Notes from the Basement Kate Eberstadt

About This Show

‘Notes from the Basement’ is a staged concept album exploring love and loss through the perspective of an aid worker during the European refugee influx of 2015-2016. After founding a music program in an emergency refugee camp in Berlin, Kate Eberstadt lived in her parents’ basement for a year, processing – and not processing – the enormity of the experience: that of the families she was worked with, the aid workers and other people she met there, and her own. Framed as a mixtape of choral arrangements, electronic loops, and Middle Eastern music, ‘Notes from the Basement’ grapples with finding humanity in seemingly inhuman circumstances.

 

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About the Artists

Kate Eberstadt, Writer/Composer/Actor
Kate Eberstadt is an artist based in NYC. She writes, acts, composes/produces music, and makes art with people. Kate spent much of her early 20’s haunting the art world under the wing of theater director Robert Wilson. In 2016, she founded The Hutto Project, a performing arts program for children living in an emergency refugee camp in Berlin. Notes from the Basement started as a concept album in her parents’ basement, and is her first full-length show for the stage. Artistic residencies include The American Academy in Berlin, The Watermill Center, and The Center at West Park. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, NPR, and internationally in publications such as Der Tagesspiegel, El Español and Tokyo Shimbun. Eberstadt has also worked as a teaching artist in youth centers across the US and Europe, including on Rikers Island. She makes up half the electro pop sister duo Delune – @deluneofficial! For more information please visit www.kateeberstadt.com Instagram @updatesfromkate

Molly Rose Heller, Director
Molly Rose Heller is a multi-talented theatre-maker. Select directing credits include: Existential Questions (Green Room 42, upcoming), Olivia Harris’ Planet Joy (City Winery), Dybbuk (upcoming), Faust 2.0 (Mabou Mines, asst dir., upcoming), Cannibal Galaxy: a love story (New Ohio, asst dir.), and Missing Gemini (Winner, Best Direction). Other credits include Design for Living (Berkshire Theatre Group), Imagining the Imaginary Invalid (La Mama) and book/lyrics for Plath. (FringeNYC). She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Theatre and Drama Arts from Columbia University and a B.A. in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Fernanda Douglas, Musical Director
Fernanda Douglas is a composer and music director from Goleta, California, and a graduate of Columbia University. She is an active member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and her original musical, Plath., was part of the 2015 NY Fringe Festival. Fernanda is an associate voice coach with Broadway vocal supervisor, Liz Caplan, and in her free time, she’s the deputy director of The Dream Unfinished, the NYC-based activist orchestra. She recently returned from New Delhi, India where she was working on the musical adaptation of film director, Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding.

Monday, April 29,2019 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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Credits

Writer/Composer/Actor

Kate Eberstadt

 Director

Molly Rose Heller

Musical Director

Fernanda Douglas

Producers

hawkhouse

Cast

Izzi Eberstadt
Kate Eberstadt
Kelsea Feder
Sarah Hamaty
Imani Hanson
Safia Hanson
Jake Lasser
Christopher Ramirez
Daniel Soto
David Ventura

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