In the Lounge Zach and Louise **or how to fall in love, fuck it up, and start all over in 5 easy steps Nicolette Dixon & Emmett Findley
About This Show
The year is 1997. Buffy the Vampire Slayer has just hit the airwaves. Folks are still arguing about whether or not 10,000 spoons is really ironic. Two tenth graders from opposite sides of the country have the exact same English Composition assignment:
PenPal Project Outline
Objective: Students will learn the format of letter writing while learning how to craft well written sentences into paragraphs. They will practice with several genres including persuasive, biography, expository, and narrative writing while making real world connections.
As Zach & Louise persuade, narrate & exposit their heart-minds onto the page, they find some real world connections that are more magic-making & hormone-inducing than any school assignment before. They share stories of typical teenage experience: playing video games, getting second chair, divorce, depression, death & their favorite TV shows—&, of course, they fall in love.
About the Artists
Nicolette Dixon is a director, performer & teaching artist. She holds a Master of Arts in Applied Theatre from The City University of New York. She believes that art & social justice are natural comrades &, as an applied theatre practitioner, she strives to create innovative theatre that engages artists, audiences & communities in transformative experiences. Some of her favorite projects include acting in The Red Dress at University Settlement; directing In My Skin at Joe’s Pub; creating & enacting site-specific public performance pieces dealing with issues from gun violence to feminism to the loss of bees in New York & San Diego; & developing her first solo piece, Love and Circus, which was presented as part of Dixon Place’s HOT! Fest 2015.
Emmett J. Findley is a musician with a thick Midwestern accent who has performed for family, friends & in bars all around the world. His influences include lesbian campfire music from the ’90s & contemporary folk that pulls at the heart strings. Emmett is a classically-trained pianist who also learned guitar from his dad. This is Emmett’s entrance into the NYC theater world.
share £