POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK
Hannah Hiaasen
The Char Show: Taking it Shlow
May 19, 2020
7:30pm
The Char Show: Taking it Shlow is a show within a show, a tragicomedy offailed government care after a mass shooting within a queer variety show vessel. Char, short for Chartruisa is a local representative from Monochromania, the chartreuse sector. Drenched in a world of only chartreuse, Char is haptically-charged, and processes at a slower rate than polychromes, but still wishes to find love in an earthly realm. The Char Show is based on The Cher Show, the 1970s, TV variety show hosted by singer, performer, Cher.
Creative Advisor: Sacha Yanow.
Hannah Hiaasen is an interdisciplinary artist whose work interweaves performance and textiles. Their performances have shown nationally and internationally, exhibiting at Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany (2015), Yale School of Art (2016), New Haven, CT, and a 14-city, cross-mid-country tour with NY-based performer Jennifer Vanilla (2018). In 2016, they began a conceptual workwear collection called Ventilated Workwear that has been collected privately and publicly. In 2019, Ventilated Workwear was published into a Ventilated Workbook by Press Press Baltimore, released at NYABF 2019, and then collected by the Whitney Archives. A Baltimore expat, they currently live and work in Brooklyn, NY.
Image: Lee Ash
Francesca D’Uva
I Love You Forever
MAY 21, 2020
7:30pm
Francesca D’Uva pushes her refusal to ask others for help to a new limit in I Love You Forever, a one woman comedy musical in which she plays all the characters. Inspired by trashy teen soap operas, Broadway musicals, and Justin Bieber’s oeuvre, the story follows a young man and woman who meet on a train and fall in love. The show also features songs written and produced by Francesca. You’ll be encouraged to laugh, cry, scream, clap, dance, kiss, and have more fun than you’ve ever had in your entire life.
Directed by Sam Max.
Francesca D’Uva is an experimental comedian living in Brooklyn. She has performed in venues including MoMA PS1, Ars Nova, and Mercury Lounge. She has also performed hour length multi-media performances at Dixon Place and at Union Hall.
Becca Blackwell
Schmermie’s Choice
MAY 22 & 23, 2020
7:30pm
Becca Blackwell is back with another deeply personal and deeply absurd solo show, and this time, it’s about love. From exploring their past childhood truths and traumas, adolescent relationships, being a self-professed “big ol’ dyke” in the 90’s to now looking like a (again, self-professed) “4chan apologist’s wet dream,” Becca asks the fundamental question who am I, and how does love fit in?
Directed by Jess Barbagallo. In collaboration with Hannah Gregg and Jill Pangallo. Video by Nick Zeig-Owens.
Becca Blackwell is a NYC based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D’Amour. Film/TV includes: High Maintenance, Marriage Story, Shameless, Deadman’s Barstool, and Jack in the Box. Becca is a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award and Creative Capital.
SOLO PROJECT FUND
Initiated in 2018, the Solo Project Fund, founded by Jill Pangallo, seeks to support performative artists who use comedy as the driving vehicle in their work and intend to explore humor in a long-format context.