| The Tank Announces MAÑANALAND - An Immersive , Multi-Disciplinary Theatrical Experience | |
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| THE TANK IN COPRODUCTION WITH TECHNODRAMATISTS AND NOVABY ANNOUNCES MAÑANALAND AN IMMERSIVE, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE CONCEIVED BY PEDRO REYES DIRECTED BY MEGHAN FINN WRITTEN BY ZIZI MAJID, KAARON BRISCOE, KATELYNN KENNEY, JOHNNY G. LLOYD AND JASON PIZZARELLO EXPERIENCE DESIGN LORNE SVARC CREATED BY BRIAN RARDIN, JULIA BEABOUT LAUNCHING THURSDAY OCTOBER 29, 2020 ON INSTAGRAM @MANANAISTODAY (New York) The Tank (Meghan Finn, Artistic Director) has announced Mañanaland, a new piece based on an original idea by renowned conceptual and visual artist Pedro Reyes, and created in collaboration with The Tank, Technodramatists and NOVABY. Envisioned as a virtual Instagram experience manifesting in a series of Amped Labs UG SCAVENGAR AR Hunts across the five boroughs of NYC, Mañanaland will explore a utopian future where the social and political conflicts of today are a thing of the past. The piece will manifest as a virtual news network, broadcastingfake news from utopia. Patrons will experience manifestations of Reyes's design through a theatrical narrative and compete for points via the SCAVENGAR hunts and the chance to win a piece of original print artwork. Mañanaland brings together a team of writers led by Executive Producer Johnny G. Lloyd, including Zizi Majid, Kaaron Briscoe, Katelynn Kenney and Jason Pizzarello, who bring a variety of perspectives to the collaboration with Reyes. The project's director and Artistic Director of The Tank Meghan Finn previously collaborated with Reyes as the director of the 2016 election-themed political haunted house Doomocracy, produced by Creative Time. The creative team for Mañanaland includes Experience Designer Lorne Svarc, Founder/CEO of Technodramatists and Julia Beabout, Creative Director of NOVABY. There will be five virtual SCAVENGAR hunts, one per borough, which can be experienced and played using an iPhone device, beginning Thursday October 29, 2020 by visiting www.thetanknyc.org/mananaland . Followers to the @mananaistoday Instagram channel will receive instructions for participating in-person in the AR hunts, which can be completed in their own time, on an individual basis. Subsequent hunts will be announced biweekly via the channel between October 29 and December 8, 2020 and must be completed by January 20, 2021, Inauguration Day. The individual with the highest cumulative score from all of the hunts will win the grand prize, an original artwork by Pedro Reyes. Participants will receive a limited-edition sticker set, designed by Reyes's studio in Mexico City featuring Mañanaland network propaganda. ABOUT TECHNODRAMATISTS Technodramatists is a theatre and technology company that integrates emerging technology such as augmented reality, artificial intelligence and motion capture into live performance. Technodramatists creates original work and develops innovative tools that empower storytellers and communicators of all kinds to expand the bounds of narrative expression. While always prioritizing storytelling and the audience experience, Technodramatists have produced such diverse productions as a one-woman motion-capture Shakespeare adaptation, Augmented Reality Improv and one of the world's first interactive mixed reality performance pieces. Since March, they have shifted their focus to creating live-stream theatrical experiences that strive to capture the joy and spontaneity of live performance. Mystic AR Cabaret, a live-stream burlesque show/interactive mystery will premiere in early 2021. ABOUT NOVABY NOVABY is a global, digital art production company specializing in 3D/AR/VR. We are a passionate team of digital artists and creative technologists that love working closely with organizations, agencies and brands to understand their goals and translate those into engaging digital experiences that build community, attract tourists and convert customers. As the industry leader in outdoor, world-scale AR Placemaking, we love transforming spaces into Places people love using augmented reality, the arts, humanities and social science. ABOUT THE TANK Founded in 2003, The Tank is an Obie Award-winning, multi-disciplinary non-profit arts presenter and producer, which provides a home to emerging artists working across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, puppetry, and storytelling. Led by Artistic Director Meghan Finn, Managing Producer Danielle Monica Long King and Director of Artistic Development Johnny G. Lloyd, The Tank champions emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. In doing so the company removes the economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. From the company's home with two theaters on 36th Street, The Tank serves over 2,500 artists every year, presents over 1,000 performances, and welcomes 36,000 audience members annually. The company fully produces a curated season of 13-18 theatrical World or New York premieres each season. During the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis, The Tank has launched CyberTank, a virtual gathering space and programming platform for artists to share work. With weekly themed variety shows, ongoing series and evening-length shows made for the virtual frame, CyberTank has already presented the work of over 2,000 artists in over 220 performances to over 9,300 audience members across the country and the world. Recent Tank-produced work includes The New York Times Critics' Picks OPEN by Crystal Skillman, directed by Jessi D. Hill (2019); Red Emma & The Mad Monk by Alexis Roblan, directed by Katie Lindsay (2018); and The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman, directed by Meghan Finn (2016), as well as Drama Desk Award-nominated productions The Hunger Artist (2018), The Paper Hat Game (2017), the ephemera trilogy (2017), Ada/Ava (2016) and youarenowhere (2016). ABOUT SCAVENGAR Scavengar is an Augmented Reality Storytelling tool that allows for easy no-code AR content creation in minutes, straight from the palm of your hand. Leveraging Machine Learning, custom 3D objects, and a variety of interactive tasks, you can create hyperlocal stories within the real world or share them globally on a playspace. www.scavengar.world FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.TheTankNYC.org # # # BIOS PEDRO REYES is a widely celebrated multi-platform artist, activist and educator based in Mexico City. He uses all aspects of visual art and education to address political and social issues. One of his main commitments is using the arts to reduce gun violence. In 2008, Reyes commenced Palas por Pistolas. The program collected over 1,527 guns donated from Mexican citizens, melted them down into 1,527 shovels, and then gave them to various schools and art institutions, which in turn used them to plant 1,527 trees. The program's success garnered attention from the Mexican government, which donated 6,700 weapons that Reyes converted into musical instruments. As part of this pacifist effort, he created Amendment to the Amendment, a traveling workshop where US citizens take part in a rewrite of the Second Amendment. He was one of 13 artists included in the Ford Foundation's The Art of Change fellowship program. His work Doomocracy was presented by Creative Time at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in 2016. MEGHAN FINN (Creative Director) is the Artistic Director of The Tank. Prior to joining The Tank, she was the Associate Artistic Director of 3LD Art & Technology Center where she Creative Directed and Project Managed projects for The MET GALA, Tag Heuer, and others. She is a regular collaborator with esteemed playwright Mac Wellman, directing premieres of his work The Invention of Tragedy (THE FLEA Theater), The Offending Gesture (The Tank/3LD) and 3,2's; or AFAR (Dixon Place) as well as several other productions of his work. Other directing projects: WHEN WE WENT ELECTRONIC by Caitlyn Saylor Stephens (The Tank); Manufacturing Mischief: A Noam Chomsky Puppet Play (Pedro Reyes); DOOMOCRACY (Pedro Reyes for Creative Time); American Power by Mitch Epstein and Erik Friedlander (V&A London, The Wexner Center), The Service Road by Erin Courtney (Adhesive Theater Project); CHARLESES by Carl Holder (The Tank); Sam's Tea Shack by Sam Soghor and Ben Gassman (The Tank). She is the National Coordinator for Immigrant Families Together, a national network of individuals committed to reunifying families separated by the US Government's immigration policies. www.thetanknyc.org KAARON BRISCOE (Writer) is a New Orleans native with an MFA from ART/MXAT/IATT at Harvard University. A playwright for the Brooklyn Generator, her work has been read as part of Project Y's Women in Theater Festival, Classical Theater of Harlem's Playwright's Playground and Inviolet's Second Monday Socials. She is a former member of Project Y's Playwriting Group. Her play Tallahassee was chosen as a semi-finalist for the 2020 Eugene O'Neill's Playwright's Conference. Kaaron was a 2015 fellow of Target Margin Theater's Institute and is a member of the 52nd Street Project KATELYNN KENNEY (Writer, she/her) is a mixed race Filipinx American artist last from South Dakota, who grew up running around Air Force bases across the US and overseas. Her plays have been produced and developed by The Tank, Primary Stages' Einhorn School of Performing Arts, the Skeleton Rep, Monstrous Little Theatre Company, FEAST at Under St. Marks, the Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective, Cohesion Theatre Company, Thin Space Productions and the Claire Donaldson New Play Festival. Kenney was a semi-finalist for Ars Nova's 2018 Play Group, a finalist for the 2018 Greenhouse Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm, and her play, VOID, was a 2017 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist. She studied at Primary Stages (Rockwell Scholar '17-'18) and received her B.A. from Augustana University. She is attending Brooklyn College, pursuing an MFA in playwriting (expected May 2021), and runs The Tank's TV-writing group, the Pilot Program. Her works share a dark comedic bite and a healthy dose of magic. JOHNNY G. LLOYD (Executive Producer and Writer) is a New York-based writer, producer and dramaturg. Full length plays include Or, An Astronaut Play (The Tank), Patience (Corkscrew Theatre Festival), and In The Woods We Return (InVersion Theatre). Short plays include Round (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival), A Brief History of Stamps (The Tank) and It's A Ghost Story (Homebase Collective). His work has been seen and developed at JAG Productions (White River Junction, VT) 59E59, Dixon Place, Judson Memorial Church, The Kelly's Writers House, TheatreLab (Boca Raton, FL), and more. Johnny was a member of the 2019-2020 Liberation Theatre Company's Writing Residency. Johnny was a semi-finalist for the 2018 Open-Application Commission at Clubbed Thumb and was the 2017-2018 Shubert Fellow for Playwriting at Columbia University. Johnny is the producing director for InVersion Theatre and co-founder of the We Read Books series at The Tank. His work as a dramaturg and associate director has been seen at En Garde Arts, Abrons Arts Center, and more. Member of SalonSéance. MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. jglloyd.com ZIZI MAJID(Writer)is a playwright based in New York City whose plays advocate for a shared humanity. Plays include How to Gild an Eagle (Finalist, Columbia@Roundabout New Play Reading Series); Return to Fall (Finalist, Blue Ink Playwriting Award 2020, Chicago; Semi-Finalist National Playwrights Conference 2020; Semi-Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Reading, Last Frontier Theatre Conference,* Alaska); Being In Time (International Human Rights Arts Festival 2019, NYC); Coast (Climate Change Theatre Action 2019, NYC); Zulfiqar (Semi-finalist, Red Bull Theatre Short New Play Festival, NYC); How Did The Cat Get So Fat? (nominated Best Play, Life! Theatre Awards, Singapore); Not Counted (World Premiere, Journey@Beijing Festival) and YUSOF (Festival Main Commission, Pesta Raya, Singapore). For five years, Zizi was Artistic Director of Teater Ekamatra (Singapore), successfully breaking into the mainstream during her tenure, tripling audiences and garnering multiple awards. Awards: Young Artist Award (National Arts Council, Singapore). Member: Cut Edge Experimental Theatre Collective 2020, NYC. MFA Theatre (Playwriting) Columbia University *Postponed due to Covid-19. JASON PIZZARELLO's(Writer) play Lost Near Daytona, Found will be a part of The Tank's next season. Other plays/productions include: Bethel Park Falls (Everyday Inferno Theatre Company/NYC Central Park); After People Like You (Blue Riders at Classic Stage; Finalist, Arts in the Armed Forces Bridge Award); All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Being a Zombie (Irondale Ensemble in Brooklyn, published with Playscripts); When I Had Three Sisters (Soho Rep Writer/ Director Lab); Once There Was a Boy (Fordham Alumni Theatre Company; semi-finalist, Princess Grace Award, O'Neill Playwrights Conference); InsideOut (HERE Arts Center; Innovative Theatre Award nomination) and Saving the Greeks: One Tragedy at a Time (14th St. Y Theater; published with Playscripts). Five of his short plays were selected by the Actors Theatre of Louisville as Heideman Award finalists. Over thirty of his plays for young actors are published and have been performed over 3,000 times in all 50 states and in over 25 countries, including a Norwegian and Bengali translation. His work has been featured in Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens, Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women, and Random Acts of Comedy (Playscripts). He is the co-founder of Stage Partners, a licensing house of new plays for young artists and audiences. When he's not writing, he proudly serves as a logistics officer with the New York Army National Guard. He's also equally proud to serve as the silly father of two young daughters. Read more at jasonpizzarello.com. SKYE MORSE-HODGSON (Project Manager) is a filmmaker, photographer, producer and award-winning screenwriter. Originally from Los Angeles, she moved to New York in 2015 after graduating from Brooks Institute with a BFA in filmmaking. She has been involved in the creation, management and shooting of productions at the Sundance Film Festival, The Tank, Dixon Place, Here Art Center, Abrons Art Center, The Performing Garage, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Deitch Projects and many others. Skye's photography work has been featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker. www.skyemorsehodgson.com LORNE SVARC (AR Hunt Designer and Supervisor) is a Canadian playwright and creative technologist and the founder and CEO of Technodramatists. His work spans theatre, film, animation and immersive storytelling. His play Chained Woman won second prize in the Infinitheatre Write-On-Q Competition and was a 2016 semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Playwriting Conference. His film Sapiosexual was licensed by ShortsTV and has been broadcast across three continents. Lorne wrote the script for Surface Tensions, an interactive AR installation by technologist Rosalind Paradis, which won first prize at the 2016 New York Media Lab.He is a member of the Virtual/Augmented Reality Global Association Storytelling Committee and is a mentor with the Writer's Guild Initiative. JULIA BEAUBOUT (AR Design) is CEO and Creative Director of Novaby, a global digital art production studio and creative technologies company specializing in 3D/AR/VR. With a deep background in and an affinity for the built environment and design, she and her team of artists, designers and engineers are passionate about transforming spaces into places people love using Augmented Reality (AR), the arts, humanities and social science. As an industry leader in AR Placemaking, she has spoken at the MIT Media Lab, the U.S. State Department, the Architects Institute of America, the University of Washington and the VRAR Association. GABRIEL TORRES (Associate Creative Director and Community Outreach) is a multidisciplinary artist from Colombia and New York. Current Project: "Haus of Dust" - Loisaida Inc. Recent Projects: "Distant Bodies" - 2020 - The LGBT Center & Cyber Tank - NYC; "Still - Performance for Inner Peace" 2019 - Chashama - NYC. Recent theater directing credits: The Bearded Woman by Jei Osorio, The Tank, 2018; La Pola by Oscar Cabreira, Serials, The Flea Theater, 2018, (Assistant Dir); LES Festival for the Arts, Theater for The New City, 2018. (Artistic Director Assistant). Teaching Artist: Cue Drama, Hong Kong, 2018 Jamaica Center for The Arts - 2018. Gabriel has directed readings and short plays with companies such as Theater Accident, Theater for The New City, The Tank NYC, Casa Ensemble Colombia, Hong Kong Arts Center, KrisP Productions Hong Kong, and many others. He has also been published by BLANK Magazine, Mr Ma'Am Literary Magazine, Eleven and a Half and the Operating Room. Gabriel has a one Year Certification from The Neighborhood Playhouse Theatre. He also holds a BA in Liberal Sciences, and he is a candidate for a Media Studies MA at The New School, with concentrations in innovative storytelling, creative community development and a graduate certificate in Media Management. Gabriel was also part of the Riggio's Honors Democracy and Writing Program, Creative Capital Professional Workshop for Artists 2019 and part of the EMERGENYC Hemisphere Institute Program 2020. Gabriel is proud to be a community organizer; he has worked as community coordinator for Fandango for Butterflies and (Coyotes) - En Garde Arts. He is currently a Community Consultant for Outer Seed Shadow. He hosts an initiative for site-specific artists gathering together with Elise Bernhardt and Irina Kruzhilina and he is currently developing a new engagement project for underrepresented Latinx communities with Maria Torres O'Connor. NIKKI KNUPP (Social Media Content Manager) is a triple Taurus triple threat originally from LA with a Cecchetti Ballet background turned musical theatre performer and recording artist. Since moving to NY a year-and-a-half ago, he's had the pleasure to work alongside some trans artist role models such as Sis (@ucancallmesis), Shakina Nayfack, L Morgan Lee, Aneesh Sheth, Vico Ortiz and Kit Yan. Nikki's more recent credits include the opening ceremony for Open Jar Studios with Joshua Henry, MISS STEP by Kit Yan and Melissa Li, S.T.A.R. Sex Education Theater for Social Change, Trans Voices Cabaret, and the virtual Broadway production of Our Offering. They're a part of Ring of Keys, The Commons LA, and ActNow's Now>Ever acting courses with Rain Valdez. They're also currently working with RAD Records to create their first original album that will follow their journey transitioning on testosterone. Feel free to keep up with his upcoming projects and performances vianikkiknupp.comor Instagram @thatpeppypal! |
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