| Ars Nova Announces Winter 2025 Lineup, ANT Fest Applications, & Update on Spring 2025 Programming | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:01 am EST 01/11/25 | |
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| ARS NOVA ANNOUNCES WINTER 2025 LINEUP AND FINAL CALL FOR ANT FEST 2025 APPLICATIONS, UPDATE ON SPRING 2025 PROGRAMMING 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, is pleased to announce complete details for performances taking place in January and February along with updates to its Spring 2025 season. On Friday, January 17, multi-talented performer Ashley De La Rosa will celebrate her debut EP, God Complex, with a concert album release party. It's MTV's Unplugged x VH1's Storytellers as De La Rosa presents a raw, intimate, and emotional experience of project inspirations and new music along with the band and creative process insights that shaped the EP. Another edition of Showgasm. , hosted by comedian Brittany Carney, will take place on Thursday, February 6. Comedians Matt Richards and Petey Deabreu, among others, join Carney onstage in Ars Nova's untamed recurring variety-show-meets party. On Friday, February 7, Kate Eberstadt's Heaven on Earth concert will take place. Whimsy meets the absurd as an end-times revelation pulses through this existential pop odyssey. On Thursday, February 13, Ali Dineen and the Brooklyn-based puppet theater troupe Boxcutter Collective bring audiences The Loneliness of Either, Or: A Requiem for Joan of Arc, an object puppet show and folk musical meditation that blends gender, prophecy, and faith. Ars Nova also welcomes its next cohort of Comedy Artist Makers' Program (CAMP) residents with Nicole Adsit, Fernanda Brigneti, Andrea Cárdenas, Allisha Edwards, and Sila Puhl. CAMP provides an eclectic group of theatrical comedy creators with peer support and artistic mentorship as they develop an original comedy show over the course of the season. CAMP's program directors are Mahayla Laurence and Matt Gehring. Additionally, open applications are still being accepted for ANT Fest , Ars Nova's annual All New Talent Festival. Applications are due by 11:59 pm EST on January 15, 2025. Every summer, Ars Nova throws open our doors to the next wave of pioneering theater, comedy, music and hybrid theater-makers who fill our stage with their most dynamic ideas. Alums of the program include: nicHi douglas, Deepali Gupta, Jeremy O. Harris, Matt Rogers & Bowen Yang, Whitney White, and Ellen Winter among others. More information on ANT Fest at www.arsnovanyc.com/ant-fest . Looking ahead, Ars Nova's world premiere production of Brandon Kyle Goodman's heaux church, directed by Lisa Owaki Bierman, which was previously announced to begin performances this spring, has been postponed to allow for additional creative development with an expanded creative team. Ars Nova remains committed to the project and new production dates will be announced at a later date. Ars Nova's What's Ars Is Yours: Name Your Price ticket initiative continues in 2025. Audiences can name their price for tickets to in-person performances, which start at $15, and the majority of ticket sales go directly to the artists. Shows will also be available to stream live and on-demand on Ars Nova Supra, with a cancel-anytime $15/month subscription. Tickets for all spring performances are currently on sale at www.arsnovanyc.com. All performances begin at 7 PM and take place at Ars Nova, located at 511 West 54th Street in Manhattan. Please visit www.arsnovanyc.com for more information. Details on Winter 2025 Events January 17 at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm) God Complex Ashley De La Rosa It's MTV's Unplugged x VH1's Storytellers with Ashley De La Rosa's debut EP, God Complex concert album release. A raw, intimate and emotional experience of project inspirations and new music along with the band and creative process insights that shaped the EP. Ashley will be joined by musicians Brett Castro (keys, background vocals, arranger), Skyler Volpe (bassist, background vocals) Matt SanGiovanni (guitarist), Jordan Dunn-Pilz (guitarist), and Jesse-Ray Leich (drummer). February 6 at 8pm (doors open at 7:30pm, pre-show party at 6pm) SHOWGASM. Hosted by Brittany Carney Showgasm. is Ars Nova's untamed recurring variety-show-meets party, serving up comedy to burlesque and everything (and anything) in between. Hosted by comedian Brittany Carney, you can expect to meet the who's-who of the weird and wonderful. Joining Carney are Matt Richards and Petey Deabreu, among others. February 7 at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm) Kate Eberstadt's Heaven on Earth Kate Eberstadt, Molly Rose Heller, Jake Crocker Music composed and performed by Kate Eberstadt Directed and Choreographed by Molly Rose Heller Produced and performed by Jake Crocker Blending hyperpop with orchestral grandeur, Kate Eberstadt's album Heaven on Earth is a chaotic musical fantasia of a society on the brink, where Timothee Chalamet, Lucifer, and Vampire Weekend all collide in an apocalyptic fantasy. Whimsy meets the absurd as an end-times revelation pulses through this existential pop odyssey. February 13 at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm) The Loneliness of Either, Or: A Requiem for Joan of Arc Ali Dineen and Boxcutter Collective Music composed and performed by Ali Dineen Set Design and Puppetry by Sam Wilson Puppetry by Joe Therrien, Darkin Brown, and Tom Cunningham Where should we turn when our heroes and gods betray us? Blending gender, prophecy, and faith, The Loneliness of Either, Or: A Requiem for Joan of Arc is a musical meditation with original folk music for piano and chamber choir performed alongside an object theater puppet show that weaves history, politics, and personal experience. About the Winter 2025 Artists Brittany Carney is a stand-up comic and writer. She is listed as one of Vulture 's "Comedians You Should and Will Know." Brittany has written and acted for That Damn Michael Che, and appears in Fantasmas , both on HBO Max. She has material on Comedy Central, and has written for Adult Swim. Brittany's debut special, That Is My Horse, is available on YouTube. Boxcutter Collective is a Brooklyn-based puppet theater troupe made up of seven core members. The founding members met while working at the Bread and Puppet Theater, and after creating shows together for many years in different combinations, in 2016 they decided to formally band together to harness the power of puppet shows for the forces of good. Since then, Boxcutter has been relentlessly creating and performing new work including Caveman Ballet, Happyland! Now!!, Everything is Fine, Dimension Zero: Brain Robbers from Outer Space, and The Divinity Supply Company, a collaboration with Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theater. They have performed at many venues across New York City, including La Mama Experimental Theater Club, Amant Arts, Coney Island USA, Rubulad, and the Jalopy Theatre, where they are the resident theater collective. Boxcutter has also performed at the NYC International Puppet Fringe Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival. They are currently working on an anti-capitalist space rock opera, Dimension Zero, coming to a stage near you in 2025. Jake Crocker is a genre-blending producer and songwriter whose unique sound stems from a musically rich upbringing. At 17, he launched his career with Seattle artist Raz Simone, producing his catalog and joining a 58-day, 52-city tour that sparked his passion for artist development. Starting in hip-hop, Jake expanded into pop, indie, and electronic music, earning a Sony publishing deal in 2021. He's worked with artists such as Yonny, Vinnie WYA, Kate Eberstadt, Ryan Caraveo, Heyoon, Dempsey Hope and his duo El Dorado, while collaborating with Pusha T, Mozzy, and Jay Park, amassing tens of millions of streams worldwide. Ashley De La Rosa is a New York based musician, songwriter, and actress. She competed on Christina Aguilera's team in Season 2 of NBC's The Voice and made it to the top 12 at just 17 years old, one of the youngest contestants at the time. She has been in numerous Broadway national tours and productions in the city; you can see her on Broadway this year in the new musical Buena Vista Social Club . Her TV credits include Dear Edward on Apple TV starring Connie Britton and HBO's The Other Two with Molly Shannon and Wanda Sykes. Ashley's original music is available on all streaming platforms. Her dream artist collaborators (at the moment) are Willow Smith, RAYE, and Kendrick Lamar. Ali Dineen is a songwriter, visual artist and teacher born and raised in Queens. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival. Ali performed as Musical Director and pianist for the Stop Shopping Choir on their 2024 Love Earth Tour opening for Neil Young. In 2020 Ali was a recipient of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency. Ali is also the Musical Director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire Boxcutter Collective, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster. Kate Eberstadt is a singer-songwriter, writer and performer whose work bridges music, theater, and performance. A 2024-2025 Ars Nova Makers Lab Resident, she recently made her Joe's Pub debut and staged her solo show Where We Meet at Ars Nova's ANT Fest and the cell theatre. From performing with Lady Gaga at the VMAs, to writing a musical with her sister Izzi in Kazakhstan, to founding a performing arts program in a refugee camp in Berlin, Kate's work is genre-defying, daring and deeply human. Featured in Glamour, Elle, PopSugar, NPR, and Gothamist, her music blends bold storytelling with raw emotion, drawing inspiration from her Catholic upbringing and avant-garde roots. Molly Rose Heller is a SoCal born (sun-fearing) Jew and NYC-based theatre artist. Selected: Breaking the Story (Second Stage, Associate Director), Sabbath's Theatre (New Group, Associate Director), Where We Meet (ANTFest, the cell), Invincible : The Pat Benatar Musical (Wallis Annenberg Center, Asst. Director), Unstuck (Edinburgh Fringe, CaveatNYC, The Tank). Short film directing: eXcape (Outfest Fusion). Makers Lab at Ars Nova, Directors Lab North Member, Artist-in-Residence at the cell theater and Upper Jay Arts Center, SDCF Observership Program alum. Recipient of NY Jewish Week's "36 to Watch" list, honoring remarkable Jewish innovators. Proud SDC Associate Member, AEA. B.A. Columbia University. B.A. Jewish Theological Seminary. 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. |
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