Actor’s Theatre Streaming Performances Throughout COVID-19 Closure

Actor’s Theatre Streaming Performances Throughout COVID-19 Closure

by TeachThought Workers

From a press launch

Actors Theatre of Louisville and Government Creative Director Robert Barry Fleming are proud to announce the launch of Actors Theatre Direct: multi-channel, on-demand inventive content material to make sure that world-class theatre continues to thrive and enrich lives throughout this turbulent time.

The general public well being disaster across the unfold of COVID-19 necessitated the suspension of Actors Theatre’s season, together with almost 100 deliberate performances as a part of the 44th Humana Competition of New American Performs, initially scheduled by April 12.

Robert Barry Fleming shares, “The choice to make the most of the beneficial social distancing methods, and droop the rest of our season, stays an act of civic obligation and is, with out query, in the very best curiosity of public well being and wellness. It’s also true, that for the people in any neighborhood, self-quarantine measures may be psychologically troublesome and emotionally painful. As a workers, we rapidly redirected all our inventive vitality to discovering modern, high-quality, digital options to proceed fulfilling our mission. Actors Theatre Direct is a key strategic initiative that permits us to do exactly that.”

A premiere within the Humana Competition offers a piece and its inventive staff the chance for invaluable viewers trade and trade publicity. For 44 years, the Humana Competition has provided theatre lovers the possibility to be the primary to see groundbreaking new performs by a number of the most proficient voices writing for the American stage.

Due to this fact, the flagship choices of Actors Theatre Direct are two full-length, filmed performances of the Humana Competition productions:

— The place the Mountain Meets the Sea by Jeff Augustin with music by The Bengsons, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody and that includes Allan Ok. Washington, Nathan Hinton and Shaun and Abigail Bengson. This play was commissioned by Actors Theatre.

— Are You There? by Vivian Barnes, Jonathan Norton and Gab Reisman, directed by Robert Barry Fleming, commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville and carried out by the 2019-2020 Skilled Coaching Firm.

Digital tickets are actually obtainable at ActorsTheatre.org/Direct. Tickets begin at $15 and streaming will start April 6.

Native audiences can create an entire ‘dinner and present’ expertise at residence with a particular provide from Bearno’s Pizza. Bearno’s By-the-Bridge location will provide free breadsticks or cheese bread to those that point out “Actors Theatre” for a supply or pickup order. Name Bearno’s By-The-Bridge at 502-584-7437.

Actors Theatre Direct will even function free content material, with a pay-what-you-wish donation inspired, on Actors Theatre social media channels. Erica Denise, the theatre’s Director of Studying & Artistic Engagement, shares, “We’re dedicated to persevering with our mission whereas concurrently creating new and modern methods to interact the neighborhood throughout this unprecedented time of uncertainty.”

For press inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Greenfield, Director of Communications, at 859.321.9811 or [email protected].

Itemizing Data

Actors Theatre Direct: multi-channel, on-demand inventive content material to make sure that world-class theatre continues to thrive and to counterpoint lives throughout this turbulent time. Particulars and FAQs obtainable at ActorsTheatre.org/Direct.

Digital tickets on sale now. Streaming begins April 6, 2020 and concludes April 20, 2020. Particulars about featured Humana Competition of New American Performs tasks are beneath.

Hashtags: #ActorsTheatreDirect  #LiftUpLou #ArtsAndCultureINKY

Bearno’s Pizza Provide: Bearno’s By-the-Bridge location will provide free breadsticks or cheese bread to those that point out “Actors Theatre” for a supply or pickup order. Name Bearno’s By-The-Bridge at 502-584-7437.

For press inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Greenfield, Director of Communications, at 859.321.9811 or [email protected]

The place the Mountain Meets the Sea
by Jeff Augustin
music by The Bengsons
directed by Joshua Kahan Brody
commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville
within the Victor Jory Theatre

This music-filled play traces a Haitian immigrant and his son’s difficult bond, and their life-changing journeys throughout America.

Setting off from Miami, a Haitian immigrant named Jean takes a once-in-a-lifetime street journey out west. A long time later, his son Jonah heads east, following Jean’s route in reverse—and discovering he’s inherited his father’s love of Appalachian folks music. Separated by time, but aspect by aspect, the 2 males hint their journeys and the difficult bond they share. With lyrical storytelling and reside music, this play vividly imagines how a father and son who longed to attach may come to see one another eventually.

Jeff Augustin’s performs embrace Cry Outdated Kingdom (2013 Humana Competition), The Final Tiger in Haiti (La Jolla Playhouse and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The New Englanders (Manhattan Theatre Membership) and Little Youngsters Dream of God (Roundabout Theatre Firm). Augustin is at the moment writing for The Morning Present on Apple TV+ and the restricted collection The Good Lord Chook on Showtime. He was a Playwright-in-Residence at Playwrights Horizons and Roundabout. He’s an alumnus of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, The Lark’s Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop and The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm. Augustin is beneath fee from Manhattan Theatre Membership and La Jolla Playhouse. He obtained his B.A. from Boston Faculty and his M.F.A. from the College of California, San Diego.

Are You There?
by Vivian Barnes, Jonathan Norton and Gab Reisman
directed by Robert Barry Fleming
carried out by the actors of the 2019–2020 Skilled Coaching Firm
commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville
within the Bingham Theatre

Communication is as straightforward as a push of the button—however are we actually connecting?

From the cacophony of phone celebration traces, to CB radios on lonely highways, to the glory days of on-line chat rooms, know-how has revolutionized the best way we talk with one another. However is it at all times for the higher? On this assortment of boldly authentic brief performs, three writers and this season’s Skilled Coaching Firm discover the high-tech evolution of our social interactions. Are our units getting in the best way of high quality, in-person time with our family and friends? Or may they be one other pathway to intimacy?

Vivian Barnes is a playwright from Virginia and a proud former Actors Theatre Skilled Coaching Firm apprentice. Different Theatre: Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! on the College of California, San Diego. Extra Credit: Her play Jezebels was a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Middle’s Nationwide Playwrights Convention and the Bay Space Playwrights Competition, in addition to an honorable point out for the 2019 Kilroys Record. Just lately, she obtained Clubbed Thumb’s Open Utility Fee. She is a second-year M.F.A. Playwriting candidate on the College of California, San Diego and a recipient of the San Diego Fellowship.

Jonathan Norton Regional Theatre: penny sweet, Dallas Theater Middle. Different Theatre: Performs developed and/or produced at PlayPenn, Black and Latino Playwrights Convention, InterAct Theatre Firm, Kitchen Canine Theater, Pyramid Theatre Firm, African American Repertory Theater, Undermain Theatre, Theatre Three, Soul Rep Theatre Firm, Bishop Arts Theatre Middle, South Dallas Cultural Middle, and Nationwide New Play Community. His play Mississippi Goddamn was a finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and received the 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award given by the American Theatre Critics Affiliation. Mississippi Goddamn was commissioned by the South Dallas Cultural Middle Diaspora Performing Arts Fee Undertaking. Norton is the Playwright in Residence at Dallas Theater Middle. For extra info, please go to nortonscriptworks.com.

Gab Reisman Regional Theatre: Underbelly’s Alice in Wonderland at ZACH Theatre. Different Theatre: Subsequent Yr People at Fusebox Competition, Flood Metropolis at Theater Alliance and The NOLA Undertaking, Storm Nonetheless at Vortex Rep and Brooklyn Yard. Extra Credit: Reisman has obtained commissions from Clubbed Thumb, New Performs at Barnard, EST/Sloan Undertaking and The NOLA Undertaking. Her performs have been developed with Web page 73, Sundance Theatre Lab, The MacDowell Colony, the Orchard Undertaking, Ingram New Works Lab, Nationwide New Play Community and the Playwrights’ Middle, amongst others. Publications embrace work in The Kilroys Record: Vol. 1 and The GPTC Reader. She obtained her M.F.A. from the College of Texas at Austin. For extra info, please go to gabreisman.com.

In regards to the Skilled Coaching Firm

Now in its 48th 12 months, the Skilled Coaching Firm (PTC) is the cornerstone of Actors Theatre of Louisville’s dedication to schooling. One of many nation’s oldest pre-professional coaching packages, the PTC is a one-of-a-kind immersive program designed to raise early-career practitioners within the American theatre trade by instructing the enterprise and artwork of being a theatre skilled. Members of the Firm work straight with Actors Theatre inventive, administrative and manufacturing workers leaders, in addition to visiting visitor artists, to obtain hands-on coaching of their respective fields. The PTC is a various ensemble comprised of 39 proficient people who’re the following technology of American theatre.