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Human 2.0 Artist – Anna Lamadrid

Human 2.0 Artist – Anna Lamadrid

This interview series will focus on the artists of DEINDE and ForePlay Human 2.0, asking them to riff on the themes and question of the plays. Anna Lamadrid acted in all four scenes of our March 26nd ForePlay: Human 2.0, and recently Assistant Directed Menders. This multi-talented, super-versatile theatre artist makes every room she walks into better (you’re lucky,…

Human 2.0/DEINDE Artist Profile – David Ian Lee

Human 2.0/DEINDE Artist Profile – David Ian Lee

This interview series will focus on the artists of DEINDE and ForePlay Human 2.0, asking them to riff on the themes and question of the plays. David Ian Lee is playing Cooper Sands in DEINDE, and writing a play about the evolution of our sense of time for the April 2nd ForePlay. For Flux, he…

ForePlay: Human 2.0 #1 – The Pictures

ForePlay: Human 2.0 #1 – The Pictures

Post by August Schulenburg. Photos by Will Lowry. Last night, on March 26, we kicked off our ForePlay: Human 2.0 series in style at Fontana’s, and celebrated the 50th Anniversary of World Theatre Day, to boot! Check out the pics, and leave your memories from the event behind.  Up next: Monday, April 2: 7 to…

ForePlay: Human 2.0 – Rehearsal Report

ForePlay: Human 2.0 – Rehearsal Report

Post and sad iPhone photo by August Schulenburg In addition to beginning rehearsals for DEINDE this weekend, we also held rehearsals for the first installment of ForePlay:Human 2.0, going up tonight (please come!) Due to several last minute actor cancellations (sad), Isaiah and I stepped into some roles (happy). While wrangling 30+ artist schedules is…

ForePlay: Human 2.0

ForePlay: Human 2.0

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Brian Pracht, Rachael Hip-Flores, Matthew Murumba, Kari Swenson Riely in New World Iliads #1) By August Schulenburg, photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum Our exploratory play reading series ForePlay, where playwrights riff on the themes of our mainstage production, is back! That’s right, we have a winner in a squeaker between iSapiens and…

Vote for Human 2.0 or iSapiens

Vote for Human 2.0 or iSapiens

(Post by August Schulenburg. Creepily DEINDE-appropriate picture of me and Matt Archambault courtesy of Matt’s computer.) Our next ForePlay series (learn more about this themed staged reading series here) will focus on the themes of our next production, DEINDE. Here’s the play’s current blurb: In the not-too-distant future, the pressure to cure a global pandemic spurs…

DEINDE Marketing Meeting #1

DEINDE Marketing Meeting #1

Above is a note about DEINDE designed by Isaiah Tanenbaum that will run in the program of The Stranger To Kindness, the play opening today directed by our own Heather Cohn (go see it!) It also represented the very first volley of marketing for our next production, and last night, Isaiah, Kelly O’Donnell and myself…

New World Iliads, Part Two and Three

(Photo: Anna Lamadrid. Pictured: Jelena Stupljanin, Jason Howard) New World Iliads was an interesting ForePlay series for Flux. On the one hand, our benefit that kicked off the series was well-attended, and represented a high water mark for quality in the series. The two that followed were both strong artistically, but due to the overwhelming…

New World Iliads, #1

What is New World Iliads?How can I learn more about Ajax in Iraq? (Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Brian Pracht, Rachael Hip-Flores, Matthew Murumba, Kari Swenson Riely) By August Schulenburg, photos by Isaiah Tanenbaum What an amazing night! I think this was one of our best ForePlays ever, in part because of the quality of scripts;…

New World Iliads

Our exploratory play reading series ForePlay, where playwrights riff on the themes of our mainstage production, is back! New World Iliads will take place on three nights with each night treating a contemporary war from a mythic perspective. In the same way that Ajax in Iraq re-imagines a war from thousands of years ago, New…

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