Inheritance of War Katie Looney

About This Show

Inheritance of War is a new theater piece tracking life-partners Gage & Patriot as they fight to survive in Northland, a dystopian post-WWIII city-state wrought with drugs, burlesque & saint worship. This is all a play-within-a-play & the larger narrative zooms out on a dress rehearsal of the same dystopian play wherein the director becomes increasingly abusive towards her actors as her privilege spirals out of control. Inheritance of War navigates the ‘‘feminist’’ rationales for irresponsible depictions of sexual violence & interrogates the cult mentality behind following patriarchal God figures.

About the Artists

Katie Looney is a NYC-based theater artist with an appetite for the mythical & grotesque. Her written work has been seen at HERE Arts, The Duplex, 54 Below, 4th Street Theatre, La MaMa Club Theater, West Park Presbyterian, Stella Adler Studio, The LGBT Center &  NYU’s Cabaret Theatre. She is a former intern of Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company & Sleep No More. Katie creates scary plays in safe spaces. BFA/NYU Tisch.

Chris Albrigo is a NYC based playwright, performer, and producer. His last play, Dangerous Curve Between Jerusalem and Jericho, was seen for a limited run at Dixon Place.

Hannah Balagot transplanted in New York City after graduating from the University of California, Irvine. She has performed in the international tour of West Side Story, the Grand Ole Opry premiere of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and with Insomnium Theatre Company’s Love of the Nightingale here in New York. Other credits include A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), Wizard of Oz (Surflight Theatre), and with Baayork Lee’s National Asian Artists Project.

Madeline Bugeau-Heartt is a director, writer, and performer living in NYC. She graduated with honors from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Drama and recently conceived, directed, and self-produced two original works, Under God’s Tongue and Homage. Madeline is currently writing BatWoman (the story of one woman’s journey to become a bat) and is an associate artist of the Centrifuge Artistic Collaborative. She most recently reprised her role as Myrtle Corbin in The Extraordinary Fall of the Four-Legged Woman at the 2016 Frigid Festival. Madeline is honored to be a part of this electrifying piece.

Brenna Coates was born in Toronto, Ontario and received her BFA from Tisch School of Performing Arts at NYU in 2015. She just completed her first feature film Ice Girls, and was last seen on stage in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves. Brenna is currently in rehearsals for Messages, a new play written by Matthew Gasda set to be performed this Spring.

Zoe Curzi is an actress, writer, bodywork educator, and storyteller based out of Brooklyn. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2014, and has since been making theatre, exploring the film and writing worlds, traveling, and most recently taking part in a two-month teaching fellowship in San Francisco (Leverage Research).  Favorite roles include Philomele in Insomnium Theatre Company’s inaugural production of The Love of the Nightingale and Mehr from The Rules, produced by the company she helped found (The Joust Theatre Company).

Meghan Hourigan is an actor, writer, theatre maker, and the literary manager of The Joust Theatre Company. Some of her stage highlights include Thomas Ostermeier’s Miss Julie at the Lincoln Center Festival, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford’s Macbeth, and some devised pieces under the direction of Liz Swados. Meghan’s writing has been produced by The Joust Theatre Company and Insomnium Theatre Company.

Allie Leonard is a New York based theater, tv and film actor. She can most recently be seen in Mysteries at the Castle on the Travel Channel and in Sarah DeLappe’s award winning play The Wolves.

Raquel Palmas is a theatre artist currently studying Theatre at Brooklyn College. Most recently she has performed in Much Ado About Nothing(verges) at Brooklyn College. Other credits include Salome (Page), July 7th 1994 (Ms. Pike), Black Girl Ugly and She Kills Monsters (Vera).

Frankie Placidi is a recent graduate of the Playwrights Horizons Studio at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Sometimes she sings, but mostly she colors in her therapy coloring book while contemplating the vast stretch of life to live before her.

Daniela Rivera is a New York City based actor and theatre maker. Past credits include: Once Upon a Roach (Dixon Place), Student Body (The Flea Theatre), Fragments (dir. John Jesurun), [ai] (Brick Theatre), dear friend, (Edinburgh Fringe). She is a graduate of NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing, and is currently part of the Bat Company at The Flea Theatre.

Kim Taff holds a BFA in Theatre from NYU TISCH (Stella Adler Studio of Acting). Favorite credits include Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Ben Horner) – Winner of NYIT 2015’s Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Revival of a Play, Molly in Honestly, Amelia, Holly in Uncommon Women and Others (dir. Katherine M. Carter), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (dir. Peter Cook), Talisha in Milk Like Sugar (dir. Nicole A. Watson), and Mrs. Brigstock in The Madras House (dir. Hal Brooks).

Jonina Thorsteinsdottir is thrilled to be a part of Inheritance of War. She’s a soon to be graduate of NYU Tisch and the Atlantic Acting School. Previous roles include Maggie in After the Fall (Atlantic Acting School), Stella in Ways and Means (Atlantic Acting School), Chelsea Upton in Hot Girls aren’t Funny (short film), an adulterous zombie, and a sassy wizard.

Ian Young is an actor/playwright/director based in NYC. Favorite projects include Blake (Playground Games by Lyndsey Bourne), Kirk John (This Room is for Everybody by Bubba Weiler) and writing and directing It’s Hard to be Boiled a short play about eggs. In his spare time Ian is also the Artistic Director of The Joust Theatre Company.

Thursday, May 12 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Students/Seniors/idNYC
$12

Estimated Runtime
75 minutes

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Credits

Written & Directed by
Katie Looney

Assistant Director
Meghan Hourigan

Featuring
Chris Albrigo, Brenna Coates, Hannah Balagot, Madeline Bugeau-Heartt, Zoe Curzi, Meghan Hourigan, Allie Leonard, Raquel Palmas, Frankie Placidi, Daniela Rivera, Kim Taff, Jonina Thorsteinsdottir & Ian Young

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