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deCOMPOSITION
deCOMPOSITION is an original work using the scientific process of how matter decomposes, breaking down from one form to another, as a frame to look at what transforms in the moments when we lose our language, our memory and our love. Devised by the company, this is what happens when a family recipe, an Appalachian folk song, the life cycle of King salmon, a life-long friendship, a banjo and immortal jellyfish get in a room together to talk about death.
Originally produced as part of the Schapiro Series in New York under the guidance of Anne Bogart, now making it's West Coast debut...
WHEN
August 20-22 & 27-29
Friday-Sunday at 8pm
WHERE
The Erickson Theatre
1524 Harvard Ave.
Seattle, WA
HOW MUCH
$15 general / $12 student with valid ID
Tickets available online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/122370 or in CASH at the door, as available.
SEATING IS VERY LIMITED!
WHO
Direction by... Jess K Smith
Dramaturgy by... Hannah Hessel
Assistant Direction by... Melissa D Brown & Caitlin Sullivan
Stage Management by... Lisa Armstrong
Lighting Design by...Reed Nakayama
Featuring...
Melissa D. Brown
Emily Gleeson
Ty Hewitt*
Shelley Virginia*
Sean Patrick Taylor
*Appearing Courtesy of Actors Equity Association
TECHNIQUES FOR ENSEMBLE-GENERATED THEATRE: ONE DAY WORKSHOP!
THE SATORI GROUP is teaming up with the New York City-based ensemble presenting deCOMPOSITION under the leadership of Jess K Smith and Melissa D Brown to offer a ONE DAY WORKSHOP for teachers, students, writers, performers, designers, directors, dramaturgs, and artists interested in practical tools for generating and developing new work with an ensemble. Using hands-on techniques both ensembles employ in the rehearsal room, you will have the opportunity to both learn and practice ways of working with an ensemble to create new material, refine text, and explode a concept. These are tools that can help students use their full imagination to embody and explore an idea, and to open up the many ways to collaborate as an artist in the room while creating new theatre. In addition, participants will join us for the evening performance of deCOMPOSITION, a piece that was devised by the company under the guidance of Anne Bogart.
Saturday, August 28
1pm-6pm with 8pm performance of deCOMPOSITION
Erickson Theatre
1524 Harvard Avenue, Seattle WA
$20 (includes your ticket to deCOMPOSITION)
email decompworkshop@gmail.com with questions and reserve your space now at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/122370
Jess K Smith (Director) is a New York-based director originally from Vermont. Recent directing credits include The Spectacular Demise of Platonov (co-adapted from Chekhov with Melissa D Brown), The Hardly Wonder (Playwrights Horizons, Samuel French OOB Festival), I Am The Girl With The Spun Gold Hair, Bleeding Radiators (Columbia Stages), and 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K Dick (Live Girls! Theater). Jess has also developed a number of original ensemble-generated pieces including EDIT, An Exercise in Language, Oz: Re-imagined, Biff's Dream, Requiem, Lady Liberty Blues, Amplified, and In/Out. Her work has been presented at Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Repertory Theatre, On the Boards, Live Girls! Theater, Second Story Repertory and Tacoma Actors Guild. In addition to directing, Jess is also a teaching artist and has worked with Columbia University, the University of Puget Sound, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Youth Theatre Northwest and ArtsWest as well as co-founding LAB, a multi-disciplinary training series for Seattle artists. Jess is an alumna from the University of Puget Sound and a current MFA candidate in Directing at Columbia under the guidance of Anne Bogart and Brian Kulick. Find more information at jessksmith.blogspot.com.
Melissa D Brown (Performer) is a native of Washington State and graduate of Western Washington University. She has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre (Doubt, Restoration Comedy), Book It Repertory Theatre (The House of Mirth), On The Boards (Dirty Laundry, The Cowgirl Play) and Macha Monkey (Melancholy Play, Green Night). Since leaving Seattle, she earned her MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University in Washington D.C. and moved to New York City where she has been seen at Access Theatre (Titus Andronicus), Urban Stages (What If), Playwright's Horizons (The Hardly Wonder) PS122 (Are We Here Yet?), The Brick (12 Hours to High Rascalry) and in two films (The Doll and The Medicine Wheel). As a writer, Melissa previously collaborated with director, Jess K. Smith, on The Spectacular Demise of Platonov and with The Possibilities (and Mark Twain) to create her one-woman show, EvE. Other plays by Melissa include: The Parrot and The Bindary. More can be found at: www.melissadbrown.org
Hannah Hessel (Dramaturg) is a current MFA candidate in Dramaturgy. She is the former Literary Director at Theater J, a company member at Forum Theatre, a producing artist with the political theater collective eXtreme eXchange, and a board member for the Association of Jewish Theater. While at Columbia she helped to curate the KafkaFest, and served as dramaturg/collaborator on the devised piece EDIT. She worked with Anna Brenner on Chekhov's Three Sisters and recently on Are We Here Yet?.
Shelley Virginia (Performer) is an MFA candidate in Acting at Columbia. While at Columbia she has studied with Kristin Linklater, Anne Bogart, Andrei Serban, Olympia Dukakis, Niki Wolcz and Ulla Wolcz. This summer Shelley will be studying trapeze at DO JUMP! in Portland, OR. Shelley has taught basic acrobatics and yoga to kids and adults. Next year you can see her as the Princess and Irina / Masha in the MFA acting class of 2011 thesis productions of Love's Labor's Lost and Three Sisters.
Ty Hewitt (Performer), a native of Ketchikan Alaska, has most recently appeared in the new play Babel Tower with the Round Table Ensemble here in NYC, and as Orsino in Aquila Theatre's Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center. He has worked at theatres around the country including the Provincetown Theatre (Cape Cod), Coterie Theatre (Kansas City), Kentucky Shakespeare Festival (Louisville) and is excited to be a new company member of Portland, Oregon's Sojourn Theatre in their upcoming production On The Table (which you can read about in the April issue of American Theatre Magazine.) Ty has a BFA from Southern Oregon University and an MFA from UMKC. Ty is a Society of American Fight Directors certified Actor Combatant and has choreographed fights for shows around the country. Ty has also taught mask making and movement workshops for students ranging in age from 13-60.
Emily Gleeson (Performer), a native of Washington State, is an MFA candidate in Acting at Columbia University where she has studied the classics with professors Kristin Linklater, Andrei Serban, and Olympia Dukakis. She is an alumna of Fordham University Lincoln Center where she had the pleasure of studying Butoh under Dawn Saito. She spent a winter studying at the Moscow Art Theatre School. She has studied the Linklater Voice Progression for five years and intends to continue into teacher training. Emily was recently seen as Sasha in The Spectacular Demise of Platonov and will be performing the roles of Holoferna and Masha/ Irina/ Olga/ Natasha in the MFA acting class of 2011 thesis productions of Love's Labor's Lost and Three Sisters.
"Jess Smith is the real, genuine article and her projects are not to be missed. deCOMPOSITION, in particular, is a singular vision.." Anne Bogart
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LocationThe Erickson Theatre
1524 Harvard Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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