Above the Noise Daphne Gampel, Ryan Dobrin

About This Show

Above the Noise, an oratorio composed by Daphne Gampel, explores the experience of young adults questioning, reaffirming, discarding, and deepening their relationships with religion in an increasingly secular society. As we grow up, we often find ourselves in the uncomfortable position of questioning ideas and beliefs we’ve always held as true. Our world expands, and we are unsure how our familiar little corner of it fits into the larger tapestry. Updating traditional oratorio form through jazz-inflected, folk-pop-choral music, Gampel weaves interview-based narratives to create a shared space of stories and interconnected differences.

About the Artists

DAPHNE GAMPEL (Composer) is a New York City based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. An alumna of New York’s prestigious LaGuardia High School and Wesleyan University, Gampel has played at venues including the Bitter End, Rockwood Music Hall, and the Blue Note. She is a National YoungArts Foundation and Songwriters Association of Washington award recipient, Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project Fellow, and Gwen Livingston-Pokora prize in composition winner. Daphne’s debut album, Eventide, was released in 2018 through Resonant Motion.

RYAN DOBRIN (Director) is a New York-based theatre-maker and collaborator. He is the Associate Producing Artistic Leader at the Obie Award-winning The Movement Theatre Company, a Directing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons and Manhattan Theatre Club, and an alumnus of the Emerging Leaders Group at Ars Nova. He graduated from Wesleyan University, where he received both the Rachel Henderson Theater Prize and the Outreach & Community Service Prize in Theater. For more: ryandobrin.com.

HENRY LOMBINO (Producer) is a producer, choreographer, and theatre artist. After graduating from Wesleyan University, he had the pleasure of working on Lempicka at the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival as a choreography assistant to Raja Feather Kelly. Since then, he has been involved in multiple Off-Broadway shows, including Catch as Catch Can (Page 73), Infinite Hotel (Prototype), and Proof of Love (New York Theatre Workshop/Audible Theater).

SAT DEC 21 AT 7:30PM

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Estimated Runtime
65 minutes

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Credits

CAST
Molly Bogin
Xander Browne
Kenyon Duncan
Daphne Gampel
Alex O’Shea
Imani Russell
Rose Stoller
Cassie Willson
Wenxuan Xue

MUSICIANS
Becket Cerny
Daniel Durst
Kevin Garcia
Chris Peters

TEAM
Composer, Music Director, Arrangements
Daphne Gampel
Director
Ryan Dobrin
Producer
Henry Lombino
Stage Manager
Emily Bubeck
Originally Developed with
Ramsay Burgess
Associate Producer
Immi Chaudhry
Assistant Music Director
Ian Miller
Dramaturg
David L. Caruso
Light Designer
Sam Driver
Sound Technician
Nicky Young
Program Art
Erin Bundock

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