G45 Productions

July 1-3 2016

3B Development Series

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IN RESIDENCE: June 28- July 4 , drug 2016

4 young playwrights, nurse all students under the age of 23, discount will collaborate with the ensemble of G45 Productions to develop their own full length new works over this week long residency.

Through intensive workshopping, rehearsal, and feedback sessions with actors and artistic consultants from the G45 ensemble the playwrights will develop their voices, build collaboration skills and ultimately enhance their scripts and storytelling. The residency will culminate in a series of readings open to the public at IRT.

The playwrights who will be showcased are from a variety of backgrounds; some are acclaimed, some are unknown, but all have extremely powerful, funny, incisive stories to tell. The group includes

Poplar and Rope/Melanin/Where you gonna run to? written by Kori Alston

Poplar has never met Rope. Rope has never met Poplar. Neither have ever met the man hanging from them. Poplar and Ropeeavesdrops on a conversation between the two as they try to understand both the crime and the motive of their special guest.

Melanin gives voice to the skin of three individuals. Each has questions, demands, and new ideas for the audience.

It’s the night of August 28, 1815 and Hound is chasing Coon up the Mississippi River. Where you gonna run to? explores the anxiety of the chase and how the Mississippi River helps and hinders both Coon and Hound.

SIP//CRASH written by Sam Mueller

The Tehran breeze is cool and the smell of fresh espresso wafts through the coffeeshop.  Two young women – one an Iranian barista and the other an American journalism student – speak of feminism, of pop music, and of hidden revolution.  The only problem is that there is a car careening towards the floor-to-ceiling glass window in front of them. SIP//CRASH asks how the human experience might be the same halfway across the globe and what could be said with sixty seconds left to live.

Here Be Monsters written by India Kotis

When Sybille comes home to care for her dying father, she is shocked at the degradation of her hometown. Once a vibrant fishing community, Harrogate has become an impoverished tourist attraction in light of the recent maritime moratorium. The townies she grew up with fester in their resentments, while the affluent, city dwelling Sybille frantically tries to convert them to her ideology regardless of their economic situation.

Black Ice written by Max Friedlich

Black Ice is a dark comedy about faith, free will, and the selfishness of love.

PERFORMANCES:
July 1st 8 PM– Black Ice by Max Friedlich
July 2nd 2 PM– Sip//Crash by Samantha Mueller
July 2nd 8 PM– Here be Monsters by India Kotis
July 3rd 2 PM– Melanin/ Where You Gonna Run To/ Poplar and Rope by Kori Alston
LENGTH OF SHOW: 2 hrs.
PRICE: $10.00
At IRT:154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)

G45 Productions is an artistic collective made up of 25 young artists from New York City, all recent graduates of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. It is in its 2nd year. The company gathers every summer to produce diverse, actor-driven theatrical works, both new pieces and revivals and anything in between. This year their mainstage production will be Where We’re Born by Lucy Thurber at the Flea Theater (July 16th-24th). With each new summer and each new production the artists from G45 explore different facets of the theatrical process with the fundamental language of acting, whether it be directing, writing, producing, stage management, or design as a means to expand and inform their acting training.

You can check them out at g45productions.com or on Instagram g45productions or twitter @g45productions.

IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. Some of the artists we have supported include Young Jean Lee, Reggie Watts and Mike Daisey.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Office of Council Member Corey Johnson and The Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of ART-NY.