In the Lounge Regulars Christine Aucoin
About This Show
A customer orders his coffee in Shakespearean verse. Another overshares about his medical ailments between making lewd comments to the all-female staff. For manager Heather and baristas Cam and Jesse, smiling through the absurdities of their workplace is getting rapidly harder. Tentative romances, disgruntled applicants and the persistent memory of a former customer catapult the trio into a conversation about the weird ways customer service and rape culture intersect.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Christine Aucoin received her BA in Theatre/Playwriting from Barnard College of Columbia University. She was the 2018 Dasha Epstein Fellow for New York Stage & Film’s 2018 Powerhouse Festival, during which Regulars was partially developed. While studying at Barnard College, she had four full-length plays produced, including the devised piece Some Hero commissioned by the Václav Havel Library Foundation.
Britt Berke’s recent directing includes Promenade (The Public Theatre’s The Rest I Make Up Marathon), A Respectable Wedding (Barnard Theatre Department), and the world premiere of Regulars (Glicker-Milstein Theater Festival.) Her work explores how power and femininity are perceived and intertwined. Britt is the Associate Artistic Director of Torn Out Theatre and was the SDCF Directing Observer on Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz, by Lynn Nottage). She has assistant directed with Kara Feely (Object Collection), Pitr Strait (Torn Out), Jean Wagner (Mabou Mines), Shannon Sindelar and Alice Reagan. BA in Theatre/Directing from Barnard College. Brittberke.com.