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If you've seen our recent productions of Pretty Theft, The Angel Eaters Trilogy or Other Bodies, then you know Flux is dedicated to producing exciting work from new playwrights.
What you may not know is that much of that work comes out of our weekly play development process, Flux Sundays. Read on to learn more about how we're sharing that process with you (over beers!) at our next Have Another.
Then watch our crazy acceptance video for the ITBA's Citation for Excellence, and learn more about our eye-opening journey to San Francisco for the National Summit of Ensemble Theatres.
Read all about it, and help us make it all happen.
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Are you ready to Have Another?
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(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Tom DelPizzo, Caitlin Kinsella)
Flux's staged reading series in a bar
is back
In
order to share our development process with our audience, and to bring
theatre to unusual places, Flux brings you the third installment of our
staged reading series in a bar, Have Another. Find out what we're working on, and tilt back a drink with your favorite Fluxers. Be there this coming Wednesday the 8th at 7PM at Jimmy's #43, located downstairs at 43 East 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue. Have Another is free, so you can afford to, well, have another.
The Playwrights:
Johnna Adams, Mary Fengar Gail, Aaron Michael ZookThe Directors:
Peter Boisvert, Jason Paradine, Alexis WilliamsThe Actors:
Matthew Archambault, Jake Alexander, Ryan Andes, Tiffany Clementi, Nick Monroy, Ingrid Nordstrom, Brian Pracht, Marnie Schulenburg, Isaiah
Tanenbaum, Jane Taylor, Ryan Whalen, DeWanda Wise Learn more about past Have Another's here and here, and see you there! |
Thank You Video For The ITBA
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Flux was thrilled to receive the Independent Theatre Blogger's Association Citation for Excellence Off-Off Broadway. So when they asked for an acceptance video, we knew it couldn't be any old thing.
But then we remembered our upcoming production of The Lesser Seductions of History is set in the 1960's, and realized the video could be an homage to an exceptional artist from that decade.
And once we got started, we knew we had a lot more people to thank than just the ITBA.
SO!
In honor of everyone who has helped us get here,
and in the spirit of Bob Dylan's classic video, Subterranean Homesick Blues, we give you...
Flux's ITBA Acceptance Video
Check it out - you might just be in it!
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National Summit Of Ensemble Theatres
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 For 5 days in June, Core Members Heather Cohn and August Schulenburg immersed themselves in the National Summit Of Ensemble Theaters, a conference in San Francisco exploring the shared challenges and opportunities of theatres working as collaborative ensembles.
It was an eye-opening and humbling experience, as we celebrated The San Francisco Mime Troupe's 50th anniversary; engaged in spirited conversations about diversity, quality and sustainable models; learned from 1-on-1 conversations with Ensemble leaders like Laurie McCants and Alisha Tonsic; and thrilled to speakers like Rhodessa Jones and Arlene Goldbard.
Read the first post on our blog about improving quality in the field, and stay tuned for more posts as we attempt to move the challenging questions from the conference forward into practice.
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Flux's 2009/10
Season of Give and Take
A dark comedy about what beauty steals...
An epic journey through the seductions of history...A classic tragedy of what remains when all is taken...
Pretty Theft
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Angela Astle
April 23rd - May 17th, 2009
The Lesser Seductions of History
By August Schulenburg
Directed by Heather Cohn
November, 2009
J.B.
By Archibald MacLeish
Directed by Kelly O'Donnell
Winter 2010
August Schulenburg, Artistic DirectorKelly O'Donnell, Marketing Director
Heather Cohn, Managing and Development Director
Jason Paradine, Production Manager
Tiffany Clementi, Core Member
Members
Jake Alexander
Angela Astle
Michael Davis
Candice Holdorf
Christina Shipp
Isaiah Tanenbaum
Cotton Wright |
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Bump, Set, Spike
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Upcoming in early August: the fourth installment of our potluck playreading series, Food:Soul. Not only is this a chance to hear Rob Ackerman's warmly funny play Volleygirls, but to celebrate the summer at this outdoor fundraising party. Learn more about past Food:Souls here, here and here.
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Donate Now
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Help support our ambitious Season of Give and Take by making a donation here. And thank you to those who have already given!
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Check out our friends at the undergroundzero festival!
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The undergroundzero festival, an experimental theater festival curated by Paul Bargetto and produced by East River Commedia in association with Collective:Unconscious,
opens July 7, 2009 for three weeks at PS 122!
Now in its third year,
the undergroundzero festival has given producing artists a laboratory
outside the usual curatorial system where risk is encouraged and
innovation can flourish.
USE SPECIAL CODE bridge09 FOR $10 Tickets may be purchased online at www.PS122.org or via phone at (212) 352-3101. Performance Space 122 is located at 150 First Avenue at East 9th Street, New York, New York 10009.
This year the undergroundzero festival will present a fascinating collection of over twenty experimental theatre companies
and artists including The South Wing, terraNOVA Collective, WaxFactory,
Emily Conbere, Eric Dean Scott, Thinking Persons Theater, Blessed
Unrest, Columbia University MFA, NU Classic Theater, Nora Woolley and Christine Witmer, Saviana Stanescu, Dangerous Ground, Pace University, Robert Attenweiller, Nathaniel Kressen, Wolf 359, Ian Cohen, Hoi Polloi, Andrea Lepcio, Coffee Cup, and Pinchbottom Burlesque!
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Flux's Annual Retreat at
Little Pond
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Preparation continues for our fourth Annual Retreat at Little Pond. To learn about last year's retreat, go here.
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