Performed by Rakia Seaborn, Stacy Lynn Smith and Pia Monique Murray

Producer: Sarah Joseph-Donnelly

Scenic Designer: Sean Billy Kizy 

Composer: Austin Guerrazzi

Lighting Designer: Hao Bai 

Creative Consultant: Ethan Baldwin 

Marketing: Kacie Wilis/Could Be Pretty Cool 
 

Location: 20 Putnam Ave in Brooklyn. C or G train to Clinton-Washington. Shuttle to Franklin Ave

Performance Dates & Times

Friday, May 13, 2022 at 7:30 pm 

Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 3:00 pm

Tickets
$20.00 General Admission available here

About the Artist

Rakia Seaborn (Choreographer/Performer) is a native of Detroit, a writer, choreographer and performer whose work has appeared at Dixon Place, La Mama E.T.C., The Tank, AUNTS, chashama, JACK and Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Seaborn has worked with Kathy Westwater, Dianne McIntyre, Rashaun Mitchell, Jodi Melnick, and Meta-Phys Ed. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2007, earning a Bachelors of Art in Dance with a concentration in Choreography, and in 2014, she gained an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Seaborn is a 2018 Mertz Gilmore Late Stage Creative Stipend recipient. 

Stacy Lynn Smith (Performer) is a neurodivergent, mixed race/Black performance artist, choreographer, director and Green Circle Keeper at Hidden Water, whose practice synthesizes various lineages of improvisational forms, somatics, experimental theater and butoh. Dedicated to collaboration, Smith creates and performs with an array of talented artists including: DeForrest Brown Jr., Anna Homler, Karen Bernard, Vangeline Theater (2008-2017), Saints of an Unnamed Country, Thaddeus O’Neil, Josephine Decker, Salome Asega, Kathy Westwater, jill sigman, Jasmine Hearn, Donna Costello, Emily Johnson, Rakia Seaborn and more. They are currently developing their experimental dance film, RECKONING, in collaboration with Alex Romania.

Pia Monique Murray (Performer) is a NYC ­native, majored in African ­American studies and dance at Oberlin College and was influenced by multi­disciplinary performance art while attending the Trinity/LaMama Performing Arts Program. Pia is known as a jack of all trades in the dance industry, having been a choreographer, performer, teaching artist, public school dance teacher, stage manager, tour manager, company manager, arts administrator and, rehearsal assistant. Pia performs with Vado Diomande’s Kotchegna Dance Company and leads Pia Monique Murray Dance Collective (PMMDC), an interdisciplinary performance art group. 

Hao Bai (Lighting Design) is a multidisciplinary designer in lighting, sound, video projection, and world-building (environment) for live and virtual performances. Recent Virtual: Final Boarding Call (Ma-Yi Theater + WP Theater); Nocturne in 1200 seconds (Ping Chong). Lighting: Waterboy and the Mighty World (Bushwick Starr & The Public Theatre). Projection: Electronic City (NYIT Awards). Sound: Walden (TheatreWorks), The Gift Project (Diana Oh). Lighting & Sound: 7 Minutes (HERE). Lighting/Sound/Projection: Arden (The Flea). Production Design: and the grass grows (Harvard University); Where We Belong (Woolly Mammoth Theater & National Tours). Upcoming: Lazarus (Ping Chong). www.haobaidesign.com

Sean Billy Kizy (Scenic Design) RA is a queer Middle Eastern American artist, architect, and large-scale art fabrication specialist. They founded Neon Fab Studios to support other artists to realize their work on a large-scale while expanding their own community driven artistic practice, Future Queer where they are dedicated to realizing installations, architecturecrural interventions and sculptures that support the idea of creating Queer Sanctuary in our shared space.

Austin Guerrazzi (Composer) is a graduate from New York University with a Bachelor of Music. As a freelance composer and audio engineer, he has worked on film and dance projects over the past 4 years. Past collaborators have included RAKIA!, Kendra Ross, Rovaco Dance Company, Ben Marques, and Nicholas Grubbs. Currently, he is recording a solo project and building a library of found sound. 

Sarah Joseph-Donnelly (Producer) is an artist, organizer, radical educator, and producer of live art. Born and raised in Oakland, CA, she is a former STREB Extreme Action Hero, Met Opera ballet dancer, and Sens Productions performer. Currently, she lives in Queens, NY with her wife Cassandre and daughter Nia.

Ethan Baldwin (Creative Consultant) is a Brooklyn-based Creative Director with 14 years of experience spanning design, advertising, marketing, photography, and branding. His love all boils down a love for making things move and telling a good story. This is his umpteenth collaboration with RAKIA! (a fun mix of being behind and on the stage over the years) and  he’s so happy to be welcomed to a team of creatives with such upbeat energy. 

Kacie Willis (Marketing & Social Media) is a sound designer, podcaster and arts marketer based out of Atlanta. Say hi @couldbeprettycool

Health & Safety

We are requiring all audience members to show proof of complete Covid-19 vaccination. Complete vaccination is defined as 14+ days following a final dose of the Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, or Astra-Zeneca vaccine. We will accept proof at the theater via the Excelsior Pass, the NYC Covid Safe Pass, a copy or photo of your CDC vaccination card, or a copy/ photo of an official immunization record from outside the US.

We will additionally require mask-wearing indoors for both our audience and staff members.

For your information, we have a new ERV fresh-air circulation system.

(Photo credit: Jeremy Allen-Arney)