The Bushwick Starr presents
a co-production with HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theater Company
RHEOLOGY
written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
in collaboration with Bulbul Chakraborty
April 15 - May 10, 2025
At The Bushwick Starr
FEATURING:
Shayok Misha Chowdhury
Bulbul Chakraborty
George Crotty (musician)
CREATIVE TEAM:
Set Design: Krit Robinson, Costume Design: Enver Chakartash, Lighting Design: Mextly Couzin and Masha Tsimring, Sound Design: Tei Blow, Video Design: Kameron Neal, Music Director and Cello: George Crotty, Stage Manager: Lisa McGinn, Dramaturg: Sarah Lunnie, Fight Choreographer: David Anzuelo; Associate Director: Kedian Keohan, Associate Direction/Additional Dramaturgy: Lindsay Tanner, Associate Dramaturg: Harris Kiernan, Associate Costume Designer: Miriam Cortes, Assistant Scenic Designer: Gabby Nunez, Associate Sound Designer: Ryan Gamblin, Associate Video Designer: Hannah Tran, Props Manager: Samantha Tutasi, Assistant Stage Manager: Angela Salazar, Deck Crew: Malena Logan
Line Producer: Kate Bussert
ADDITIONAL STAFF:
Devin McCallion Fletcher (Production Manager), Jay Maury (Technical Director), Colleen Combs (Assistant Technical Director), Chavon Patterson (Box Office Manager), Jen Williams (House Manager), Justin Allen (House Associate), Alexandra Holloman (Box Office Associate)
CREW:
Production Electrician: Jacqueline Scaletta, Audio Supervisor & Sound Mixer: Volmar, Video Supervisor: Joey Moro, Wardrobe Supervisor: Noah Willis-Hogan, Lighting Programmer: Maryam Sweirki, Performance Sound Mixer: June Ricks, Video Operator & Show Programmer: Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez, Wardrobe Supervisor Substitute: Gabrielle Johnson, Lighting Programmer & Production Electrician Substitute: Jordan Barnett, Production Assistant: Gia Ramos
Scenic: Cole Montgomery, Diana McCready, Jesse Santana, Eliut Ortiz, Loach Sample, Mikelle Kelly, Maggie Heath, Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez, Austin Price, LeiOra Hughes
Lighting: Gia Ramos, Kourtney Charles, Mikelle Kelly, Emily LaRochelle, Eliut Ortiz, Finn Weeks, Milner Sommers, Aldric Durham
Sound: LeiOra Hughes, Xavier Svymbersky, Daniel Soto
Video: Ian Scot Williams
AUDIENCE INFO:
Run Time: 75 minutes, one act
Age Recommendation: 14+
Closed Captioning (in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Bengali) on 4/23 and 5/1
Assisted listening devices available upon request
The Bushwick Starr is a fully ADA accessible venue
There are 4 tickets available for $10 for each performance for RHEOLOGY with code ACCESS. Please use this ticket price point if you need to, and leave them for others if not.
SPECIAL EVENTS:
4/23 - Bushwick Community Night
4/24 - HERE Night
4/25 - AANHPI Community Night
4/30 - Starr Member Night
Closed Captioning (in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Bengali) on 4/23 and 5/1
SUPPORT + DEVELOPMENT:
RHEOLOGY is made with support from: New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), an individual commission from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, the Division of Condensed Matter Physics and the Division of Soft Matter Physics of the American Physical Society, and Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (SACSA).
RHEOLOGY was commissioned and developed through the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) and has received additional development through residencies at Mercury Store, Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, NY and through concerts at Little Island and Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City. RHEOLOGY was developed in part with a residency at the Peabody Essex Museum (pem.org).
RHEOLOGY was awarded an inaugural Sundance Asian American Fellowship.
RHEOLOGY has been supported by the following generous donors:
American Physical Society; Jean-Philippe Bouchard; Supriyo Datta; Bhaskar Ghosh; Yasheng Yang
Sue Behringer, Dapeng Bi, Sharmila and Aloke Chakravarty; Susan Coppersmith; Ishita Dasgupta; Carol Fierke; Lizbeth Hedstrom; Maria Marchetti; Eve Marder; Merk Company Foundation; Tao Wu
Arup Chakraborty; Shaati Chattopadhyay; Zahera Jabeen; Jané Kondev; Aditya Sood; Leander Mengpan Wu
Guatam and Jayanti Bandyopadhyay; Bernadette Brooten; Ruth Charney; Chandan Dasgupta; Zvonimir Dogic; Irving Epstein; Heather Felton; Harvey Gould; Pengyu Hong; Sarah Lamb; Nidhiya Menon; Kasturi Purkayastha; Shyamal Roy; Suresh Subramani; Kushal Talukdar; Aida Wong; Elaine Wong
SPECIAL THANKS:
Bryn Herdrich, Kaela Mae-Chee Chambers, LA Samuelson, Birsa Chatterjee, Sruti Sarathy, Dibyarka Chatterjee, John Murchison, Sue Behringer, Subhro Bhattacharjee, Kabir Ramola, Dan Goldman, Itai Cohen, Shakuntala Khan Bhaduri, Anima Chakravarty, Shikha Khan, Partha Chowdhury, Dapeng (Max) Bi
BIOS:
Shayok Misha Chowdhury (Writer, Director, Performer) is an Obie and Whiting Award winning writer and director. His bilingual play, Public Obscenities (Soho Rep, NAATCO, Woolly Mammoth, TFANA) was one of three finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, a New York Times Critic's Pick, and named Best Theater of 2023 by the New Yorker. Misha is the recipient of a USA Fellowship, a Princess Grace Award, The Mark O’Donnell Prize, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, a Jonathan Larson Grant, and the Relentless Award. Other favorite collabs: MukhAgni (Under the Radar) with Kameron Neal; Brother, Brother (New York Theatre Workshop) with Aleshea Harris; SPEECH (Philly Fringe) with Lightning Rod Special. Misha also collaborated on the Grammy-winning album Calling All Dawns. A two-time Sundance Fellow, Misha is the creator of VICHITRA, a series of short experimental films. A Fulbright and Kundiman fellow, his poetry has been published in The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Asian American Literary Review and elsewhere. Up next: Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep) and a revival of Gospel at Colonus (Little Island).
Bulbul Chakraborty (Performer, Collaborator) is a theoretical physicist, recognized for her contributions to soft condensed matter theory, studying systems far from equilibrium, such as granular materials, amorphous systems, and statistical physics. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a recipient of a Simons Fellowship. Born in India, Bulbul also grew up singing Rabindrasangeet: Bengali writer-composer Rabindranath Tagore’s repertoire of songs about the natural world. She has performed in concert with Misha at Lincoln Center and Little Island. An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Bulbul immigrated to the U.S. in 1974 to get her Ph.D from Stonybrook. She was the first tenured woman physicist at Brandeis University, where she is the Ancell Professor of Physics and former Head of the Division of Science. You are likely to find her singing loudly in her office.
Krit Robinson (Set Designer) is an award-winning designer, artist, and educator. Her work ranges from experimental site specific installations - to work in the public realm - to regional theatre and everything in between. Select design credits include: Safety Not Guaranteed (BAM), Hilma (Wilma Theatre), Drinking in America (Audible Theater), Don Giovanni, (Wolftrap Opera), Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova), graveyard shift (Goodman Theatre), Familiar (Steppenwolf Theatre), In the Green (LCT3). Krit is a founding member of Queens Lighting Collective, and co-designer for Gateway to Sunnyside a temporary lighting installation through the Urban Design Forum for Sunnyside Queens. Assistant Professor of Scenic Design at Purchase College, and A Princess Grace Fellow, she holds her MFA from Yale University and is a proud member of USA 829. You can view her work at kristenrobinsondesign.com Insta @obstacle_vessel & @queenslightingcollective
Enver Chakartash (Costume Designer) Broadway: English, Romeo + Juliet, Stereophonic, A Doll’s House, Is This A Room. Off-Broadway: Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp., Becoming Eve, Teeth, Pre-Existing Condition, Public Obscenities, Wolf Play. Regional: Highway Patrol (Goodman Theatre). Film: Reality. For Stereophonic Enver won a Drama Desk Award and received a Tony Award Nomination.
Mextly Couzin (Lighting Designer), credits include, The Bushwick Starr: Quince. Broadway: JOB. Off-Broadway: N/A, Fiasco Theatre’s Pericles, A Good Day to Me Not To You, Here We Are (ALD), Straight Line Crazy, peerless, Tambo & Bones; Regional: MEXODUS (Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage/ Mosaic), HENRY 6 (The Old Globe); Das Rheingold (Seattle Opera); Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth); West Side Story (Centro de Bellas Artes Puerto Rico); La Belle et la Bête (Opera Paralléle). International: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Nuits de Fourvière. 2023 recipient of The 1/52 Project grant. MFA University of California, San Diego ’20. mextlycouzin.com
Masha Tsimring (Lighting Designer) Off Broadway: A Woman Among Women (Bushwick Starr); Six Characters (LCT3); Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons); Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb); Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons/Abrons Art Center); Montag (Soho Rep). Regional: The Inspector (Yale Rep); Primary Trust (La Jolla Playhouse); Eternal Life, Part 1 (The Wilma); The Appointment (Lightning Rod Special); Dance/Opera: Plenum/Anima (LADP); Terce (Prototype); Me. You. We. They. (LA Dance Project/Paris Philarmonie); morning/mourning (Prototype/HERE); Deepe Darknesse (Lisa Fagan/Lena Engelstein/NYLA); Unstill Life (LA Dance Project); Rodelinda (Hudson Hall/Santa Fe Opera); Der Freischütz (Wolf Trap Opera). She is a proud member of USA829. MFA Yale School of Drama. More info at www.mashald.com.
Tei Blow (Sound Designer) is a media designer, technologist and performance maker. Tei’s work has been seen at Hartford Stage, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, BAM, The Public Theater, The Broad Stage, MCA Chicago, MFA Boston, Kate Werble Gallery, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Roundabout, The Wadsworth Atheneum, and at theaters around the world. He has been nominated for 2 Bessie Awards, the Lucille Lortel Award, the recipient of The Obie Award, The Henry Hewes Award, NYSCA Composer's Grant, the Bessie Award, the FCA Grants to Artists Award, and the Creative Capital Award. teiblow.com
Kameron Neal (Video Designer) is an artist and designer working across video, installation, and performance. As a Public Artist in Residence with NYC’s Dept. of Records, he created Down the Barrel (of a Lens), an archival film installation interrogating NYPD surveillance (Lincoln Center). Kameron was recently named a prizewinner in the National Portrait Gallery’s 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. As a projection designer, he has received Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Design Awards for his work on Ryan J. Haddad’s Dark Disabled Stories (Bushwick Starr & Public Theater). Kameron is also the recipient of a Creative Capital Award, The Vineyard Theatre’s Colman Domingo Award, a Princess Grace Award, and an Opera America Award for his collaborations with Paul Pinto. With Shayok Misha Chowdhury, he co-created MukhAgni, an irreverent multimedia performance memoir about death (Under the Radar). Kameron is a 2024-25 Movement Lab Fellow at RISD in the Film/Animation/Video Department.
George Crotty (Music Director & Cello) Canadian cellist George Crotty has forged his own exciting vocabulary, pushing the boundaries of the cello. Following his graduation from the Berklee College of Music, Crotty immersed himself in New York’s jazz and world music scenes, playing with several ensembles, such as the Brooklyn Raga Massive, and Detroit-based National Arab Orchestra. Crotty has also worked with esteemed musicians such as Bob Ezrin, Adam Rudolph, Simon Shaheen, and Paquito D’Rivera. Crotty has performed as a soloist and bandleader in North America and Europe including at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, 21C Music Festival, Copenhagen Vinterjazz Festival, and New Directions Cello Festival. He toured North America with 10-time Tony-winning Broadway musical, “The Band’s Visit,” and played on the video game soundtrack for “Assassin’s Creed Mirage.” His new album “Heart Music” will be released in June 2025. georgecrotty.com
Lisa McGinn (Production Stage Manager) Recent credits: A Knock on the Roof (NYTW, Oliver Butler, dir); Geoff Sobelle’s FOOD, HOME and The Object Lesson; On Beckett: An Evening with Bill Irwin (tour); Elephant Room: Dust from the Stars (Center Theatre Group); Underground Railroad Game (Jennifer Kidwell, Scott R. Sheppard, Ars Nova, tour); Those with 2 Clocks (Wilma Theatre), Ocean Filibuster and How to Build a Forest (PearlDamour/ART); Detroit Red (ArtsEmerson); Love (Alexander Zeldin, Park Ave Armory) Compass and Sleep (Ripe Time Theatre); Chimera and The Wholehearted (Stein | Holum Projects); This is Reading (Lynn Nottage, Kate Whoriskey); LA Dance Project (European tour); Jacuzzi and The Light Years (The Debate Society); Revolt. She said. Revolt Again and Winners and Losers (Soho Rep); Rememberer and Open House (Steven Reker); Other credits include Miller Rothlein Dance; Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf; Clubbed Thumb, Chekhov at Lake Lucille.
Sarah Lunnie (Dramaturg) is an interdisciplinary new works dramaturg. Favorite collaborations include the development and first productions of Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s Public Obscenities; Heidi Schreck’s What The Constitution Means to Me; Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 and The Christians; Jeff Augustin’s Where The Mountain Meets the Sea, featuring original music by The Bengsons; Charles Mee’s Under Construction, made with SITI Company; and, with The Mad Ones, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie and Miles for Mary; among many others. Sarah has previously worked in the artistic offices of the Public, the Jungle Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. With Sam Gold and Lucas Hnath, she is a creator and executive producer of The Dealer, which Apple TV+ recently acquired in a straight-to-series order. sarahlunnie.com
Kedian Keohan (they/he, Associate Director) is a theater director and creator of live performances. Recent: jimmy fay's Straight Wedding (Brown University), Amando Houser’s DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch (Brick Theater), Utkarsh Rajawat’s SLIMRZ (Brooklyn College), Nurit Chinn’s godbird (Brooklyn College), reid tang’s ISABEL (NAATCO), Erin Markey’s First Lady (Bard Spiegeltent), BLUSH with Kaye Hurley (Soho Rep). Currently: New Georges' Audrey Residency with playwright Minna Lee developing LAST GOLD about the rivalry between love and success, sports capitalism, and figure skating set in the Winter Olympic Games. Associate Director: Morgan Bassichis’ Can I Be Frank?, Ryan J. Haddad’s Dark Disabled Stories (The Public Theater/Bushwick Starr). Assistant Director: Orlando (Signature), Pathetic (Abrons Art Center), Singlet (Bushwick Starr), and Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future (Ars Nova). Kedian is a former Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab member, Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and New Georges affiliated artist. justkedian.com
Lindsay Tanner (Associate Director and Additional Dramaturgy) is an artist, educator, and arts administrator. This is her 15th collaboration with Shayok Misha Chowdhury, including MukhAgni (Incoming! @ Under the Radar; Ars Nova), How the White Girl Got Her Spots...and Other 90's Trivia (Joe's Pub; ANT Fest), The Optics of Dying Light (HERE), and Artemis in the Parking Lot (NYMF Best-of-Fest). She has worked across the country and internationally on devised work, new plays and musicals, Shakespeare, and applied theatre. Lindsay is the Education Director at Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA), where her commitment to arts education that advances an inclusive, just, and liberatory education system is informed by 17 years partnering with young people as a teacher and program leader. Ed.M. Harvard; B.F.A. NYU.
Harris Kiernan (they/them, Associate Dramaturg) is an NYC-based dramaturg. Upon graduating Hunter College, they were the 2024-2025 Miranda Family New Work Fellow at The Public Theater. They have worked on developmental projects with artists including Else Went, The Bengsons and Jesse Jae Hoon. Harris was the Associate Dramaturg on the New York premiere of Sumo, by Lisa Sanaye Dring (The Public). They are currently the associate dramaturg to Sarah Lunnie and the Emerging Writers Group Coordinator at The Public Theater.
Miriam Cortes (she/her, Associate Costume Designer) most recent credits include: BROADWAY: Assistant Costume Designer on Romeo + Juliet, Assistant to the Costume Designer on Stereophonic. OFF BROADWAY: Associate Costume Designer: Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW), Becoming Eve (NYTW), Three Houses (Signature Theatre). OFF BROADWAY: Assistant Costume Designer Teeth (Playwrights Horizons), Stereophonic (Playwrights Horizons). Miriam is a proud Latina from Omaha, Nebraska. She’d like to thank her family for their unconditional love and support.
Gabriela “Gabby” Nuñez (Assistant Scenic Design) is a NYC based designer and artisan. She recently designed Anatomy of Melancholy at the Target Margin Theatre, and made her costume design debut this March with Romeo and Juliet at Gallery Players. Assistant/Associate Design Credits include: Primary Trust (Syracuse Stage), Les Miserables (The MUNY), The Little Mermaid (The MUNY), Newsies (STAGES St. Louis). Gabby has spent the last three summers working with IATSE Local 6 as a props artisan at The MUNY. Other props credits include: Uncle Vanya (Vivian Beaumont Theater), The Blood Quilt (The Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater), Shrek the Musical (National Tour).
Ryan Gamblin (Associate Sound Designer) is a sound designer, composer, and performance-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. Their practice centers around found media, original composition, and system manipulation. Recent designs include: Weathering (Faye Driscoll / NYLA), Cold Water (Little Engine Theater), Radio Downtown (The Civilians), The March (Big Dance Theater), The Following Evening (600 Highwaymen), The Criminal Queerness Festival (National Queer Theater), Metamorphosis 2 (Stacy Grossfield / The Chocolate Factory).
Hannah Tran (Associate Projection Designer) is a San Francisco Bay Area native. She once caught a stingray in the Pacific Ocean with her fifth-grade class. She is a proud graduate of the California public school system, where she received free music lessons and learned about live theater. Her passion for storytelling began during gossiping sessions with her grandmother.
Samantha Tutasi (Props Designer, she/her/hers) Ecuadorian-American theater artist, most recent collaborations include: minor•ity, Dirty Laundry, Munich Medea: Happy Family (Women’s Project); Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie (The Tank); B*TCHCRAFT: A Musical Play, Coping Mechanism (Wild Project). She collaborates with Design Action on their immersive theatrical design program, Springboard To Design. BFA: State University of New York at Purchase, 2022. samanthatutasidesign.myportfolio.com
Angie Salazar (Assistant Stage Manager) is a Brooklyn-based stage manager. New York credits include Stage Manager for Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival with Fireside Dances and Moon Bear. Production Assistant for Broadway workshops of The Interestings, ALI, and SMASH. Volunteered for Broadway Cares with Broadway Backwards, Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip!, and Red Bucket Follies 23’ & 24’. Other regional credits include Stage Management Apprentice at the Denver Center for Performing Arts 2022-2023 season, Assistant Props for the National Tour of Cats, and Stage Management Intern for the MUNY for Kinky Boots and Footloose. She graduated from the University of Michigan for her Bachelor's and Mesa Community College for their Associate’s.
Kate Bussert (she/her, Line Producer) is a producer and director of new plays. Raised in Minneapolis and based in Brooklyn, Kate champions works by women, nonbinary, and queer artists with a focus on formally inventive and devised work. She also runs the Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation, which supports ambitious new work by playwrights and musical theatre artists. Current and upcoming: Amm(i)gone by Adil Mansoor (Woolly Mammoth '24, Long Wharf Theatre ‘24, PlayCo/The Flea '25, Theater Mu/The Jungle July ‘25, National Tour '25-26). She attended Wellesley College for her BA in Theatre and English, and Oxford University for a one-year program in Shakespeare Studies. katebussert.com
Jacqueline Scaletta (Production Electrician) is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer and technician. She is thrilled to be back at the Starr, having worked with them as production electrician on A Woman Among Women and Presencia. Select design credits: Swallows (La MaMa), Third Law (CultureLab LIC), Lula 19/85 & The Pearl of the Bekaa (La MaMa), ONE NIGHT (Target Margin Theater), The Vicky Archives (The Tank). Associate credits: Open Mic Night (Under the Radar, Williamstown Theater Festival), Sasha Velour’s The Big Reveal Live Show (La MaMa), Rose: You Are Who You Eat (Woolly Mammoth). Upcoming: LOBSTER @ The Tank. jacscalettalighting.com.
Joey Moro (Video Engineer) designs lighting, projection, and scenery. Joey has designed over 200 productions in NYC, regionally, and abroad. Recent projection work: VANYA, (Assoc Des, Lucile Lortel) Jersey Boys, (ACT of CT) True Art (Dorset Theatre Fest) Walk Through Fire (Buglisi Dance Theatre,) Thanksgiving Play (Dorset Theatre Fest,) The Wanderers (Roundabout Theatre,) Good Vibrations (Houston Ballet), Sunken Cities Exhibit (Virginia Museum of Fine Art). Lortel Award for Wet Brain at Playwrights Horizons. Joey’s company Moro Media creates video systems for on/off Broadway, museums, and installations. MFA Yale School of Drama. Joey is concurrently a Professor of design at Berklee NYC, of projection design at Yale Drama, and of lighting design at NYU Tisch. www.joeymoro.com www.moro.media
Noah Willis-Hogan (they/them, Wardrobe Supervisor) is a seasoned wardrobe professional with nearly a decade of experience in costume care, quick changes, and backstage precision. Hailing from Washington, D.C., they bring a sharp eye for detail and a deep passion for theatrical storytelling to their role as Wardrobe Supervisor for RHEOLOGY. Excited to be part of this dynamic team, Noah combines technical expertise with a love for the craft, keeping the cast looking impeccable night after night. Liberation for all oppressed peoples!
Maryam Sweirki (Lighting Programmer) is a NYC based Lighting Designer and Programmer. She is the resident Lighting Designer for Born Dancing and she spreads her time across numerous venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Her recent work includes: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre 2023 International Tour (ALD), The Ally; The Public Theatre (Lighting Programmer) Eugene Onegin. In Our Own Words; Bric Arts (Lighting Programmer) SELF: BMP; National Sawdust (Lighting Programmer) and Four Go Wild in Wellies at The New Victory Theatre (Lighting Design). She resides in Brooklyn with her dog, Henry. IG: @marysauruslights
June Ricks (she/they, Video Op) is a production engineer of many mediums, a musician, and a poet from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez (Video Operator & Show Programmer) is a multi-media artist, DJ, and a carpenter at the Bushwick Starr. A Brooklyn native, he joined the Starr in 2024, having previously worked as a gallery assistant, prop stylist, and fabricator. Recent production credits at the Starr include Prescencia, A Woman among Women, and Slamdance Garage. He graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Fine Art.
Jordan Barnett (Lighting Programmer & Production Electrician Substitute): Brooklyn based Lighting and Scenic Designer | Design Credits: Skeleton Crew (Stella Adler), Henry V (Stella Adler), Seagull in the Hamptons (Lee Stransberg), Marisol (Emerson Stage), Marisol (Emerson Stage), Hysteria (Neo-Politcal Cowgirls) | Assistant Credits: The Inspector with Masha Tsimring English with Masha Tsimring (Barrington Stage), Psychic Self Defense with Christina Tang (HERE Arts Center), Chita Rivera Awards with Paige Seber (Skirball Center) | Jupnett.com | Thank you to Masha for bringing me along for the ride!
David Anzuelo (Fight Choreographer) is the founder of UnkleDave’s Fight-House which is a three-time Drama Desk nominated team of fight-directors. Broadway credits: Sunset Blvd, Uncle Vanya, Appropriate, Merrily We Roll Along, Great Gatsby, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Bad Cinderella, Ain’t No Mo’, Kimberly Akimbo, Girl From The North Country, Escape To Margaritaville; The Great Society, Tuck Everlasting, An American In Paris and Disgraced. Off Broadway: Grangeville, SHIT.MEET.Fan, Soft (Drama Desk nom), Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Drama Desk nom), Oedipus El Rey (Drama Desk nom). TV: AnnieLive!
About The Bushwick Starr
The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award-winning non profit theater that presents an annual Season of new performance work. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving theatrical venue, a vital neighborhood arts center, and a destination for exciting and engaging performance. We provide a springboard for emerging professional artists to make career-defining leaps, and we are a sanctuary where established performance companies come to experiment and innovate. We are also a neighborhood playhouse, serving our Bushwick, Brooklyn community's diverse artistic needs and impulses. Our past Seasons have included new work from groundbreaking artists such as Ryan J. Haddad, Whitney White, Jeremy O. Harris, Heather Christian, Diana Oh, The Mad Ones, Clare Barron, Daniel Fish, Haruna Lee, and the TEAM.
About HERE Arts Center
From our home in Lower Manhattan, HERE builds an inclusive community that nurtures artists of all backgrounds as they disrupt conventional expectations to create innovative performances in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art. Founded in 1993, HERE has been a pioneering force in the arts for 31 years, providing these genre-blending artists with an adaptive, flexible home for developing and producing their work. Through this commitment, we share a range of perspectives reflective of the complexity of our city. HERE welcomes curious audiences to witness groundbreaking performances, responsive to the world in which we live, at free and affordable prices.
HERE strives to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive home in which all people have fair access to the resources they need to realize their visions. We acknowledge structural inequities that exclude individuals and communities from opportunities based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography, and seek to counter those inequities in our work. Through mindful actions on sustainability and regenerative practices, we work toward climate justice, and a safe, livable planet for present and future artmakers and audiences.
About Ma-Yi Theater Company
Founded in 1989, Ma-Yi Theater Company is a professional, award-winning not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose primary mission is to develop and produce new and innovative plays by Asian American writers. Since its founding, Ma-Yi has distinguished itself as one of the country’s leading incubators of new works shaping local and national conversations about what it means to be Asian American today.
Central to Ma-Yi’s mission are challenging popular perceptions for culturally specific theater, and encouraging artists to push Asian American theater beyond easily identifiable markers. To that end, Ma-Yi provides a nurturing home for exciting, generative, contemporary playwrights to produce risky, challenging, forward-thinking new plays for American Theater.
Onstage and off, Ma-Yi is guided by knowing why and for whom we create. Ma-Yi aspires to exemplify the extent to which theater makers can be active local partners to the diverse communities that inspire them, while also participating in larger, global conversations about our roles as artists/citizens.
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