Tiger Deke Weaver

About This Show

TIGER is the 5th performance from Deke Weaver’s life-long Unreliable Bestiary project: a performance for each letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat.  Built for small theaters, living rooms, and barns, TIGER is more intimate than it’s sprawling older brothers MONKEY, ELEPHANT, WOLF, and BEAR.  Part mono/travel-log, part live-cinema, part séance, TIGER is dark thoughtful humor for the anthropocene. 

Written, performed, and codirected by Deke Weaver, TIGER’s award-winning collaborators include codirector/dramaturg Jayne Wenger, costume designer Susan Becker, sound designer Jacob Ross, and visual artist Melissa Pokorny.

About the Artists

Deke Weaver’s work has been presented by the Sundance Film Festival, PBS, Channel 4/U.K., the New York Video Festival (Lincoln Center), the Chicago Humanities Festival, 21c Museum Hotels, the Berlin Video Festival, the Moth, and many others including livestock pavilions, backyard sheds, night clubs and living rooms. A Guggenheim Fellow and Creative Capital grantee, Weaver is currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Jayne Wenger is a director/dramaturg who develops new work: opera, dance, solo performance, and new music.  She is an alumna of Djerassi Resident Artist Program, a Guest Artist/Board member for The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the past Artistic Director of the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, Women’s Ensemble of New York, and a member of the Dramatists Guild, and the League of Professional Theater Women.  She has collaborated with Deke Weaver for over 20 years.

MON JAN 13 2020 7:30PM

Early Bird Tix
Available Until January 2nd
$14

General Admission
$17 In Advance
$20 At the Door

Student/Seniors/NYCid
$15 In Advance
$18 At the Door

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Credits

Creator/Co-Director
Deke Weaver  
Dramaturg/Co-Director
Jayne Wenger
Costume Design
Susan Becker
Sound Design
Jacob Ross
Set Design
Melissa Pokorny

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