| Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and New York Theatre Salon present GLOBAL FORMS THEATER FESTIVAL, June 22-28 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 04:42 pm EDT 06/16/20 | |
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| Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and New York Theatre Salon present Global Forms Theater Festival, June 22-28 Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and New York Theatre Salon are proud to present the Global Forms Theater Festival. Running June 22-28, 2020, and showcasing over 30 theater artists from 28 different countries, this week-long theatrical event celebrates and uplifts the work of international and immigrant theater artists living in the United States and abroad. Through a series of online performances, videos, documentaries, workshops, and panel discussions, the Global Forms Theater Festivaluses multiple art forms and aesthetics as a means of exploring humanity, freedom, home, and isolationism. This Festival gives a critical opportunity to uplift the voices of International artists during this global pandemic and to share those works with audiences around the world. All events are free and open to the public. Visit rattlestick.org for more information. A complete schedule of events follows. All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). PERFORMANCES Tuesday, June 23 at 11am Zoom Story - Anansi and his Six Children Ages 3-9; 30 minutes Zoom Story is a digital theatre initiative that started in Lockdown to keep kids entertained in an active way. It's like a TV screen that responds back to children and asks their help to tell the story. This time around, we will be telling the story of Anansi and his Six Children, a West African folktale about gratitude and parental love. Zoom Story was created and will also be narrated by Sarah Bitar, with puppeteering being performed by Dorothea Gloria and Russell Legaspi. Wednesday, June 24 at 6:30pm CATAMENIA A theatrical dance performance by Argentine director and projection designer Stefania Bulbarella. This event will take place in a park in Brooklyn at 6:30pm on Thursday, June 25, while live streaming on Zoom. This ode to New York City is inspired by a shift, a pandemia, and a city in flames. Thursday, June 25 at 7pm; Friday, June 26 at 2pm Oh YES! Eve & Adam: The Return A performance exploring our relationship with the anatomy of our body and the forbidding of our senses. Created & performed by Kasper Klop, in collaboration with Elizabeth Mak as video designer Morwenna Spagnol as director. Drawing from their cross-continental practices, they use a mix of theater, puppetry, clown and live video design. Please bring any fruit of your choice to the performance. This world premiere of Oh YES! Eve & Adam: The Return is a new installment in a performance series, following Eve & Adam(Anatomy live art cabaret at Summerhall, Edinburgh in March 2019) and Eve & Adam: Inauguration (Voila! Europe Theatre Festival, London in November 2019). Friday, June 27 at 5pm ON THE TABLE Food is central to all of our cultures. A stop motion animation/podcast of our favorite recipes, and just a taste of our cultural background. Featuring artist Riw Rakkulchon, special thanks (Luiza Reis, Chrysi Sylaidi, Sarah Bitar) June 27 and 28 Untitled video series Untitled is a short video series about what we, as immigrant artists, hear and see while living and working in the U.S. These collections of words were told by strangers on streets, colleagues at work and sometimes close friends. Participating artists include Yee Eun Nam and Naomi Gonzales Kahn. Saturday, June 27 at 12pm Time Zone Free Time Zone Free will be a 2-hour online performing and musical spectacle! This show will connect dozens of artists with audiences from all over the Globe under the umbrella of music. Actors, musicians, performers and many more will break Time Zone limits participating from all over the word and passing the baton from one to the next with no breaks! They will perform original and or classical pieces in their native tongue or in English while being accompanied by traditional music from their respective countries. This event will be hosted and presented byChrysi Sylaidi, a NYC-based Greek Actor, Producer and Director. Sunday, June 28 at 4pm Through My Eyes Closing night premiere & talk When the world shuts down, what do immigrant artists living in New York City see? In this short video, several share their perspectives through poetry, monologues, and images. WORKSHOPS AND DISCUSSIONS Monday, June 22 at 5pm Global Gabble with Ecuadorian choreographer and performer Fernando Moya Delgado, Filipino actor Dorothea Gloria, and Australian director Benita de Wit A daily 30-minute group discussion spanning arts & snacks, songs & childhood games, and much more. Monday, June 22 at 6:30pm Opening Night - Virtual Potluck An opening night celebration that includes a virtual potluck. Guests are welcome to prepare their favorite dish and to join the festival's Zoom party where they will meet all the artists who will be participating in the Global Forms Theater Festival. Tuesday, June 23 at 5pm Global Gabble with Thai set designer Riw Rakkulchon and Brazilian actor Luca Rodrigues A daily 30-minute group discussion spanning arts & snacks, songs & childhood games, and much more. Wednesday, June 24 at 1pm SPEED NETWORKING Are you an international artist looking for collaborators? An institutional employee looking to hire international artists? No matter who you are or where you're from, we'd love to have you. Come speed network with some of the incredible international artists involved in the Global Forms Theater Festival and others interested in theatre-making that promotes cross-cultural collaboration. Wednesday, June 24 at 5pm Global Gabble with Japanese performers Resa Mishina and Manatsu Tanaka A daily 30-minute group discussion spanning arts & snacks, songs & childhood games, and much more. Thursday, June 25 at 10am Global Theater Connections: China Global Theater Connections is a virtual panel discussion series that features international theater companies and theater producers to discuss the challenges and strategies of creating theaters while social distancing. Thursday, June 25 at 5pm Global Gabble with Singaporean multidisciplinary theatre artist HanJie Chow and British-Egyptian costume and character designer Dina El-Aziz A daily 30-minute group discussion spanning arts & snacks, songs & childhood games, and much more. Friday, June 26 at 6:30pm Global Gabble with Viveca Chow, Luiza Reis, and Greek theater artists Chrysi Sylaidi A daily 30-minute group discussion spanning arts & snacks, songs & childhood games, and much more. Sunday, June 28 at 2pm Introduction to Naked-Hand Puppetry Ages 14+ In this practical workshop, French-Dutch multidisciplinary artist Kasper Klop offers a glimpse into the infinite world of possibilities that comes with animating just your hands, drawing inspiration from the Belgian practice of nanodances. This initiation to the foundations of naked-hand puppetry will be a chance to check in with your body and senses in a mindful way from wherever you are. No prior experience is required. About the Participants Sarah Bitar is a trilingual actorvist and singer from Lebanon, based in NYC, and trained at the Stella Adler Studio. Recent credits include Ful Nabit (AND Theatre), Almost, Maine, Golden Girl by the Sea, At a Crossroads, Holiday Jingles (TEAM Theatre), Short films include Like Salt (Darine Hoteit); The Balcony Screen (Monica Nassif). She is a proud member of TEAM Theatre Company formed of multinational artists, which is just perfect for her obsession with languages. Inés Braun is a stage and film director from Buenos Aires. She wrote and directed several shorts as well as a feature film, La Ronda. She moved to New York City to start an MFA in Theater Directing at Columbia University. Since graduating in 2017, she has worked as a theater director in NYC and used her directing skills to serve as a teacher and mentor in theater education programs. She has worked to develop and direct two world premiere plays, Dumpster Fire by Emily Comisar (part of the SheNYC Theater Festival) and The Russian and the Jew by Liba Vaynberg and Emily Perkins (at The Tank Theatre). Most recently, she co-wrote and directed the plays Sing, Goddess! and Closing Night (at HERE Arts Center). Stefania Bulbarella is an Argentine Director and Projection Designer. Her latest credits include Projection Design: 1MOVE: DES19NED BY... (The Movement Theatre Company) Unstuck (The Tank), 12 Angry Animals (NYU Tisch), Field Awakening (Corkscrew/Columbia Stages), Azul Otra Vez (BRIC/Prelude), The Revolution (National Sawdust). Associate Projection Designer: Warriors Don't Cry (Theatre USA), Circle Jerk (Ars Nova). Programmer: Fandango for Butterflies (Engarde Arts). Director: Even the Sun (Mixily Presents), Personal Questions (24h Zoom Fest), Venus (Sitio 0), The Man in the Window (Italytime), Memorama - Reading (LaMicro Theater), Ese Animal que Soy a Veces and Tooth for Tooth- Reading (LATEA). Assistant/Associate Director: Wolf Play (Soho Rep), Somos Mas (Pregones), Nanas (LaMicro Theater), Field Awakening (Corkscrew), Dike - workshop (NYTW), La Négrophilia (Vineyard Theatre), Somos New York, Las Mariposas (People's Theatre Project). Production Assistant: Waterboy and the Mighty World (The Bushwick Starr). Studies: BFA in Directing and Creative Technologies - The New School. Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. www.stefaniabulbarella.com Hanjie Chow is a Multidisciplinary Theatre Artist. A recent graduate from the acting company at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, his acting credits include, Lady Lucy, The Last Gasp, Bike America, and Star-Spangled, a new musical by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane. He also collaborates behind-the-scenes in costumes and production photography: KPOP (Ars Nova), Sing Street (NYTW), Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova), and Broadway Bounty Hunter (Greenwich House Theater). His work as a production photographer has been credited in outlets such as the New Yorker, Playbill, and Billboard. Viveca Chow made history by being the first person born-and-raised in Hong Kong to appear in a musical on Broadway. She has also been published in major media such as: South China Morning Post, Apple Daily, World Journal and more. Through being an artist, Viveca hopes to create a more unified world. Benita de Wit is an Australian director based in New York and the Associate Director for Bat Out of Hell. She specializes in new work, loves weird impossible ideas and gets a kick out of multidisciplinary collaborations. Benita's work celebrates women, the queer community and non binary folk, explores conversations about immigration and diversity and plays with live video and other media. She has worked at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Realm, Classic Stage Company, Miller Theatre, Exquisite Corpse Company, Access Theater, Theater for the New City, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Dartmouth College and Princeton University. Her immersive and multidisciplinary work has been performed at the New York Public Library, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Roulette Intermedium. She received her MFA in Directing from Columbia University and is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Fernando Moya Delgado is an NYC-based actor, dancer, and choreographer born and raised in Ecuador. He has a BFA in Acting for Film, Television, Voice-overs and Commercials with a minor in Dance from Pace University. Fernando most recently performed for New York Fashion Week, Lincoln Center Education, and ZeroSpace: an immersive technological art experience by the producers of Queen of the Night. He is also working with Curet Performance Project and Sitting Shotgun. Fernando's work comes from a passionate, colorful background bred in his home country and a love for bringing people together. Dorothea Gloria is an NYC Actress from the Philippines. She is a resident actor at the award-winning company, The Flea Theatre in Tribeca and a founder of TeamTheatre LLC. She has performed professionally in various theater companies back home as well such as Repertory Philippines, PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association), and CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines) to name a few. In 2014, she earned BroadwayWorld's Best Featured Actress in Repertory Philippines' August: Osage County. She is often seen in Bryant Park where she practices her juggling and flow arts. To know more, visit www.dorotheagloria.com and her instagram: @dorotheagloria. Kasper Klop is a French-Dutch multidisciplinary artist based in NYC. His practice blends theater, puppetry, dance, clown and installation performance to explore collective consciousness. His solo work includes Mother (Paris street performance); Eve & Adam (Summerhall, Edinburgh) and Eve & Adam: Inauguration (Voilà! Europe Theatre Festival, London). Kasper multi-rolled in a world tour of Le Petit Prince and Le Malade Imaginaire with TNT Theatre Company. He is trilingual in English, French, Dutch and has performed across screen and voice work in all three languages. He is currently enrolled in Atlantic Acting School's full-time conservatory. Russell Legaspi is an actor from Manila spending most of his time in the Cultural Center of the Philippines performing and training. Some of his credits include Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Mother Courage, Three sisters, Le Malade Imaginaire. He has done several films and national tv commercials for Coke, Johnson & Jonson, and enervon to name a few. He has also received nominations and received awards for his acting on screen and stage. Currently he is hiding in his cave writing plays and other stories. Elizabeth Mak is a Singapore-born NYC-based interdisciplinary lighting and projection designer. Regional designs include Miss You Like Hell (Baltimore Center Stage); Tiny Houses (Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Bridges of Madison County (Philadelphia Theatre Company); The Phantom Tollbooth (Weston Playhouse); Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theater); and The Square Root of Three Sisters (International Festival of Arts and Ideas). New York City designs include work with the Public Under the Radar Festival, The Barrow Group, New Ohio Ice Factory, TWUSA, HERE Arts Center, and IATI. She has also worked internationally, with productions in the U.K., Germany, Austria, Canada, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore. She is a resident designer with Albany Park Theater Project Chicago (Port of Entry, Ofrenda), a graduate of Yale School of Drama, and a member of IATSE Local USA829 and Wingspace Theatrical Design. elizabethmak.com. Resa Mishina is a triple threat performer from Yokohama, Japan. Favorite credits: Ruki in the US premiere of White Pearl (Studio Theatre); Annie, Joseph…, 9 to 5, The Music Man (Flat Rock Playhouse); Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Slow Burn Theatre Company); Miss Saigon (Interlakes Summer Theatre). BFA from Rider University. Lucy Powis is a dramaturg, producer, and arts administrator who hails from Toronto. She works in the Literary Division at A3 (formerly Abrams) Artists Agency and previously held seasonal positions in the artistic departments of Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Recent credits include producing In the Penal Colony (Next Door @ NYTW), Really Really Gorgeous (The Tank), [wave emoji] (Ars Nova's ANT Fest), Between the Threads: Jewish Women Project (HERE), and PROSPERITY! (LPAC's Rough Draft Festival); and dramaturging How to Mourn an American (Rough Draft Festival) and a workshop of Golden Shield as part of Nana Dakin's 2050 fellowship at NYTW. MFA Dramaturgy, Columbia University. www.lucypowis.com Riw Rakkulchon is a Set Designer from Bangkok, Thailand. Riw has worked as a props and scenic design Intern at Williamstown Theatre Festival and was an associate on several productions in Thailand. Riw was an associate and assistant to several designers in New York while designing his own productions. Selected Credits; Twelfth Night (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Waiting Game (59E59); Free and Proud (Edinburgh Fringe); Antony + Cleopatra (Yale Summer Cabaret); Loose Canon (Fringe Encore NYC 2015); and Far From Canterbury (FringeNYC), as well as collaborations with Kitchen Theatre Company, Opera Ithaca, and Ithaca Shakespeare. He assisted designers such as Riccardo Hernandez, Wilson Chin, Jason Ardizzone-West and Walt Spangler on productions at The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, and Berkeley Rep, among others.. B.F.A. Ithaca College, M.F.A Yale School of Drama (Donald & Zorca Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design Recipient). Luiza Reis is thrilled to participate in the Global Forms Theater Festival. She has a BFA in performance from Hofstra University, and some of her past credits include "Straight to the Heart of Love" (NY Winterfest 2020), The Clean House, and Romeo & Juliet (Hofstra University). Morwenna Spagnol is a pluridisciplinary artist based in Paris. During her two years with the Bouglione circus and with the Bafodie company in Mascarade, a sort of gigantic carnival, she performed as a clown, acrobat, and singer. She worked as a costume designer for the Paris Opera and toured the world for 3 years with Paul Stebbing's TNT Theatre as the lead in Le Petit Prince. Morwenna's recent screen work includes roles in Call My Agent on Netflix and feature films directed by Yann Samuell and Xavier Durringer. Upcoming works include British film Soap by David Steiner. Chrysi Sylaidi is an actor, producer, director, and Dj from Greece based in NYC. She is a graduate from the 3-year Conservatory at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, she is a resident artist at the Greek Cultural Center, and she is a founding and board member of TeamTheatre LLC an international theatre company based in NYC. Manatsu Tanaka is a Japanese Artist, who constantly explores their artistry in many different fields; Dance, Immersive Theater, Stage Combat, Acting, Music Videos, Art Photoshoots, Burlesque, Aerial Silks, and more! As a Dancer, she has worked with the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company, Douglas Dun and Dancers, Jon Lehrer Dance Company, Sidra Bell Dance New York, Mona Haydar, Callan Bergmann, Tony Bordonaro (McKittrik Hotel), Bliss Kohlmyer, Marie Zvosec (Brooklyn Opera Works), Mariana Taragano (Taragano Theater), Paula Peters, and Paul Mockovak (Ballet Randolph), which includes concert dance works, regional theaters, music video appearances and as a Development Cast. As an Artist, she has worked with Shellscrape Theater Company (NYC), Nocturnes Experience (NYC), Lazy Susan Art Gallery (NYC), and the Performing Arts Company (Fredonia) as Stage Manager, Performing Artist, Actor and Assistant Director. About New York Theatre Salon New York Theatre Salon is a monthly social event for professional theatre artists from different nations, cultures, and communities. Through their monthly panel discussion and networking events, they aim to explore and revitalize the social function of theatre. New York Theatre Salon was co-founded by producer Yue Liu and playwright and actor Troy Segala. 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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