The 2nd annual Frigid New York Theatre Festival
The 2nd annual Frigid New York Theatre Festival begins on 27 Feb 2008 and runs through to 9 Mar 2008, presenting 30 shows at three different venues.
The festival is presented by Horse TRADE in Association with EXIT Theatre. In true support of theatre on the fringe of the mainstream, the artists take home 100% of their box office, and the festival producers do not receive royalties from future performances. The festival�s producers are proud to support self-producing artists� growth and future success.
Frigid New York (2008): 3 Theaters, 12 Days, 30 independent theater companies and over 150 performances.
Following is a complete program schedule, arranged by theatre, of all productions performing at Frigid New York
Kraine Theater
First floor
85 East 4th Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Ave)
New York, NY 10003
| American Badass: Is democracy becoming extinct? One of downtown NYC's favorite solo performers returns with this multiple-character examination of the state of the world as we head into another round of election hijinks. Harcum's emotionally driven, virtuosic, and irreverent signature style is deployed in this battle to figure out who the hell we are in the current ape-shit whirlwind of madness. | |||||||||||
| Written by: Chris Harcum Directed by: Bricken Sparacino Cast: Chris Harcum Length: 1hr
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| American Cake: Just how much do you love your country? This political satire is red, blue, and green friendly. Free cake at every show! A high-octane and high-glucose ride though the world of non-partisan political satire. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Jonathan Pereira Directed by: Kristen Williams Produced by: Prickly Pear Cast: Jonathan Pereira Length: 50mins
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| Antonin...Mon Artaud: Is democracy becoming extinct? One of downtown NYC's favorite solo performers returns with this multiple-character examination of the state of the world as we head into another round of election hijinks. Harcum's emotionally driven, virtuosic, and irreverent signature style is deployed in this battle to figure out who the hell we are in the current ape-shit whirlwind of madness. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Roi 'Bubi' Escudero Produced by: ETdC Projects� Lab Cast: Roi 'Bubi' Escudero Length: 1hr
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| Clinical Depression (the funny kind): Twelve years of therapy, meds, and a surprising amount of hilarity. It's a fearlessly honest and funny glimpse into one man's experience with depression. You'll laugh, you�ll cry, and learn more about this guy than you ever wanted to. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Drew Winniger Directed by: Bilgin Turker Presented by: Jonathan Tessero Cast: Drew Winniger Length: 1hr 30mins
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| Diversity Harbour: A funny and ruthless ghost story, explores finding your place and losing your innocence at the same time through monologues by four characters in Chicago--all the while unfolding the mystery of the unseen woman who brings them together. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Marisa Wegrzyn Directed by: Annie Coburn Produced by: Don't Eat the Pictures Cast: Dana Berger (Grace), Dorien Makhloghi (Dennis), Avery Pearson (James) and Amanda Sayle (Stephanie). Length: 1hr
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| Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/Conversation Storm: Around a dinner table, three actor / musicians sing, pray, beat forks, deliver the news, and snap between scenes in mid-sentence in this brutal but timely deconstruction of War-on-Terror-speak by avant-garde composer Rick Burkhardt. Torture, ticking time bombs, faux-Middle-Eastern folk tales, broken clocks, unreliable waiter. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Rick Burkhardt Produced by: Nonsense Productions Cast: Rick Burkhardt, Andy Gricevich and Ryan Higgins Length: 1hr
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| Speedo and the Straight Man: Deals with a man�s struggle with self discovery� discovery that demands the central character as well as the audience to face the often brutal and ugly truth of reality. The play candidly explores many universal themes such as family life, acceptance, friendship, love, physical and verbal abuse, rape, homosexuality, promiscuity, and a person�s struggle with self worth. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Gerard Karabin Directed by: Peter A. DuBo� Produced by: MeLu Communications Group Cast: Lucio Fernandez Length: 55mins
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| Sporknotes: 45 minutes of intellectual mockery and literary blasphemy, set in motion by audience suggestions of both Classic & Obscure Literature, the troupe of improvisers and actors bring the stories to life with little to no knowledge of the story line, guided only by online student study guides! | ||||||||||
| Conceived by: Jason Tyne Directed by: Jason Tyne Produced by: Rising Sun Performance Company Cast: Andrea Snell, Julie Bain, Nicolette Callaway, Josh Hyman, Brian Schell, Courtney J. Boddie, Chris Enright, Kerri Ford and Ben Rameaka Length: 45mins
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| Stuck!: Has there ever been anyone who can honestly say the've never felt stuck? A show about a woman locked in a bathroom, in the bowels of a Starbucks somewhere. Or is she?. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Jennie Franks Directed by: Sasha Cucciniello Produced by: Jennie Franks Production Cast: Jennie Franks Length: 40mins
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| Telegrams: A new forum for cinema distribution�Canada�s finest young film artists are travelling with their own projection gear and a dangerous repertoire of new work from award winning Canadian directors. Like a band of rogue troubadours singing to let their hearts out, Telegrams filmmakers will present the best new Canadian cinema in a unique and exciting way." | ||||||||||
| Curated by: Alexander Carson Cast: The crew (No cast as this is a showing of short films) - Alexander Carson, Nicholas Marti, Kyle Thomas, Zachary Cox and Benjamin Carson Length:??
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The Red Room
85 East 4th Street
(Between 2nd and 3rd Ave)
New York, NY 10003
| Diary of a Mad Fashionista: The Mad Fashionista, the plus size Internet diva feared throughout the world of style. Helped by her browbeaten assistant this larger-than-life Goddess of Chic dishes on the famous men and women she�s bedded, celebrity secrets, and dear, eccentric Mama in this farcical couture comedy, based on the popular comic blog. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Elisa DeCarlo Presented by: S&D Production Cast: Elisa DeCarlo (Fashionista) and Shannon Sutherland Length: 50mins
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| Fool For A Client: Caught in a lie because the people he lies to are caught in a lie and facing 225 years in Federal prison, the world's greatest vacuum cleaner salesman, represents himself at trial where he learns everyone's selling a vacuum cleaner. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Mark Whitney Cast: Mark Whitney Length: 1hr
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| Hap Scotch: A tour of lives in transition. Before one settles on a lifestyle, career, religion, or partner, if one ever does, hosts of adventures, personalities and (pre)occupations influence the unmanageable tug of war between vocation and diversion. Comical characters recount life's best and worst bouts amid fate, will, and whim. | ||||||||||
| Presented by: Sapling Players Length: 50mins
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| Her Majesty: A contemporary jester takes us back to the past to better help us learn about the present. Social and political satire abound as we see that the world still needs it's fools show us how to stand up to the giants,demons,and kings, that surround us. The Dark Ages never had so much light! | ||||||||||
| Written by: Sean Owens Presented by: EXIT Theatre production Cast: Christina Augello and Sean Owens. Length: 50mins
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| Korean Badass: For Fortune and Glory� The American Dream and Steve McQueen. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Stevie Lee Saxon Presented by: Korean Kneivel Cast: Stevie Lee Saxon Length: 1hr
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| Leaving Normal: "Have you ever tried to fit your life into a suitcase?...Your actual life � memories, regrets, feelings, loves, hatreds, heartache?" Join Eileen on this journey as she searches for acceptance, solitude and the cure to a genetically inherited broken heart. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Melissa McNamara Cast: Melissa McNamara Length: 55mins
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| Parts is Parts: Vision, blood, and the lovely type of hope that only blossoms out of political, spiritual, and personal despair, parts is parts: spirals soaring original music with implements of death, baked goods, and intense doses of ridiculous sincerity to beg the dangerous and sometimes terrifying question: how does it all fit together? | ||||||||||
Length: 55mins
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| Preparation Hex: 'Who would put a hex on me?' is the question Bob Brader tries to answer in his new dark comedic monologue. It�s about hemorrhoids, fear, obsession and finding the love of your life. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Bob Brader Directed by: Suzanne Bachner Produced by: John Montgomery Theatre Company Cast: Bob Brader Length: 1hr
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| Rebel Without a Niche: The most awkward dead-end jobs anyone's ever worked, injected with a high-octane cocktail of drollness! We�ve all been there. We�ve met waves of creepy/doldrums/smiles-too-much types of people. Kurt roasts them all in an hour, along with a killer bit with a jelly donut. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Kurt Fitzpatrick Directed by: Gabe Hakvaag Presented by: Too Much Free Time Cast: Kurt Fitzpatrick. Length: 1hr
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| Working It Out: What now? She�s obsessive. He�s gay. The faucet�s still leaking. And baby makes three. Oh. And they�re nine. See what happens when these youngsters play a twisted game of house in Working it Out. | |||||||||||
| Written by: Amanda Sage Comerford Directed by: Helena Gleissner Produced by: An International BTC Cast: Michael Hirstreet(John) and Kate Russell (Susie) Length: 35mins
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Under St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place
(1st Ave & Ave A)
New York, NY 10003
| Boom: The tale of sentimental bomb-maker's tangled relations with the calculating denizens of his desperate hometown. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Andrew Connor Produced by: IL Productions Length: 55mins
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| Chosen: What if Hillary talked to angels? Well, then she�d be Bernie. Growing up in middle America, Bernie always knew she was meant for something. Then one day, an angel told her what it was. As she struggles to fulfill her God given destiny, Bernie goes on a journey which may sound very familiar. College radical. First Lady. Senator. And then? She�s going to be the leader of the world, free or otherwise. Why? Because it�s what God wants. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Rick Vorndran Directed by: Rick Vorndran Presented by: A Dysfunctional Theatre Company Production Cast: Rob Brown, Danaher Dempsey, Allison Sell, Amy Beth Sherman, Theresa Unfried and Alexander R. Warner. Length: 1hr
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| Excess Secret Circus: Guess What �It�s� About?: Olga and Bjorn host this entirely unpredictable (yet lovingly delightful) production that features audience tampering, two wildly comic ExcessoMimes (Gluttony and Lust), an outlandish game of Operation (you're the doctor!), video and audio montage, tap dancing, outrageous fun and mild-nudity. | ||||||||||
| Conceived by: Theatre Reverb Choreography by: Miranda Zukowski Presented by: Theatre Reverb Cast: Kristin Arnesen, Radoslaw Konopka, Christopher Thomas Gilkey, Rachael W. Gilkey Length: 1hr
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| Giant Invisible Robot: Giant Invisible Robot is the story of a painfully shy young man and his compulsively destructive robot. The life of Elvis Presley told through the eyes of 17 women. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Jayson McDonald Produced by: Stars and Hearts Cast: Jayson McDonald Length: 50mins
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| Modern Medieval: A contemporary jester takes us back to the past to better help us learn about the present. Social and political satire abound as we see that the world still needs it's fools show us how to stand up to the giants,demons,and kings, that surround us. The Dark Ages never had so much light! | ||||||||||
| Written by: David Tyson Presented by: A David Tyson's Weaver of Tales Theatre production Cast: David Tyson Length: 1hr
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| Subway Series: Subway Series is an experimental improvised play that explores the levels of connection between expression and individuality, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of communication and the imagination. | ||||||||||
| Written by: NewFormat Improvsation Produced by: NewFormat Improv Production Cast: Jason Surratt, Jeff Stevens, Dan Levy, Chris McCue, Megan Bernard, Greg Moss, Cole Stitelman, Aaron Stoker-Ring. Length: 50mins
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| Thanks for the Scabies, Jerkface!: Meet Dan: His parents talk to stuffed animals. He lost an armwrestling match against a drag queen. And everyone in Wal-Mart knows he has scabies. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Dan Bernitt Produced by: Dan Bernitt Production Cast: Dan Bernitt. Length: 1hr
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| Two in the Bush!: A female Rabbinical student teams up with exotic dancers, taking their show on the road to senior's homes. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Tracey Erin Smith Directed by Anita La Selva Produced by: Burning Bush Productions Cast: Tracey Erin Smith. Length: 1hr
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| Whence Came Ye Scarlett O'Hara O'Hanrahan?: When Scarlett ran away from her Irish home in search of her roots, she never thought she'd discover America: Badonkadonks! Popsuperstar-divas!! Political Correctness!!! Will this African-American-Irish-African-American lassie thrive or will NYC eat her alive? | ||||||||||
| Written by: Melle Powers Directed by: Anita La Selva Produced by: 53 Hysterics Cast: Melle Powers Length: 1hr
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| XY(T): Do you have the balls to become a man? XY(T) brings to life a series of questions, contradictions, and characters around the theme of testosterone. Veering between playful, poignant, hilarious, and disconcerting, transgender butch Kestryl Lowrey strips away layers of gender and self in pursuit of sex and sanity within embodied masculinity. | ||||||||||
| Written by: Kestryl Lowrey Cast: Kestryl Lowrey Length: 40mins
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