ONE ACTS: VOLUME I
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ONE ACTS: VOLUME I includes the following programming:
Malarkey
Writer: Niall Estevan Martinez Ridgley, Director: Bianca Puorto
MALARKEY is a new short drama exploring the perils of love, marriage, and parenthood in a modern polarized cable news-dominated world. Carl Carlsberg and his wife Alexandra Trujillo Montez, PhD face down a tough decision as a certain conservative news network takes a shine to Carl as a potential anchorman.
Public Servitude
Writer/Director/Producer/Sound Designer: Amr Kotb.
PUBLIC SERVITUDE is a one act play about a late 30s millennial struggling to reconcile the limitless, and highly encouraged, dreams of his childhood with the reality of adulthood.
Can You Dance To Vampire Weekend?
Written by Jimmy Berry & Directed by Rachel Sabo-Hedges.
CAN YOU DANCE TO VAMPIRE WEEKEND? Asher, a 30 year old weed dealer that lives in a garage, says yes (well, actually, he says “f*** yeah”). Eric, a 26 year old noodle, doesn’t really have a dog in this fight. When you ask him if he liked Father of the Bride, he just thinks you’re talking about a Steve Martin movie. He really just showed up at Asher’s place to buy some weed because…well, he’s not doing too well. But Asher’s got a date coming over, and he wasn’t expecting Eric, so they gotta make this quick.
But is anything ever quick? Can You Dance To Vampire Weekend is about two people experiencing the harsh intersection of dreams and reality; of potential and production. We all want big things, but maybe the harsh truth is that we’re all just “sifting through centuries for moments of our own” (that’s a Vampire Weekend lyric - the new album is poetic tbh).
Donnie and Greg: An Unauthorized Transformative Work
Written and Directed by Sean Pollock
DONNIE AND GREG is a new one act play centering on a blossoming gay high school romance at the height of the AIDS crisis in the late 80s, which lovingly transforms familiar elements from a famous 2001 horror/sci fi cult classic film featuring The Gyllenhaals and Drew Barrymore (you know the one) involving time travel, the music of Tears for Fears, parallel universes, paranormal orbs, and a freaky-looking bunny into a new unauthorized, transformative, theatrical work.
Diary of a Suicide
Conceived & Directed by Dmitri Barcomi, Adapted from the diaries of Andrzej Wróblewski.
In the rubble of postwar Poland, a young artist commits suicide again and again, trapped in an absurd and repetitive landscape. Andrzej Wróblewski, one of Poland’s most celebrated and shocking painters whose life was mysteriously cut short, left behind a staggering body of work never seen during his life, including a secret manuscript now exhumed onstage for the first time.
CREATIVE TEAM
Produced by Maeve Cunningham and Matchbox Theatre Company, Sean Pollock & Niara Sena
Associate Produced/Graphics by Alexa Powell
Production Management by Matt Palmer
Production Lighting Design by Connor Sale
Directed by Dmitri Barcomi, Amr Kotb, Bianca Puorto, Rachel Sabo-Hedges, & Sean Pollock
Written by Dmitri Barcomi, Amr Kotb, Niall Ridgley, Jimmy Berry & Sean Pollock
Photography by Conor Zaft
Public Servitude Sound Design by Amr Kotb
Donnie and Greg Costume Design by Kirsten Samanich
Donnie and Greg Fight Choreography by Jordan Richards
Donnie and Greg Assistant Costumes/Props Design by Alexandra Endres
Donnie and Greg Scenic/Props Design by Hannah Tarr
Donnie and Greg Movement/Intimacy Coaching by Caiti Lattimer
Donnie and Greg Sound Design by Noah Green
Donnie and Greg Musical Direction/Stage Management by Colston Rienhoff
Diary Of A Suicide Dramaturgy by Michael Landes
Diary Of A Suicide Scenic Design by Mengyi Liu
FEATURING
Amr Kotb
Anuj Parikh
Tiffany Mellard
Sink Lindsay (Voiceover)
Keira Lal (Voiceover)
Audrey Albert (Voiceover)
Adam Heayn (Voiceover)
Peter Ferraiolo
Maria Cristina Pimiento
Sophie Brubaker
Emma Finerty
Ryan Gerberding
Sam Heath
Miciah Wallace
Axel Vera
Kelly Fuller
Sean Manucha
Mary Kate Heagerty
Jordan Richards
Josh Lau
Kyle Ahern
Ben Viagas
Adam Forward
Kierney McAllister
Noah Pyzik
R Jahan