
Egobooster – Patricia Kelley
Dr. Fetusburger – Patricia Kelley
Mordecon’s lawyer – Bob Laine
Dr. Orenstein – Bob Laine
Dutymaker – Jessica Chandlee Smith
Chillcor agents – Chad Gracia & Howard Thoresen*
Instantaneous Emanation – Jennifer Hope Kroll

Director ~ Howard Thoresen
Producer/Literary Consultant ~ Chad Gracia
Sets ~ Joshua Spafford
Costumes ~ Karen Flood
Lights ~ Reid Farrington
Composer / Sound Design ~ Jessica Grace Wing
Stage Manager ~ Carolyn Jones
Musician ~ Danny Kenworth
Graphic Design ~ Noah Scalin
Props ~ Alexandra Farkas
Assistant to the Set Designer ~ Nina Gapinski
Assistant to the Lighting Designer ~ Morgan von Prelle Pecelli
Board ops ~ Carolyn Jones / Nina Gapinski
Publicity ~ Publicity Outfitters

Inverse Theater presents

The Death of Griffin Hunter

Secretary of Disarmament
to the United Nations

by Kirk Wood Bromley
Directed by Emma Griffin
Producer/Dramaturg, Chad Gracia
Stage Management by Alex Farkas
Sets by Happy Jack Enterprizes (Jean Andzulis and Philip Shneidman)
Costumes by Louisa Thompson
Lights by Mark Barton
Sound/Graphic Design by Noah Scalin
Original composition by Jessica Grace Wing
Props by Karen Flood
Fight Choreography by Monica Russell
Asst. Producer/Web Manager, Alexis Wichowski
Sound Board Operator, Dave Lepeska
Publicist, Brett Singer Associates
Public Relations, Jeni Henaghan

The Cast

Cast

*Alan Benditt – Semion Rockwell
*Millie Chow – Mayumi
*Bill Coelius – Boa
Matt Daniels – Madera
*Jeni Henaghan – Walker
*Robyn Hussa – Vivian Nash
Sarah K. Lippmann – China, Guard 1, Godavari, Smart, operative (Love, fighter, Sonja), Cop, Persian actor
*Matthew Maher – Leveret
*Carrie Paff – Sophie Berceau
*Joshua Spafford – Griffin Hunter
Suzi Takahachi – Secretary General, Xiao, Natalie, operative (Maestro), Waiter, Stage Manager, Persian actor
Howard Thoresen - Jurgen Scheckel, Powers
Hank Wagner – Sgt at Arms, France, Guard 2, Tanduru, Dumb, operative (Peace, fighter, Pepe), Cop, Persian actor

* – these actors participated in a workshop process that lasted almost six months, during which time this play, through their collaboration, was created. Each plays the part that she/he helped manifest.

Millie Chow, Matthew Maher, Howard Thoresen appear courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association, Inc.

Wed – Sun, Oct. 28 – Nov. 22, 1998
@ 46 Walker St. (aka Soho Rep) – 8 pm / $12

Icarus and Aria, written by Kirk Wood Bromley, was first performed in the First International New York Fringe Festival at The Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, New York City, at 3:00 pm on August 14, 1997, after which it moved to the House of Candles for a September 1997 run. Original staff: dramaturgy and direction by Aaron Beall, stage management by Andrea Meller, sound design by Wayne Frost, costume design by Karen Flood, props and sets by Raphaele Shirley and Vincent Dao, sound operation by Jesse Atlas and Andrea Meller, lights by Anna Goodman-Merrick.

Cast

Icarus Alzaro – Dennis Dannel
Aria Jones – Jeni Henaghan
Dina – Michelle Ingkavet
Mr. Jimmy Jones – Tom Reid
Cindy – Nancy O’Connor
Jimmy Jones Junior – Josh Berg
Mickie – Art Wallace, Ed Gilmartin
Damon – Al Benditt
Mr. Nite – Al Benditt
Maximus – Adam Wald
Primalo – Joshua Spafford
Tonka – Richard Vazquez
Gallo – Alex Correia
K2 – Ricardo Cuevas
Ray and Hammer – Alexander Yannis Stephano, Bill Coelius
Mayor Favor – Ginny Hack
Sheriff Orpayo – Glenn Healey
Anchor – Billie James
Newscaster – Anushka Carter
Sissy Rip – Jina Oh
Malory McGuire – Tara Bahna-James
Jose Escalante – Alex Correia
Bobby Rivers – Andy Brown
Coach Conrad – Glenn Healey
Trinidad – Billie James
2 moving men – Alexander Yannis Stephano, Bill Coelius
Secretaries – Jina Oh, Tara Bahna-James
Shareen Stone – Melanie Anastasia Brown
Photographer – Melanie Martinez
Luce – Tamara Torres
Matina – Melanie Martinez
Leslie – Al Benditt
Ernie – Art Wallace, Ed Gilmartin
Priscilla – Tara Bahna-James
Ted Kaczinsky – Art Wallace, Ed Gilmartin
Barcaiolo – Bill Coelius
Junkfood – Alexander Yannis Stephano
Medicine Woman – Melanie Anastasia Brown
Minister – Ricardo Cuevas
Standerby – Melanie Anastasia Brown, Ricardo Cuevas

The following actors played various roles at different times in the play: Heidi Merrick (Priscilla, Malory McGuire, Cindy), Alex Correia (Primalo), Ricardo Cuevas (Jose Escalante), Tara Bahna-James (Trinidad, Newscaster), Kirk Bromley (Junkfood, Ray, Moving man), Ivanna Cullinan (Anchor, Mayor), Robert Fitzsimmons (K2, Ray, Junkfood, Moving man), Louie Leonardo (Icarus), Liat Goldman (Aria), Jina Oh (Dina), Andy Brown (Maximus), Kelli Cruz (Sissy Rip, Secretary), Art Wallace (Mickie, Leslie, Kaczinski), Yuri Lowenthal, (Gallo, Barciaolo, Hammer, Moving man), Robert Ross (Newscaster), Tim Ellis (Coach Conrad, Sheriff Orpayo), Rosemary Vaswani (Matina), Michele Merring (Priscilla, Malory McGuire, Secretary), and others…

Want’s Unwisht Work

A new verse play by Kirk Wood Bromley
Directed by Aaron Beall
Appeared at Nada in 1996

Cast of Characters

Richard (Vazoline, a crossdresser), a man with a house, Elisa’s husband
Elisa, a woman with a house, and Richard’s wife
Bertha Lerner, professor of women’s studies
Marla, her student
Lydia, her student
Corme, her student
Leavus, Marla’s boyfriend
Warren, Lydia’s boyfriend
Dr. Kling, an analyst and author
Erad, his student

Nichedigger, Dick, Laptop, Rem, rambling fanatics
Gene, Rock, Art and Nicelle, the Wishful Waiters

Emma Griffin directed this translation of the Calderon play as part of Target Margin’s side show at Nada. It was wonderful, but I have no information on the production, though she may.