| ZACHARY QUINTO and ANDREW BERMAN on the Role of Epidemics, Tue 4/14 at 3pm | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 09:39 am EDT 04/13/20 | |
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| RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER ANNOUNCES FREE WEEKLY ONLINE PROGRAMMING Participants Include Kathleen Chalfant, Zachary Quinto, Grace McLean, Max Vernon, Eisa Davis, Cori Thomas, Robert Pollock, Andrew Berman, and Dr. Steven C. Phillips Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (Daniella Topol, Artistic Director) is proud to announce a series of free weekly online programs designed to connect audiences with new ideas and artistic expressions. On Tuesdays beginning April 7, the Virtual Salon Series explores the coronavirus pandemic and features in-depth conversations between an artist and a leading expert. On Thursdays beginning April 9, New Songs Now in Your Living Room, produced in partnership with Rosalind Productions, Inc., is an unplugged concert series that gives inventive songwriters the opportunity to test out new material in a low-key, fun environment. On April 7 at 3pm as part of the Virtual Salon Series, Tony Award-nominated and four-time Obie-winning actress Kathleen Chalfant joins medical epidemiologist and pandemic preparedness expert Dr. Steven C. Phillips in conversation. In On the Role of Epidemics on April 14 at 3pm, actor Zachary Quinto joins Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman in a discussion on the role of epidemics in Manhattan. On April 21 at 3 pm, playwright Cori Thomas (Lockdown ) and formerly incarcerated teaching artist Robert Pollock discuss the challenges of incarceration during a pandemic. Three-time Drama Desk nominee Max Veron (The View UpStairs, KPOP) kicks off New Songs Now in Your Living Room on April 9 at 8pm. Actor and singer-songwriter Grace McLean (In The Green, Great Comet) will be featured on April 16 at 8pm and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright, singer, composer, and actor Eisa Davis shares work on April 23 at 8pm. Future participants include The Bengsons, Andrew R. Butler, Heather Christian, Jean Rohe, and Rotana Tarabzouni. Each performance is followed by a conversation with the artist centered on their songwriting process. "In this very isolating time, Rattlestick's mission to connect and stimulate audiences feels more important than ever," says Artistic Director Daniella Topol. "By using theatrical expression and community conversation to bring us all together, my hope is that different perspectives and networks can help us navigate these challenging times." Online reservations are required. Please visit rattlestick.org for more information. About the Participants Andrew Berman has been the Executive Director of GVSHP since 2002. He previously worked in the New York State Senate and New York City Council for Thomas K. Duane, who represented Greenwich Village, the East Village, NoHo, SoHo, Chelsea, and Hell's Kitchen, among other neighborhoods. While working in state and city government, Andrew focused on issues including land use and historic preservation. In 2013, he was named to the Vanity Fair "Hall of Fame" for his preservation work at GVSHP, and was named one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Real Estate by the New York Observer, and one of one hundred "Influentials" by New York Magazine. Crain's New York Business called him "a force to be reckoned with." A lifelong New Yorker, Andrew has an Art History degree from Wesleyan University. Kathleen Chalfant. BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. OFF-BROADWAY: Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Obie Awards), For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nomination), Talking Heads (Obie Award), Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award). LONDON & LOS ANGELES: Ovation Awards for Wit and Red Dog Howls. FILM: Isn't it Delicious?, R.I.P.D., Lackawanna Blues, Perfect Stranger, Kinsey, Laramie Project, Random Hearts. SELECT TELEVISION: High Maintenance, The Affair, The Strain, The Americans, House of Cards, The Book of Daniel, One Life to Live, Madam Secretary, Elementary. AWARDS: 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, 2004 Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the League of Professional Women, and the 2018 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement. She received the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Cooper Union. Eisa Davis is a performer, composer, and writer working on stage and screen. A recipient of the 2020 Creative Capital Award, the Herb Alpert Award in Theater and an Obie winner for Sustained Excellence in Performance, Eisa was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher, and wrote and starred in the stage memoir Angela's Mixtape. She has recorded two albums of her original music, Something Else and Tinctures, and performed her songs at numerous venues in New York and across the country. Eisa has appeared in musical projects such as The Secret Life of Bees (AUDELCO Award), Carrie Mae Weems' Grace Notes, Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin's Preludes, The Cradle Will Rock, The Piano Lesson (Berniece, music director and composer), This, and Passing Strange. Other stage and television work includes Kings, Julius Caesar, Succession, Bluff City Law, Rise, Mare of Easttown (upcoming), Betty (upcoming), God Friended Me, The Looming Tower, House of Cards, Hart of Dixie, and The Wire. Eisa wrote the narration for Cirque du Soleil's Crystal and episodes for both seasons of the Netflix series She's Gotta Have It. Called "electrifying" by The Huffington Post and "phenomenal" by The New York Times, Grace McLean is a multi-hyphenate actress-singer-writer-teacher on the rise. She is a Writer In Residence at Lincoln Center Theater and her first original musical In The Green was produced by LCT3 in 2019. She has had two artistic ambassadorships with the US State Department touring Pakistan (2015) and Russia (2018), and her band performed in both the 2015 and 2016 Lincoln Center American Songbook series. McLean received the 2017 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and is a 2018 MacDowell Colony Fellow. She has developed work at CAP21, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Goodspeed, The Orchard Project, The PiTCH and with The Civilians R&D Group. Grace McLean & Them Apples have released 2 EPs, "Make Me Breakfast" and "Natrural Disaster," and are looking forward to releasing a full length album soon. Find out more at www.gracemclean.com Dr. Steven C. Phillips is a medical and public health professional who has held leadership positions in global health and international development spanning private, government, academic and think-tank sectors over a three-decade career. He currently serves on global, national and community-service organization boards, holds two think-tank appointments, and is an independent consultant in global health strategy, policy, finance and organizational effectiveness. As a Senior Fellow at Chatham House, Dr. Phillips was the founder of the Extractive Industries Infectious Diseases Risk Assessment and Management Initiative, a global policy-level discussion among the extraction industry, international development and finance institutions, national government stakeholders and science leaders addressing the risks and management of existing and new transmissible diseases in tropical hot zones. Dr. Phillips was formerly Medical Director for Global Projects at Exxon Mobil Corporation. He managed a global health services enterprise of over 500 health professionals and an annual budget of $75 million. He created and operationalized the $120 million ExxonMobil Malaria Initiative. As CEO Rex Tillerson's "ambassador" to the global health community, he worked closely with G7 governments, NGOs, foundations, UN agencies (WHO/UNICEF), multilateral, and faith-based organizations, African governments and the private sector in fostering public-private partnerships as a development platform to address urgent global health priorities. He has served two terms as a private sector representative on the Board and Executive Committee of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in Geneva. In this capacity, he coordinated the business sector input of some 30 companies to setting the global policy agenda of the World Health Organization, and the development of strategic plans and financing toward global malaria elimination by 2025 goal. He also served in a similar capacity as part of the private sector constituency to the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS,TB, and Malaria in Geneva, 2006-2010. Robert Pollock is PEN America's Prison Writing Program Manager. For over a decade, he has worked with the justice system and its intersection with the arts. He is an ongoing participant in Rehabilitation Through the Arts, Musicambia, Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, and Carnegie Hall's Musical Connections Advisory Committee. He has collaborated with the Fortune Society, Osborne Association, and several NYC grassroots organizations. He has participated in workshops and panels at Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Yale, and other universities to advocate for the power of the arts in prison education and restorative justice practices. As a visual artist, he illustrated the picture book for children of incarcerated parents, Sing Sing Midnight, which is used in therapeutic settings around the country. As a singer-songwriter, his compositions have been heard at the Obama White House, the RFK Human Rights Foundation, Create Justice forums, the Vera Institute of Justice Gala, the New York Ethical Society, and Carnegie Hall. Robert is a Fall 2019 New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow. Zachary Quinto hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Carnegie Mellon where he received a BFA in Acting. In 2007, he was cast as Sylar on the hit NBC series Heroes. That same year, he was cast as Spock in the JJ Abrams directed reboot of the Star Trek franchise. He starred in the first season of American Horror Story in 2011 and won a Critic's Choice Award and Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal on American Horror Story: Asylum. Quinto appeared in the 2010 Signature revival of Tony Kushner's Angels In America, for which he won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination. He made his Broadway debut in the 2013 Tony Award-winning production of The Glass Menagerie. He was also seen in MCC's production of Noah Haidle's Smokefall and in the Joe Mantello directed revival of The Boys in the Band. Quinto began his production company Before the Door Pictures in 2008 and produced such films as Margin Call, All Is Lost, A Most Violent Year, and Aardvark. Quinto hosts the unscripted show In Search Of on the History Channel and is currently starring in the AMC series NOS4A2. Cori Thomas is the daughter of former Liberian Ambassador, David Thomas and Brazilian attorney, Zuleika Thomas. Her plays include When January Feels Like Summer (NYT Critics Pick), directed in NYC by Daniella Topol, produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre with P73, and then re-mounted with Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Women's Project, with other productions at City Theatre (Pittsburgh) and Mosaic Theatre (DC). Her other plays include: Pa's Hat (Pillsbury House), Flight 109, My Secret Language of Wishes (Mixed Blood), and her work has been developed at Sundance, Goodman, Playwrights Horizons, Pillsbury House, Black Rep, New Black Theatre, among others. She is a member of New Dramatists, and is a writer on an original series for Audible.com and is currently writing a screenplay about Nelson Mandela for HBO Films. Max Vernon is a 3 time Drama Desk nominee, Out100 Honoree, and recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Richard Rodgers Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, New York Stage and Film's Founders Award, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and the JFund Award from the Jerome Foundation. They have been a Dramatist Guild Theatre Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and an artist in residence at Berkeley Rep, Ars Nova, Kimmel Center (via The Public Theater), Disney Creative Entertainment, and Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat, among others. Their musical, The View UpStairs, ran 105 performances Off-Broadway and will have sixteen new productions around the world in 2017-2019; original cast recording on Broadway Records. Their other musical, KPOP, enjoyed a sold-out, extended run at Ars Nova this past October and was the most nominated Off-Broadway show of the 2017-2018 season. Max is also an acclaimed cabaret artist. Notable concert performances include a sold-out 6-month residency at Joe's Pub of the Public Theater ("Existential Life Crisis Lullaby"), Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.maxvernon.com About Rosalind Productions Inc. Rosalind Productions Inc. is a Tony Award-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning producer of new and classical works, championing female-driven stories and female-identifying artists. Broadway: The Prom, King Lear, Three Tall Women, The Miracle Worker. Producing Associate on War Paint. Off-Broadway: My Lingerie Play w/Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Last Seder, A Splintered Soul, Savage in Limbo. Four plays in Los Angeles. Led by Executive Producer, Abigail Rose Solomon, and Creative Development Director, Jennifer Kranz. @RosalindProductions. www.RosalindProductions.com About Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Founded in 1994, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater consistently produces new voices and works that are provocative and immediate in both form and substance. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Daniella Topol, Rattlestick has a deep commitment to producing fierce works that challenge and stimulate audiences to confront the complexities of our culture. Notable productions include: Diana Oh's {mylingerieplay}, Dael Orlandersmith's Until the Flood, Samuel D. Hunter's The Few and Lewiston/Clarkston, Jesse Eisenberg's The Revisionist, Jonathan Tolins' Buyer and Cellar, Lucy Thurber's The Hilltown Plays, Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy, and Martyna Majok's Ironbound. Rattlestick produces mainstage productions; develops work by Middle Voice (Rattlestick's apprentice company); creates artistic development opportunities for artists to hone their craft; and provides opportunities for students to engage with innovative work through residencies, fellowships, and special performances. Rattlestick serves approximately 8,000 audience members and 400 artists each year. Visit rattlestick.org for more information. |
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