Composed by Bryce Dessner
Libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle featuring words by Essex Hemphill & Patti Smith
Directed by Kaneza Schaal
Featuring Roomful of Teeth with special guests Alicia Hall Moran & Isaiah Robinson
Music direction & conducting by Brad Wells
Associate Directed by LILLETH
Set and costume design by Carlos Soto
Lighting design by Yuki Nakase
Video by Simon Harding
Dramaturgy by Talvin Wilks & Christopher Myers
Performed at the LA Philharmonic, Ann Arbor, BAM, Kennedy Center, Big Ears Festival
Situated somewhere between erotic heat and cool classicism, the work of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe obliterates the high-low divide, exploding classical conceptions of beauty. Fueled by a lifelong fascination with the artist’s transgressive, sacred-profane vision, composer Bryce Dessner (The National), in collaboration with Korde Arrington Tuttle, designer Carlos Soto, video designer Simon Harding, and director Kaneza Schaal (JACK &, 2018 Next Wave), invites us to experience these arresting images anew. Featuring photographic projections and a new score by Dessner—performed by the daring eight-person vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and a chamber orchestra—Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) examines how we look and are looked at, bringing us face to face with our innermost desires, fears, and humanity.
Produced by ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann in partnership with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
By Robert Whitman
Reperformance at The Louvre, 2017
Assistant Directed by LILLETH
By 600 Highwaymen
International Tour Assistant Directed + Company Managed by LILLETH
The life of one person told by five girls under the age of 11. EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR intimately investigates the process of transformation over a lifetime. With text by Silverstone and Browde, and original songs by Obie-winning theater artist David Cale, the work intersects storytelling with a distinct, stark choreographic landscape, as these five young performers guide us through a life.
World premiere at FIAF/Crossing the Line Festival in 2014. Following the world premiere at FIAF/Crossing the Line Festival in 2014, EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR toured internationally for two years. The performers began the project as 9 year-olds and were 12 years old by the final performance.
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Ivo van Hove
Scenic and Lighting Design by Jan Versweyveld
Costume Design by An D'Huys
Sound Design by Tom Gibbons
Sound Design Associate Alex Twiselton
Assistant Directed by LILLETH
With Danny Binstock, Catherine Combs, Alex Esola, Andrus Nichols, Howard W. Overshown, Dave Register, Thomas Jay Ryan, Frederick Weller
Performed at Ahmanson Theatre, LA and Kennedy Center, DC
By Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Assistant Directed by LILLETH
Scenic Design by Laura Jellinek
Costume Design by Gabriel Berry
Lighting Design by Matt Frey
Sound Design and Original Music by Brandon Wolcott
Chorography by Raja Feather Kelley
Production Stage Manager: Amanda Spooner
Written by Niegel Smith + Todd Shalom
Directed by Niegel Smith
Assistant Directed by LILLETH
Featuring Tommy Bernardi, Rachel Lin, Ashton Muñiz, Chris Murphy, Rad Pereira, Brittane Rowe, Isabella Sazak, Ryan Stinnett, and Catherine Woodard, Hye Young Chyun, Taylor Edelhart, Ethan Hardy, Jax Jackson, Matthew Stango, and Jennifer Tchiakpe.
Daniel Soule (scenic design)
Amith Chandrashaker (lighting design)
Claudia Brown (costume design)
Miles Polaski (sound design)
Ethan Hardy (choreography)
Taylor Edelhart (dramaturgy)
Cristina Pitter and Hye Young Chyun (props masters)
Keith Paul Medelis (production stage manager)
Take Care is a participatory performance that investigates the ways we respond to present and imminent danger. This evening-length performance gathers and reconfigures our personal language around emergency preparedness, abandonment, and consolation. Niegel Smith writes: “I wanted to make a piece for our resident acting company, The Bats, that engages them as interpretive and generative artists. I invited my long-time collaborator Todd Shalom (Elastic City) to create a performance that explores The Bats’ most urgent personal and global concerns. So, we’re inviting theatergoers inside a vicious hurricane — a perfect storm to expose the ways we take care of and neglect one another.”
Take Care includes individualized prompts for audience participation alongside scripted moments for The Bats. Audiences will have the opportunity to choose their desired level of participation—they can be on stage or around it.
Created by Stephanie Hayes and Emily Reilly
Featuring Emily Reilly, Stephanie Hayes Tanya Marquardt and Jack Moran.
Assistant Directed + Stage Managed by LILLETH
Contributing Artists: Masha Tsimring, Laura Bernstein, Michael McQuilken
Presented at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in 2015.
An ornithologist lays dying and hallucinates his way through his repertoire of knowledge. His end of life care nurse harbors dreams of being an horse racing jockey as she tends to his ailing body. Meanwhile, the ornithologist’s wife, desperate to avoid the reality of the situation, spends all her time in the bath, hiding.
BADrum is a dance theater work exploring traumatic memory, voyeurism, privacy and the social codes of a decaying domestic space. Fragments accumulate - BADrum wonders how memory is kept alive; what carries through from before, how the traces live in our bodies and what ails us in an empty room.
Inspired by the poetry of Marie Howe and William Carlos Williams; writings on PTSD by Bessel van der Kolk, the films of Roy Andersson; the Icarus myth; ornithology and object theory. BADrum seeks to investigate the terrible privacy we all carry with us.
Creator/Director ANDREW HOEPFNER
Associate Director LILLETH
Stage Manager/Assistant Director ALEX TOBEY
Set Design BROOKE HERR
Featuring:
Lost Girl | ANGELA CARLUCCI
The Rain | MAGALI CHARRON
Innocent Friend | ALICE EPANCHINTSEVA
Amaya | LARKIN GRIMM
The Cook | ANDREW HOEPFNER
The Gardener | ANAÏS MAVIEL
Lonely Girl | HANNAH NICHOLS
The Monster | BEN PAGANO
The Woman in the Bed | BETH PAGANO
The Photographer | RICK PATRICK
The Bathtub | JOE CROW RYAN
Nevins | JASON TRACHTENBURG
An immersive experience
Created by Andrew Hoepfner
Associate Directed by LILLETH