NIGHT OF NEW WORKS
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April 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM
SPACE 550 Vandalia Street Studio 306 Saint Paul, MN 55114 Experience new works created by Harrison David Rivers, Katie Kaufmann, and collective unconscious performance. Umbrella Collective's Night of New Works is an incubation program that provides local new work makers with time, space, and support to experiment and play in an ensemble-based setting culminating in public presentations of works-in-progress. Participants are chosen through an application process and receive access to SPACE, artistic mentorship, audience feedback, and administrative support.
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Thursday, April 7 at 7:30 PM
the sleeping beauty in the wood by collective unconscious performance Friday, April 8 at 7:30 PM Keeper of the Light by Katie Kaufmann Lydie, or Now That I Have Your Attention by Harrison David Rivers Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 PM Keeper of the Light by Katie Kaufmann Lydie, or Now That I Have Your Attention by Harrison David Rivers Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 PM the sleeping beauty in the wood by collective unconscious performance Friday, April 15 at 7:30 PM Keeper of the Light by Katie Kaufmann Lydie, or Now That I Have Your Attention by Harrison David Rivers Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 PM Keeper of the Light by Katie Kaufmann Lydie, or Now That I Have Your Attention by Harrison David Rivers |
ABOUT THE WORKS
KEEPER OF THE LIGHT
A new work-in-progress written and directed by Katie Kaufmann
Created with Heather Bunch, Brian O'Neal, Paul Rutledge, Lindsey Samples, Josiah Tompson, Robie Hayek, & Mark Benzel
“The light is my child I know when it needs me even while I sleep.” An exploration of motherhood through the life the first officially appointed female lighthouse keeper, her heroic acts, struggle for recognition, and death in obsolescence.
Approximate runtime: 55 minutes
Created with Heather Bunch, Brian O'Neal, Paul Rutledge, Lindsey Samples, Josiah Tompson, Robie Hayek, & Mark Benzel
“The light is my child I know when it needs me even while I sleep.” An exploration of motherhood through the life the first officially appointed female lighthouse keeper, her heroic acts, struggle for recognition, and death in obsolescence.
Approximate runtime: 55 minutes
KATIE KAUFMANN is an actor/creator focused on devised work and new plays. She trained in physical theatre, clown, commedia dell’arte, mask making, mask performance, mime and melodrama at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. In 2001 she moved to the Twin Cities for a performing apprenticeship with Theatre de la Jeune Lune where she performed in 4 shows. She has worked with many other theatre companies in the Twin Cities including Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Guthrie Theater, Walking Shadow, Red Eye, OffLeash Area, Sandbox Theatre, Skewed Visions, 20% Theatre, Joking Envelope, Theatre Unbound, Jon Ferguson, Alan Berks, and The Playwrights’ Center. She has also created and self produced three shows: a solo mask performance entitled What If (2004) using 6 masks she made for the project, a collaborative ensemble clown piece about tsunami victims entitled Aftermath (2007), and a two person show about underemployed people forced to take jobs as sign holders entitled Everything Must Go (2010). Katie holds a BA in Drama and Italian from Colorado College. She and has also studied with The National Theatre Conservatory, Pierre Byland, Chris Bayes, Giovanni Fusetti, the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and the British American Drama Academy.
LYDIE, OR NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION
A new work-in-progress cobbled together by Harrison David Rivers
Performed by Claire Morrison, Derek Prestly, & Allison Witham
Let's say you're a little tipsy. Or possibly a lot tipsy. And let's say someone hands you a microphone. What do you say? Or more importantly: What do you say that you shouldn't? Lydie is an in-your-face, no-holds-barred experiment in truth-telling. I mean, storytelling. I mean... Well, you get the idea.
Approximate runtime: 25 minutes
Performed by Claire Morrison, Derek Prestly, & Allison Witham
Let's say you're a little tipsy. Or possibly a lot tipsy. And let's say someone hands you a microphone. What do you say? Or more importantly: What do you say that you shouldn't? Lydie is an in-your-face, no-holds-barred experiment in truth-telling. I mean, storytelling. I mean... Well, you get the idea.
Approximate runtime: 25 minutes
HARRISON DAVID RIVERS is the winner of a GLAAD Media Award, a McKnight Fellowship for Playwrights, a Many Voices Jerome Fellowship (Playwrights’ Center), a Van Lier Fellowship (New Dramatists), an Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship (New York Theatre Workshop) and the New York Stage & Film’s Founders Award.
His plays/musicals include WHEN LAST WE FLEW (Sundance, FringeNYC, Diversionary, About Face, TheatreLAB), AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS (P73, Drama League, PRELUDE, 20% Theatre Company), LOOK UPON OUR LOWLINESS (The Movement Theatre Company), SWEET (Public Theater, NYTW, The Black & Latino Playwrights’ Conference, Great Plains Theatre Conference), THE BANDAGED PLACE (Global Age Project, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Harlem Stage), AND ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN (The Playwrights’ Center, Pillsbury House, New York Stage & Film), WHERE STORMS ARE BORN (Labyrinth), THE LAST QUEEN OF CANAAN (Northern Stage, Theatre Latte Da, National Alliance for Musical Theatre) and FIVE POINTS (Musical Theatre Factory).
Harrison is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and an alumnus of the Emerging Writers’ Group at the Public Theater. He received his BA from Kenyon College, and earned an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.
His plays/musicals include WHEN LAST WE FLEW (Sundance, FringeNYC, Diversionary, About Face, TheatreLAB), AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS (P73, Drama League, PRELUDE, 20% Theatre Company), LOOK UPON OUR LOWLINESS (The Movement Theatre Company), SWEET (Public Theater, NYTW, The Black & Latino Playwrights’ Conference, Great Plains Theatre Conference), THE BANDAGED PLACE (Global Age Project, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Harlem Stage), AND ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN (The Playwrights’ Center, Pillsbury House, New York Stage & Film), WHERE STORMS ARE BORN (Labyrinth), THE LAST QUEEN OF CANAAN (Northern Stage, Theatre Latte Da, National Alliance for Musical Theatre) and FIVE POINTS (Musical Theatre Factory).
Harrison is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and an alumnus of the Emerging Writers’ Group at the Public Theater. He received his BA from Kenyon College, and earned an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD
A new work-in-progress by collective unconscious performance
Conceived and created by David Hanzal and Katharine Sherman, in collaboration with the ensemble
Featuring Sarah Dewhirst, Russ Dugger, Elyse Evans, Alana Horton, & Justin Leaf
Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Beauty is destined to prick her finger and sleep for 100 years at the age of 16. But what were the dreams that Sleeping Beauty had before she woke up? Through her active dream-life, Beauty's fairy tale past is unspun from the deeply familiar and woven a-new, as she experiences love, loss, and the possibility of a waking life.
the sleeping beauty in the wood is a new, ensemble-created performance work that integrates puppets, masks, movement, and music to evoke Beauty's dark, sensual, and subversive world of dreams.
Approximate runtime: 70 minutes
Conceived and created by David Hanzal and Katharine Sherman, in collaboration with the ensemble
Featuring Sarah Dewhirst, Russ Dugger, Elyse Evans, Alana Horton, & Justin Leaf
Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Beauty is destined to prick her finger and sleep for 100 years at the age of 16. But what were the dreams that Sleeping Beauty had before she woke up? Through her active dream-life, Beauty's fairy tale past is unspun from the deeply familiar and woven a-new, as she experiences love, loss, and the possibility of a waking life.
the sleeping beauty in the wood is a new, ensemble-created performance work that integrates puppets, masks, movement, and music to evoke Beauty's dark, sensual, and subversive world of dreams.
Approximate runtime: 70 minutes
DAVID HANZAL is a Twin Cities-based director/designer/adapter and the co-founder of collective unconscious performance. Previously, his stage direction has received awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre National Festival and the University of Iowa. He completed his Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing at the University of Iowa, where he regularly developed and directed premieres of new plays and devised work with writers from the nationally-recognized Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop. David has also intensively trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Kari Margolis and the Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, Czech master puppeteer Miroslav Trejtnar, and the Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theatre Institute. Currently, David teaches at Metropolitan State University, White Bear Lake Area High School, Stages Theatre Company, and Youth Performance Company. davidhanzaltheatre.carbonmade.com
KATHARINE SHERMAN is a Minneapolis-based playwright and co-founder of collective unconscious performance. Her play will you still love me, tomorrow was commissioned by the Red Eye Theater in 2014, and her play ondine will be a part of Cutting Ball Theater’s 2015 season. christopher marlowe’s chloroform dreams and like the night were both produced by Lunar Energy Productions in 2012 and 2009, respectively. She has had two plays developed as a part of Cutting Ball’s Risk is this...festival, and has been a finalist for the Jerome Fellowship, the National Playwrights’ Conference, and the Heideman award. She holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the University of Iowa.
