| "Lucky Breaks" Oct 11-27 at The Brick Theater | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 04:36 pm EDT 09/10/24 | |
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| The Mill and The Brick Theater present The World Premiere of Lucky Breaks October 11-27, 2024 at The Brick Theater – 579 Metropolitan TICKETS + MORE INFO Brooklyn, NY The Mill and The Brick Theater present The World Premiere of Lucky Breaks October 11-27, 2024 at The Brick Theater – 579 Metropolitan Based on the critically acclaimed collection of short stories by Yevgenia Belorusets Translated from Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky Adapted by Sara Farrington and Jaclyn Biskup Chicago-born theater ensemble The Mill (Jaclyn Biskup, Artistic Director) and The Brick (Jaclyn Biskup, Interim Managing Artistic Director) are proud to present the world premiere of Lucky Breaks based on the critically acclaimed collection of short stories by Yevgenia Belorusets (“Mordant, funny, weird and surprising”– The Guardian.) Adapted by Sara Farrington and Jaclyn Biskup, who also directs, the show reimagines the book for the stage, weaving the absurd, bleakly comic, and often fantastical short stories into a narrative on the haunting effects of the 2014 Russian invasion on the lives of civilian women beyond the typical and often exploitative tropes of violence. Performances will take place at The Brick Theater (579 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY) and run from October 11-27, 2024. Tickets (Sliding Scale, $25-50) can be purchased here. In Lucky Breaks, a woman who runs a flower shop vanishes suddenly and no one asks questions. In another, a woman takes her war-induced rage out on her broken umbrella. In another scene, a woman on a crowded street suddenly decides she can no longer walk and renders herself forever a “living monument.” An expressionistic physical score accompanies the absurdist tone and poetic language of each brief story, bending reality into a series of movements and gestures, creating evocative imagery that captures the rootless experience of women from the Donbas region. Jaclyn Biskup explains: “I’m honored to be coadapting and directing Yevgenia’s fascinating short stories. While the stories are based on fictionalized accounts of real women’s experiences of the 2014 Russian invasion, they absolutely resonate with and reflect the experiences of Russians' continued war against Ukraine today.” The cast of Lucky Breaks features Katie Broad, Hanna Datsko, Monica Goff, Jennifer McClinton, Kara Jackson. Scenic Design is by Nora Marlow Smith, Lighting Design by Jackie Fox, Sound Design by James Worth Bennet, and Costume Design by Kristy Hall. Sam Kersnick is the show’s Production Stage Manager. This project is made possible in part with funds from the Brooklyn Arts Council through the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). ABOUT THE ARTISTS Yevgenia Belorusets is an artist and writer living and working in Berlin and partly Kiev. Yevgenia is co-founder of the journal Prostory, the journal for literature and art, and a member of the interdisciplinary curatorial collective Hudrada. She works with photography and other forms on the intersection of art, literature and social activism. Her photographic work calls attention to the more vulnerable sections of Ukrainian society - queer families, out-of-work coal miners, the Roma, people living in the war zone in the East - and was shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56th and 59th Venice Biennale. Lucky Breaks, her first work of fiction, was given a 2020 HKW International Literature Award in Germany. For her work on A Wartime Diary she received 2022 Schering Stiftung Special Award for Artistic Research and Horst Bingel Prise for Literature. She has been documenting full-scale Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since 24th of February 2022. belorusets.com/ Jaclyn Biskup (Adaptation and Director) is a Chicago-born, NYC-based director and producer with over two decades of experience working in theatre, television, and film. She received an Emmy nomination and was a Peabody Finalist for her work on the digital series The Secret Life Of Muslims and currently works as the Interim Managing Artistic Director at The Brick. She was the assistant director to Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro on the Broadway productions of The Minutes (Tracy Letts) and Straight White Men (Young Jean Lee). As the founding artistic director of The Mill, she has directed and produced over 20 productions including the NYC premieres of The Employees (Olga Ravn), Come Here to Me (Dianne Nora), Worse Than Tigers and the Chicago premieres of Venus (Suzan-Lori Parks) and The Private Of Lives Of Eskimos (Or 16 Words For Snow) (Ken Urban). Her work has been seen at New Ohio Theatre (where she also served as Creative Producer), Theaterlab, MCC Playlabs, New Dramatists, Rattlestick, Dixon Place, Town Stages, and the NYC International Fringe Festival. Jaclyn has assisted on productions at Steppenwolf, The Public, and The American Musical Theatre Workshop. Her digital projects include work for PBS NOVA, Vox, Delta Air Lines, Caltech, Harvard, and others. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and a first-generation college graduate with a BA in Theater from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Directing and Theatrical Production from Northwestern University. www.jaclynbiskup.com Sara Farrington (Playwright) Writer of traditional/non-traditional plays, Foxy Films theater co-founder w/ Reid Farrington. MFA: Brooklyn College w/ Mac Wellman. Publications: The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant Garde (53rd State Press/TCG), A Trojan Woman, Mickey & Sage (both @ Broadway Play Publishing). Plays nominated for 2 Drama Desk Awards (Casablancabox). Plays include: A Trojan Woman (Luna Stage & w/ tours to Attikos Alsous Theater in Athens, Greece & The Mac Theater, Belfast Ireland), Dora Maar (Mercury Store & Brick Aux), Casablancabox (HERE Arts), Leisure, Labor, Lust (Tank & The Mount, Lenox MA), BrandoCapote (Tank), The Return (commissioned/performed @ Metropolitan Museum of Art), Honduras (Phoenix Theatre Ens. + 10 regional tours), Near Vicksburg (Incubator Arts), Mickey & Sage (Incubator), The Rise & Fall Of Miles & Milo (FringeNYC winner: Outstanding Playwriting). Film: MENDACITY, official selection 2023 NY Indie Theater Film Festival. Residencies: Mercury Store, HARP @ HERE, Tank, Brick Aux, Now-In-Process @ New Ohio, AFO Solo Collective. Plays have toured nationally & internationally. Sara is an audiobook narrator and voice actor, fiercely anti-fascist, an original Immigrant Families Together mom, #MeToo champion. Katie Broad (Performer) recently made her Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated An Enemy of the People at Circle in the Square. Credits include: Oblivion (Westport Country Playhouse), Karen O’s Stop the Virgens (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Sydney Opera House), Complicity (New Ohio Theater), Animals & Plants (NY Premiere). Katie hails from Huntsville, Alabama and is a proud graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School. www.KatieBroad.com Hana Datsko (Performer) is from Lviv and received a BFA in acting from Lviv National University. In Lviv, she worked with Kurbas Theatre and Lesia Ukrainka Theater and performed at festivals internationally. Now, she lives in New York and is the lead singer for Barva Band and performs with Ukrainian Village Voices. She is a part of Yara Arts Group at La Mama theatre. Monica Goff (Performer) is an actor and artist from Campbell, CA. Selected credits: Specially Processed American Me (Dixon Place, BRIClab), The Truth (Ma-Yi), In the Heights (Pioneer Theatre Company), Two Noble Kinsmen (OSF Play On!), Blue Beard (GSL Fringe), co-founder of Who’s Louis? (Edinburgh, Minnesota, GSL Fringe Festivals). Training: Linklater Center, HB Studio, LAMDA, the Barrow Group. BFA Acting, University of Utah. monicagoff.com Kara Jackson (Performer) is thrilled to be back in this production, working with this talented cast and crew! TV work includes “Law and Order”, “Bull” and “FBI” and working opposite Tom Selleck in “Blue Bloods”. Training: AADA and the Royal National Theatre, among others. Theatre: Regionally in Washington, DC (Keegan Theatre, Roundhouse) and NYC “The Boom” at Theater for the New City. Jennifer McClinton (Performer) is an actor with a love of both film and theatre. Originally from California, she graduated with BA in Theatre from Cal Poly and now resides in New York City. She currently trains under Josh Pais in his Committed Impulse program and is represented by Prestigious Models & Image Powerhouse. James Worth Bennett is a sound designer and multimedia artist residing in Lenapehoking. He hails from Tsalaguwetiyi and S’atsoyaha land in North Alabama. James received his BFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Montevallo. He is driven by a desire for collective liberation and healing through art and tries to envision and manifest a better, more equitable and magical world through art, music, and dance. James' current professional homebase is New York Live Arts and the Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane Company. His sound design and composition has recently been heard in Bill T. Jones' solo piece Memories at Harlem Stage, Titanic Depression by Jibz Cameron, and Come Here to Me at Theater Lab. It's always such a joy to work with Jaclyn and this lovely team of creative folks. More about James at jamesworthbennett.com. Nora Marlow Smith (Scenic Design) is a Brooklyn-based scenic and costume designer, scenic painter, educator, and performance artist, working predominantly in Chicago and NYC. She teaches Design at the University at Albany (SUNY) in the Department of Music and Theatre. She received her MFA in Stage and Costume design from Northwestern University, as well as a BA in Set Design and English Literature from Mount Holyoke College. She also holds a Teaching Certificate from the Searle Center for Teaching and Learning at Northwestern University. Nora is a member of the Communications Honor Society Lambda Pi Eta and the 2022 recipient of the Michael E. Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. www.noramarlowsmith.com Kristy Leigh Hall (Costume Design) has worked in Chicago, Washington, DC, New York, and regionally. She is the Costume Director with Chicago’s Definition Theatre Company. Her previous designs include: An Octoroon (Goodman Theatre and Definition Theatre), The Play About My Dad (Raven Theatre), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Tosca and The Wizard of Oz (Skylight Music Theatre), The Who and the What and Pipeline (Victory Gardens), Byhalia, Mississippi, (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Stick Fly, This and Apartment 3A (Windy City Playhouse), Pygmalion (Joseph Jefferson Award Winner), Frankenstein (Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination) and Howards End (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company). Off-Broadway designs include Woody Harrelson's Bullet for Adolf, Feather: A Musical Portrait and I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan at Theatre Row. In Washington, DC, she has designed: The Illusion (Forum Theatre), Minnie the Moocher (Pointless Theatre), Genesis Reboot (Synetic Theatre), and That Face with the Studio Theatre. Her designs have been seen internationally in the Czech Republic and Brazil. She designed the film Holy Irresistible with Local Cinema Studios. Upcoming design: Catching the Moon with Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. Kristy has been featured in American Theatre Magazine and holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Maryland. www.kristyleighhall.com Jackie Fox (Lighting Design) is a New York based scenic and lighting designer. She believes that the best art is disruptive, subversive, and pushes us to examine the most difficult elements of our psyche. Selected lighting credits include: Peter and The Starcatcher (Paramount), EMMA (DCPA), Helen. (La Mama), Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt 2B (Dorset Theater Festival), The Oresteia (The Juilliard School), The WOLVES (McCarter Theatre Center), Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Northlight Theatre), UNTOLD (PARA/MAR Dance Theatre), Hundred Days (Kokandy Productions). Scenic credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (The New School), Pretty Fire (Omaha Community Playhouse), Do you Feel Anger (Grinnell College), Pride and Prejudice and Comedy of Errors (Wagon Wheel Theatre). Associate Credits: Broadway: Parade Off-Broadway: Dead Outlaw (Minetta Lane Theater), The Merchant Of Venice (Theater for a New Audience), Swing State (Minetta Lane Theater) Education: MFA in Stage Design, Northwestern University. For more information go to jackiefoxdesigns.com Sam Kersnick (Production Stage Manager) is a NYC-based stage manager originally from Colorado. She graduated from The University of Northern Colorado in 2019 with a BA in Theatre Design and Technology. Some of her credits are as follows: 2022-23 season ASM at Northern Stage, ASM for The Dastardly Thornes v. The Town of Goldhaven by Ben Holbrook and Nate Weida, PSM for Jar of Fat by Seayoung Yim, Bonefruit by Leah Plante-Wiener, and The Employees by Jaclyn Biskup and Lauren Holmes. The Mill was founded in 2002 by artistic director, Jaclyn Biskup, as Experimental Theatre Chicago. After the company evolved and broadened its scope, the name was changed to represent its new mission: to produce theater progressive in form and content. Biskup’s father worked at US Steel – unaffectionately dubbed “The Mill” – for over thirty years and the name is an homage to him and her family’s southside of Chicago working-class roots. The Mill is known for its stylish energetic stagings and bold theatricality including The Employees (Olga Ravn) and Come Here to Me at Theater Lab, Worse Than Tigers and Raw Pasta at New Ohio Theatre, Nicholas, Maeve, Marianne, one of Indie Theatre Now's 20 Best of NYC Fringe, the Chicago premieres of Venus (Suzan-Lori Parks) and The Private Of Lives Of Eskimos (Or 16 Words For Snow) (Ken Urban). www.themilltheatre.org To learn more & request tickets please contact: Lydia Mokdessi, Director of Marketing & Communications lydia@bricktheater.com MORE INFO ABOUT THE BRICK Photo: The Brick and Tiresias Presents HYPERFANTASIA at The Brick Theater The Brick Theater is a not-for-profit dedicated to developing and presenting the work of pioneering emerging artists and career experimenters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We are the artistic home for work that pushes boundaries and spans the ever-evolving spectrum of performing arts, theatre, dance, video, virtual reality, and visual arts. By nurturing emerging artists, sustaining ongoing relationships with frequent collaborators, and removing financial barriers for artists to create work, we create a diverse, accessible, and inclusive artistic community for the city’s most daring artists. We welcome adventurous audiences with low-cost and sliding-scale ticket prices to make performances accessible to all. Founded in 2002, The Brick has established itself as an essential experimental venue for the production of compelling, new, high-quality work. As a vital part of the New York artistic community, we present 250-300 live performances per year at our two spaces, The Brick and Brick Aux, and welcome over 10,000 audience members each year. Programming at The Brick is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the Mental Insight Foundation; IndieSpace; the 67th Obie Awards. The Brick | 579 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY| bricktheater.com |
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