i should save this Katy Pinke, Lily Akerman, and Sash Bischoff

About This Show

During her tormented high school years, Katy saved over ninety AIM instant message conversations. Ten years later she excavated them from her old desktop. What emerges is a confrontation with the parts of herself she has filed away for no one else to see.

About the Artists

Sash Bischoff is a director whose credits include LONG DIVISION (Portland Center Stage), FLEE (NYSAF/Naked Angels), HOTEL (The Civilians), CANDYLAND, LIFE, and TABOO (Ars Nova), SHREK (National Tour), THE WHITE PARTY (Clubbed Thumb and National Black Theatre), BABS THE DODO, SWEPT, TALK TO ME OF LOVE, COLD, and SEVEN CATEGORIES (Williamstown), HOW THE MOON WOULD TALK (Keen Company), #SERIALS (The Flea), BODEGA PRICING (Pipeline), THE AGE OF MAN (NYU Grad), UN-UTERO (Columbia MFA), TOP GIRLS (NYU Stella Adler), MINE (Chautauqua), BOX SHOW (Dixon Place). Upcoming:  Chary/Gwinn concert (54Below), FUCK MARRY KILL (Lincoln Center, Less Than Rent). BA Princeton University.

Lily Akerman has recently performed in the Between the Seas Festival (The Orchard Project), Electric Picnic (Ireland), Bodies in Urban Spaces (Willi Dorner Dance Company), and here at Dixon Place in Becca Foresman’s Short Plays.  Her writing has been performed in the Dublin Fringe Festival, TEDx Dublin, the One Act Opera Project at Princeton, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She is a New Georges affiliated artist.

Katy Pinke is an actor, singer, improviser & theatre-maker. She has performed original work at Vital Joint at the Silent Barn, Pig Iron APT, Order of the Third Bird (as a possessed elevated train), and Tsinghua University in Beijing (as a time-traveling Qing Dynasty Eunuch). Performances in other new works include YesNoise Fest, NYC Fringe, and AND’s Boxers/Briefs festival. She sings with folk singer-songwriter Anthony D’amato, with whom she has performed at NPR’s Tiny Desk, SXSW, Bowery Ballroom, Music Hall of Williamsburg, and others. She is a Mandarin translator and interpreter. BA Princeton University.

Friday, May 20 at 10:00pm

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

students/seniors/id NYC
$12

Estimated Runtime
70 minutes

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Credits

Directed by
Sash Bischoff

Produced by
C.C. Kellogg

Written/adapted by
Katy Pinke
Lily Akerman
Sash Bischoff

Performed by
Katy Pinke
Lily Akerman

Lighting Design by
Jamie Roderick

Set design by
Jessie Bonaventure

Sound design by
Iggy Hung

Photo credit
Conrad Stern Ascher

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