A DP TV Program THE WELCOME Written & Directed by Jeff McMahon, Performed by Heather Lee Harper
The Welcome by Jeff McMahon
I have a full time job and a stimulus check. My students have no jobs, no in-person classes, no rehearsals, and need stimulation So I hired my students, current and former, to rehearse my new short pieces, virtually.
Here are the results, mostly monologues with one group piece that zoomed-in as the virus plowed in, mutating into a piece about the virus itself. Other works also spiked outward to fit the circumstances. Just like live TV. But shorter. Like our attention spans, our life expectancy, our patience. But not our hair.
Monday nights at 6:30pm EST in July. Each program will feature 1-2 new pieces with total time for the evening 10-20 minutes. You’ll be done by dinnertime.
About The Artists
JEFF MCMAHON is a writer, performer, and filmmaker and a Professor in the School of Film, Dance & Theatre at Arizona State University. He lives in Arizona and New York. MFA Nonfiction Writing, School of the Arts, Columbia University; BA Interdisciplinary Art, SUNY/Empire State College. He first performed at Dixon Place in 1988.
HEATHER LEE HARPER is an actress/director/choreographic performance artist who takes on an elevated consciousness through her work, an expanded awareness of self, in order to inform the collective world of reality. Art is a form of Spiritual Expression. She performed an earlier live version of The Welcome at Dixon Place Lounge in 2017.
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