UNDERBELLY’S CARTOON MASHUP
Saturday Morning Fun with Saturday Night Values

APRIL 3rd at IRT
154 Christopher St, Buzzer #3B
Doors open at 7pm

A Variety Show featuring puppets, clowns, ukuleles, The Moon, a world-renowned experimental comedian so famous we can’t tell you his name, and Underbelly performing hilarious sonic interpretations of your favorite Saturday morning cartoons.

Come for the funnies, the party, the drinks, the cartoon trivia, and the mini boxes of cereal!! And, yes, there will be a raffle.

$15 gets you in the door with a free beer!!

COME! and tell your friends…

All proceeds will benefit the development of Underbelly’s new play, Dwellicle 109, and IRT’s 3B Development Series.

SHOWS MARCH 10-21

Space limited! Buy now!

Rice conceived the idea of making a documentary about Obama long before the Illinois Senator announced his decision to run for president. Inspired by his oratorical skills and star appeal at the 2004 Democratic Convention, she set out to film his political career in 2006. Rice approached documentary producer Sams, who joined to co-direct and actor Edward Norton’s production company, Class 5, agreed to produce the project. After Norton approached Obama’s team with the idea, the senator agreed to grant the filmmakers what turned out to be unprecedented and exclusive access.

Saturday, March 6 - 7pm
IRT Theater
154 Christopher St., buzzer 3B
New York, NY

Space extremely limited, buy tickets at: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/101025

Learn more at HBO Documentaries »

Directed by Sheila Daniels
With: Mary Jane Gibson and Scott Nath

12 SHOWS: March 10-21

March 10 (Weds) (preview) - 8pm
March 11 (Thurs) (opening) - 8pm
March 12 (Fri) - 8pm
March 13 (Sat) - 2pm and 8pm
March 15 (Mon) - 8pm
March 17 (Weds) - 8pm
March 18 (Thurs) - 8pm
March 19 (Fri) - 8pm
March 20 (Sat) - 2pm and 8pm
March 21 (Sun) - 3pm

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99189

ARTISTS

Our collaboration on ANAPHYLAXIS began in 2003, when we performed it at the Seattle International Fringe Festival, where the piece was awarded Artistic Pick. We planned to develop the piece further, following Scott and Mary Jane’s move to New York.

We are three artists with a long history of collaboration. We met and worked together in various shows in Seattle almost a decade ago, and we have forged bonds through work, friendship, travel, and love. Our paths have taken us in many directions – regional theatre, developing new work, the fringe circuit, playwrighting, video editing – and we have three very distinct viewpoints. ANAPHYLAXIS is a physical, dynamic, visually striking piece that reflects our passion for compelling and intriguing storytelling.

Sheila Daniels (Director) Based in Seattle since 1994, Sheila served as Associate Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, co-founded and served as Co-Artistic Director of both Theater Under Ground and Baba Yaga Productions, and has held positions as Associate Artistic Director at Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC) and Artistic Director of Theater Schmeater. Her directing credits include According to Coyote (Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis), Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Crime and Punishment, A Streetcar Named Desire (Intiman Theatre), Electra, Pericles (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Rubble Women (UMO Ensemble), According to Coyote (Seattle Children’s Theatre), Crime and Punishment (Theater Under Ground/CHAC), Waiting for Lefty, God’s Country, Arcadia (CHAC), Rhoda: A Life in Stories (Book-It), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Strawberry Theatre Workshop), Burning Bridget Cleary (Ladykiller Productions), Macbeth (Wooden O), The Last State (On the Boards), Vaya con Lola, Shock Brigades: Women in Combat (Baba Yaga), Anaphylaxis (Throwing Bones), and Trojan Women: A Love Story, Dream of a Common Language, Language of Angels, Transformations and Other Tales, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Theater Schmeater). She has also worked as an actor and adapted numerous texts for the stage, including a commission from the Tacoma Museum of Glass to adapt and direct A.S. Byatt’s short story COLD. She taught Acting and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration from 1998-2008 at Cornish College of the Arts, while serving as a Resident Director there. Upcoming productions include Much Ado About Nothing and a new, devised piece based on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.

Mary Jane Gibson (Ana) grew up in Newfoundland, and trained in Montreal and the UK. She wrote and performed in Anaphylaxis (Artistic Pick, 2003 Seattle International Fringe Festival), and with Nicole duFresne wrote and performed in Burning Cage (Artistic Pick, 2002 SIFF). Other Seattle credits include Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Intiman), Alki (ACT), Measure for Measure (Seattle Shakespeare Company) and Holes (Seattle Children’s Theatre). New York credits include White Hot (HERE), Extropia and Liliom (Flying Carpet Theatre), M4M and Rehearsal: Vanya (Quality Meats). Mary Jane was awarded the Fox Foundation Fellowship in 1999. She is a founding member of The Fabulists—www.thefabulists.com.

Scott Nath (Frank, video production), an Iowa native, lived from the American south to the Pacific Northwest until settling in New York. NYC credits include Four Gorn Conclusions (Riant Theatre), Rehearsal Vanya (Quality Meats), Scribblin at the Automat (idegosuperego), Merry Wives of Windsor (Prospect Theatre), Cold (PTTP) as well as a brief appearance on Law & Order. Regional credits include Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Shenandoah Shakespeare, Theatre Memphis, Theater Schmeater, Taproot Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Book-It Repertory. He was a performer in Anaphylaxis which was the Artistic Pick of the 2003 Seattle International Fringe Festival. For the latest info about Scott, see scottnath.com.

These workshops are being offered to raise funds and build community around Underbelly’s DWELLICLE 109, developing in residence in IRT’s 3B Series.

TWO INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS:
Saturday, April 3: 10am-1pm
-OR-
Saturday, April 17, 10am-1pm

$75 at the door.
SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED.

To ask questions or arrange to pay by check call 413-658-8376, or email gabe.levey@gmail.com

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Catherine Mueller is the Co-Artistic Director of The Glass Contraption, a physical theater company that creates original works of theater drawing from the traditions of clown, bouffon, commedia and vaudeville. She has studied clown, bouffon, mask, and movement with Christopher Bayes, Philippe Gaulier, Gregor Paslawsky, Felix Ivanov, Per Brahe and many others. She apprenticed under Master Clown and Director Christopher Bayes, currently Head of Physical Acting at Yale School of Drama. She has taught workshops in clown/physical theater at various universities, secondary schools and arts outreach programs in the US and South Africa. For more information, please visit www.glasscontraption.org.

“I just want to be…caught up in a child’s fantasy…the fantasy we all had when we were young. You know the one. Kids. Candy. A land full of candy. A factory full of mountains of marshmallow, seas of chocolate, earth made of ice cream… But back in 1999…remember? Before a little thing called terror forced all the kids to grow up, before wars and depression made us lose our laughter, before our New York City playground became a ghost town! Only, the children I knew were… Club Kids. And their candy? Drugs. Good drugs! And remember that factory? It was was mine, and It was called The Groove Factory…”
—DJ WILLY D. VINYL

Set on New Years Eve 1999 and featuring a high-voltage pulsating original score comprised of electronic dance music, pop, hip hop and R&B, THE GROOVE FACTORY stars an incredible cast of Broadway, Off Broadway and the recording industry’s most exciting talent.

Reading Performances:
Wednesday February 10th at 7:30pm
Thursday February 11th at 7:30pm

Seating is limited, please send reservations to ckessler@irttheater.org

ARTISTS

David James Boyd (Composer, Lyricist, Book)

As a performer, David has been featured in both the Broadway and 1st national companies of Miss Saigon and Kiss of the Spider Woman, alongside the legendary Chita Rivera. After more than a decade performing on Broadway he teamed with Broadway vet DJ Randy Bettis to create the record production company Betboyz Inc., where he has produced and arranged dance remixes for many artists such as Taylor Dayne, Alicia Keys, P-1, Billy Porter, Inaya Day, Jackie Tohn, Levi Kreis and many more. His remix of Ari Gold’s “Where the Music Takes You” hit #10 on Billboard’s U.S. Dance Charts this past summer. He has also arranged, remixed and composed incidental music for the hit Off- Broadway productions of Zanna Don’t, Matthew Passion, the popular touring children’s show Roots Of Rap Poetry, and the 2007 NYC Fringe Festival smash Rainy Days and Mondays. As a musical theater composer, David’s achievements include the Deaf-themed musical Stepchild, the musical comedy spoof Fancy Lady and his semi-autobiographical 70’s soul musical Black Boy. David has been the recipient of two Carol Burnett Awards and was a The Richard Rogers Award finalist for his newest musical, The Groove Factory.

Matt M. Morrow (Director)

Matt’s work has been seen at Lincoln Center, Amas Musical Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Urban Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE, Dixon Place, MTC, The York, The Tank, NYC Int’l Fringe, Midtown Int’l Festival, among others. Favorite credits include: Only Children (Lincoln Center), The Falsetto Trilogy (1st NYC revival), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (1st NYC revival), john and jen (1st NYC revival), Spin: a New Musical (recently published by Sam French), The Who’s Tommy in Baltimore, the first NYC revival of Lisa Kron’s 2.5 Minute Ride (New York Sun: “An exhilarating ride!”), and Jennifer Haley’s Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (City Paper: “breathtaking”). Upcoming: the World Premiere Production of his musical GREAT WHITE with Bricolage in Pittsburgh Fall 2010; a World Premiere of An Apology for the Life of Leni Riefenstahl by Stanton Wood, a new play he conceived and commissioned, developed at Urban Stages, TEETH a new musical based on Mitchell Lichtenstein’s award-winning film. Matt is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, SSDC and holds a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.

‘DJ Silhouette’ photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lum1neuz/ / CC BY 2.0

Modeled after radio programs of yesteryear, RADIOPLAY gathers a group of actors, musicians and sound-effects artists to create a surreal sonic entertainment. Songs, stories and soundscapes collide in a comedic mash-up of non-temporal quasi-political pop-cultural tropes. Performed in the dark!

With Reggie Watts and ensemble. Directed by Tommy Smith.

3 SHOWS ONLY!

Thursday, February 18 - 8:30pm
Friday, February 19 - 8:30pm
Saturday, February 20 - 8:30pm

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/98151

ARTISTS

Reggie Watts (performer, composer, musician, writer) and Tommy Smith (director, writer) create absurd experimental comedic theatricals for modern performance spaces. Their newest work, Dutch A/V, developed at IRT in December 2009. Transition played at the 2008 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Art Festival, the 2009 Under The Radar Festival at The Public Theater and On The Boards in Seattle; it was also the winner of the 2008 MAP Fund Award and 2009 Creative Capital award. Their previous theater piece Disinformation was seen at the 2008 UTR Festival, PICA: TBA 07, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh). Radio Play premiered at Ars Nova (New York) and will play at the Seattle Rep during Bumbershoot 2009 and Redhouse in Syracuse, March 2010. Reggie and Tommy also regularly host OCCURRENCE, a cabaret of alternative performers, which has been seen at Ars Nova, Galapagos, The Tank, Leftbank (Portland) and various unconventional spaces. All shows are currently touring through the United States of America. They live in Brooklyn and other places. See more of their work at http://reggiewatts.com/theater/.