Siena Rafter in Residency

September 3 – 8 2024

3B Development Series

In Residence: September 3 – 8, 2024

Siena will be developing their new play ROOM TO CRY, as well as featuring a week of curated workshops, performances and exhibits by some of their favorite artists and collaborators.

Siena Rafter (they/he) is a nonbinary theater artist born and raised in New York City. Off-Broadway/Lincoln Center: Runaways, Deep Blue Sea, The Division, Thank you, Ryan…, T , American SongBook Series. The Public Theater/Delacorte: Twelfth Night, Runaways, For the Love of Vinyl, From Hair to Hamilton…Gala ’17. Regional: A Complicated Woman (The Goodspeed), Spring Awakening. TV: HBO’s Crashing. @si_enne

At IRT: 154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)
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Sep 3 @ 6:30pm
Milo Longenecker will be facilitating a move/make workshop. This workshop will be half movement exploration, half devising party! We’ll touch base with our bodies, the space, and the other, supported by guiding images and compositional language along the way, then break into groups and create a fun, low-stakes devising prompt. We’ll finish with a showing of our new works.

Sep 5 @ 2pm
Elspeth Walker will facilitate a workshop on somatics and anticapitalism, weaving in critical ecology and themes of disability justice. The workshop will feature a mix of collective study/discussion and movement.

Sep 5  @ (Time TBD)
Seussical the read along (evening)
Come see this middle school classic read and sung aloud by your favorite queers of brooklyn. No, we’re not kidding. Directed by Melody Iro, Produced by Lilia Souri
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Sep 7 @ 7pm
Curtis Welteroth art exhibit, featuring new paintings and works on paper.
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Sep 8 @ 3pm
THE RENT PLAY by Jan Rosenberg

The year is 2007. The war in Iraq is booming. Steve Jobs is about to release the first ever iPhone. More importantly, RENT is one year away from closing its doors on Broadway. And life for a group of RENTheads is about to change forever. 

This play is a love letter, an apology, a memory, a diary entry.

Suggested $5 donation

Sep 8 @ 7:30pm Join multi-disciplinary artist OB MacDougall for a guided musical improvisation and meditation, inspired by MacDougall’s ongoing project entitled ‘Girly Boy.’ The evening will invite participants to ask and hold questions around the limitations imposed upon us by old beliefs and follow the answer into a collaborative creative experience. 

$5 suggested donation, proceeds will be put towards supporting IRT.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council; A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation & support for ASL interpretation provided in part through funding from Access A.R.T./New York.

ACCESS: IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility. Please reach out to Kori Rushton if you have any accessibility questions or concerns, krushton@irttheater.org

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