tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86278989563592954962024-03-05T03:19:36.785-05:00THE CIVILIANS BLOG /Welcome to The Civilians' Blog! Keep up with the latest news about our projects, investigations, and their real-life topics.The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-22769144377512040952015-05-07T16:32:00.000-04:002015-05-18T16:44:55.280-04:00An Overview of this year's R&D Group FINDINGS Series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Today we’re kicking off
FINDINGS, a presentation of the new work that has been done in The Civilians’ R
& D Group over the course of the 2014-15 season. We have 7 presentations,
our most ever. Rather than thinking of these presentations as “final” or even
as readings, we consider them more open rehearsals. This is a chance for the
writers and directors to invite us in to the process and see where these pieces
have ended up after 9 months of investigation. FINDINGS will be happening <b>May 7 – 21</b> at <b>138 S. Oxford Street </b>in <b>Brooklyn.
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the new R & D group at the beginning of the season, we often identify
themes across the diverse projects, looking at how these new works will speak
to each other over the course of the development process. The broad conversation that appears to be
happening between these new pieces this year has to do with larger questions of
community and origin stories. How are we connected to each other, and in turn
how do those connections play out in a larger societal framework? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In Caroline V. McGraw’s
BELIEVELAND, Carrie – based on the playwright – looks at the relationship of
her parents to the talented, but now obscure, poet D. A. Levy, and in doing so
reveals a larger narrative about the city of Cleveland and America’s rust belt.
Caroline took over the Civilians’ social media pages this week, and she posted
photos and primary sources for her research which you can check out <a href="https://twitter.com/Civilians/status/595612312893030400" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="https://instagram.com/civiliansnyc/" target="_blank">here</a>. The presentation will be directed by R &
D director Jay Stull. Catch Caroline’s presentation this afternoon <b>(May 7<sup>th</sup>)</b> at <b>2 PM.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Next up will be Max Vernon’s
SHOW AND TELL, a night of adult show and tell set in the hours before the sun
explodes. Perhaps the opposite of an origin story, this piece still grapples
with questions of human connection in light of much larger social and
environmental distress. Max’s songs have been a regular presence in The
Civilians’ Let Me Ascertain You Cabaret series in recent years and I’m excited
that we’re now getting to look at one of his full pieces. We’re excited to have
Civilians Associate Artist and former R & D Group member Sam Pinkleton back
to direct. This presentation will be <b>Friday,
May 8</b> at <b>7 PM.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Winter Miller’s SPARE RIB is
one of our more experimental pieces this year and digs into the topic of
abortion. The piece has cross cultural and historical elements that wind through
a stream of consciousness narrative, that speaks to both community and origin.
Directed by R & D Group director Alex Keegan, Winter will present her work
on <b>May 11</b> at <b>2:00 PM</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Associate Artists Donnetta
Lavinia Gray’s LAID TO REST<b> </b>focuses
on the mother of a son killed by police violence after years have past an the
cameras are gone, directed by R & D director Ilana Becker, it will be
presented on <b>May 18 at 7:30 PM. </b>Followed
on <b>May 19</b> by Rob Handel and Kamala
Sankaram’s THE PRIVACY SHOW<b> </b>also
directed by Jay Stull, an interactive musical project that will make you think
twice about your digital and personal security. <b>May 20</b> at <b>7:30 PM </b>will bring us to BULL’S HOLLOW
PART 1: THE FOUR FATHERS, our most direct origin story, literally set in the
belly of the beast (a whale named Burton), developed this year by Jaclyn
Backhaus, Mike Brun and Andrew Neisler…this is the first of a 3 part
trilogy. Finally, on <b>May 21</b> at <b>2 PM</b> Krista Knight will take us to the San Francisco Airport Hyatt
with KIRK AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT HYATT, using primary source recordings
and personal experience, Krista tells the story of her father Kirk Knight,
living beyond his means at the Hyatt, expecting to die, any day, and having
hung on for 29 years and counting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shows and get the full schedule and locations on the R and D page of The
Civilians website <a href="http://www.thecivilians.org/programs/rdgroup.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-6930185498785796552014-10-01T12:29:00.000-04:002014-10-01T12:39:02.066-04:00The Civilians at CUNY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">As part of our Investigative Theatre Education Program, The Civilians is Artists-in-Residence at CUNY this year</span><span style="text-align: left;">. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Our first leg of the residency kicked off at CUNY Kingsborough this past month, where Associate Artist Alison Weller taught a class of 16 students The Civilians' methodology. The class culminated with a student-created performance from interviews they conducted in their community based around the theme of </span><b style="text-align: left;">What is Brooklyn to you</b><span style="text-align: left;">? Read below for excerpts from the students' interviews!</span></div>
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<b><b>"I always say to myself if Jay-Z wasn't from here he wouldn't be who he is. He probably would still be great, but he wouldn't have that swagger like he does. It's pride really." </b></b><br />
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<b>"Brooklyn will always feel like home, there's something about driving over the Verrazano or coming into Kennedy Airport and having that sigh of relief. I'm home."</b><br />
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<b>"I know I should have just gave him my phone, but I got really mad that he was trying to rob me so I just quickly kneed him really hard and ran away!"</b><br />
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<b style="text-align: center;">"I can go on and on about the things Brooklyn has taught me. Brooklyn raised my kids. Brooklyn taught me how to be a lady and how not to be a lady. Brooklyn taught me how to fight."</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet the 2014-2015 R&D Group! The group was chosen from over 130 applicants and features an unprecedented number of musical projects. This year we are also introducing the newly-created "Alumni Spot," going to Juliana Francis-Kelly, a member of last year's R&D Group. Read below to learn more about this wildly talented group of writers, composers, and directors and their projects!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Andrew Neisler </span>is a Georgia-raised, now Brooklyn-based theatre artist and director.
Recent directing credits include NY Times’ Critics Pick <span style="font-style: italic;">Clown Bar </span>at The Box and
Drama Desk nominated <span style="font-style: italic;">Charlatan </span>at Ars Nova. Other projects include <span style="font-style: italic;">Game Play </span>(Ars
Nova), <span style="font-style: italic;">Byuioo </span>(Pipeline Theatre Company, Gym at Judson), <span style="font-style: italic;">The Gray Man </span>(HERE),
<span style="font-style: italic;">Shoot the Freak </span>(Not Just 3 New Plays, Paradise Factory), <span style="font-style: italic;">Tape </span>(Strasberg Institute),
<span style="font-style: italic;">Folk Wandering </span>(Ars Nova/Joe’s Pub), and Bebe Zahara Benet’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Creature </span>(XL Cabaret).
He is currently developing a new piece, <span style="font-style: italic;">Bull’s Hollow, </span>with frequent collaborators
playwright Jaclyn Backhaus and composer Mike Brun. He has worked on new plays with
Naked Angels, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Smith+Tinker
Writers’ Group, The Lark, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Andrew is the 2014 Director-
in-Residence at Ars Nova. He is a co-Founder/co-Director of <span style="font-style: italic;">Fresh Ground Pepper
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performer hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. She is the resident playwright of
Theater Reconstruction Ensemble. Plays for TRE: SET IN THE LIVING ROOM OF A
SMALL TOWN AMERICAN PLAY, THREE SEAGULLS OR MASHAMASHAMASHA!, and the upcoming
YOU ON THE MOORS NOW (HERE, February 2015). Other recent credits include the
Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb SuperLab of MEN ON BOATS, THE INCREDIBLE FOX
SISTERS at the 2014 Ice Factory Festival, and SHOOT THE FREAK at (not just) 3
new plays. She frequently collaborates with director Andrew Neisler and
composer Mike Brun on musicals including FOLK WANDERING and BULL’S HOLLOW.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Her plays have been developed by or presented
at HERE, WalkerSpace, The New York Performing Arts Library, Clubbed Thumb, Ars
Nova, Joe’s Pub, Naked Angels, and the Bushwick Starr.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Jaclyn is one of Clubbed Thumb's inaugural
Falcons and co-founder of Fresh Ground Pepper, an incubation system for new
artistic work. When she is not writing, she works at a wine store. BFA: NYU.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mike Brun </b>is a composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist known for the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wide range of his projects. In 2011, he moved to New York City for the music and stayed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the people-watching. Recent theater credits include: Music Director and onstage </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">musician for Mr. Burns at Playwrights Horizons; Music Director and onstage musician </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for Gameplay at Ars Nova; co-arranger and onstage musician for Old Hats at ACT San </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Francisco; and onstage musician for The Tempest at ART. Mike is Lead Composer of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">musical Folk Wandering, most recently performed at Joe’s Pub in New York. As a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">composer for theatre, his work has been performed at Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, Soho Rep, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HERE Arts Center, and lots of his friends’ apartments. Brun is one third of the Shaina </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taub Trio, as well as a sideman for Jacob Snider and Kate Davis among other acts. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has appeared on such podcasts as Emma Koenig’s Fuck! I’m in my Twenties, and The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Civilians’ cabaret series Let Me Ascertain You.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Bull’s Hollow Part 1: The Four Fathers</i> is the first part of a new trilogy that chronicles
four musicians who are tasked with founding a new society. Themes of class,
religion, history, biology, nationalism, mythmaking, the Titanic, and soggy
musical instruments come together to weave an intimate portrait of what it
takes to survive in the world, when your world is inside a whale.</span><span style="font-family: Optima;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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V. McGraw</b>'s plays include <i>Ultimate
Beauty Bible, The Bachelors, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, The Vaults, Debut
Track One Chord One Verse One (or, The Shed), </i>and <i>The King is Dead</i>. Her work has been produced and developed all
around the country, including the Cherry Lane Theatre by Young Playwrights
Inc., the Abingdon by Highwire Theatre, the Yale Cabaret, Washington Ensemble
Theatre, New Georges, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, AracaWorks, New
Georges, The Intiman Theatre Festival/One Coast Collaboration, Naked Angels, Rattlestick
Playwrights Theater, Washington National Opera/The Kennedy Center, Second
Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Studio 42, Page 73, and the Yale School
of Drama, among others. She has been in residence at Portland Center
Stage’s JAW Festival, Wordbridge Playwrights’ Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her
feminist pop spectacular <i>…baby no more
times, </i>co-created with Melissa Lusk and Mary Birnbaum, was seen at New
George’s Jam on Toast and Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, and will pop up again in late
2014. She is an alum of the New George’s Jam and Interstate 73. Caroline was
the <a href="http://www.playbill.com/news/article/174166-Caroline-V-McGraw-Receives-10000-2013-P73-Playwriting-Fellowship"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">2013 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow</span></a>. Caroline currently
teaches playwriting at Marymount Manhattan College, her alma mater. She is a
graduate of the Playwriting MFA program at the Yale School of Drama, where she
studied under Paula Vogel. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she lives in Brooklyn. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I am looking for a comet on a shelf full of quarters.” So
writes d.a. levy, the unofficial poet laureate of Cleveland, Ohio. More than four
decades later, a playwright named <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>Caroline struggles to
conjure d.a.’s Cleveland—a landscape of promise, disappointment, and mystery. Weaving
interviews and texts with fantasy and metatheatrics, <i>Believeland </i>explores literary inheritance in a city famous for its
river catching on fire. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Donnetta Lavinia Grays</b> is Brooklyn based actor and playwright. Her plays include SAM (2014 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist), THE REVIEW OR HOW TO EAT YOUR OPPOSITION (2013 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist) THE NEW NORMAL, THE COWBOY IS DYING, THE B FACTOR and ABSENCE OF FAITH and a short story entitled PEACHES WITH KING. She is the inaugural recipient of the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award, a member of the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unit, a 2013-14 Women’s Project Playwrights Lab Semifinalist and is a terraNova Collective Groundbreakers Playwright group alum. Her work has been produced or developed by [the claque], Naked Angels, Classical Theater of Harlem, Slant Theaterv</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project, terraNova Collective, Theatre 4 the People, TOSOS and Coyote REP with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">upcoming work for Pure Theatre Company in Charleston, SC and The Group Lab. Acting </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">credits include Broadway’s IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WELL. NY performance credits with Clubbed Thumb, Primary Stages, Ars Nova and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Civilians as an Associate Artist. Regionally she is a 2-time Connecticut Critics Circle </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Award recipient and Helen Hayes Award nominee. Film/TV credits include WILD</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CANARIES, THE ENGLISH TEACHER, THE WRESTLER, BLUE BLOODS, THE </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BLACKLIST, all LAW & ORDERS, MERCY, RUBICON, THE SOPRANOS and A </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GIFTED MAN. www.donnettagrays.com </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The years have past, the outrage has eased, the cameras have left and the verdict
handed down. In a real life encounter, an armchair activist fails to recognize the
woman she so passionately supported online and it alters her definition of true
social engagement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne</b> have been finalists for the Fred Ebb Award, the Ed Kleban
Award and the Jonathan Larson Grant. Together, they have written: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Boy Who
Danced on Air </span>(2013 NAMT Festival of New Works and 2014 Writers Residency Grant,
2013 Rodgers Award Finalist, 2013 ART/NY and NYTB Workshop, The Lark Play
Development Center’s Monthly Meeting of the Minds), <span style="font-style: italic;">The Profit of Creation </span>(2011
Yale Institute for Musical Theater, one of ten finalists for the O’Neill Music Theater
Conference 2011 and 2012, developed at The Lark and through ASCAP’s 2010 Johnny
Mercer Songwriters Program) and the short musical <span style="font-style: italic;">Political Speeches </span>(The Culture
Project’s IMPACT Series). Their work has been seen in a sold-out 54 Below show, at
Birdland, Cutting Edge Composers at Joe’s Pub and 54 Below, NYTB at the D-Lounge,
NEXT’s Emerging Composers Series, and The Holiday Concert at the Lincoln Center
Library. They were members of the Advanced Class of the BMI Workshop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Separately, <b>Charlie </b>has developed work at New York Stage and Film, the O’Neill
National Music Theater Conference, The Lark and the Cherry Lane Theater – and has
had his work sung in concert at Second Stage (DCMTW’s “The Concert”) and through
BMI’s Smoker and Showcase. His song “I’m Just Glad You’re Here” (music by David
Gaines) was named one of the Top 25 Songs in the Directory of Contemporary Musical
Theater Writers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim has music directed the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit BROADWAY
BACKWARDS at the Palace and Al Hirschfeld Theaters. He has played keyboards for
ROCKY and THE ADDAMS FAMILY on Broadway and CARRIE at the Lucille Lortel,
and he's played rehearsals for A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE... on Broadway, City Center's
ENCORES series and THE BLUE HILL TROUPE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Book/Lyrics – Charlie Sohne</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Music – Tim Rosser</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A group of prisoners in a Louisiana maximum security penitentiary participate in the production of a passion play. As rehearsals progress and they dive deeper into the story of Jesus Christ, each character must confront past demons and an uncertain future. "For Your Sins" uses song, fantasy, and the passion play itself to explore the system of incarceration in this country and to ask the questions of whether redemption is every truly possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Alex Keegan</b>’s directing includes Bekah Brunstetter’s Drunk, Kara Lee Corthron’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mercury Is Perpetually in Retrograde…, and Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Williamstown), Kim Davies’ Miss Authenticity (Stable Cable), Jessica Dickey’s The </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amish Project (Circuit Theatre), and new plays with the O’Neill Theater Center YPF, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abingdon Theatre Company, UglyRhino Productions, Writopia Lab Worldwide Plays </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Festival, Primary Stages ESPA, and Manhattan Theatre Source Estrogenius. Recent </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">assistant directing – Broadway: 24 Hour Plays; Williamstown: A Great Wilderness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(dir. Eric Ting), The Dixon Family Album (dir. Jordan Fein); O’Neill NMTC: The </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (dir. Gabriel Barre); La Mama: Burnt Umber (dir. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia Rovegno). An alum of the Williamstown Theatre Festival Directing Corps and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O’Neill’s National Theater Institute, Alex has worked with Women’s Project, New </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dramatists, and The Civilians. She is currently developing a project that explores </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anxiety disorder and depression in young women, and received her B.A. from Brown </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">University where she studied mental illness’ portrayal in contemporary theatre. *<i>Unattached to a project</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Winter Miller </b>is an award-winning playwright and founding
member of 13Playwrights. Her play <i>In Darfur</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">premiered at The Public Theater for a sold-out run, followed by a
standing room only performance at their 1800-seat venue in Central Park, a
first for a play by a woman. She travelled to the Sudan border with
Pulitzer-winning <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Times</i> columnist
Nicholas Kristof. Full-length plays include: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seed, </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paternity, The
Arrival, Amandine, The Penetration Play </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Conspicuous</i> and <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">have been produced regionally and in Canada and Uganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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has been a fellow here: Sundance Institute, Hedgebrook, Blue Mountain Center,
The Lark, Orchard Project, Voice&Vision and a member of the Cherry Lane
Mentor Project and the Playwrights Center’s Core Writers. Winter has created
theater with youth in war-torn areas of Northern Uganda and Palestine as well
as marginalized populations in New York City. She currently mentors young women
through <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Girl Be Heard</i> and has worked
with LGBTQ youth via Theatre Askew and underserved youth with Stella Adler
Outreach. Winter teaches playwriting at Primary Stages’ ESPA, teaches theater
criticism to urban high school kids and leads a bi-monthly Weekend Warrior
Writing Intensive. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winter
is a certified Core Energetics Practitioner working with artists to identify
and release blocks in mind and body to create the freedom and space to write
the story waiting within. She has written for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe </i>and other
publications and was once an NBC Page. MFA Columbia University, BA Smith
College.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Project Description</b>: <i>Untitled Abortion Play </i>by Winter Miller</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is no question, there is no
art.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> What
is the cost of silence?</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who
provided the first abortions? When did abortion become a stigma? When did women
fully lose control over a decision about our own bodies? Will access to legal
abortion vanish? What are the underground and aboveground groups procuring
abortions? How do people really feel about abortion—it is so stigmatized, most
people don’t know which of our closest friends, siblings and parents have had
an abortion but statistics say in the U.S. 1 in 3 women have had an one. For
the providers of abortions, who can they talk to about their work? It’s a
stigmatized and often dangerous profession, many people opt to hide what they
do. The debate over reproductive freedom is nuts; the semantics of language
about when life begins has confounded an entire populace and led to the murder
of doctors and the growth of extremist movements in the United States, of which
the Tea Party is the least overtly violent. Expect a non-linear madhouse of a
play that criss-crosses the time and space continuum of the dead and the
living—whatever that really means.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Let’s
make some art.</span></span></div>
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heads the dramatic writing program at Carnegie Mellon University. He was a
founding member of the playwrights’ collective 13P, which won four Obie Awards.
His latest play, A MAZE, has been produced by New York Stage and Film,
Rorschach Theatre (D.C.), and Just Theater/Shotgun Players (Berkeley). Other
productions include Long Wharf, SPF, Target Margin, City Lights (San Jose),
Curious Theatre (Denver), Theater Ninjas (Cleveland), Half Moon (Poughkeepsie),
and 99 Stock (San Francisco). His opera libretti have been produced and
developed by NYU School of Music, Opera on Tap at Barbès, North American New
Opera Workshop, American Lyric Theatre, and Opera Theater of Pittsburgh.
Residencies include The Royal Court Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, The O’Neill
Playwrights Conference, Soho Rep, Portland Center Stage, Todd Mountain Theater
Project, and a 'pataphysics retreat. Honors include the Helen Merrill Award and
the Whitfield Cook Award. MILLICENT SCOWLWORTHY and APHRODISIAC are published
by Samuel French. Rob studied at Williams College and with Paula Vogel at Brown
University. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, poet Joy Katz, and their son.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXPgxNr5k4IhfACEtyJbmGNdsMrEPskyRwkK3je5CUcGwjY6ciq0t_HPr6Rb5YKtRB-Bk_8o9sYzYAQ7ag9wHbaSH2HBHQ6YH_LGZ1_VLqfPoB28Tl7VfNMdW9DAV5sm9PePRAKIF6dI/s1600/Kamala+Headshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXPgxNr5k4IhfACEtyJbmGNdsMrEPskyRwkK3je5CUcGwjY6ciq0t_HPr6Rb5YKtRB-Bk_8o9sYzYAQ7ag9wHbaSH2HBHQ6YH_LGZ1_VLqfPoB28Tl7VfNMdW9DAV5sm9PePRAKIF6dI/s1600/Kamala+Headshot.jpg" height="200" width="134" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Praised as
“strikingly original” (<i>NY Times</i>), <b>Kamala Sankaram</b> has received commissions from Beth
Morrison Projects, HERE Arts Center, and Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric
Orchestra, among others. She is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson Award from
the American Theater Wing, and has received grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, MAP Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Meet the
Composer, and the Asian Women’s Giving Circle, as well as residencies from the
MacDowell Colony, the Watermill Center, Con Edison/Exploring the Metropolis,
the Hermitage, and the American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development
Program. As a resident artist at HERE Arts Center, Kamala created MIRANDA, a
steampunk murder mystery, which was the winner of the New York Innovative
Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. Her second opera,
THUMBPRINT, premiered in the 2014 PROTOTYPE Festival, and was featured on NPR’s
Morning Edition, as well as media outlets around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a performer,
Kamala has been hailed as "an impassioned soprano with blazing high
notes" (<i>Wall Street Journal</i>). She has performed with and
premiered pieces by Anthony Braxton, Beth Morrison Projects, the
Philip Glass Ensemble, the Wooster Group, and John Zorn, among others. She is
the frontwoman of world music ensemble Bombay Rickey, and appears regularly
with Opera on Tap’s <i>New
Brew</i><i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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has been a voice actor on Comedy Central’s </span><i>Superjail</i><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Rob Handel / Kamala Sankaram</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By clicking this button I agree to the terms and conditions. I agree to let my email be
used to search for personal information about me. I understand that this
information may be used in song lyrics in tonight’s performance. Of all the gin joints
in all the towns in all the world, Chelsea Manning walks into mine. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><b>Ilana
Becker </b>is a NYC based director. She has developed new work at Lark Play
Development Center, Dixon Place, 54 Below, The Flea Theater, TinyRhino, Communal
Spaces: garden plays, Theater for the New City with Piper Theatre, O’Neill
Theater Center’s Young Playwrights Festival and National Theatre Institute,
Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Samuel French Festival, FringeNYC,
Pittsburgh Fringe, Galapagos Art Space, Hunter College, and NYU’s Dramatic
Writing MFA program. She is developing<i> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Argument Sessions</span></i>, an ongoing
series of immersive events taken from SCOTUS transcripts. Other projects as
co-producer and director include a site-specific production of <i>Waiting for Lefty</i> at the Hartley House<i>; Beer Plays</i>, an evening of craft beers
paired with shor<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>t plays; and<i> Around the Block, </i>a roaming collection of investigative
short pieces about and performed in New York neighborhoods. Ilana is a member
of Bastard Playground, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Directors Lab
Chicago, and was the ’11-‘12 Playwrights Horizons Robert Moss Directing
Resident. *<i>Unattached to a project</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Described by the New Yorker as “equal parts bohemia and Broadway,” <b>Max Vernon </b><span style="font-size: small;">is a
songwriter/performer, playwright, and visual artist based out of New York City. His work has
been performed and developed at places such as Ars Nova, New Dramatists, Two River Theater,
Dixon Place, LaMaMa, Pride Films and Plays, Goodspeed Opera House, and Joe's Pub (Public
Theatre). His music can be heard on the TV-series EastSiders (Logo). This past year he was a
Dramatist Guild Theatre Fellow and an artist in residence at Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat. He also
recently finished his first commission for Disney Creative Entertainment.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His full length pieces include <i>The View UpStairs</i><span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span>(NYU-Tisch, Two River Theater, Pride Films
and Plays, 2014 Eugene O'Neill Conference finalist, 2014 Jonathan Larson Grant finalist,
ASCAP musical theatre festival finalist), <i>WIRED</i> (Ars Nova, 2013 NAMT finalist), and <i>Who is
Rhonda Rwanda? </i>He is also the composer for the film musical, State Debate, which won the
best original score award at the 2012 First Run Film Festival.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He hopes to one day dismantle patriarchy and steal yr grandma's sequin blazer. MFA: NYU-
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. www.maxvernon.com </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Project Description</b>: <i>The Mecca Flats </i>by Max Vernon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mecca Flats was an infamous apartment complex that existed between the years of 1893 and
1952. Originally built for the Chicago World's Fair to be the most luxurious hotel in the city, it
quickly turned into one of the worst slums after the economy went bust. The Mecca became a
continual source of gossip in the papers as people were murdered in violent love affairs, jazz
musicians and eccentric artists took up residence in the building, and the population swelled to
nearly two thousand (from a max capacity of 400). <span style="font-style: italic;">Inside Mecca Flats, </span>is a song-cycle
chronicling the tenants' shifting social & political dynamic within the building over a 60 year
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Krista
Knight</b>'s work includes PRIMAL PLAY (New Georges, Playwrights Center of MN),
SALAMANDER LEVIATHAN (Joe's Pub, Ars Nova, Fingerlakes Musical Theatre
Festival, Inkwell, KCACTF Musical Theatre Award from the Kennedy Center),
CLEMENTINE AND THE CYBER DUCKS (Ontological Hysteric Incubator, Hangar Theatre,
Inkwell), PHANTOM BAND (The Claque, Walden Theatre, Voice and Vision, Dixon
Place), ANAEROBIC </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RESPIRATION (Playwrights Center of SF, NYC Fringe
Festival), and UN-HINGED (Wily West, Playhouse Creatures, WordBRIDGE), among
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Commissions include The Berkeley
Rep School of Theatre, Case Western Reserve University Biomedical Engineering
Department, The Assembly, Live Girls!, Class Act, SF Friends School, and a new
musical with composer Dave Malloy for YMTC. Krista has been in Residence at La
Napoule Art Foundation, UCROSS, Yaddo, and MacDowell. </span></div>
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Performance Studies from NYU. MFA Playwriting: UC San Diego. Page 73
Playwriting Fellow (2007). Shank Playwriting Fellow at the Vineyard
Theatre (2011-2012). Member of Youngblood and New Georges JAM. Krista
teaches playwriting, screenwriting, and digital storytelling at St. Mary’s
College and SUNY Oswego. </span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">www.KristaKnight.com</u></div>
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nurse/girlfriend. He can’t afford to live in a hotel but he’s had a theory for
the last 29 years that he is not going to live much longer. The catch is that
he continues to. He lives every day, in his joyous broken body, like he is
going to die tomorrow. At his behest, I am writing a play in which my father is
giving the audience a tour of the hotel on his–and the hotel’s—last night on earth.
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and playwright. Recent New York directing credits include Mark Roberts’ <i>Enter
at Forest Lawn</i> (The Amoralists)<i>, </i>Emily Schwend’s <i>Take Me Back </i>(Kindling)<i>,
</i>Mark Roberts’ <i>Rantoul and Die </i>at The Cherry Lane (The Amoralists), <i>Fever!
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams </i>(Girl In Red Productions), and Michael
Rabe's <i>The Future Is Not What It Was </i>(Kindling). His play, <i>The
Capables, </i>was produced in 2013 by Neighborhood Productions and the GYM at
Judson and will be produced by the Bloomington Playwrights Project in 2015. The
first episode in his cycle of <i>STREEPSHOW! </i>plays was produced this past
summer as part of ANT Fest 2014. His written and directing work has been
seen at or developed by the Lark Play Development Center, Ars Nova, Fresh
Ground Pepper, Ugly Rhino, The Culture Project, and Joe’s Pub with The
Civilians. He is the former Literary Manager of The Amoralists, where he
curated the Amoralab and Amoralfest seasons between 2012 and 2014. He is
a member of the performance collective Bastard Playground at The Drama League. *<i>Unattached to a project</i></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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including Reza Abdoh (as a founding member of the internationally renowned Dar
A Luz Company); Richard Foreman (in “Paradise Hotel;” “Bad Boy Nietzsche;” “King
Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe” and “Maria Del Bosco” – for which she received
an OBIE Award) and for Anne Bogart, Karin Coonrod, Young Jean Lee, Pavol Liska
and Kelly Copper, Lear DeBessonet, Normandy Sherwood, Charlotte Braithwaite,
Hal Hartley, Meredith Drum, Mary Billyou, Marie Losier in collaboration with
Guy Maddin, and David Michalek (for the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival’s
“Portraits in Dramatic Time.”) Ms. Kelly also writes, performs and directs her
own work, has written for several film companies, and has received project
support from the N.E.A., NYSCA, The Durst Foundation and The Jerome
Foundation. Her plays include: “Go Go Go”,
directed by Anne Bogart at PS 122, reprised at The Institute of Contemporary
Art for London International Festival of Theater; “Box”, directed by Tony Torn
and performed at The Women’s Project, PS 122; and The Fontanon Festival in
Italy; “The Baddest Natashas”, performed at The Ontological Theater and
published by Open City Magazine; “Saint Latrice”, at PS 122 (for which she
received a Sundance Screenwriters Fellowship for the film script
adaptation.) Recent performances include
”Feather Gatherers” for the Drunkard’s Wife, “Woman Bomb” by Ivana Sajko,
directed by Charlotte Brathwaite at Baryshnikov Arts Center, and “Ajax” for
Theater of War (outsidethewirellc.com). Ms. Kelly also builds dolls, and one of
her dolls is installed at the American Museum of Natural History’s Interactive
Educational Wing. Julianafranciskelly.com </span></div>
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The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-24698114431574679922014-07-23T13:31:00.000-04:002014-07-23T14:58:11.067-04:00Civilians at The Met: Micharne Cloughley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australian playwright Micharne Cloughley previously worked with The Civilians on </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Be the Death of Me. </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Now, as part of our residency with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Micharne is returning to New York to serve as resident writer on our investigation into the American Wing, titled </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The Way They Live.</i><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">We're so looking forward to having Micharne back at The Civilians! </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Check out the full article from the <i>Daily Review </i><a href="http://dailyreview.crikey.com.au/an-australian-in-new-york-micharne-and-the-civilians/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></span><br />
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We are in the thick of exploring our competing sex and death drives, and that interesting space where the two overlap and even coalesce.<br />
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In this episode, we are searching for the "white light," that surreal experience that can really open happen in sex or death, when we glimpse the soul. First up is actor Parker Drown performing Trevor, an NYC “rent boy,” followed by Jeanine Serralles performing Kelli Dunham, a writer/performer with the tag line “Everyone’s Favorite Ex-Nun, Genderqueer, Nerd Comic.” Learn more about Kelli’s fascinating story at kellidunham.com. To close out this podcast, we welcome back Grace McLean, whose layered vocals you may remember from our Sex Variants series. Grace’s original song, “Where is the White Light,” was inspired by an interview we did with Veronica, an energy healer.<br />
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The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-50387550663478162292014-06-26T03:00:00.004-04:002014-06-26T11:02:09.261-04:00F*cking & Dying: Turned On Let Me Ascertain You is back with a new series examining two of The Civilians’ favorite fixations: sex and death.<br />
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This first podcast in the series focuses on death as the ultimate turn-on. To start us off, we have Stephen Plunkett performing a monologue from an interview we did with famed porn director Craven Moorehead. Then we have Sam Breslin Wright performing an interview with Johannes, an Austrian who runs an arts/technology festival that buries people alive, aptly named, “The Six Feet Under Club.” Following that, cabaret superstar Lady Rizo performs her original song “Under” which she wrote with Yair Evnine. This song is based on our interview with Kitty, a “Six Feet Under Club” participant who got buried alive with her lover.<br />
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The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-30477396967724534492014-06-02T12:04:00.001-04:002014-06-02T12:05:04.202-04:00Meet the R&D: Tommy Smith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-696086574283905472014-05-19T10:44:00.001-04:002014-05-19T10:44:44.448-04:00The Civilians R&D Reading Series <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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the work our artists have been doing culminate into “something” in front of an audience.
In October, I wrote on the blog that all of our pieces had common thread of art
and politics. It’s very interesting to look back on that jumping off point and
see the diversity of style and content that the R & Der’s explored this
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Oleson is starting the series off with a presentation of performative material she
has been developing with us that ties in with her New Museum residency. Over
the year we’ve heard excerpts of the text she’s been working with, seen
sketches of the set, which are integral to the performance of her piece, and
learned about a new instrument that Jeanine is developing specifically for the
project. Director Melissa Crespo is helping her shape her piece for our
presentation format. Join us for HEAR, HERE on Wednesday, May 21, at 5:30 P.M.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sean Cunningham has ended up
writing farce about an American businessman hiking to Machu Picchu in the
company of a Peruvian businessman trying to convince him to take the alcohol
pisco back with him to the States. With incisive wit, and characters hauling a
piano up a mountain, Sean delves into the delicate personal and economic
relationships of his characters and larger American (Southern and Northern)
society. THE MACHU PICCHU PLAY, directed by Michael Leibenluft, is happening Thursday,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Riti Sachdeva is writing
what turns out to be our only piece derived almost entirely from interviews. Her
piece expertly weaves dynamic source material from interviews with people in
communities of color suffering from mental illness, family members with
relatives who are dealing with mentally ill relatives, and an expert who
provides a fascinating perspective on the way intergenerational instances of
trauma impact the mental health of these traumatized communities. This presentation
is also directed by Michael Leibenluft. We’re presenting LOVE IN A TIME OF
MANIC DEPRESSION on Wednesday May 28<sup>th</sup> at 8 PM. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In FAIRLY TRACEABLE, Mary
Kathryn Nagle uses interviews, archived media, and legal transcripts as source
material to create a fictional narrative about current legislation regarding
climate change. The result is a fresh point of view on a familiar Civilians
theme. Former R & Der and frequent Civilians collaborator Mia Rovegno
returns to direct this piece, which will be presented on Thursday, May 29<sup>th</sup>
at 7 PM. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kelly and Tony Torn will be presenting their piece THE REENACTORS on May 30<sup>th</sup>
at 2 PM. THE REENACTORS was a unique project for the R & D Group this year,
in that Juliana and Tony had a full draft when they started in September (often
our writers come start writing projects when their time in R & D begins, or
are only in the early stages). The team has used their time in R & D to
focus the narrative with the dramaturgical support of the group. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tommy Smith and Teddy Bergman, Robbie Sublett, and Maggie-Kate Coleman, Erato
A. Kremmyda and Sam Pinkleton, also had a productive time in the group this
year. Each of their projects, NFL, MARIE IN TOMORROWLAND, and EAST 4<sup>TH</sup>,
respectively, used the time and dramaturgical support of the group to further
their investigations and make strides on their projects, clarifying the
direction they hope to take the work. The nature of the R & D process means
that the development of some projects doesn’t fit into The Civilians season
calendar and presentation schedule. We invite you to keep an eye on these
projects in future as the artists continue their investigations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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productive and fruitful R & D season, we are also keeping our eye on next
year. After coming to see the work our artists have been doing over the last 9
months, you can check out our application for next year on </span><a href="http://thecivilians.org/programs/rdgroup.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Civilians website</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">due June 1.</span></div>
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Me Ascertain You<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>of the
season,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://www.publictheater.org/en/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/The-Civilians-Let-Ascertain-You-Fcking-and-Dying/" target="_blank">F*cking & Dying</a></i>, we decided to delve into two of our favorite
obsessions to see<span style="background-color: white;"> what happens when death
and sex fixations collide. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">For the past few months, we've been exploring our
competing sex and death drives, morbid curiosities, and dirty secrets on the
path to nirvana. In true Civilians' fashion, we've interviewed a
huge cross-section of individuals on the subject(s), including the owner of a
six-feet-under club (yep, it's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exactly</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>what it sounds like), a sex therapist, a sex addict, a terror sex enthusiast, a "rent-a-boy," and many more. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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wanted to share some brief experts from the interviews we've conducted for our <a href="http://www.publictheater.org/en/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/The-Civilians-Let-Ascertain-You-Fcking-and-Dying/" target="_blank">cabaret at Joe's Pub</a> on Saturday May 17th @ 7pm. Here’s a little preview of what we have in store: <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We warn them that if they have something real
special, like a designer suit, and they bring it down into the coffin, and
you’re like number ten down there, it will get dirty. There’s no stopping
that. Yah? And we kind of advise people to use condoms, uh, and we say
like yeah, we don’t stop you from doing it without a condom, but just like
clean up your stuff down there, like be aware that people want to go in the
coffin afterwards and if there’s a mess down there, you’re cleaning the stuff up,
it’s not the gravediggers job to clean up your...jizz down there.</i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, part of that is this
whole ritual of repression, like repressing the repulsion. Um, trying to
instigate and curate desire and ultimately, for me it's meant being um...
vulnerable to strangers. In a way that is like, deeply disturbing. Sometimes it
feels even unhealthy. Sometimes it's kind of magical, actually. To go into
these high-rises in New York and to always, the door opens and the stranger is
behind the door. And then to walk over every time to the window and look at the
view. Usually it's a setting sun. And, and then to take a deep breath. And then
be like, "Okay, I no longer- I'm no longer me." It's not always
terrible, but most of the time it is.</i><br />
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Let Me Ascertain You: F*cking and Dying, we wanted to give you a sneak-peak of
our impressive lineup of composers. Check them out below, and then grab your
tickets to the show before we sell out. Saturday, May 17th @ Joe's Pub. Tickets
available </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://joespub.publictheater.org/en/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/The-Civilians-Let-Ascertain-You-Fcking-and-Dying/"><span style="color: #f81fb7; line-height: 115%;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">! </span></span><br />
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with Moby and Yo-Yo Ma among many others. She is Mistress of Ceremonies for
current hotspot The Darby, and performs regularly at the legendary nightclub
Nell’s and at Joe’s Pub since 2009. A recipient of the New York Foundation of
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Childhood, written with Erato Kremmyda. She's been all over the place: The York
Theatre Company’s NEO Cabaret (with composer Daniel Maté), Joe’s Pub,
Barrington Stage, Laurie Beechman Theatre...just to name a few!</span></div>
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(Greece). Theatre (selected): Agamemnon
(Irondale, NYC), The Dot (Bios, Athens), We Are Theatre(Cherry Lane Theatre,
NYC), Wagon Wheel (Loewe Foundation Development Award, Planet Connections,
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Theater.<span style="background-color: white;"> Other recent projects include <i>Fortress of
Solitude </i>at Dallas Theater Center, <i>Venice </i>at the Public, <i>Love
Labour's Lost </i>at Shakespeare in the Park, <i>White Christmas</i> at Northern
Stage, and a workshop of <i>Carmen </i>set in Cuba and reimagined by
Moisés Kaufman and Arturo O’Farrill. Upcoming: <i>Robin Hood</i> at
Williamstown Theater Festival. You can hear Andrea's most recent output on
our podcast </span><a href="http://blogforthecivilians.blogspot.com/2014/03/sex-variants-part-ii.html"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #f81fb7; text-decoration: none;">Sex Variants</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">! </span></span><br />
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The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-74279602838860351402014-04-30T15:38:00.000-04:002014-04-30T15:39:02.087-04:00The Civilians are Hiring a New Producing Director <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
Civilians seeks a Producing Director to partner with the Artistic Director to
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mission. The Producing Director will provide inspirational leadership and help
promote collaboration, innovation and sustainability for this thriving theater
company. The position manages relationships with all of The Civilians’
stakeholders both internally (staff, artists and board) and externally
(producers, presenters, funders, program partners). This position plays the
leading role in producing The Civilians’ work, which includes an annual
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Led by Artistic Director Steve Cosson, The Civilians
is a company that creates new theater from creative investigations into the
most vital questions of the present. Through a number of artistic programs, The
Civilians advances theater as an engine of artistic innovation and strengthens
the connections between theater and society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Since its founding in 2001, The
Civilians has existed as a theater of discovery. As a company, we have sought to challenge our
ways of knowing and reveal the world as a bigger, stranger, and more complex
place than previously believed. Through
this work, artists and audiences have walked in the shoes of those they hadn’t
known, found something new in the familiar, broke out of insularity, and
grappled with the unknown. We have
investigated the ever-changing present, the “others,” the civilians. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By embracing this philosophy and
a distinctive developmental process, The Civilians has become nationally and
internationally known for a string of acclaimed theatrical works, including: <i>Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (2013),</i> <i>Paris Commune (2012), In the Footprint: The
Battle Over Atlantic Yards (2010), This Beautiful City (2009),</i> <i>(I Am) Nobody's Lunch (2006) </i>and<i> Gone Missing (2003).</i> The Civilians
works with countless partners locally, national, and internationally in order
to create, present, and produce this work.
In addition to the creation of work, The Civilians has created a slate
of programming in support of artists and their process, including the R&D
Writers Group, <i>Let Me Ascertain You</i>
cabarets and podcasts, and online media programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Civilians’ artistic team has started interviewing other artists that address climate change in their work as part of an ongoing series. We are excited to feature a brief portion of the next interview in the series, a chat between the founder and “Captain” of </span><a href="http://www.superheroclubhouse.org/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Superhero Clubhouse</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Jeremy Pickard, and The Civilians’ Literary Associate, Amina Henry. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Superhero Clubhouse is a collective of artists and environmental advocates working at the intersection of science and theater. They make original performances via a collaborative, green and rigorous process. </span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m curious as to when you started – so you had the first seed of an idea for “Don’t Be Sad, Flying Ace!” and when did you start writing it?</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I had the seed of an idea a couple years ago but I just didn’t know much more than it had to do with a dog inspired by Snoopy, stuck on his rooftop floating in the middle of the ocean, and it was called “<a href="http://www.superheroclubhouse.org/dont-be-sad" target="_blank">Don’t Be Sad, Flying Ace!</a>” I didn’t know much more than that. But I figured it had something to do with rising oceans and maybe storms. </span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if you could talk a little about the trick of talking about issues via performance but avoiding it becoming an ‘issue piece’ that is alienating or isolating.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">This is the crux, like, this is it, that’s what eco-theater is striving towards, is finding the balance. And I keep trying to figure out ways to define what I’m doing and my most recent definition is that eco-theater is the craft of</span> <strong>balancing agenda and art</strong>.<span style="color: black;"> And that’s really tricky. Because if I want to just write a play with no agenda then I might start writing a character and the character wants to go in this direction and we take that character in this direction. But I’ve encountered this time and time again with so many of the plays where we’ll be creating it, and we will get excited because we’ll start figuring things out about what happens with the character. And we’ll get lost in the typical way that’s really helpful for a play. But then you have to step back and go,</span> <strong>is this actually telling the story that is rooted in this question</strong>? <span style="color: black;">Is it doing that justice? Is it reflecting this question? And so, I find that actually, rather than being inhibiting, it’s really freeing, because it </span><strong>forces you to make a choice</strong>. <span style="color: black;">It’s what Anne Bogart calls ‘the violence of decision-making in art,’ the violence of making a choice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I was just at this conference in Toronto called “Staging Sustainability” and the speaker began the conference by saying one of her main themes was ‘living in the questions.’ And that’s my thing, living in the questions because not even the scientists have the answers,</span> <strong>nobody has the full-on solutions</strong><span style="color: black;">…because the real solutions are not going to happen. A real solution would be everyone in the world stops flying, stops driving cars, stops eating meat. Or the other solution is that scientists get tons of funding to start sequestering carbon, which may happen, but like none of these are easy. Building walls around Manhattan is not an easy solution, and that may not be the solution, right? I don’t know, I mean there are so many big problems that are fast approaching and so many problems that we’re already in the thick of that nobody knows the answer to. So why in the world would I make a play and tell people the answer to anything? Because to me</span> <strong>the point of eco-theater is to engage the audience in questions </strong><span style="color: black;">so that they leave and think about it.</span></span><br />
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The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-58157107237043419162014-04-16T15:16:00.001-04:002014-04-16T15:19:31.318-04:00Sex Variants, Part IV<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is our fourth and final episode of our Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941, taking inspiration from a study conducted in the 1930’s by Dr. George Henry in which he interviewed a couple hundred individuals and cataloged data such as a complete family history with symbols to indicate who had what venereal disease, tuberculosis, alcoholism, who committed suicide, who was psychotic. We set some of these personal histories to song and brought others to life with monologues performed at Joe’s Pub in NYC.<br />
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To kick us off, we’ll start with a song written and performed by Max Vernon taking inspiration from the case study of Moses I. And the little intro you’ll hear is taken from Dr. Henry’s own words, performed by Trey Lyford. Also featured, actor Nedra McClyde performing the case study of Myrtle K, a vaudeville comedian. After that, we’ll wrap things up with a sea shanty, “Odd Girl Out” written by Jill Sobule, inspired by Roberta H., and performed by Marykate O’Neil. Many thanks to everyone involved in this project and our project contributors Ian Daniel, Joel Glassman, Amina Henry, Leicester Landon, and Benjamin Viertel.
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The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-80771206713836262442014-04-10T13:51:00.001-04:002014-04-10T13:51:47.446-04:00We Want Your Stories!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Our “Let
Me Ascertain You” series returns to Joe’s Pub on Saturday, May 17<sup>th</sup> at 7pm. We’re
hoping you can help us with our next installment: “F*cking and Dying.”</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">If you
didn’t notice, we’re a bit obsessed with sex and death at The Civilians and
this cabaret explores what happens when those fixations collide. We will look
at the duality of human nature and our competing sex and death drives - our
instinct for life, love and reproduction against our instinct toward death,
aggression, and repulsion...and we need your stories!</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">If any of
you or anyone you know might have <b>good stories about sex or death or
tales where the two collide -- please send details our way</b>!</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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coming-of-age sex stories or sexual explorations</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0.5in;">- Sex
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Auto-erotic fetishes</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dominatrix work</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">- “Terror
sex” following disaster or trauma</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">- Sexual
encounters near or connected to dying, funerals</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">...or of
course necrophilia </span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Please
send us a brief summary of your story</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> or shoot any questions you
might have to projectmanager@thecivilians.org and if we think your story might
work for us, we’ll be in touch about setting up an
interview. Any and all leads are helpful. We’re looking forward to
hearing your stories. For more information click <a href="http://www.publictheater.org/en/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/The-Civilians-Let-Ascertain-You-Fcking-and-Dying/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Welcome to episode three in our series Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941. Recorded live at Joe’s Pub in New York City, this show takes its inspiration from the medical book <u>Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns</u> by Dr. George W. Henry. For each of his case studies, Dr. Henry recorded a detailed and intimate personal history, and we are sharing some of these with you now through performances by actors and in original songs. In between, you will sometimes hear Dr. Henry’s own introductions to these case studies; those bits are performed by actor Trey Lyford. Our first piece is a song by the writing team of Erato Kremmyda and Maggie-Kate Coleman. Cyrilla Baer interprets the words of Rowena K. Following that is Rudolph Von H, a monologue performed by David Cale. And to close the third episode, we have a song by Michael Friedman inspired by the case study of Sydney H. Michael’s song is performed here by Dito Van Reigersberg accompanied on the piano by Nathan Dame.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24px;">To better educate and engage the public, environmental organizations like <a href="http://climatewisconsin.org/" target="_blank">Climate Wisconsin</a>, <a href="http://climatewisconsin.org/" target="_blank">Facing Climate Change</a>, and <a href="http://www.projectaspect.org/about_aspect?page=project_background" target="_blank">Aspect</a> </span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24px;">have begun recording digital climate change “stories” as told by local residents. The goal for filmmakers is to create a relatable, contextualized narrative around climate change that will encourage dialogue and inspire action.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Wisconsin, higher than average temperatures year-round are curtailing ice fishing in Madison, and fly fishing in Viroqua. Across the Atlantic in Cornwall, England, surfing enthusiasts complain that they are now more prone to ear and other infections as heavy rainfall regularly overwhelms waste drainage systems causing toxins and sewage to spill into the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Local industry is also feeling the sting of climate change. In Idaho, declining mountain top snow pack is resulting in a reduced stream of fresh water feeding the Columbia River Basin, which has caused the closure of several potato farms that rely on the river to irrigate their crop. In Washington State, oyster and clam farming is quickly becoming unviable due to the rising acidity of the ocean off the Pacific Northwest coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the inability to take part in recreational activities to threatening local economies, it is clear that the effects of climate change are becoming palpable. What's your climate story?</span></div>
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<a href="http://bdsjs.com/facing-climate-change/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Facing Climate Change: Stories from the Pacific Northwest </span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.projectaspect.org/about_aspect?page=project_background" target="_blank">Aspect (UK)</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Climate change is a downright abstract concept to get your head around. The science is complicated, the effects are broad yet nuanced, and not everyone will be impacted in the same way. So, what is an impactful way to represent the dangers posed by climate change that everyone can understand?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">One project is raising eyebrows by literally drawing a line through the community. The <a href="http://www.highwaterline.org/" style="color: #1e1e1e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">HighWaterLine</a> is a visual representation of projected, future sea-level rise as a result of global warming and more frequent and stronger storms and storm surges. Using various media, such as a blue chalk outline, or even a human chain, a revised flood zone based on current climate data is delineated within an urban/suburban area, bringing the reality of a warming planet home to local residents.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The HighWaterLine is the brainchild of NYC-based artist, Eve Mosher, who initially based the project on climate change data contained within a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies report issued in 2001. Having read the report and witnessing a watered-down response from public officials, Ms. Mosher was determined to take matters into her own hands.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">After nearly eight months of research and planning, Ms. Mosher installed the first iteration of The HighWaterLine in August 2007 along 70 miles of coastline in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, demarcating the 10 foot about sea level rise with a 4-inch wide blue chalk line.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">To encourage others to replicate the project in their own communities, Ms. Mosher devised a HighWaterLine “<a href="http://www.highwaterline.org/join/action-guide/" style="color: #1e1e1e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Action Guide</a>,” in essence a simplified toolkit of knowledge bites and best practices, to ensure easy replication of the project elsewhere. </span></div>
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Hi! We’re back with the second episode of Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941 recorded live here in NYC at Joe’s Pub. This series takes its inspiration from a 1941 medical book by Dr. George W. Henry. Subtitled "A Study of Homosexual Patterns," Dr. Henry classified these case studies as homosexuals, bi-sexuals, or narcissists. A little something for everyone. In this episode we’ll start off with the case study of Irene K., played at our live show by Kate Buddeke. The evening’s MC Trey Lyford will first give us a little intro to Irene K., and his words are taken verbatim from Dr. Henry’s "general impressions" of the variant in question. Then you’ll hear "That Crazy Business" a song written by Andrea Grody about the case study Nora M. performed by Jessie Shelton and Nathan Dame. The last two performances are based on the same patient, Donald H. First actor Dan Domingues performs Donald’s own words from his personal history and we’ll follow that with a song, "The Future Looks Very Fine," written by Cesar Alvarez, and performed here by Cesar and the rest of his band The Lisps which are Sammy Tunis, Eric Farber, and Lorenzo Wolff. <br />
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Check out this powerful performance of "I Have Had The Earth," performed by Brandon Davidson. The song was composed by Tim Acito (who also accompanies on piano). It was part of our recent Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941 at Joe's Pub. Go <a href="http://www.thecivilians.org/programs/let_me_ascertain_you_podcast.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to listen to the entire podcast, and please subscribe on iTunes and rate us!<br />
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Check out the incredible, voice-looping Grace McLean performing "(not) Normal" from our recent Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941 at Joe's Pub! Go <a href="http://www.thecivilians.org/programs/let_me_ascertain_you_podcast.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to listen to the entire podcast, and please subscribe on iTunes and rate us.<br />
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We’re kicking off a new series here at <em>Let Me Ascertain You</em>. These podcasts are taken from our live shows performed at Joe's Pub here in New York City and our most recent show was called Sex Variants 1941. As you may know, our shows are typically inspired by interviews we do ourselves but for this one, we are borrowing our inspiration from a medical study entitled <u>Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns</u>. The book is a collection of case studies conducted by Dr. George W. Henry of Cornell University. Dr. Henry interviewed over 200 people about the sex lives, their childhoods, their family history - pretty much no stone was left unturned. There are also some really amazing drawings of the subjects’ genitalia, though only those of the female subjects. It’s unclear as to why that is exactly. We are bringing it all back to life in this podcast series.<br />
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Dr. Henry provided his written analysis of each case study, starting off with his general impressions. So throughout this series you’ll hear actor Trey Lyford quoting from Dr. Henry’s impressions. Starting off here with his thoughts on Molly N., followed by a performance of her personal history by the actor Nina Hellman. After Nina, you’ll hear Molly N.’s words turned into song by Grace McLean in her song “(not) Normal.” Then, Brandon Miller performs an excerpt from the case study of Louis E. And we’ll wrap up with a song written by Tim Acito inspired by Noel W. The song which is titled “I Have Had the Earth” is sung by Brandon Davidson accompanied by Tim.<br />
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