This Winter Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre return to bring you a festival that is uncensored, unjuried and totally downtown.
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This Winter Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre return to bring you a festival that is uncensored, unjuried and totally downtown.
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A visceral and violent look at humanity, both funny and disturbing. Love, loss, sex, religion and violence collide, pushing the world into apocalypse. What once seemed beautiful becomes a chaotic hell. The discovery of Truth is imminent…as are scorpions.
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In this production of Jet of Blood or the Ball of Glass actors, painters, musicians, choreographers, puppeteers, and designers have collaborated to see if art can truly serve a revolutionary purpose. Inspired by Artaud’s theory and writings, a live band communicates with the fearless cast in this boldly unique production. The ensemble of actors creates an extremely physical and entirely unique vocabulary of gesture, movement and sound to dig at the very marrow of the human condition. This is an experiment on the necessity of art and the need to reinvent. This production brings culture back into the theatrical arena, stimulates all of the senses and pushes the very limits of theatre as we know it in America today. |
No. 11 Productions is an ensemble of theatre artists from Skidmore College committed to creating unique and diverse theatre. Asymptotically working towards truth, we are forever learning, growing, and becoming as a company. Dedicated to constantly questioning our world by presenting different perspectives, we juxtapose seeming reality with the unexpected. No. 11 Productions strives to create theatre that inspires its audience to reexamine what it believes to be true and to stand up for what they know to be true.
An original adaptation of Lysistrata in the 2008 SaratogaArtsFest marked the debut of No. 11 Productions, followed by performances of Will Goldberg’s We Three in The Capital Fringe Festival and The New York International Fringe Festival. No. 11 Productions is in the midst of an ongoing reading series 11 Celebrates 10 recognizing the 10th anniversary of the Plays and Playwrights anthology series.
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Julie Congress is a founding member of No. 11 Productions. With No. 11: Lysistrata (Director/Adaptor/Lampito), We Three (Olivia), Claire and the Ornithological Shadow (Director), and the 11 Celebrates 10 reading series. Julie just graduated from Skidmore College with a BS in Theatre. She studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School and appeared in Scout’s Honor in last year’s FringeNYC. Skidmore credits include: Killer Joe (Dottie), Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls (Wendy), Blood Relative (Yael), Sun, Stand Thou Still (Director), and 18-21 (Assistant Director). At the historic Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, she taught theatre classes and directed local at-risk teens in Vampire Cowboy Trilogy and directed Bat Boy: The Musical. Julie interned for Saratoga Shakespeare Co., is a reviewer for nytheatre.com, works at The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene, and is the director of the annual Northeastern Educational High School Theatre Showcase. |
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Mitchell Conway is a founding member of No. 11 Productions. With No. 11: Lysistrata (Commissioner), We Three (Amory), Claire and the Ornithological Shadow (Shadow/Composer), and the 11 Celebrates 10 reading series. Mitchell was in a staged reading of Current Changes in Empire (Jimmy) with Headwater Productions, World Series of Dibz (Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson) for dailyballbreakers.com, and the School of Visual Arts film Pop Quiz (Mike). He is a graduate of Skidmore College with a major in Theatre, where he was involved in the following productions: The Good Woman of Setzuan (Mr. Shu Fu), Killer Joe (Joe Cooper), Dirty Linen (Withenshaw), Aloha, Say The Pretty Girls (Richard), Hamletmachine (Actor Playing Hamlet), Europe (Morocco), Rufio: King of the Lost Boys (Peter Pan), A Burial At Thebes (Haemon), What Comes Next? (The Writer, Man), Baby Talk (The Psychiatrist), A Man Of His Word (Peter) and Gorey Stories (Jarvis). He was also in Torch Song Trilogy (Ed Reiss) with Studio Arts Entertainment, and at the National Theatre Institute he was in Grimm America (Dylan, Frozen Man), Twelfth Night (Orsino), and participated in a number of readings for the NTI Playwrights week. |
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Samantha Hooper-Hamersley is a founding member of No. 11 Productions. With No. 11: Lysistrata (Lysistrata), We Three (Amory's Mom), Claire and the Ornithological Shadow (Claire), and the 11 Celebrates 10 reading series. Samantha is a recent graduate and Theatre major from Skidmore College. This past spring she performed in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Rosemary) for Homemade Theatre at SPAC. Her credits at Skidmore include: The Good Woman of Setzuan (Shen Teh/Shui Ta), The Cherry Orchard (Dunyasha), Diaghilev, Dir. Sheryl Kaller (Coco Chanel), Hamletmachine (Ensemble), and Merrily We Roll Along (KT). Samantha has previously studied in London at the British American Drama Academy and in New York City at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. |
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Ryan Emmons is a founding member of No. 11 Productions. With No. 11: Lysistrata (Director/Adaptor/Kinesias), We Three (Tommy), Claire and the Ornithological Shadow (Director), and the 11 Celebrates 10 reading series. Ryan is a recent graduate of Skidmore College with a major in Theatre. Ryan has studied at both the British American Drama Academy and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has spent two years teaching theatre classes to low income and at-risk youth is Saratoga Springs; directing them in productions of Measure for Measure and Bat Boy: The Musical. Other directing credits include: Killer Joe, Overtones, and Bug which he directed at the historic Caffe Lena. He assistant directed How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Homemade Theatre. Ryan is also the director of the annual Northeastern Educational High School Theatre Showcase. |
Nat Osborn is a recent graduate of Skidmore College. He has been composing and performing music for over a decade. Highlights of his burgeoning music career include a commission from the PRISM Saxophone quartet in 2004, the world premiere of his string quartet "Of Ghosts and Trains" this past April, and the international release of his independently produced rock album Nat Osborn + the Free Radicals. Nat is very excited to be able to break into new personal sonic territory with this project. |
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Jen Neads is an artist-in-residence for No. 11 Productions. With No. 11: We Three (Poster Design), Claire and the Ornithological Shadow (Puppets/Poster Design/Guitarist). Jen is a recent graduate of Skidmore College. She artistically designed scenic elements for productions of Bug and Bat Boy: The Musical at the historic Caffe Lena. She has been involved artistically in numerous theatre productions including Killer Joe and Vampire Cowboy Trilogy. Jen has also created various theatrical poster designs and developed the logo for the 2008 EdTA's Northeastern Educational Theatre Festival. Outside of the theatre, Jen pursues her own artistic endeavors through painting, drawing and wood burning. |
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