Ambition Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (Undiscovered Countries)

About This Show
Ambition is an in-development musical about female American serial killers Nannie Doss, Jane Toppan & Belle Gunness, who claimed that their societal value (their inability to own property, miscarriages caused by vindictive strangers, or their non-resemblance to the heroines in romance novels) somehow led them to a path of violence. This song cycle focuses on how structures of oppression aimed at stabilizing the status quo can erupt into disorder born out of repression—and don’t forget, there’s singing!
About the Artists
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a Brooklyn-based writer, producer & performer. She is a founding member of artistic residency Undiscovered Countries & a co-creator & producer of the original series 2 Girls | 1 Asian. Recent theater credits include writing& acting in Corners Grove (Planet Connections Theater Festivity 2015, Best Featured Actress winner) & assistant directing Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men at the Public Theater. Kaela’s plays have been performed at Dixon Place, Tom Noonan’s Paradise Factory, the Secret Theater & the 14th St Y. Her essays are featured on PCP Media & Lady Parts, a feminist blog highlighting sexism in the entertainment industry.
Lauren Z. Adleman is a Brooklyn based theater artist who has an affinity for the imaginative, the absurd & the very angry European playwrights. Selected directing credits include This One’s For You (The Frame; Bookshop Workshop), A Thing I Cannot Name (Play by Play), Hollaback, Girl! (Grey Room), Tango (Frisson Theatre), Nacht und Träume (The Brick), American Values in Space (Tisch 10X10) & LUCID, an original dreamscape exploring intimacy (NYU ETW). Lauren has assisted directors Rachel Chavkin, Elizabeth Swados, Mikhael Tara Garver, Sam Pinkleton, Michelle Sutherland & the dynamic duo of 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Abigail Browde + Michael Silverstone. She also enjoys dabbling in sound installation & making earrings out of paper. Lauren holds a BFA from NYU Tisch.
Brittany K. Allen is an actress, writer & library goblin. Brittany’s recent New York credits include Let’s Play Play (The Brick), In Rooms Such as These (Columbia Stages/Signature Theatre) & Much Ado About Nothing (Barefoot Shakespeare). Ms. Allen can also be found toodling around town with her long-form improv team, Big Hot Mess, or mugging on both seasons of the ground-breaking web-series, 2 Girls | 1 Asian, on which she is a featured performer. Her essays & fiction are published or forthcoming in The Toast, The Tishman Review (Pushcart Prize Nominee) & The Nervous Breakdown. Brittany is a proud member of Youngblood, the emerging playwrights collective at the Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Danielle Sacks’ recent credits include Fata Morgana by Jeni Mahoney (BCT & Id Theater Sit-In), Bardy Bunch (Theatre at St. Clements & 54Below), Steel Magnolias (Totem Pole Playhouse w/Melissa Gilbert), Pre-Fabricated Homes (Actors Studio), Letters to Sala (The Barrow Group) & Hamlet (The Kraine Theater). Danielle is a member of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. She graduated from NYU Tisch, Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
Cameron Toy is a musician, writer & performer who became associated with the Undiscovered Countries team of artists after relocating to Brooklyn in the spring of 2013. He plays guitar & yells in the three-piece rustic electropunk band Gandor Chorale, whose debut album, Sleep in the Yard Where the Dog Sleeps, is a really great time. His previous work in theater includes a collaboration with Barbara Begley on early childhood development featuring the king of hell & dubstep remixes of songs from Kaela Garvin’s musical about the history of the Donner Party.
Friday, Jan. 22 at 10pm
General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
Students / Seniors / ID NYC
$10
55 minutes
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Credits
Written by
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Directed by
Lauren Adleman
Performed by
Brittany Allen, Danielle Sacks, and Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Instrumentalist & musical collaborator
Cameron Toy
Equity Approved Showcase