| Ars Nova Announces Cast & Team for THE BEASTIARY, Created by On The Rocks Theatre Co., Oct 7 - Nov 9 | |
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| ARS NOVA ANNOUNCES CAST & CREATIVE TEAM FOR WORLD PREMIERE OF THE BEASTIARY, CREATED BY ON THE ROCKS THEATRE CO., OCTOBER 7 - NOVEMBER 9 Written by Christopher Ford & Dakota Rose, Directed by Dakota Rose, and Featuring Marc Bovino, Cornelius Loy, Rebeca Miller, Gil Perez-Abraham, Phillip Taratula, Ellen Winter, and Jeena Yi Ars Nova, "a company known for pop-culture-savvy experimentation, with a hipness that sets it apart" (New York Times), under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Jason Eagan and Producing Executive Director Renee Blinkwolt, is pleased to announce details for the Off-Broadway world premiere of The Beastiary. Created by Ars Nova's commissioned Company-in-Residence, On The Rocks Theatre Co., The Beastiary is written by 2024 Tow Foundation Playwrights-In-Residence Christopher Ford & Dakota Rose and directed by Dakota Rose. The production runs October 7, 2024 - November 9, 2024 at Ars Nova @ Greenwich House (27 Barrow St.) with a press opening set for Sunday, October 20. Name Your Price tickets are now on sale at www.arsnovanyc.com. Medieval meets modern in The Beastiary, a twistedly comedic puppet pageant of consumption, corruption and the end of human-kind. The Beastiary features music composed by world-renowned theremin musician Dorit Chrysler with additional music composition and music supervision by Ellen Winter. The Beastiary builds on Ars Nova's passion for championing genre-defying thinking to generate new work. While radically different in shape and content from previous endeavors, it nonetheless builds on the radical innovation that audiences discovered in the three-time Lortel Award-winner (pray), the "Best of 2022" Oratorio for Living Things, and the Obie Award-winner Underground Railroad Game . Founding Artistic Director Jason Eagan remarked, "Working with On the Rocks Theatre Co. as our Company-in-Residence has been a joyful experience that has enriched the Ars Nova community. Chris and Dakota are recipients of a Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence grant, which speaks volumes about their bold artistic vision, commitment to excellence, and dedication. Their audacious approach to storytelling, seamlessly blending puppetry and music, has culminated in The Beastiary, an incisively inventive evening of theater we can't wait to share with audiences this fall." The ensemble cast for The Beastiary includes Marc Bovino, Cornelius Loy, Rebeca Miller, Gil Perez-Abraham, Phillip Taratula, Ellen Winter and Jeena Yi. The creative team for The Beastiary includes Ellen Winter (music supervision), Dorit Chrysler (composer), Christopher Ford & Dakota Rose (scenic design), Christopher Ford (costume and puppet design), Kate McGee (lighting design), Enrico de Trizio (sound design), Henry Russell Bergstein, CSA & The Telsey Company | Destiny Lilly, CSA (casting), and Kristy Bodall (production stage manager). Performances of The Beastiary will take place October 7–November 9, 2024 at Ars Nova @ Greenwich House, located at 27 Barrow Street in Manhattan. Critics are welcome as of Wednesday, October 16, for a press opening on Sunday, October 20. Performances take place Monday–Saturday at 7:30pm with an additional performance on October 19 at 2pm and no performance on October 31. The anticipated running time is 100 minutes with no intermission. Tickets to The Beastiary are Name Your Price, which start at $15 for the first week of performances, $25 for the second week, and $35 thereafter. All tickets are general admission and can be purchased at www.arsnovanyc.com . Acknowledging that cost is a significant barrier to accessing art, Ars Nova's ‘Name Your Price' initiative ensures that tickets to its Off-Broadway Premiere Productions begin between $15-35 for every performance during the initial run. No hidden fees, no extra steps–just affordable access. Audiences are welcome to pay more if they are able, which supports access for those with less resources. Ars Nova gives voice to a new generation of theater artists and, through the ‘Name Your Price' initiative, makes it accessible to the next generation of audiences. Please visit www.arsnovanyc.com for more information. About the Creative Team On The Rocks Theatre Co. is the longtime collaboration of Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose. Together and with an array of artists, they create highly visual work which explores genre, style and storytelling. Past works are McBeth, Wolfert, The White Stag Quadrilogy, FRED, The Hole Story, and their annual holiday pageant, Edelweiss. OTR is the current company-in-residence at Ars Nova where they developed their commissioned piece, The Beastiary. They are also the recipients of the 2024-25 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence grant. Christopher Ford (writer, scenic design, costume & puppet design) is writer, designer and a co-founder of On The Rocks Theatre Co. With OTR he has written and designed Edelweiss, FRED, The White Stag Quadrilogy, Wolfert & McBeth. He is currently a resident artist at Ars Nova and is a 2024 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. Dorit Chrysler (composer) is a Berlin/NY based composer and sound artist. She is the recipient of the Austrian State Stipend in Composition 2023 and the founder of the NY Theremin Society. Since her first encounter with the Theremin, she has mastered the instrument and has applied its technology in varied art disciplines, including composition. Her work has been performed worldwide. Enrico de Trizio (sound design) is an Italian-made, NYC-based award-winning composer, sound designer, music producer, and electronic music designer. His genre-bending work has been featured worldwide, from the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Cuba to Franco Dragone's Splendor in Wuxi, China, and on Broadway in Tony-winning shows such as Dear Evan Hansen, Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen and The Outsiders. Apple.com describes him as "part of a new wave of electronic music designers that have changed the way Broadway sounds." Dakota Rose (writer, scenic design, director) is a director, writer, designer and co-founder of On The Rocks Theatre Co. With OTR she has written, directed and co-scenic designed Edelweiss, FRED, The White Stag Quadrilogy, Wolfert and McBeth . She is currently a resident artist at Ars Nova and is a 2024 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. Ellen Winter (music supervision) is a composer, theatermaker, and teaching artist whose songwriting fuses theatrical storytelling with dreamy synths and a singular voice. Her hit song Mantras off her debut record Every Feeling I've Ever Felt, rocked the #1 slot on In-Store Radio Charts for the better part of 2022 and last year, her cover of Paper Roses was featured in the emmy-nominated Hulu show, Tiny Beautiful Things, starring Kathryn Hahn. Their newest album YIKES is now out everywhere (playlisted on Spotify's GLOW)! In 2017, they co-composed/wrote/directed 36 Questions, the world's first broadway-calibur musical podcast starring Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along) and Jessie Shelton (Hadestown). Her work's been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Interview Magazine, MTV news, and Playbill. Ellen is a recipient of the 2021 Bryan Gallace/Posthumous Prodigy Productions Musicians Fellowship and she's had residencies with Joe's Pub, Berkeley Rep, Mercury Store, Ars Nova, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and BarnArts. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her collection of iridescent objects and her dog, Ruby. https://ellenwinter.com/ About the cast Marc Bovino is co-Artistic Director of The Mad Ones who are in residence at Signature Theatre. His recent work with The Mad Ones as creator/performer includes Mrs. Murray's Menagerie (Ars Nova, Lortel nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor and Outstanding Play) and Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons, The Bushwick Starr, Lortel nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor, Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play). Regional: Dracula and A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV: Only Murders in the Building, The Bite. Cornelius Loy Cornelius Loy is a musical instrumentalist and performance artist from New York. He began pursuing Theremin in his late 20s while working at a Halloween store daily and performing in burlesque shows nightly. In his early career he played Theremin for musicians Joey Arias, Kembra Pfahler, John Legend and designer Thierry Mugler. Exploring the performance circuit he has appeared in various films, co hosted a radio show about the occult called Deepnight with Dale and worked in the Coney Island Sideshow. He has played in a Theremin ensemble led by composer Dorit Chrysler, worked with the New York Theremin Society and played in a 15 piece Theremin orchestra on Roosevelt Island. In his recent years Cornelius has been featured in fashion week playing Theremin for designer Batsheva and opened for musical artists Ashnikko and Marky Ramone as a solo Theremin act. Rebeca Miller - The Beastiary marks Rebeca's sixth show with On the Rocks. She has performed regionally at The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park & Florida Studio Theatre, and toured nationally with Theatreworks USA. In New York she has worked with Classic Stage Company, The Hess Collective (La MaMa), New York Shakespeare Exchange and Shakespeare in the Square. Rebeca has developed new work with the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Hook and Eye, and LatinX Playwrights Circle. TV/Streaming: Diabolical and The Perfect Murder (Investigation Discovery), and The Chanticleer (YouTube). NYU Tisch: BFA in Drama, Johns Hopkins: MA in something else entirely. RebecaMiller.com. Gil Perez-Abraham gil perez abraham is a venezuelan american actor. film: The Batman (Warner Brothers), Killing Castro (w/ Al Pacino), and Hailey Benton Gates debut feature, Atropia . television: The Young Pope (HBO), Pose (FX), The Walking Dead (AMC). gil will be seen this winter starring in the upcoming Amblin/NETFLIX theatrical release Carry On, with Jason Bateman. off broadway debut. Phillip Taratula Theater highlights: The Skin of Our Teeth (Broadway/LCT); What the Constitution Means to Me (National Tour); Becomes a Woman (Mint Theater Co.); Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge (HERE Arts Center); Empire Travel Agency (Woodshed Collective); The Deepest Play Ever (New Ohio/Collaboration Town). Regional theater: Barrington Stage, Syracuse Stage, Portland Stage, Humana Festival, Gulfshore Playhouse, NYS&F, Huntington, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Tuacahn, La Mirada, more. Opera: Die Fledermaus (Metropolitan Opera, Frosch u/s). TV/film: And Just Like That (Max); Dr. Death (NBC/Peacock) High Maintenance (HBO); For Life (ABC); FBI (CBS); The Outs (Vimeo Originals); Almost Love. BFA, Boston University School of Theatre. @ptaratula | @officialpamgoldberg Ellen Winter - see bio above Jeena Yi is an actor, writer, and avid crafter. She is thrilled to make her Ars Nova debut and to be part of The Beastiary! Previous acting credits: Network (Broadway), Daphne (LCT3), Good Enemy (Audible Theater), Judgment Day (Park Ave Armory), Somebody's Daughter (2nd Stage), Vietgone (OSF) TV/Film: Nyad (Netflix), The Resident (FOX), Succession (MAX), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu). Jeena's first play recently had a workshop with Ma Yi Theater Co. and she's excited to embrace this new avenue of storytelling. Learn more at www.JeenaYi.com | @JeenaYi About Ars Nova Ars Nova exists to discover, develop, and launch singular theater, music and comedy artists in the early stages of their professional careers. Our dynamic slate of programs supports outside-the-box thinking and encourages innovative, genre-bending new work. Dubbed by The New York Times as a "fertile incubator of offbeat theater," Ars Nova blurs genres and subverts the status quo. With our feverish bounty of programming – which spans from one-night performances to developmental programs like Play Group, Makers Lab, Vision Residency and CAMP to world premiere productions – Ars Nova is a stomping ground and launching pad for visionary, adventurous artists of all stripes. By providing a protective environment where risk-taking and collaboration are paramount, Ars Nova amplifies the voices of a new generation of diverse artists and audiences, pushing the boundaries of live entertainment by nurturing creative ideas into smart, surprising new work. Ars Nova has been honored with a Lucille Lortel Award, an Obie Award, and a Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle, all for the sustained quality and commitment to the development and production of new work. Notable past productions include three-time Lortel Award-winner, including "Outstanding Musical," (pray) , created by nicHi douglas with music by S T A R R Busby and JJJJJerome Ellis; New York Times', Vulture 's, Time Out New York's, and The New Yorker's "Best of 2022," and three-time Lortel Award-winner Oratorio for Living Things by Heather Christian, directed by Lee Sunday Evans; "Outstanding Musical" Lortel Award-winner and The New York Times' "Best of 2018," Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, created by Andrew R. Butler, directed by Jordan Fein; The Lucky Ones, created by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher, directed by Anne Kauffman; "Outstanding Musical" Lortel Award-winner KPOP , created by Jason Kim, Max Vernon, Helen Park, and Woodshed Collective, directed by Teddy Bergman; "Best New American Theatre Work," Obie Award-winner and "one of the best new plays in the last 25 years" (The New York Times), Underground Railroad Game by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard, directed by Taibi Magar ; The New York Times' and New York Post's "Best of 2015," Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl, directed by Rachel Chavkin; the Tony Award-winning smash-hit Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy, directed by Rachel Chavkin; the world premiere of the 2009 season's most-produced play boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, directed by Alex Timbers; the show that put Bridget Everett on the map, At Least It's Pink by Everett, Michael Patrick King, and Kenny Mellman, directed by King; and Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail's first New York production, Freestyle Love Supreme by Anthony Veneziale and Miranda, directed by Thomas Kail, which continued on to Broadway, and received a special 2020 Tony Award. Please visit www.arsnovanyc.com to learn more. Funding Credits Ars Nova's work to discover, develop and launch singular theater, music and comedy artists is made possible by the support of its many partners, including: The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Council Member Erik Bottcher, New York State Council on the Arts, Howard Gilman Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, The Miranda Family Fund, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Tow Foundation, and Venturous Theater Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation. |
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