Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play will be presented in a staged reading by UK based new play festival HIGH TIDE on May 13th.
“… Jacobs-Jenkins’ artistic vision here is thrillingly original. He’s clearly an exciting new voice in American theater.” – Les Spindle, Back Stage

Book by Seth Bockley, Music and Lyrics by Gabriel Kahane
Directed by Davis McCallum

“What’s astonishing about (February House) — apart from the preternatural skill that went into its creation — is the apparent ease with which it transforms a houseful of ornate Victorian furniture and brooding artists into something soaring and fresh.-The New York Times

“Not since “Sunday in the Park with George” does a musical so dazzlingly explore the role of art, artists and the ‘real’ world in which they live.”
– The Hartford Courant

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“…chock full of humor …a wry, expressionistic look at the miasma in which the Millenial generation finds itself.” -The Examiner

CREVICE
Liz and Rob, siblings in their late 20s, are stuck. Liz, an overachiever, was recently jilted; Rob, technically an actor, has little motivation; both are back at home, more or less glued to the couch. Kathleen, their mother, has recently taken up with her real estate agent, who’s helping her sell her the family home. And while the earth moves under Kathleen’s bed, another geological event is happening in the living room: a huge crevice opens up beneath the couch. First Rob is sucked in, then Liz. In the crevice world, a cracked-mirror replica of our own, anyone can seemingly have anything they want. But is that really a good idea?

His newest play, QUAKE (BEBEN), recently opened in Düsseldorf at the Schauspielhaus. QUAKE is an exploration of the violence and blame that emerge during a natural disaster. It is inspired in part by a story called “Earthquake in Chili” by Henrich von Kleist.

QUAKE
After the 2010 Chilean earthquake a group of volunteers from Germany come to help with disaster relief. At their base camp they tell a 200-year-old brutal story from their homeland: Heinrich of Kleists’ account of an earthquake in Chile. Their story lands them in the heart of a deep conflict with their surroundings.

Lisa D’Amour’s brutal, hilarious play about backyard barbecues, booze and the American Dream makes its London premiere in a new production by Austin Pendleton, who directed its hugely acclaimed premiere at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. The production runs May 8 – June 15 at The National Theatre in London.
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“This scary-funny comedy…speaks to the fractious, frightened American moment more perceptively than any play I’ve seen on a New York stage.” -New York Times

“(a) biting new dark comedy”-Time Out Chicago

The first class of artists were chosen based on “demonstrated evidence of exceptional creativity, ongoing self-challenge and the continuing potential to make significant contributions to their fields in the future.”

Congrats Young Jean!

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Andrew Lieberman has been nominated for a 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for his set design of Look Back in Anger by John Osborne. The production was directed by Sam Gold and ran at the Roundabout Theatre Company earlier this year to rave reviews.

“Andrew Lieberman constructs a direly foreshortened playing space (backed by a vast black wall) littered with flamboyant squalor (broken crockery, dirty clothing, newspapers and a bashed cabbage).” – TimeOutNY

“Taking their cue from a line in which one of the characters describes the Porters’ one-room flat as “a very narrow strip of plain hell,” they have built a flat black wall five feet from the lip of the theater’s stage, creating a claustrophobically narrow playing area in which the action takes place…The result is a production in which Jimmy’s free-floating rage and Alison’s sexual hunger are turned into universal, context-free abstractions.” -Wall Street Journal

Andrew’s upcoming shows are COSÍ FUN TUTTI at New York City Opera and Philip Glass’ newest opera, KEPLER at Spoleto Festival.

They have been nominated for:

Seth Bockley: Best Director for Marius Von Mayenburg’s THE UGLY ONE at Sideshow Theatre Company

Scott Barsotti and ensemble: Best New Work for WE LIVE HERE at Theatre Seven of Chicago

Mikhail Fiksel: Sound Design for WATERSHIP DOWN at Lifeline Theatre

The 39th Annual Non-Equity Jeff Awards ceremony will be held at 7:30 p.m. June 4 at the Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago
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Mikhail Fiksel was recently nominated for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his sound design for THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY at the Geffen Playhouse in LA.

Mikhail has received 3 Joseph Jefferson Awards for Sound Design, 1 for Original Incidental Music and has been nominated for 5 more, as well as receiving an Orgie Award for Sound Design and Composition. In 2011 he received a Lucille Lortel Award for his sound design of THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY (2nd Stage, NYC) and was awarded the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award.

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Lisa D’Amour will receive support for Milton, a play created with Katie Pearl, that explores the tiny American human being and the enormous sky above.

Eric Ting and Meiyin Wang will receive support for a project with Brava! for Women in the Arts (SF) entitled motherland / foreign relations (we all here. why you never call?), concept and text by Meiyin Wang. Motherland… is a performance for two people and a rotating panel of guests that examines the history of modern China through the lens of a mother’s mundane past.

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