LOUNGE Qualified Immunity by Jeff McMahon

About This Show

Delusions and projections of power and privilege, filtered through aspirations of justice. Read by a cast of former and current Arizona State University students who tackle McMahon’s tense, dense and lyrical scripts fueled by the poison seeping into the political and personal. This work-in-progress will develop into an interdisciplinary collaboration with composer/musician Daniel Bernard Roumain/DBR. A short excerpt was performed at National Sawdust in April.

About the Artists

Performer/Writer whose live and media work has been presented since 1980 by venues in Americas, U.K. and Europe, receiving fellowships and grants from National Endowment for the Arts, NY Foundation for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts, Arizona Comm. on the Arts, and Monette/Horwitz Trust. His essays published in Table Talk: From the Threepenny Review (Counterpoint Press 2015), Innovation in Five Acts: Strategies for Theatre and Performance (TCG 2015), Culture Wars (New Press), Hyperallergic, The Guardian, Performance Research, TDR, Kenyon Review, Contact Quarterly, PAJ,The Threepenny Review, Movement Research, Contemporary Theatre Review Backpages, The New England Review. Dramatic works published in his book, Six Monologues 1990-2007 (NoPassport Press 2018). MFA in nonfiction writing from School of the Arts, Columbia University, and BA in Interdisciplinary Art SUNY/Empire State College. Recently retired from 21 years teaching at Arizona State University. Visiting artist and extensive conference presentations worldwide. Writing fellow Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY, and Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Spain.

 

Rebekah Dawn has worked as a performer, devisor, and teaching artist across the Western States and Australia. She received an M.F.A. in Theatre Performance from Arizona State University. Upon arriving to NYC last fall, she was seen in The Indigo Room at La Mama ETC. She’s thrilled to work with Jeff’s material again after performing one of his pieces at his book launch in Phoenix, AZ in 2019.

Toussaint Jeanlouis is an Actor and Teaching Artist. Originally from Houston, Texas, he attended Arizona State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Theater with a Concentration in Acting and continued to California Institute of the Arts, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. He currently lives in New York City, where his last performance was in the Pulitzer Prize winning ‘Hot Wing King’ by Katori Hall at the Signature Theatre. He has recently performed in Toshi Reagon’s Parable of the Sower: The Opera in Ann Arbor, MI, Boston, MA, and D.C./MD, and New Haven, CT.

 Chris Ignacio is an actor and puppeteer currently pursuing his MFA in Theatre/Interdisciplinary Digital Media at Arizona State University. He recently worked as a cover puppeteer in The Met’s Madama Butterfly. He is currently working on a digital puppetry project called Manifesting Monsters, to premiere in 2024. IG: chrisiggie. chrisignacio.com

Thur. July 7, 2022 7:30pm

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Estimated Runtime
40 minutes

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Photo Credit
Daniel Rampulla

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