| Krista Knight's CRUSH wins Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:43 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| KRISTA KNIGHT'S CRUSH WINS 45TH ANNUAL SAMUEL FRENCH OFF OFF BROADWAY SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL Krista Knight's video puppet play CRUSH is one of the six winning works of the 45th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. The winning play, which was selected from over 500 submissions and a group of 30 finalists, will be published and made available for licensing through Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals company. When the usually in-person festival was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, Knight and her partner Barry Brinegar decided to use the virtual tools they'd been experimenting with prior to the pandemic to create something completely remotely, completely in-house. Literally, in their house. CRUSH was created in Knight and Brinegar's 500 sq-ft home studio in the East Village. They recorded actor Ben Beckley in two sessions over Zoom (on his iPhone) and set up a home nerve center with 5 monitors (assembled from a motley crew of tablets, computers, and spare screens) and used virtual technologies to capture motion in 3D space to match the vocal performance. With one person in virtual reality and the other watching the footage, they recorded the live animation. Picking up roughly from where Kafka left off-a loner, squatter, and rebel dares to love. We follow the anti-morphosis through a series of beat poetry performances as our hero draws nearer to the object of his desire and his undoing. The play is currently being presented in six parts and released in separate installments on YouTube. Krista Knight (Playwright/Co-Creator) is a Juilliard School Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program Fellow (2016-2018), Page 73 Playwriting Fellow (2007), MacDowell Fellow (2008), Shank Playwriting Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre (2011-2012), Vanderbilt Writer-in-Residence (2020), the Chance Theater Resident Playwright (2020), and winner of the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville (2016). Her work includes LIPSTICK LOBOTOMY (Kilroys List; Trap Door Theatre), DON'T STOP ME (musical with Dave Malloy), KIRK AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT HYATT (NYTW's Summer Residency; Vineyard Theatre reading series; Playwrights Foundation Rough Reading; Martha's Vineyard Playhouse/ MacDowell Benefit), PRIMAL PLAY (New Georges; Playwrights Center of MN), HISSIFIT (Cradle Theatre; Berkeley Rep School of Theatre; Rhodes College), SALAMANDER LEVIATHAN (Joe's Pub at the Public Theater; Ars Nova Ant Fest; Fingerlakes Musical Theatre Festival; Inkwell; KCACTF Musical Theatre Award from the Kennedy Center for best book), DOOMSURFING (Parkside Lounge; UCSD), SELKIE (Williamstown Workshop; Dutch Kills), and 17 plays and musicals for young audiences. Commissions include the script for a ride at Tokyo Disney, The Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, The Assembly, Live Girls!, The Steinmetz Lab, and an EST/Sloan Commission (2020). Krista has been in residence at La Napoule Art Foundation, Tofte Lake, The Orchard Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Page 73's Summer Residency at Yale, Santa Fe Art Institute, UCROSS, Yaddo, and MacDowell. BA: Brown University. MA: Performance Studies from NYU. MFA Playwriting: UC San Diego. Alum of EST's Youngblood, TerraNova Groundbreakers, Page 73's Interstate 73, Civilians R&D Lab, New Georges JAM, and Fresh Ground Pepper Playgroup. Current member of The Orchard Project Professional Lab collaborating with singer/songwriter Jill Sobule. www.KristaKnight.com |
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