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Photo Credit: Adan Gonzalez
Photo Credit: Adan Gonzalez
Photo Credit: Adan Gonzalez
Photo Credit: Adan Gonzalez
Our Kiki: A Gay Farce
2013 New York Fringe Festival
Connelly Theatre
(220 East 4th Street, New York, NY)
August 2013
Matt and Phil are gay and bi...BI-NATIONAL that is Matt hails all the way from Finland, and together they live with a straight couple, Phil’s lifelong best friend, Molly, and her Dominican boyfriend. As state laws start passing gay marriage, newlywed gay couples still do not have equal rights, and Phil faces the possibility of losing the love his life to deportation...NOT if Molly can help it Molly decides to marry her best friend’s Finnish boyfriend to keep their little "family" together.
On the eve of Matt and Phil’s six-year anniversary, an immigration officer unexpectedly arrives in order to test the truthfulness of Molly and Matt’s marriage. Together, they need to convince the immigration officer of their hetero-love so that they can lay low long enough to get Matt's green card. As things start to look promising, Molly and Matt, along with a stranded taxi driver, are all stuck together to wait out an unexpected blizzard.
Wires, relationships, and languages all get crossed in this funny physical comedy that leaves everyone involved finding, fighting, and falling (literally) for the ones they love. With a few too many drinks down the hatch, it's going to become harder and harder to keep things straight. It's a kiki that won't soon be forgotten.
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Director/ Writer: Seth Tucker
www.sethatucker.com
Original Song By: Amanda Kaipio & Carl Stronach
Assistant Director: Ashley Ball, Brittany Bradford,
and Jen Goma
Producers: Philip Sy Zisman, Joanna Emmott,
and Seth Tucker
Choreographer: Shayla Benoit
Set Design: Adan Gonzalez
Lighting Design: Joanna Emmott
Sound Design: Philip Sy Zisman
CAST:
Andres - Chris Costa
Charlie - Larry Ray
George - Stuart Green
Matt - Peter Graham
Molly - Brianna Lauren
Phil - Seth Tucker (AEA)
Photo Credit: Aaron Wester
Photo Credit: Aaron Wester
Photo Credit: Natalia Perez
Photo Credit: Natalia Perez
BENEATH THE SKIN
The Moss Theatre
(440 Lafayette Street, New York, NY)
May 2012
Is our flesh simply a carrier for the soul, or is it something much deeper, an intricate design, with passageways and codes that man can only begin to grasp?
What happens when this design is shifted? The manipulation and exploration of our visceral selves must affect what lies beneath. Do we live in a world where accidents, injury, and medicine corrupt the natural purity of our ideal bodies? Or...does it take the severity of trauma to fuel us towards something greater? Often, it is only through this process that our true selves emerge.
Do you want to proceed?
Once the porcelain shell is broken, there is no going back.
Does pain destroy us...or does it complete us?
Beneath the Skin takes us beyond the universe of our bodies to explore the complexity of our souls.
Written and performed by Elina Zavala
Directed by Philip Sy Zisman
ISOLATED. A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK INTO THE SPECTRUM OF LONELINESS
2010 PHOENIX FRINGE FESTIVAL
Phoenix Little Theatre
April 2010
Phoenix, AZ
Isolated. A Retrospective Look into the Spectrum of Loneliness uses the idea of the Grand Guignol, the French Theatre of Horror, to explore the effects of loneliness on the mind, body, and soul. Isolated follows a man, a drifter, who is thrown into solitary confinement as an experiment, a lab rat. He has no past and no recollection of himself or his life at all. The play juxtaposes reality and fantasy, dream and nightmare, and sanity and derangement. Isolated uses the Horror Film Genre laced with visual imagery, dance and choreographed movement, textiles, and ensemble members to create an enraptured experience of truth, beauty, thrill, and absolute horror.
This play questions how far one is willing to go to confront his demons and a forgotten past, what the true effects of loneliness on the mind are, and if the need to belong and have another is a necessity for survival.
Written and conceived by Philip Sy Zisman
Original Cast: Drift (Andy Chambers), Mary (Sable Williams), Mel (Carrie Fee Rapp), Cali (Michal Paris Davis), Clio/Girl (Austin Bree Fox), and Man's Voice (Philip Sy Zisman)
Photo Credit: Alex Keen
Photo Credit: Alex Keen
BEAUTIFICATION. A TRANSCULTURAL EXPLORATION OF THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN
2009 PHOENIX FRINGE FESTIVAL
The Chocolate Factory
March 2009
Phoenix, AZ
Beautification: A Transcultural Exploration of the Oppression of Women is a piece that scrutinizes the rituals and processes women undergo to conform to societal norms including foot binding in China, female circumcision in Africa, and the covering of one’s body through the wearing of burqas in The Middle East. This piece draws inspiration from these cultures and juxtaposes them with the plight of women of the Americas today. Beautification uses the body as a universal language unravelling its tale through ethnic dance, poetic movement, visceral media, geometry, and textiles. Through this exploration, cultures collide and in turn, question the effects that these rituals have over women on a global scale.
This work-in-progress, Beautification, traverses global borders and probes the inception of oppressive rituals and more importantly, their continuity in today’s time and societies which lingers on the sense of archaic praxes. The purpose of this piece is not to delineate right from wrong or to condemn societal norms. Rather, its purpose asks why and how these adopted practices continue to afflict women. Beautification explores the idea of transnationalism through the investigation of transcultural beautification rituals, and as a result, the world of the female gender role is called into question and the attempt to deteriorate the female stereotype arises through a sense of collision and hybridity.
Written and conceived by Philip Sy Zisman
Orginal cast: Women (Shea Noel Brockway, Bailey Oliver, Zoe Robinson, Jamie Sandomire, and Kristina Serna), Man (Kyle Wills)
FRACTURED
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
December 2008
Tempe, AZ
Fractured is an autobiographical piece written and performed by Hybrid associate artist, Shea Noel Brockway. This piece journeys into a time of Shea’s life that shattered her dreams and changed her world forever. Through this piece, Shea was forced to confront her past, a past that had left her broken, scarred, and fractured.
Fractured is Shea’s recollection on the devastating event that ended her dreams of becoming a dancer. In 2000, Shea fractured her spine after a terrible mishap and was told that her dream of becoming a professional dancer would never come true. She underwent spinal surgery and was forced to learn to rehabilitate her injury and her self. This traumatic event caused her to deal with depression, suicide, and a new way of learning to pick up the pieces of her shattered world.
This piece forced Shea to confront all the demons of her past including her fear of dancing again. This confrontation included media images of her spinal x-ray, poetic text, and video feed of the last occurrence of Shea’s dancing prior to her mishap. Through this confrontation, Shea was able to realize her strength, overcome her fears, and share with viewers how important the will to move forward is when all hope seems lost.
Directed by Philip Sy Zisman
Written and performed by Shea Noel Brockway