Three Seconds
October 8th-14th 2017
We brought our company to Maine for a weeklong residency with The Barn Arts Collective in October to workshop Three Seconds. During the week we workshopped the script, staged and designed the show, and presented the full play to a local audience.
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The Renovators who made this possible were Harrison Densmore, Julia Larsen, Olivia Rose Barresi, Patrick Harvey, Zoe Goslin, and Finn Kilgore.
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It’s 1906, and Emory is preparing to step into his father’s shoes—dutifully tending the flame of White Rock Lighthouse—while his restless brother Lo, displaced but undeterred by the San Francisco Earthquake, is home trying to shake money loose from a barren stretch of coastline. When Lo brings his fiancee home to meet the family, she arrives with a deck of Tarot cards and her mysterious sister, Clara.
It's 2017, and Emory tends the White Rock Lighthouse museum and contemplates suicide when an old friend appears. As the play shifts tidally back and forth across a century, two distinct narratives merge into one story of ambition, romance, and hope, all underscored by the constant crash of waves against the rocks, the sweeping beam of the lighthouse, and the ghosts that wash up on the beach.
Old Names for Wildflowers
May 7th, 2017
We were proud to present an invited staged reading of our new project, Old Names for Wildflowers, featuring the talents of Laura Baranik*, Adam Belvo, Sara Fellini, Zoe Goslin, Patrick Harvey, Sarah Keyes, Finn Kilgore, Julia Larsen, Jason O'Connell*, and Samantha Steinmetz*, with sound design created live by Corbin Went.
(*Appearing courtesy AEA)
The Civil War is over, but the scabs it left still itch. A fox stalks the clearing behind the Aubert's home, hunting chickens. A love triangle goes horribly wrong and a family is destroyed. The pieces cannot be put back together. The survivors must build something new. In the absence of family, God, community, morality, on the edge of the woods that ring with the Devil's whistle, two sisters must embrace the power of renouncing everything.
Saving Throw
August 25th, 2016
The first public reading of Saving Throw at The Tank NYC featured full sound and projection design, and the many talents of Olivia Rose Barresi, Maybe Burke, Gerard Chamberlain, Harrison Densmore, Finn Kilgore, Julia Larsen, and Ethan Nguyen.
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Saving Throw centers on a group of high school students who meet weekly to play a fantasy role playing game, as they struggle to create safe spaces to develop their IRL identities.
Boxcar
January 21-30, 2016
Boxcar, our first production, featured an incredible cast and ambitious design, lending our company its ethos: to create theater that is impactful, polished, and essentially American, while representing underrepresented identities and experiences.
Starring: Olivia Rose Barresi, Sarah Keyes, Finn Kilgore, and Travis Staton-Marrero.
Boxcar was presented at The Tank NYC. Set design by John Bondi, Lighting by Chris D'Angelo, Sound by Anna Grossman. Stage Managed by Rae Rossi, Produced by Daniella Benavides.
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Ida and Firefly ran away together when they were kids. Since then, they've kept running, living on empty trains and traveling across the American landscape, seeking nothing and leaving nothing behind. Alexis is a teen runaway with a romantic notion of freedom. When she hops on a train one night, she comes face to face with the reality. As the weeks pass, Ida and Alexis develop a powerful bond that threatens to knock everything off track.
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