Flux Theatre Ensemble

Until Sunday the 29th, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards will be accepting your votes for The Lesser Seductions of History. The audience votes count for 25% of the total, so your vote really does count. Flux was previously nominated for 7 NYIT Awards, winning one for Asa Wember's Sound Design of Angel Eaters, and we'd love to see the work of the amazing artists in Lesser Seductions recognized.

So, vote, before the tryptophan kicks in!

A note on the process - there are a limited number of Lead and Featured actor slots available per show, which put us in a difficult position in a show where every actor is equally a Lead and/or Featured. We thought a lot about the best way to navigate this, including only allowing votes for Best Ensemble; but that would mean no actors would have a chance to be individually recognized. The only fair way to do it seemed to undertake the arduous task of counting every line, and base the Lead vs Featured designation solely on the math. So we did! This is what you'll see when go to vote; not our feeling of which character is the most important, simply which character speaks the most.

Also, Jodi Witherell, our intrepid stage manager, handled a cast of eleven, a script of many rewrites, and a show of literally hundreds and hundreds of light and sounds cues spaced seconds apart. Consider this post our unofficial nomination of Jodi for the Outstanding Stage Manager Award. (And how does one nominate her officially, goodly NYITA staff reader out there?)

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So please vote for The Lesser Seductions of History, and warm-as-twice-baked-potatoes-thank-you from all of us. Read the full story

We all had a great time at the NYIT Awards last night. We laughed at host Julie Halston, admired Matthew Freeman's script contributions, loved the documentary of Maria Irene Fornes, grooved with the Brick's dancing freaks, bowed down before the MFTA, and cheered the winners, most especially our own Asa Wember for Sound Design for Angel Eaters.

CONGRATULATIONS, ASA!

Flux was nominated for seven awards and took home one - not a bad night. And that same rapturous sense of community and purpose was present again - all of us in Flux are so proud and grateful to belong to a movement of such talent and generosity. Read the rest of the winners here.

There were a few sad notes - I would have loved to see more of our designers (and our extraordinary playwright!) take home some hardware - and the fact that the astonishing Universal Robots didn't take home any awards was just crazy. But that's not what these awards are about - many companies and artists I'd never heard of, in what come sometimes feel like a very small field, won big - reminding us of the width and depth of talent in Indie theatre.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

And a huge thank you the NYITA Staff.

If you were there, what were some of your favorite moments? Read the full story

It was great night!

We were nominated for 7 awards - 6 for Angel Eaters, and 1 for 8 Little Antichrists:

Outstanding Full Length Script: Johnna Adams
Outstanding Actor In A Lead Role: August Schulenburg
Outstanding Original Music: Gerard Keenan
Outstanding Costume Design: Emily Morgan DeAngelis
Outstanding Lighting Design: Jennifer Rathbone
Outstanding Sound Design: Asa Wember
Outstanding Set Design: Caleb Levengood

Also exciting were the 17 nominations for our friends at terraNova Collective, the love for the amazing production of Universal Robots, nominations for our friends at Piper MacKenzie for The Granduncle Quadrilogy, for the New York Neo-Futurists, and for APAC.

It was also a chance to learn about exciting new (to me) companies like Babel Theatre Project and Zootopia Theatre Company, both of whom were shown much love; and to see long time institutions like the Gallery Players, La Mama, Manhattan Theatre Source and HERE get nods for work they produced or presented.

So much thanks from all of us at Flux to Shay, Jason, Nick, Founder's Ward winner Akia and all of the staff and volunteers who so warmly made the event a night to remember!

(A grace note: part of any awards ceremony is recognizing the amazing work that somehow slipped through the cracks. From outside Flux, any list that doesn't feature Patrick Shearer's performance in A Colorful World or Rebecca Lingafelter's in Artifacts of Consequence missed out; and from within Flux, Richard Watson in Rattlers gave a performance I literally watched every night because it was so disturbing, moving and funny.)

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