RAGE/RELEASE -PLUS- Flies In The Void Amy Khoshbin & Liz McAuliffe -PLUS- Marco Torriani

About This Show
RAGE/RELEASE
Amy Khoshbin & Liz McAuliffe
A participatory performance where the audience is invited to dance out their demons and share their best self-care secrets. We ask the audience to join us in getting down and dirty with our deepest fears and anxieties, to explore empathizing with total strangers, and to try to find catharsis in 30 minutes or less!
Flies in The Void
Marco Torriani
A rabbit-hole-like void. Peter is a young man with a misunderstood passion for catching flies. We journey with Peter as he takes us through a trial of dreams, memories, and events that have led him to living in a world completely drawn from his debilitating curiosity, and relentless escapism from the natural world.
About the Artist
Amy Khoshbin is a Brooklyn-based artist. She has shown her solo and collaborative work at venues such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Invisible Dog, and festivals such as River To River and South by Southwest. She has an upcoming residency at The Watermill Center in collaboration with Liz McAuliffe, and has been an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Team Effort! in Scotland, and New York University. She is currently in a sci-fi rap group called C∆N-D with Michael Clemow and dancer Liz McAuliffe. She has also collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, and poets Anne Carson and Bob Currie, among others.
Liz McAuliffe is a dance and performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She has performed at venues including Brooklyn Academy of Music, The New Museum, The Invisible Dog, Judson Church, and CAVE. She is currently working on a solo dance performance, and collaborating with artists including Amy Khoshbin, Denisa Musilova, and Zavé Martohardjono. Past notable collaborations include dancing with the butoh-influenced company Leimay, and writing and performing as a member of the Washington D.C. based music project Queer Pressure.
Maridee Slater Maridee Slater is a director, performer, and writer with a penchant for Rock & Roll. She has her MFA in Directing from Columbia University. She comes from the desert. Her name means “of the sea”. That irony is not lost on her. Or wasted. Recent projects run the gamut in terms of genre: 5150: a playlist on love and disaster as part of F!ckFest at The Brick, The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard, with original music by Jillie Mae Eddy and Sam Gelband, You’ve Been Tartuffed (Lickety Split, Off-Broadway), Song of the Sea ((Dream)Play, Jillie Mae Eddy), SIRENS (devised with writings from Tabia Lau, Matthew Minnicino, Diane Nora, and Laura Zlatos, music by Jillie Mae Eddy), A Seagull (adapted from Chekhov’s classic by Matthew Minnicino), among others. She just tried her hand at producing with Jillie Mae Eddy’s The Boys Are Angry at the NYC Fringe Festival.
Marco Torriani – Marco Torriani is an actor, writer, and director whose credits include Margarita With A Straw (NETPAC Award Winner at the 2014 TIFF), Sleepwalkers (IndieWire’s Project of the Year), the NYC premiere of Bertolt Brecht’s “Judith of Shimoda” at the LaMaMa Ellen Stewart Theater, and his portrayal of Jack Cash/Marshall Grant in Endstation Theatre Company’s production of “Ring of Fire” directed by Jimmy Maize. He is extremely grateful to have the opportunity to premiere his work “Flies In The Void” on the Dixon Mainstage Theater.
David Wayne Fox – David Wayne Fox was most recently seen as “Grant Gentile” in one-act, TO TRUST IN CHARIOTS (Best Production of a Short Play winner) at the Planet Connections Festivity. He played the manic “Mr. Insta” as part of Elite Daily’s “Bad Bosses” video series, and will be seen as a snarky blogger in the upcoming film INVISIBLE INK. Other films include the award-winning shorts JOHN DABLOVSKI: REALITY TV STAR and THE BICYCLE, as well as the NTDTV pilot FASHION CITY. David is also a composer and artist. Thanks to Marco and everyone involved with this fine production.
Charee Monroy – Charee Monroy is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts Drama program, having studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, as well as with Mary Overlie. Past favorite roles include Pompey in Measure for Measure (Stella Adler Studios), Flies in The Void (Dixon Place), and Lisa in Lichen Romance (Dir.Nick Dalessio). Charee is currently studying and performing improv at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade.
Aron Canter – Aron Canter is a theater maker from San Francisco. He has performed at The Brick Theater, JACK, Dixon Place, La Mama Club, Theater for the New City, The Rubin Museum, and part of the Prelude Festival. Aron has worked with Derek Spaldo, Paul Ketchum, Sarah Willis, Nellie Tinder, Jess Barbagallo, Van Cougar, Buran Theater, Marco Torriani, Karl Leone, Leon Ingulsrud, Zishan Ugurlu, among many others.
Kelly Lincoln- Kelly Lincoln is classically trained in Improvisation, pie throwing, and pratfalls, with an eye to the farcical. In fact, Kelly has created the ideology of Farcism, which just goes to show that she is without a doubt, a one of a kind actress who does voiceacting, narration, and hosts two internet radio shows. Kelly attended the National Shakespeare Conservatory, California State University, San Francisco ACT Young Conservatory in San Francisco, and still have my “migrant Faire worker” card proving my ten years of playing at the Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire. You can see me at the Magnet Musical Mixers howling at the mirror ball every other Tuesday. I had a blast doing the staged reading of Flies in the Void, and is having a blast performing the Mother in this fully staged premiere. Marco and the rest of the reprobates are awesome, and is very thankful to be working alongside such talent. She has also work with Roger Hendricks Simon, David Razowsky, among many others.
April O’Donnell – April is a Development intern at Soho Rep. She is an actor, playwright, producer and BFA candidate at the New School for Drama. Favorite roles include: Gertrude in Hamlet (NSD Creative Cafe) and Ejlif in An Enemy of the People (NSD Mainstage). She would like to thank Marco for this wonderful opportunity. aprilodonnell.com
Ryan Hopper (Sound Design) – Ryan Hopper is a Brooklyn-based freelance sound designer and composer. He holds an MFA in Theatre Sound Design from Purdue University. His most recent design and composition work includes a season sound design position at the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre (The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice);The Tooth of Crime, Columbia University Theatre; Project Unspeakable for Convergences Theatre Collective; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Court Theatre, New Zealand; The Amish Project, Taproot Theatre, Seattle; Pride and Prejudice, Purdue University Theatre; a design fellowship at Ithaca, NY’s The Hangar Theatre (With Two Wings, James and the Giant Peach, The Wiz and PINKALICIOUS! The Musical); and several compositions for Purdue Contemporary Dance Company.
Mike McGee (Light Design) – Michael McGee is a lighting designer and theater maker. Recent lighting design work includes: Describe the Night, a new play by Rajiv Joseph directed by Giovanna Sardelli (NYU Tisch), The Hour of the Star adapted and directed by Dara Malina (Columbia Stages), Too Many Lenas 3: Let them Eat Cake for the Carol Simmons Pop Up Collective (Ars Nova, The New Ohio), The Diary of Anne Frank directed by Cat Miller (Oberlin Summer Theater), Festen directed by Anouk Kemp (Columbia Stages), continued work as the resident lighting designer for the inimitable Salty Brine’s Spectacular Living Record Collection Cabaret, as well as co-designing the lighting for Early Plays at St. Ann’s Warehouse (dir. Richard Maxwell, Henry Hewes Award Nomination, with Aaron Deyo). As a founding member of the performance company GRANDMA, they have collaboratively designed and devised several evening length works, including the newest Make People Part 1. They have performed as a living Cat Gif, and one of the Blanches in Dara Malina’s Blanche in a Box for Chashama.
Friday, Sept. 18 at 10pm
General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
Students / Seniors
$10
55 minutes
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Credits
Flies in the Void
Written by
R. Marco
Directed by
Maridee Slater