Showing posts with label Divine Reckonings. Show all posts
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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #15:
Michael John Garcés

Friday, June 25, 2010 0 comments

(Ed. note: My sincere apologies, this lovely interview feel through the cracks! I truly hope later is better than never...)
What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?

Michael John Garcés
Playwright, Divine Reckonings

Previous Flux Experience: First timer!

Do you have a favorite Bible character?
The “voice” of the psalms.

Are you blessed?
Yes.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
I don’t know any wrestling moves, but I’d definitely cheat.

What would you do for more life?
If threatened, probably anything, as would most animals. If made a cold offer, nothing.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
Every Olivia Newton-John album ever pressed.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
Growing up in a catholic country.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
I don’t.

Bio: Michael John Garcés is the artistic director of Cornerstone Theatre Company in Los Angeles. Recently, his play in the Zone was presented by Red Fern Theater Company as part of “+30 NYC.” Next season needtheatre in LA will produce his play THE WEB. Michael is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Read the full story

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #18: Will Ellis

Saturday, May 22, 2010 0 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?

Will Ellis
Actor, ForePlay: Divine Reckonings

Previous Flux Experience
ForePlay: Imagination Compact


Do you have a favorite Bible character?
My favorite Bible character is Joseph.

Are you blessed?
I feel extremely blessed. Humbly speaking.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?

Wrestling move? Probably the sleeper-hold.

What would you do for more life?

For more life I’d probably have twins.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?

A ghost is probably the weirdest “thing” in my parent’s attic.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?

I read it. A lot. What a great romance, God and His people.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?

I believe in the Messiah.

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?

Nothing in the near future, but I’d love to be on Nurse Jackie and/or White Collar. Be watching.

Will Ellis - NYC: Ask Someone Else, God (Looking Glass), Twelfth Night (T. Schreiber), Odyssey, Spring’s Awakening, The Fall (Looking Glass - IT Award nomination), The Other End, Macbeth, Rock of Ages. Regional: Hamlet, A Vampire Tale, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Portfolio Awards), The Foreigner, Laughter on the 23rd Floor.

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #17: Fengar Gael

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?

Fengar Gael
Playwright, ForePlay: Divine Reckonings

Previous Flux Experience
A fan of Flux Sundays where actors have scenes from my perversions-in-progress: BEGGAR AT THE FEAST, THE USHER'S BALL, and THE GALLERIST.


Do
you have a favorite Bible character?
Goliath and Lot's curious wife.

Are you blessed?

Every day, every hour, by every soul I encounter.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
Plucking the wing-feathers, stealing them for myself and fleeing the scene.

What would you do for more life?
Nothing. It's a devil's baragain and I'm hoping for an eternity in paradise (ha!).

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
My father's collection of gold painted wishbones from all the chickens and turkeys he's devoured.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
My father forced my brothers and me to have regular readings on Sundays which induced a perpetual state of suppressed laughter.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
No deities, but I do believe in the divinity of all creatures.

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?

A production of a play that was read at some of the Flux Sundays called THE USHER'S BALL by CAP 21 (Collaborative Arts Project 21) at the Shop Theatre (18 West 18th Street), from May 6 through May 27th, directed by Michael Barakiva, with Lawrence Arancio, Jennifer Joan Thompson, Curzon Dobell, Linda Larson, Bonnie Black, Gene Gilette, Michael Hicks, Stephen Bel Davies, Nick Ciangrogna, Jake Green, Adam Covalt, and Ronan Babbitt.

Fengar Gael is a recipient of a playwriting fellowship from the California Arts Council, the Craig Noel Award for Devil Dog Six, the Playwrights First Award for Opaline, and commissions from South Coast Repertory, New Jersey Repertory, InterAct, and the National New Play Network for Soul on Vinyl. Her play, The Usher’s Ball, will be produced at CAP 21 in New York beginning May 6th.
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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #16:
Ingrid Nordstrom

Monday, May 17, 2010 0 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?

Ingrid Nordstrom
Actor, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience: Anisa Hansen in The Lesser Seductions of History; Dramaturgy for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Other Bodies; Have Another: We Are Burning



Do you have a favorite Bible character?
I think Judith is my favorite. Partially because she inspired Artemisia Gentileschi and consequently Howard Barker.

Are you blessed?
Indeed.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
I would go medieval, and use my wicked logic skills to shrink it down to the size of a pin head, and have it dance till it was all tuckered out.

What would you do for more life?
Jeez, I don't think I want more life, really. Too lonely once the loved ones are gone. I would love to STAY healthy for most of my life and to die standing up. But I think I would do just about anything for wisdom. Damn that snake with his shiny apple!

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
I don't know... Homemade Crossbow? Is that weird? We have some gold teeth lying around from my Grandpa's medicine pouch from WWI, yes, the first one.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
What a funny way to phrase that question! I went to bible school and what not in the Lutheran Church, but I think most of my exposure actually came from Europe and the art, or that is what made it really fascinating for me.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
The kind that "would dance". It would be nice to think that there is some reason that life exists at all. It is strange and wonderful and it would be cool if there was something that could appreciate it as a whole, and it would be super awesome if at the end of this particular life, I could somehow be involved in that knowledge.

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?
Just working on working.

Ingrid Nordstrom hails from the small Scandinavian nation of Minnesota. She studied Theater and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin: Eau Claire, spent a bit of time in Europe "finding herself", and finished her training at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School's 2 Year Conservatory Program in NYC. Now she acts. Read the full story

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #15:
Matthew Murumba

Saturday, May 15, 2010 1 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?
Matthew Murumba
Actor, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience: A Midsummer Night's Dream, ForePlay (Divine Reckonings and Poetic Larceny), Food:Soul (Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Damn Pernicious Go-Betweens), Have Another (The Will), 4th Annual Retreat at Little Pond, Flux Sundays

Do you have a favorite Bible character?
Starts with "M" ends with "atthew"

Are you blessed?
yes...though I have a habit of forgetting that I am

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
"sweep the leg"...probably wouldn't be that effective but ever since I saw karate kid I've always wanted to do that

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
a family of four with an annoying dog (its an apartment build)

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?
everything happens for a reason...for real...it true

Bio: In addition to loving being part of the Flux family, Matthew is a Member of the theater film collective Stage 13 (www.stage13.com) where he also serves on the Board of Directors. He was born in Melbourne, Australia and his parents are from Uganda if you can believe that. Read the full story

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Jacob's House Artists Reveal #4:
Matthew Archambault

Thursday, May 13, 2010 13 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?


Matthew Archambault
Actor, Jacob's House

Productions - Jacob in Jacob's House (Schulenburg); Barry Tanner in The Lesser Seductions of History (Schulenburg). Staged Readings - Coach Jim Brindell in Volleygirls (Ackerman). Foreplays - Will & Quince in The Imagination Compact: The Mechanicals (Pracht & Ackerman). Have Anothers - Doctor Hargraves Moss in Opaline (Gael). 36 Flux Sundays, starting September 7th, 2008.

Do you have a favorite Bible character?
Not really...I have bad associations with my Christian past...

Are you blessed?
I consider myself very lucky. My duty is to be ready for those moments when opportunity presents itself.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
First, confusion. I'd try some bizarre stuff that would throw the angel off guard...then, at it's most uncomfortable/off-base, I'd strike quickly, directly, hoping to end the fight fast. That'd probably be a blow to the head with something heavy and blunt nearby.

What would you do for more life?
I'd do a lot of things!

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
I spoke to my father a couple days ago, and he told me he has a musical in the attic that he wrote when he was in college up there! He used 'popular songs from the day,' and has mixed feelings about whether or not he wants to find it...

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
I went to Monsigneur Clarke for first and second grade. My early memory of learning about the Bible is leaning over to a boy sitting on the floor next to me and saying, 'You don't really believe this, do you??" He was terrified at question...and I knew then I was in a minority. Now I feel that maybe I'm not really in the minority...there's a lot of self-deception going on when it comes to religion.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
Why can't folks be happy with the beings we have?

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?
My hostile takeover of Flux Theatre Ensemble, planned for early Fall, 2012.

Matthew Archambault has worked with The Mortals, Columbia Rep, Brooklyn on Foot, Wayside Theatre, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Roxy Regional Theatre, Theatre at Monmouth, and Monomoy Theatre, among others. Read the full story

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #14:
Daryl Lathon

Monday, May 10, 2010 1 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings?



Daryl Lathon
Actor, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience: First timer (but we loved him in Willy-Nilly and Infectious Opportunity!)

Do you have a favorite Bible character? No

Are you blessed? To a certain extent. I live in America.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use? I practiced Judo earlier in my life. I'd probably whip out a couple of old moves.

What would you do for more life? No idea.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic? Nothing. They don't have an attic.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament? Reading it. Listening to sermons inspired by it.


Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about? Not that I'm aware of.

Daryl Lathon’s regional credits include HENRY V, CORIOLANUS, KING LEAR (dir: Michael Kahn), A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (dir: Joe Calarco), MASTER CLASS, and DEATH OF A SALESMAN His New York credits include REVENGER’S TRAGEDY (dir. Jesse Berger), DEAD RECKONING (dir. Jesse Berger) VOLUME OF SMOKE (wr. Clay Mcleod Chapman, dir. Isaac Butler) IN PUBLIC, ROMEO AND JULIET, and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Pearl Theatre Company). Read the full story

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ForePlay: An Awesome God

Sunday, May 9, 2010 1 comments

Your final chance for a little ForePlay!

ForePlay: DIVINE RECKONINGS goes out with a bang for its fourth and final installment...

An Awesome God

Monday, May 10th, 7:00pm

380 Broadway @ White St, (2 blocks South of Canal) 4th Floor

Plays by: Erin Browne, Fengar Gael, Mac Rogers, & Crystal Skillman

Directed by: Michael Davis

Featuring: Will Ellis, Daryl Lathon, Nick Monroy, Ingrid Nordstrom, Chandra Thomas, & Cotton Wright
An Awesome God focuses on The Creation Story and The Rebellion of Korah


Learn more about ForePlay, and the read interviews with the artists involved,

by clicking here!
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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #13:
Christine Evans

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings?



Christine Evans
Playwright, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience: none! I am a flux virgin



Do you have a favorite Bible character?
The Ass

Are you blessed?
Yes, but not always in uplifting ways.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
They would reveal themselves at 4 a.m. in a cold sweat.

What would you do for more life?
I need to figure out rainy Sunday afternoons first.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
My parents.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
Dusty hotel rooms and terrifying dreams.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
The Fates, the Furies, the shimmer of light in between everyday things.

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?
Check news link on my website: http://www.christine-evans-playwright.com

Playwright Christine Evans' recent productions include the award-winningTrojan Barbie at the A.R.T. (2009) and Weightless at Perishable Theatre. She is an Australian Fulbright Alumna, lives in Providence, RI and was brought up by secular ex-Catholics in three different countries.

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #12:
Candice Holdorf

Saturday, May 8, 2010 0 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings?



Candice Holdorf
Actor, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience: Founding Member of Flux. Marketing Director 2006-2008. Mainstage Shows: One in The Lesser Seductions of History, Waitress/Ballerina in Pretty Theft, Claudia in 8 Little Antichrists, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Chuck in Rue. Food:Soul: Lily in This Storm is What We Call Progress. Have Another: Angel Juice. ForePlay: Rosaura in Sueno. Stage Manager for the 2005 production of Riding the Bull. Flux Sundays: Too many to count. Original Coffee Goddess.

Do you have a favorite Bible character? Delilah and Jezebel shook the patriarchy to the core...gotta love that. Jesus was pretty hot too...

Are you blessed? Every day I wake up to the beauty that is is a blessing--everything else is just icing on the cake.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use? My powers of seduction, most notably my hypnotic eye gaze...

What would you do for more life? More life?!?! I've barely got this figured out! I'll be back many times over, don't worry about that...

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic? I plead the fifth.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament? Read it a lot as a pre-teen. Has some really cool parables, poetry and allegorical tales. Also has a lot of reworked stories that have completely eliminated the majority of women's roles in the shaping of history. I'm all for bringing back the feminine divine, baby!!!

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in? I believe we are all expressions of divinity...that there is no one old white dude outside of us, but that we are all gods and goddesses. And if we stripped away our ego shells for just a moment and stepped into the mysterious realm of no past and no future, we might finally experience that connection with holy greatness that we scramble for our whole lives and thus evolve and ascend to a higher dimension of existence.

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about? My film, An Affirmative Act, premieres at the Hoboken International Film Festival on June 4. I play Terri Succi, a lesbian woman living as a man so she can marry her lover and adopt a baby. When her ruse is discovered, she is arrested for fraud and gets involved in a dangerous legal battle for her rights and her life. www.anaffirmativeact.com I will also be in Haiti April 4-11 as a volunteer relief worker with Hands on Disaster Response www.hodr.org And of course I will be returning to Burning Man this year ;-)

Candice Holdorf is an alumna of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (Stella Adler). Favorite theatrical roles outside of Flux include: Referee in Never Swim Alone (Intentional Theatre), Margot Wendice in Dial M For Murder (Cortland Rep) and Jill in Conference Room A (Kids with Guns). She also helped create and recently toured colleges with 36:24:36, a performance piece based on the writers' and performers' histories of eating disorders. 36:24:36 first premiered at the 2007 NY Fringe Festival. Her latest role is as Terry Succi in the upcoming film An Affirmative Act, premiering June 4 at the Hoboken International Film Festival. Read the full story

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #11:
Chandra Thomas

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 0 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings?


Chandra Thomas
Actor, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience: i've been a part of a table reading with Flux before (Ajax in Iraq) - excited to be a part of this ForePlay.



Do you have a favorite Bible character?
(perhaps cheesy but the truth!) Jesus.

Are you blessed?
Absolutely, fully and without question.

What would you do for more life?
Only do things that i thoroughly enjoy regardless of any necessary sacrifices.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
My parents no longer have an attic as they remodeled their house. But, when i was superyoung, there was attic space in my little brother’s room. Because we were small enough to walk into the attic space, my brother and i used to play in there with a random of assortment of my dad’s discarded tools, puppets made out of garbage bags and newspaper, toy cars and headless Barbie knockoff dolls.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
Have read much of it—but recently i’ve been impressed that i still remember many of the books in order after being made to learn them when i was a child. i went to synagogue quite a bit during my early teen years and the language sounded so much more musical than it did when read in church.

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?
Will be appearing on an upcoming episode of “The Good Wife” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”. Currently in rehearsals for a workshop production of my original solo show, a rhyme for the UNDERground. Details at www.NYchandra.com.

chandra thomas works as an actor/writer/producer based in New York City. Prior theatre performances include new and classic plays in New York and regionally. chandra also works in film and television. She is the co-founder of viBe Theater Experience, a non-profit, performing-arts education organization empowering teenage girls. More info at www.NYchandra.com.


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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #10:
Bill George

Monday, April 19, 2010 0 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings?


Bill George
Playwright, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience: I have no history with these guys other than the fact I've known a handful for a decade and a half, have been a teacher to a few and I am inspired by their passion, beauty, artistic purity, and sheer vulnerable humanity. (Ed. note: Bill has also hosted all four of Flux's retreats at the Little Pond Arts Retreat, for which all of us are deeply grateful)


Do you have a favorite Bible character?
No.

Are you blessed?
Yes.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
Surrender.

What would you do for more life?
Breathe.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
The light.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
Studied the Psalms, for one thing...through the ages and through it's manifestation in music.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
The Inexpressible, ultimately unknowable kind.

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?
Gotta get this thing written!

Bill George: Bill studied with Paul Baker at the Dallas Theatre Centre, Paul Curtis in New York, founded People's Theatre Co. and later Touchstone Theatre in 1981. In 1996 he created Little Pond Arts Retreat in Nazareth, Pennsylvania with his wife Bridget--dedicated to exploring the art of transcendence.
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Divine Reckonings Artist Reveal #9:
Lynn Kenny

Sunday, April 18, 2010 0 comments



Lynn Kenny
Actor, ForePlay


Previous Flux Experience: Flux Sundays, Ballerina/Psychiatrist in Pretty Theft, and Popular Former Starbucks Barista on Steinway.





Do you have a favorite Bible Character?
Probably Esther because she was so unlikely to be who she was and then she was the bitch.


Are you blessed?

Thankfully, yes.


If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?

I'd try to play dead and then get up and run really fast when he got hungry and went for a burger or something.


What would you do for more life?

I have no idea...I'm a really good cook-


What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?

Vinyl records of Bill Cosby stand-up


What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?

Flannel Boards, bad VHS videos of Adam and Eve and frustration because I couldn't pronounce any of the names or places.


If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?

God and Jesus Christ.


Lynn Kenny (MFA Acting) has been seen in "Pretty Theft" with Flux, "Maddy" with Redd Tale and as a character actor at Ripley's Believe it or Not. Like most actors, she's done a few independent films, commercials, voice-overs, and the like. Lynn loves comedy improv and chocolate.


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ForePlay: Divine Reckonings - Part Three

Thursday, April 15, 2010 0 comments

Thanks for everyone who made part two such fun! Our ForePlay series Divine Reckonings continues this Monday the 19th at the Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford St in Brooklyn, at 7:30PM. Will you be there? (And have you nabbed your $11 discount tix for opening weekend of Jacob's House with the code MANIFEST?)

Please note, Zack Robidas has stepped in as a pinch hitting playwright for Leila Buck, who had to drop out. Zack acted in the 1st round (and in Pretty Theft and 8 Little Antichrists), so we're psyched he's writing for us!

Divine Reckonings, Part 3
Monday, April 19th @ 7:30PM
Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford St, Brooklyn
I and Thou
Plays by Christine Evans, Michael John Garcés, Bill George, and Zack Robidas
Directed by Heather Cohn
Featuring David Crommett, Michael Davis, Tatiana Gomberg, Candice Holdorf, Lori Parquet, and Randolph Curtis Rand
I and Thou will focus on the stories of Isaac and Moses.
$5 Suggested Donation
Email heather@fluxtheatre.org for reservations

It's easy to get there!
The C train to Lafayette Avenue is just down the block (exit at South Oxford Street, church is halfway up the block on your right). Or take B, D, M, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, or 5 train to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street, walk north on Hanson place to South Oxford, turn left and the church will be on your right.

If you've never been to Irondale, check this space out!

Learn more about the whole ForePlay series here
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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #8:
Crystal Skillman

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 0 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?

Crystal Skillman
Playwright, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience:

I wrote the short play Geek, set at the San Diego Comic Con, for last year’s Poetic Larceny Series and I’m happy to announce it will be published in Poems & Plays 2010 this Spring! This fall I got to workshop The Sleeping World, my full length about four playwrights who come together to read their dead friend’s unfinished last play, at Flux Sundays. A scene from the play was featured this year in the awesome Have Another at Jimmy’s No. 43 this past January.

Do you have a favorite Bible character?

I gotta say the Devil always steals the show. Literally – have you seen Damn Yankees?

Are you blessed?

Not sure about that, but I have a pretty great gut instinct about things. Maybe that’s a blessing?

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?

I’d totally ninja kick the shit out of that angel until he/she was like “I respect you”. Hugs. Then drinking buddies for life!

What would you do for more life?

Go back in time. That’s the best way to do it. All I have to do is find Superman (the MOVIE Superman) and be like, “Look man – that thing when you turned the globe around that pissed off all the comic book fans cuz it was way too much power? Do that for me please!” Thanks Sup!

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?

No attic, but a kick-booty basement which was full of: my dad’s racing trophies, huge electronic speed-way racing set with glow-in-the dark cars and railings, and my name was written on the back wall in huge red letters from a bday party when I was like 5. There also was a place for our motorcycle helmets with our pet names, from when I was a kid. You can’t make this stuff up. My mom’s pet name is Pickle, mine was Peanut (?!) and my dad’s was less imaginative - just: Russ. Later in high school when I refused to go to any proms, we had alternative goth-like parties there. But peppy ones. We were happy Goths.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?

Really I just know the Adam and Eve story well (from the musical The Apple Tree … where again the Devil steals the show – have you heard that song “Forbidden Fruit” the snake sings? Those Sheldon Harnick lyrics! Genius!)

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?

I believe in the power of comics so: Spiderman. (Sorry Sup L - love you!)

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?

I guess I am blessed cuz The Vigil or the Guided Cradle, my play about torture between now and then, is being produced April 22nd – May 8th by Impetuous Theater Group in a rockin’ co-production w/ and at The Brick Theater. It’s directed by John Hurley (who directed my play Hack for the Vampire Cowboys Saloon, as well as Johnna Adams’ Lickspittles reading for Flux)! Hope you will come check it out! Tix/More info here: http://www.impetuoustheater.org/Home.html

And if you come the first weekend, I’ll totally put in a good word with Spiderman!

Bio: In addition to the above, Crystal Skillman is the author of the plays Birthday, Nobody, and The Telling Trilogy (Rising Phoenix Rep, Dir. Daniel Talbott). She’s been commissioned by Vampire Cowboys to write a new full length that will be produced by the company in an upcoming season.

http://www.google.com/profiles/crystalskillman

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #7:
Erin Browne

Monday, April 12, 2010 1 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?
Erin Browne
Playwright, ForePlay
Previous Flux Experience:
Erin's play Narrator 1 was a Food:Soul, a scene from the play was read in Have Another, and she has participated in several ForePlays (The Imagination Compact, Poetic Larceny). Plays Narrator 1, Trying, Projects, Return, and others have been developed with the help of Flux Sundays and the Flux Retreat.

Do you have a favorite Bible character?
Mmmmm, there are so many! That's the exciting part, there is a seemingly endless number of interesting people who are mentioned briefly but have these whole immense stories.

Are you blessed?
Sooooo blessed.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
Would playing dead work on an angel? I think that would be my only chance - to fake an injury or some kind of trickery. Have a feeling angels can probably see through that though.

What would you do for more life?
Cut down on fried foods. That's what I'm doing now and trust me that's a huge sacrifice for me.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
My parents don't really have attics. My dad has a collection of broken cameras from the 40s - 70s in his basement. My mom who lives in the desert had a wooden sled and toboggan rotting in her garage until recently. Mementos of past lives.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
As the intro to the Jesus book.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
I don't. I wish I did. I am jealous of people who live with faith, and it's a positive influence in their life.

Anything else coming up for you the Flux readers should know about?
My play Trying is coming up April 15-18th. I'm super excited about it. Come check it out if you can (learn more on Facebook and buy tickets here).

Erin Browne's play Trying was awarded the BBC Worldservice International Radio Play Award and A Meth Play was awarded the International Playscript Award through NSDF. Trying will be produced at the Bushwick Starr in April. Read the full story

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #6:
Catherine Porter

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 0 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?

Catherine Porter
Actor, ForePlay

Previous Flux Experience: Angel Eaters, Food:Soul of Volleygirls, and 1 Flux Sunday (we hope more soon!)



Do you have a favorite Bible character?
Simon Peter

Are you blessed?
In some ways, very much so (wonderful husband, living my dream, that kind of thing). I'm not super-lucky, though.

If you wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
I'd pour crude oil on its wings (always seems to harm birds...)

What would you do for more life?
Lie, cheat, steal, perform sexual acts - depending on the specific conditions, of course.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
Hey, I'm from Missouri and Texas - we don't really have a lot of attics there. Mostly boring, ranch style homes...

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
I'm against it. Well, okay, that's a bit strident. Another try: I was in a production of Ruth Margraff's Gat Him to His Place which is based on a really strange Old Testament story. In it, I got to sing, have an orgasm on horse back, and then be brutally attacked and killed. One of those standard O.T. happy endings...

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
Kind of the progressive-socialist view of Jesus.

Anything else for you coming up that Flux readers should know about?
I'm in Richard Sheinmel's Post Modern Living at La Mama, running 4/16-5/2. Also, a Peculiar Works show in June, soon to be announced. (www.peculiarworks.org)

CATHERINE PORTER has appeared Off and Off-Off Broadway with such companies as En Garde Arts, Manhattan Punch Line, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Aisling Arts, Theatre Askew, MadShag Productions and TOSOS. She is Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-winning Peculiar Works Project, with whom she has served as performer, producer, writer and director for 16+ years. Read the full story

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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #5:
David Crommett

Monday, April 5, 2010 2 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?
David Crommett
Actor, ForePlay
Previous Flux Experience:

First worked with Heather Cohn in '04 on a play she stage managed and Jerry Ruíz directed. Heather called me for Rue at the end of '05, and I was also at the first Flux retreat in the summer of '06. Performed in Life Is A Dream in '07. Have been with Flux Sundays since their inception. Have made close friends at Flux, like Kelly O'Donnell, and have also brought in a friend or two, like Ken Glickfeld. Most recent Flux appearance was in Food:Soul of Volley Girls in '09.

Do you have a favorite Bible character?
David.

Are you blessed?
Many times over.

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
Suggestive ones.

What would you do for more life?
Nothing; I love the life I have.

What's the weirdest thing in your parents' attic?
We didn't have an attic; we lived in the tropics. Psychically, that's another matter.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
Many hours listening to readings as a child in church.

If you believe in a deity or deities, what kind do you believe in?
I do. If I have learned anything, it is that the Creator has a wicked sense of humor.

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?
More work. New life. All cherished.

David Crommett's Bio: David Crommett was born in New York City and was raised in Puerto Rico. Works extensively as an actor, musician, broadcaster. Loves New York, loves being a dad to Amanda and Evan, loves acting. Happiness is feeling like a beginner. Success is work. Thank you Flux for being family.
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Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #4:
Ken Glickfeld

Friday, April 2, 2010 0 comments

What is Jacob's House?
What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?

Ken Glickfeld
Actor, ForePlay

Previous Flux experience:

Countless delightful Flux Sundays; Staged readings--The Dream Project (May 2007): Sueño, by Jose Rivera and Dreamlandia, by Octavio Solis; Foreplay (March 22, 2010): Formalities by James Comptois, Esther by Kristen Palmer, and Esther by Johnna Adams. Production of Angel Eaters by Johnna Adams Nov. 2008. Not strictly Flux but Gus: staged reading of his play Good Hope and a recent reading of his--nearly as fresh as Jacob’s House-- Dark Matter. Also--the last two retreats.


Do you have a favorite Bible character?

No.


Are you blessed?
Yes. Have you met Kris?

If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?
Non-violent ones

What would you do for more life?
Whatever wouldn't make my life Hell.

What is your prior experience with the Old Testament?
Jean-Claude Van Italie borrowed mine in 1967 and never returned it.
(I worked on The Serpent: A Ceremony as a member of the Open Theater)

Anything else coming up for you that Flux readers should know about?
I’ll be performing in Spaceship To Venus, April 8-17 at the Cherry Lane Studio .

Ken Glickfeld's Bio: Recent NYC - Scrooge & Marley (Marley) Angel Eaters (Doc). Out-of-town: Dr. Jeykll & Mr. Hyde (Utterson), Sherlock's Last Case (Watson), Rain (Joe Horn), Why Marry? (Uncle Everett), Uncle Vanya (Vanya) Speed the Plow(Charlie), Twelfth Night(Sir Toby). Film/TV: Don’t Drink the Water,The Accountant, Deadline(Episode 1), Spaceship on IFC. Workshop Theater member. Read the full story

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ForePlay: Divine Reckonings - Journeys

Thursday, April 1, 2010 0 comments

So our ForePlay series Divine Reckonings continues this Monday the 5th at the Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford St in Brooklyn, at 7:30PM.

Check out this line-up of ForePlay vets:

Divine Reckonings, Part 2
Monday, April 5th @ 7:30PM
Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford St, Brooklyn
Journeys
Plays by Rob Ackerman, Jeremy Basescu, Bekah Brunstetter, & David Ian Lee
Directed by Angela Astle
Featuring Ryan Andes, Lynn Kenny, Matthew Murumba, Marnie Schulenburg, & Christina Shipp
Journeys will focus on the stories of Abraham & Sarah and Ruth & Naomi
$5 Suggested Donation
Email heather@fluxtheatre.org for reservations

It's easy to get there!
The C train to Lafayette Avenue is just down the block (exit at South Oxford Street, church is halfway up the block on your right). Or take B, D, M, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, or 5 train to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street, walk north on Hanson place to South Oxford, turn left and the church will be on your right.

If you've never been to Irondale, check this space out!

Learn more about the whole ForePlay series here

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