Flux Theatre Ensemble

Did you love the song Elvis wrote for GL's Mother in Riding the Bull?
Or the rocking Good Day To Die in Angel Eaters?

Then you need to check out our collaborator and friend Gary Keenan's band, American String Conspiracy! Gary was just nominated by the NYITA for Outstanding Original Music for Angel Eaters, and he's got a set this Sunday you should check out:

Gary will be playing this Sunday July 26 at Spike Hill (www.spikehill.com) Ernie Vega on bass, Shu Nakamura on guitar, Suzanne Davenport on violin/chin cello, and Charlie Shaw on drums. Please join them at 9PM set at this swell and ultra-convenient (across the street from Bedford Ave on the L train) club, featuring some rocked-up country blues, original songs about loves won and lost, some cool-yet-smoking guitar instrumentals, and maybe a rockabilly stomp or two.

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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